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The dangers of taking the journey of UCA
 
  Before continuing, it is also important to identify that there are a number of dangers in taking the journey.  
  These dangers are serious enough to warrant careful description as you will probably encounter one or more of these possible dangers.  
  The danger of disintegrating beliefs  
  The first and most serious danger of presenting the most compact set of powerful ideas in one journey is that you will experience the discomfort and trauma of disintegrating beliefs.  
  Disintegrating beliefs is when a belief you hold to be true in your mind suddenly feels threatened and/or under attack from an idea you read by following the journey of UCA. Unlike a simple experience of tuning out to a different point of view, a disintegrating belief continues to decay even if you stop the journey of UCA completely.  
  So awful is this experience that individual readers may become physically sick or even angry and resentful towards this journey. As a result, there is a real risk you may not come back to the site again.  
  So before you potentially experience a disintegrating belief, the recommended cure is to continue reading, to continue the journey of UCA, to push through.  
  By reading on, by pushing through the nausea, the uncertainty, the angst, you will be exposed to more and more ideas that will help to ease your unrest and uncertainty. But if you simply stop, you will not have the opportunity to experience the happiness of having that angst, that void filled.  
  The danger of the messiah syndrome  
  The second and potentially even greater danger of taking the complete journey of UCA is unlocking the messiah syndrome within the reader.  
  The messiah syndrome is a condition of mind whereby a person sees themselves as having some inner world or outer world destiny to save the world and/or rule others. A person does not have to outwardly show messiah traits to have full-blown messiah syndrome. Many people with diagnosed mental illnesses also show traits of the messiah syndrome in the "inner world" of their minds.  
  As funny as the concept of the messiah syndrome might first appear, it is not to be discounted. Virtually all great philosophers and creators have suffered from messianic tendencies. The most worshipped words in the world are authored to great messiahs.  
  The tendency of such potent and powerful awareness as resides in the journey of UCA is that it will quickly accelerate the growing messiah syndrome in the reader to the point that upon the conclusion of the journey, you are not aware of this danger.  
  The solution, the cure to quelling any messianic desire to go and save the world or prove your divine destiny is to read the journey of self at the end of the journey of UCA. Only by completing the journey of self can a reader completely disarm the messiah syndrome.  
     
 
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