The eleventh session of the fourth term of the public educational workshops of the Congress 60, held at the Amirkabir Branch in Tehran, commenced on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at 4:30 PM. The session was led by the Worldview Dideban of Congress 60—Dr. Amin Dezhakam—with traveler Abolfazl serving as guardian and traveler Ali as secretary. The agenda of the session was: The third valley: “No creatures are concerned as deeply as a human being for their true self”.
Dr. Amin’s Speech
Hello friends, I am Amin, a traveler. I am very happy to be here at the Amirkabir Branch. I hope that first travelers reach recovery from addiction and well-being, and that second travelers succeed in service and carrying out their responsibilities.
Valley Three has helped me tremendously, and it contains countless keys and insights. If a person imagines themselves to be the center of the universe and considers themselves excessively important, this mindset ultimately leads to their downfall. Many people live this way, measuring everything according to their own understanding and knowledge. If something aligns with their wishes and benefits them, they regard it as good, truthful, and righteous; but if it opposes their interests or beliefs, they label it evil or negative.
However, when a person moves beyond this state and refrains from resisting truth and sound reasoning—even when it is against their benefits or does not align with their beliefs—they gradually emerge from darkness.
Valley Three teaches that, as human beings, we are responsible for accepting accountability for all of our affairs. In my opinion, Mr. Dezhakam was only able to discover the cure for addiction after truly understanding Valley Three. Before that, he believed that the people around him should understand and support him. But once he stopped expecting anything from friends, relatives, and acquaintances, and accepted responsibility for his own condition, he reached the realization that: I created my addiction myself, therefore I can also find a way to treat it. As a result, after several months, he succeeded in discovering the DST method.
If someone seeking recovery from addiction stops expecting others to rescue them, accepts responsibility despite all hardships, and understands that no one else is obligated toward them, they become capable of standing on their own feet and emerging from darkness. If a person in Congress 60 fails to grasp this principle, it is impossible for them to truly leave darkness behind.
The growth and evolution of a human being is like the growth of a tree in existence. A person suffering from addiction is like a tree that has decayed from within, while the strong trees standing beside it symbolize people who have lived healthy lives. Recovery from addiction resembles new sprouts beginning to grow; over time, these sprouts become stronger and more resilient over time.
Human beings, like trees, are different from one another. If a person wishes to reach the level of mastery, they must develop qualities similar to those of a palm tree. The palm tree is steadfast and fully developed, bearing nourishing fruit through which a person can sustain life and gain strength. Likewise, the more evolved human beings become, the sweeter and more complete their “fruit” becomes—meaning they become increasingly capable of fulfilling the needs of others.
To reach true evolution and completion, a human being must endure many hardships and much unkindness before they can bear sweet fruit like the palm tree. Such a transformation requires great knowledge, immense patience, and divine grace.
Wherever beauty and success exist in creation, there will always be seekers drawn toward them. Human beings are no different; whenever a person possesses valuable qualities, those qualities naturally attract attention. The forces of darkness and deterrence possess no light or energy of their own, and therefore must obtain their energy from human beings. For this reason, they are drawn toward human beauty, success, and positive qualities. They infiltrate these strengths, and an inauspicious bond is formed through which they can benefit from human beings.
Negative forces must first penetrate the human structure; a connection must be established within the person, and ultimately the individual is directed toward the objectives of those negative forces. These connections occur in two ways. In the first, the negative force enters the individual and feeds on the person’s inner energy, just like a virus sustaining its own existence through human body. In the second, the negative force uses the person as a tool for carrying out its purposes, issuing commands and directives. In this state, a form of Polytheism [Shirk شرک] or partnership with darkness emerges. As the individual continues obeying these negative commands, they gradually lose their own power and authority, while destructive forces increasingly share control over the person’s being and body. If this condition continues, those forces eventually gain complete control. In this way, the poles of darkness grow stronger and more powerful than before. For example, in the illness of addiction, the negative force begins feeding upon the human body and consumes the energy that was meant to sustain a person throughout seventy or eighty years of life.
These inauspicious bonds are formed within human beings in three ways.
The first occurs when negative forces invite a person toward a particular action. However, for the bond to truly form, there must already be a point of commonality between the individual and the negative force—a shared desire between the human Self [ego] and darkness.
In the second form, the individual has already entered such a bond, and time has passed. The person is then tested by God through hardship, pressure, deprivation, poverty, loneliness, and extremely difficult circumstances. At that moment, the negative force offers a way out of those difficulties. Some people accept the offer, while others refuse it.
In the third form, the individual is strong, sincere, free of negative desires, and has already overcome hardships. Here, the negative force wounds the person, either emotionally or physically. This can be compared to the process of grafting a tree: by cutting part of the tree’s bark, a new branch is attached to it. Likewise, through these wounds, the negative force attaches itself to the individual. Over time, by taking a major share of the person’s energy, it grows stronger and eventually bears fruit—and that fruit is of the same nature as the graft that was attached.
In such cases, if we refuse to feed energy into that connection, if we stop constantly replaying and reminding the painful event in our minds, stop grieving over it repeatedly, and change our perspective toward it, we can prevent the bond from taking hold, allowing the wound to heal instead.
Translated by Elahe
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