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Rejecting Reality? Maybe You’re Engaging in Cognitive Dissonance!

Cognitive dissonance, is like double-think, and also similar to self-justification. It’s a form of reality negotiation, a process where we negotiate with reality to sustain our conformity to beliefs in falsity through the construction of illusions. We will often reject reality as it ‘is’ (new information), and instead opt to “feel-good” about ourselves by holding onto what we previously believed to […]

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Characters and Our Character

This started off as research into the word morality itself. Another little word journey and weaving a larger tapestry from it. Video Audio Download .mp3: Characters and Our Character Morality “moral qualities,” “moral instruction; morals, manner, character,” http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=morality directly from Latin moralis “proper behavior of a person in society,” literally “pertaining to manners,” coined by Cicero (“De Fato,” II.i) to […]

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Assumption and Presumption

We can presume, from previous lessons, previous trials and errors, learning from past mistakes, that certain behavior will produce certain results. It is not certain though, hence it’s a presumption, due to the nature of free will choice. Not every action will produce the same result in a free will causal agent. But, the tendency, the probability, for the same […]

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Objective Detachment (Addendum)

When trying to uncover Truth, honestly, you need to detach from who you think you are, all your justifications and validations for what you do, why you do it, etc. You need to look at Truth without association to yourself, without subjective attachment to yourself and your life. Looking at Truth must be objective, otherwise, your personal preferences, life choice, […]

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Caring Enough to Take Real World Action

The full segment from Mark Passio’s Street-Wise Spirituality presentation 2014-05-31 http://whatonearthishappening.com/podcast Having enough knowledge to know what action will lead to a better outcome, not just taking action indiscriminately or randomly. It certainly is not about remaining passive in the face of all the evil taking place and accepting it as it is. It will take a collective act of […]

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