Belief is very powerful. We can choose to believe whatever we want, at any time, often despite the evidence to the contrary. We often choose to believe in things that are not demonstrable in reality, as if it was a demonstrable truth/reality. Knowing what a word means gives us power to use it properly. We can be masters of a […]
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Presenting evidence or facts doesn’t always get accepted. We can dismiss evidence that contradicts our firmly held beliefs. There is even the backfire effect where we can dig into our belief and hold on tighter than before. source A new study shows that challenging political beliefs activates areas of the brain that govern personal identity and emotional responses to threats. […]
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Ideas captivate our imagination. Ideas, concepts and beliefs are strewn with portraits, snapshots, paintings or film that consciousness creates to visualize them. We may think we are holding onto an idea, yet it’s often the ideas that have us in their grasp and we are shaped by them. Ideas captivate. They are light bulbs (bright idea) that attract us to […]
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Most of us lack an understanding of how to think correctly, and how words are defined as well. Belief is not truth, despite how many people erroneously think and confuse the two. Recognizing the difference is crucial, yet most people do not. Truth is synonymous with reality/existence. Latin veritas (truth), it is veracious, it has veracity, it is verifiable, in […]
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We can use words to represent and define reality. Reality comes first, then words to describe it. i.e. we live a way of life where we have a government, and we describe it with words. We can also use words to create into reality. In this sense, words comes first, then reality is determined and acted upon based on the […]
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Previously, the word “magic” was identified with meaningful speech, the art of mouth and art of communication, and how knowledge of language, symbolism and word symbols as “magical” influence on consciousness, can be used for positive or negative goals, symbolically personified as a “magician” or “sorcerer”. Then I covered the word abracadabra, and how it means to “create as you […]
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“Life isn’t about where you are going or how fast, it’s about how you get there. It doesn’t really matter what you had in your mind, or your heart, or how much you wanted it, or how good your intentions were, all that really matters is what you do, because what we do is who we are.” ~ Space Warriors […]
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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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Is truth inviolable, unbreakable and incorruptible, or is free will? Can truth attempt to violate free will, or does free will attempt to violate truth? Is truth more valued than free will, or is free will more valued than truth? What do you value more? What is more highly positioned in importance? PDF of images More text from images: A […]
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The primacy of existence can be understood with the power of consciousness. We can abstract, envision, imagine or invent ideas in our subjective consciousness that we choose to believe are true. Belief is powerful. A solid grounding in the truth of reality must be striven for to believe in abstract concepts that can eventually be verified as being true in […]
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