What do you care about? Do you primarily care about your personal life, having fun, enjoying yourself, being happy? Do you care about more than just personal enjoyment? Do you understand higher order concepts and ideas to care about that will improve your life and the life of others? Do you care for morality? Do you have greater or lesser […]
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The tree of life and living is about understanding how we live and why we live in certain ways. Many ancient traditions used a tree of life symbolism to represent knowledge of ourselves (such as in the Kabbalah). Each part is a stepping stone in understanding aspects of ourselves. The progression upwards symbolizes reaching a higher order capacity in thought […]
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“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” – 1984, by George Orwell Video (20min) Audio (20min) Stream or Download Is knowledge power? Yes, in at least two ways. power to you: knowledge gained can empower you to understand something and act in accordance with that understanding power from you: knowledge restricted […]
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The effects we create can’t be undone once they manifest. They happened. The power to create change comes from our free will choice to do so, based on the effects that exist now. Video Audio Stream or Download I will start with the middle and give a brief overview of the Trinity of Consciousness (thoughts, emotions and actions). If […]
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Most of us try to live through the idea of what we consider to be “good”. But our ability to actualize the authentic, genuine, real, true good is limited by various barriers.a Many falsities are accepted as “truth” which creates an illusory perceptual framework of reality that blinds us to what is actually happening. By digging deeper into the false […]
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No matter what our individual lives are like, we all have a universal duty and responsibility to truth and morality. Failure to do so leads to negative consequences as a sort-of self-imposed punishment brought about through ignorance. Aligning with these responsibilities will provide us with the privileges and rewards that comes with living the right way. Try to deny and […]
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Is humiliation only a negative? Am I talking about degrading someone on purpose? No. I won’t be talking about that here. We all know about this. There is indeed a negative side, but what about a positive side? There is the word humble, which is a positive, but also has a negative polarity as well in the sense of a […]
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The fear of being disliked, not accepted, rejected, shunned, ostracized or expelled from your social connectivity or relationships with others, is a strong motivator to not do certain things. sourceWe don’t steal others lives, sexual selection, personal safety, or property in order to maximize of cooperative survival advantage. We do this mostly because they help us survive, and because they […]
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The Benjamin Franklin Effect has recently been proposed as a cognitive bias psychological phenomenon. There is a tendency to continue doing something once we’ve started doing it. This applies to both positive or negative actions. If we do a favor for someone, we are more likely to do another favor for that same person in this case, than to do […]
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The cheerleader effect, or group-attractiveness effect, is a tendency to value appearances based on a comparative assessment with the surroundings. Certain traits will appear more attractive due to the perceived amplification from contrast. When looked at individually they no longer get the contrasting cheerleader effect. Surprisingly, this is a new term, from a 2008 “How I Met Your Mother” episode, […]
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