Alienating yourself from your friends is hard work. Don't give up! Facts & common sense observations can upset people of all world views!
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If your looking for more information about my personal journey, and changes then your at the right place :)
If your looking for more information about my personal journey, and changes then your at the right place :)
"We have been suppressing ourselves for millennia in the name of illusions that we call our beliefs, ideals, god and spirituality.
Its not that we are excluding just religions but all beliefs, not that beliefs in themselves are bad. Beliefs on there own are fine. The problem comes when we do not question or think outside of our beliefs. When we think we are our beliefs thus letting them think for us, then we get very protective and irrational to anything that challenges our beliefs. Which then can easily makes a person violent and unstable. This is not a theory or an exaggeration this is history, this is a fact, this is life, this is our conditioned mind.
There is no logical and rational and intelligent self-realization and understanding in gratifying ourselves with and through acts of yearning and believing in abstract speculations built up on & by illusions.. there is only self-perpetuation of irrationality, with its everlasting weight of fights, antagonisms and human miseries..
He or she who follows a speaker, a guru, a preacher, whoever, including the writer of this post.. signs his or her course of self indoctrination, which is a psychological malediction! Never follow the speaker.. strictly ! Understand the contents and think: the speaker is irrelevant! Find out for yourself what's is fake and what is fact.. You all have a duty: it's called intelligence. ~ by Diego Kricek Fontanive and Jessica Schab
This is a Video On Why I'm No Longer a Spiritual Speaker
Here is the reason in brief:
''You have convinced yourself that you were supposed to become ''conscious'', to become ''enlightened'', to become someone whatever the way and cost was ..
Now you have that hidden and nervous sensation which whispers to your remote intelligence that perhaps you have spent a tremendous magnitude of psychological energies to pursue and follow a dramatic self-deception... a trap..a clever architecture aimed to encapsulate the mind we ourselves invented for the last thousands of years ...
because your searching for consciousness whatsoever trapped your mind into an everlastingly busy limbo .. feeding constant searching ..
so your mind has lost, progressively, that attentiveness.. that free psychological awareness.. your mind required to evolve its intelligence..
you have been suppressing yourself for millenia in the name of illusions...
Think about these things. ''
If you want to know the whole story why i am no longer a spiritual speaker and why i speak out exposing it now, then i suggest for you to read from part 1-5 bali blog series.
A Multiple Choice Questionnaire
What Would You Do?
Your in the public eye and your doing something that everyone tells you is inspiring a lot of people and you think your helping. Then you find out that its actually making things worse do you?
A) Forget you found that out and continue doing it anyway finding ways to justify that its ok, too afraid to change and to give up the gravy train popularity it brings? it seems so pretty, positive, easy answers and everyone loves you for doing it, why give that up? Why not just pretend you never heard it or does not resonate with you?
B ) Stop doing it immediately and beat yourself up give up, becoming depressed then go do something completely different?
C) Bite the bullet, be willing to see it for what it is, that its not pretty or positive at all and you can risk losing lots of friends and followers as its not what they want to hear & admit it openly and expose it and do what u can to rectify it and turn it around into something helpful again, as it must be done.
I choose C, hence why you see me now speaking up and against the dangers of spirituality. Which one would you choose?
''You have convinced yourself that you were supposed to become ''conscious'', to become ''enlightened'', to become someone whatever the way and cost was ..
Now you have that hidden and nervous sensation which whispers to your remote intelligence that perhaps you have spent a tremendous magnitude of psychological energies to pursue and follow a dramatic self-deception... a trap..a clever architecture aimed to encapsulate the mind we ourselves invented for the last thousands of years ...
because your searching for consciousness whatsoever trapped your mind into an everlastingly busy limbo .. feeding constant searching ..
so your mind has lost, progressively, that attentiveness.. that free psychological awareness.. your mind required to evolve its intelligence..
you have been suppressing yourself for millenia in the name of illusions...
Think about these things. ''
If you want to know the whole story why i am no longer a spiritual speaker and why i speak out exposing it now, then i suggest for you to read from part 1-5 bali blog series.
A Multiple Choice Questionnaire
What Would You Do?
Your in the public eye and your doing something that everyone tells you is inspiring a lot of people and you think your helping. Then you find out that its actually making things worse do you?
A) Forget you found that out and continue doing it anyway finding ways to justify that its ok, too afraid to change and to give up the gravy train popularity it brings? it seems so pretty, positive, easy answers and everyone loves you for doing it, why give that up? Why not just pretend you never heard it or does not resonate with you?
B ) Stop doing it immediately and beat yourself up give up, becoming depressed then go do something completely different?
C) Bite the bullet, be willing to see it for what it is, that its not pretty or positive at all and you can risk losing lots of friends and followers as its not what they want to hear & admit it openly and expose it and do what u can to rectify it and turn it around into something helpful again, as it must be done.
I choose C, hence why you see me now speaking up and against the dangers of spirituality. Which one would you choose?
I can not ignore the dangers in the spiritual movement. I have to point it out, maybe others will see what i am talking about and the danger in it.
I can not ignore it because i am responsible and most people who follow me are into spirituality and so they get confused.
When a person follower spirituality, new age, beliefs in general that allow the belief to think for them then a person gets into all kinds of unpleasant situations.
I had people asking me for help, out of the confusion or wanting to understand how they ended up being used and abused by people they thought were spiritual but were just sexual perverts or exploiters.
These adds to the confusion even more so for people because they sincerely thought that they were on the path that they were becoming more spiritual, but instead they just became more psychologically unstable.
These are the people that try to find solutions in the world but only end up making things worse because they are totally confused. We have to look at the spiritual movement from a clinical view to as the more spirituality is on the rise so is depression because they are linked.
The more depressed a person is the more desperate they are to cling to spiritual stratagems of all kinds and the more confused they become and the more dangerous they and their beliefs become. Its about damage prevention not comforting people after all the damage is done so it to happen again and again.
The shallow pudding of the so called ''new age movements'' makes people intellectually and emotionally dysfunctional because of its deleterious brainwashing aimed to subdue our possible rational reasoning, understanding and private thinking..
Intelligent questioning, sane critical thinking, are in fact surreptitiously and hypocritically substituted with the jargon “negative emotions'', or (up to the ridiculous) ''low vibrations''!
Intelligence and reason are actually what can defend us from abuse and exploitation: without them we become shallow worshipers of mind controllers: constantly weak and vulnerable under the domes of their false promises and absurdities..
We are looking for people who are really interested in gaining a deeper understanding of their own mind, without putting any boxes of labels around it. We find that spirituality is deeply flawed and just as superficial as religiosity, in many ways, its a group that sees many "positive" ways of life, as just another type of escape. If the thought of thinking independently of "your" beliefs offends you, then this might not be the right group for you.
We are selective to who we work with. We want people who are willing to inquire past their beliefs.
If you want to find out more consider joining our EOF Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENDOFfearPROJECT/
I can not ignore it because i am responsible and most people who follow me are into spirituality and so they get confused.
When a person follower spirituality, new age, beliefs in general that allow the belief to think for them then a person gets into all kinds of unpleasant situations.
I had people asking me for help, out of the confusion or wanting to understand how they ended up being used and abused by people they thought were spiritual but were just sexual perverts or exploiters.
These adds to the confusion even more so for people because they sincerely thought that they were on the path that they were becoming more spiritual, but instead they just became more psychologically unstable.
These are the people that try to find solutions in the world but only end up making things worse because they are totally confused. We have to look at the spiritual movement from a clinical view to as the more spirituality is on the rise so is depression because they are linked.
The more depressed a person is the more desperate they are to cling to spiritual stratagems of all kinds and the more confused they become and the more dangerous they and their beliefs become. Its about damage prevention not comforting people after all the damage is done so it to happen again and again.
The shallow pudding of the so called ''new age movements'' makes people intellectually and emotionally dysfunctional because of its deleterious brainwashing aimed to subdue our possible rational reasoning, understanding and private thinking..
Intelligent questioning, sane critical thinking, are in fact surreptitiously and hypocritically substituted with the jargon “negative emotions'', or (up to the ridiculous) ''low vibrations''!
Intelligence and reason are actually what can defend us from abuse and exploitation: without them we become shallow worshipers of mind controllers: constantly weak and vulnerable under the domes of their false promises and absurdities..
We are looking for people who are really interested in gaining a deeper understanding of their own mind, without putting any boxes of labels around it. We find that spirituality is deeply flawed and just as superficial as religiosity, in many ways, its a group that sees many "positive" ways of life, as just another type of escape. If the thought of thinking independently of "your" beliefs offends you, then this might not be the right group for you.
We are selective to who we work with. We want people who are willing to inquire past their beliefs.
If you want to find out more consider joining our EOF Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENDOFfearPROJECT/
~The End Of Fear Project~
There is nothing more practical than sound thinking. No matter what your circumstance or goals, no matter where you are, or what problems you face, you are better off if your thinking is skilled.
As a manager, leader, employee, citizen, lover, friend, parent; in every realm and situation of your life, good thinking pays off.
Poor thinking, in turn, inevitably causes problems, wastes time and energy, engenders frustration, confusion and pain.
Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances. The general goal of thinking is to “figure out the lay of the land” in any situation we are in.
We all have multiple choices to make. We need the best information to make the best choices.
Here’s a few common example of right questioning:
-What is really going on in this or that situation?
-Are they trying to take advantage of me?
-Does so-and-so really care about me?
-Am I deceiving myself when I believe that?
-What are the likely consequences of failing to?
-If I want to do what is the best way to prepare for it?
-How can I be more successful in doing?
-Is this my biggest problem, or do I need to focus my attention on something else?
Successfully responding to such questions is the daily work of thinking. However, to maximize the quality of your thinking, you must learn how to become an effective "critic" of your thinking.
And to become an effective critic of your thinking, you have to make learning and understanding about thinking about thinking a priority.
Ask yourself these rather unusual questions:
-What have you learned about how you think?
-Did you ever study your thinking?
-What do you know about how the mind processes information?
-What do you really know about how to analyze, evaluate, or reconstruct your thinking?
-Where does your thinking come from?
-How much of it is of “good” quality?
-How much of it is of “poor” quality?
-How much of your thinking is vague, muddled, inconsistent, inaccurate, illogical, or superficial?
-Are you, in any real sense, in ‘control’ of your thinking?
-Do you know how to test it?
-Do you have any conscious standards for determining when you are thinking well and when you are thinking poorly?
-Have you ever discovered a significant problem in your thinking and then changed it by a conscious act of will? (Not changed by using a or another belief).
-If anyone asked you to teach them what you have learned, thus far in your life, about thinking, would you really have any idea what that was or how you learned it?
-If you are like most, the only honest answers to these questions run along the lines of:
--“Well, I suppose I really don’t know much about my thinking or about thinking in general. I suppose in my life I have more or less taken my thinking for granted. I don’t really know how it works. I have never really studied it. I don’t know how I test it, or even if I do test it. It just happens in my mind automatically.“--
It is important to realize that serious study of thinking, serious thinking about thinking, is rare. It is not a subject in most colleges. It is seldom found in the thinking of our culture.
But if you focus your attention for a moment on the role that thinking is playing in your life, you may come to recognize that, in fact, everything you do, or want, or feel is influenced by your thinking. And if you become persuaded of that, you will be surprised that humans show so little interest in thinking.
To make significant gains in the quality of your thinking you will have to engage in a kind of work that most humans find unpleasant, if not painful--intellectual work. Yet once this thinking is done and we move our thinking to a higher level of quality, it is not hard to keep our thinking at that level. Still, there is the price you have to pay to step up to the next level. One doesn’t become a skillful critic of thinking over night, any more than one becomes a skillful basketball player or musician over night. To become better at thinking, you must be willing to put the work into thinking that skilled improvement always requires.
This means you must be willing to practice special “acts” of thinking that are initially at least uncomfortable, and sometimes challenging and difficult. You have to learn to do with your mind “moves” analogous to what accomplished athletes learn to do (through practice and feedback) with their bodies. Improvement in thinking, in other words, is similar to improvement in other domains of performance where progress is a product of sound theory, commitment, hard work, and practice.
Consider the following key ideas, which, when applied, result in a mind practicing skilled thinking. These ideas represent just a few of the many ways in which disciplined thinkers actively apply theory of mind to the mind by the mind in order to think better. In these examples, we focus on the significance of thinking clearly, sticking to the point (thinking with relevance), questioning deeply, and striving to be more reasonable. For each example, we provide a brief overview of the idea and its importance in thinking, along with strategies for applying it in life. Realize that the following ideas are immersed in a cluster of ideas within critical thinking. Though we chose these particular ideas, many others could have instead been chosen. There is no magic in these specific ideas. In short, it is important that you understand these as a sampling of all the possible ways in which the mind can work to discipline itself, to think at a higher level of quality, to function better in the world.
How can anything come before understanding our minds and how we think? What could possibly be more important? No matter what we want to do in life, how can we neglect understanding inwardly, psychologically?
Depression, anxiety, stress and other forms of psychological suffering are on the rise. Our primary response has been to medicate the brain with drugs to combat the neurochemical imbalances associated with these ailments. But this has been largely ineffective by treating symptoms and even making patients dependent upon as well as increasingly tolerant of these drugs, not to mention the side effects that go along with them. We try to treat the imbalance in the brain, but why does that imbalance exist in the first place? Surely we were not born so psychologically dysfunctional, so what happened?
I think this is the question that we must ask ourselves… because we are missing something. Many solutions have been proposed, whether academic, political, religious, economic, spiritual, philosophical, technological, a combination of the above, and so on… but none of them have ever been able to help humankind to finally rise out of the swamps of confusion. We have advanced technologically, but psychologically we have gone nowhere. This is a historical observation, the result of which can be seen by asking the question: where are we now? Many therapies and self help books focus on a type of system so to give people a way to face their problems. But they are simply aimed at reprogramming the mind with a particular strategy to deal with depression, anxiety, thoughts, discomfort, and so on… Then the mind has to think through that system; it becomes dependent on it and is once again stuck in a limited way of thinking. And people constantly have to reaffirm the new belief system so to combat their discomfort. And in the case that some success is achieved in dealing with our discomfort, whether due to a placebo effect or otherwise, then we fear to lose the condition that we acquired. Nothing gets to the real roots of our psychological suffering. Why are we so upset in the first place? What ways are we thinking in and why? What are the very mechanics that lead to our depression and so on…? Can we inquire there freely with no constraints nor expectations? Because if we can do that, then we can begin to understand what created and creates our discomfort.
So often we search for solutions without really even understanding the problem. The solutions exist because of the problem and the problem exists because of its roots! For example, the solution to insecurity is to build up some self-esteem or confidence, which comes from the outside. But then we always need something so to reaffirm our confidence, our picture of ourselves, and we get upset when something knocks or even scratches our self-esteem (which comes from our identity). By searching for self-esteem through whatever kind of consensus, whether academic, financial, social, familial, etc… we merely perpetuate our conflict inwardly, then outwardly. We think we have made progress, but we still fight the same battles. They might look different on the surface, but the patterns are the same. So often people argue and fight about something and then just apologize and say they really do care about each other. But without understanding why they were fighting in the first place soon something else comes up and they are fighting again. It’s the same thing in relationships romantic or not. The people may change, but the same/similar problems always reappear.
What people think, the belief system, ideas, and values that they think through may change, but this is merely a symptom of how they think, which is through an accumulation of psycho-existential authorities instead of thinking freely.
So are you willing to try something new? If so, then perhaps you would be interested in the End Of Fear Project.
The End Of Fear Project does not offer solutions to depression and other psychological ailments. The EOF is not a doctor nor interested in offering clinical advice. Instead, what the EOF Project offers is a profound investigation into the very mechanics that lead to psychological suffering such as anxiety, stress, depression, and so on….
The EOF has no methods, structures, techniques, nor strategies. It is not possible to understand the wholeness of the human psyche through such things because in adopting a theory or technique we limit our observation to what lies within that intellectual structure based on the past. Furthermore, all of the above require control and act as psychological authorities, and we can never find freedom nor peace through control. By thinking at our thoughts, without thinking through them, and without the thoughts that created those thoughts, we can explore inwardly so to understand how our minds work and how our psychological suffering, no matter what form it may take, is created.
By understanding the very roots of these things we can change our relationship with them. We can fully observe them and inquire into and beyond our conditioned reactions and confusion by using the entirety of our minds rather than the fragmented way of thinking with only our intellect and memories. The EOF is all about the possibility to think wholly, with all of the parts of our mind such as imagination, perception, intuition, inspiration, instinct, intellect, emotions, and memory all co-working in harmony. It is about the possibility to think without ideas, to regain that psychological serenity and totally private free observing + thinking that we once had. That place of inner peace and psychological freedom, which is the flowering of our intelligence, where there is no longer identity or the fear to lose anything, not even our psychological serenity itself.
Are we willing to try something totally new? By looking at the very ways in which we have been conditioned to think? By changing our relationship with our thoughts and fears? By inquiring into our confusion and how it originates? By thinking at our confusion without thinking through it and without identifying in it?
The End Of Fear Project has already begun to have success in helping people to understand and dismantle their psychological conditionings and subsequent discomfort.
When we are attentive, we are able to circumnavigate our conditionings. When we are in that place of quiet private psychological serenity, we think totally, freely, without thinking through our conditionings. As we stop feeding our energy to the psychological authoritarian constructs of conditionings they begin to wither. The point is not necessarily to erase all conditionings, otherwise we would simply accumulate new ones or reacquire old ones, but in attentiveness, in observing + thinking freely, which leads to the eventual dissolution of conditionings, being that they have a beginning and therefore an end.
The EOF Project is interested in being researched in a theoretic science study, connecting with a network of psychologists, researchers and other professionals as well as hosting conferences to really show people what the project is.
Some psychologists have already begun working with the End Of Fear Project, such as the prominent psychoanalyst Lisa Romero, of Milan Italy, who assisted in collaboration with the University of Tucson Arizona’s Department Of Consciousness Studies to have the EOF write articles for the “Towards a Science of Consciousness” 2011 global conference in Stockholm.
There is nothing more practical than sound thinking. No matter what your circumstance or goals, no matter where you are, or what problems you face, you are better off if your thinking is skilled.
As a manager, leader, employee, citizen, lover, friend, parent; in every realm and situation of your life, good thinking pays off.
Poor thinking, in turn, inevitably causes problems, wastes time and energy, engenders frustration, confusion and pain.
Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances. The general goal of thinking is to “figure out the lay of the land” in any situation we are in.
We all have multiple choices to make. We need the best information to make the best choices.
Here’s a few common example of right questioning:
-What is really going on in this or that situation?
-Are they trying to take advantage of me?
-Does so-and-so really care about me?
-Am I deceiving myself when I believe that?
-What are the likely consequences of failing to?
-If I want to do what is the best way to prepare for it?
-How can I be more successful in doing?
-Is this my biggest problem, or do I need to focus my attention on something else?
Successfully responding to such questions is the daily work of thinking. However, to maximize the quality of your thinking, you must learn how to become an effective "critic" of your thinking.
And to become an effective critic of your thinking, you have to make learning and understanding about thinking about thinking a priority.
Ask yourself these rather unusual questions:
-What have you learned about how you think?
-Did you ever study your thinking?
-What do you know about how the mind processes information?
-What do you really know about how to analyze, evaluate, or reconstruct your thinking?
-Where does your thinking come from?
-How much of it is of “good” quality?
-How much of it is of “poor” quality?
-How much of your thinking is vague, muddled, inconsistent, inaccurate, illogical, or superficial?
-Are you, in any real sense, in ‘control’ of your thinking?
-Do you know how to test it?
-Do you have any conscious standards for determining when you are thinking well and when you are thinking poorly?
-Have you ever discovered a significant problem in your thinking and then changed it by a conscious act of will? (Not changed by using a or another belief).
-If anyone asked you to teach them what you have learned, thus far in your life, about thinking, would you really have any idea what that was or how you learned it?
-If you are like most, the only honest answers to these questions run along the lines of:
--“Well, I suppose I really don’t know much about my thinking or about thinking in general. I suppose in my life I have more or less taken my thinking for granted. I don’t really know how it works. I have never really studied it. I don’t know how I test it, or even if I do test it. It just happens in my mind automatically.“--
It is important to realize that serious study of thinking, serious thinking about thinking, is rare. It is not a subject in most colleges. It is seldom found in the thinking of our culture.
But if you focus your attention for a moment on the role that thinking is playing in your life, you may come to recognize that, in fact, everything you do, or want, or feel is influenced by your thinking. And if you become persuaded of that, you will be surprised that humans show so little interest in thinking.
To make significant gains in the quality of your thinking you will have to engage in a kind of work that most humans find unpleasant, if not painful--intellectual work. Yet once this thinking is done and we move our thinking to a higher level of quality, it is not hard to keep our thinking at that level. Still, there is the price you have to pay to step up to the next level. One doesn’t become a skillful critic of thinking over night, any more than one becomes a skillful basketball player or musician over night. To become better at thinking, you must be willing to put the work into thinking that skilled improvement always requires.
This means you must be willing to practice special “acts” of thinking that are initially at least uncomfortable, and sometimes challenging and difficult. You have to learn to do with your mind “moves” analogous to what accomplished athletes learn to do (through practice and feedback) with their bodies. Improvement in thinking, in other words, is similar to improvement in other domains of performance where progress is a product of sound theory, commitment, hard work, and practice.
Consider the following key ideas, which, when applied, result in a mind practicing skilled thinking. These ideas represent just a few of the many ways in which disciplined thinkers actively apply theory of mind to the mind by the mind in order to think better. In these examples, we focus on the significance of thinking clearly, sticking to the point (thinking with relevance), questioning deeply, and striving to be more reasonable. For each example, we provide a brief overview of the idea and its importance in thinking, along with strategies for applying it in life. Realize that the following ideas are immersed in a cluster of ideas within critical thinking. Though we chose these particular ideas, many others could have instead been chosen. There is no magic in these specific ideas. In short, it is important that you understand these as a sampling of all the possible ways in which the mind can work to discipline itself, to think at a higher level of quality, to function better in the world.
How can anything come before understanding our minds and how we think? What could possibly be more important? No matter what we want to do in life, how can we neglect understanding inwardly, psychologically?
Depression, anxiety, stress and other forms of psychological suffering are on the rise. Our primary response has been to medicate the brain with drugs to combat the neurochemical imbalances associated with these ailments. But this has been largely ineffective by treating symptoms and even making patients dependent upon as well as increasingly tolerant of these drugs, not to mention the side effects that go along with them. We try to treat the imbalance in the brain, but why does that imbalance exist in the first place? Surely we were not born so psychologically dysfunctional, so what happened?
I think this is the question that we must ask ourselves… because we are missing something. Many solutions have been proposed, whether academic, political, religious, economic, spiritual, philosophical, technological, a combination of the above, and so on… but none of them have ever been able to help humankind to finally rise out of the swamps of confusion. We have advanced technologically, but psychologically we have gone nowhere. This is a historical observation, the result of which can be seen by asking the question: where are we now? Many therapies and self help books focus on a type of system so to give people a way to face their problems. But they are simply aimed at reprogramming the mind with a particular strategy to deal with depression, anxiety, thoughts, discomfort, and so on… Then the mind has to think through that system; it becomes dependent on it and is once again stuck in a limited way of thinking. And people constantly have to reaffirm the new belief system so to combat their discomfort. And in the case that some success is achieved in dealing with our discomfort, whether due to a placebo effect or otherwise, then we fear to lose the condition that we acquired. Nothing gets to the real roots of our psychological suffering. Why are we so upset in the first place? What ways are we thinking in and why? What are the very mechanics that lead to our depression and so on…? Can we inquire there freely with no constraints nor expectations? Because if we can do that, then we can begin to understand what created and creates our discomfort.
So often we search for solutions without really even understanding the problem. The solutions exist because of the problem and the problem exists because of its roots! For example, the solution to insecurity is to build up some self-esteem or confidence, which comes from the outside. But then we always need something so to reaffirm our confidence, our picture of ourselves, and we get upset when something knocks or even scratches our self-esteem (which comes from our identity). By searching for self-esteem through whatever kind of consensus, whether academic, financial, social, familial, etc… we merely perpetuate our conflict inwardly, then outwardly. We think we have made progress, but we still fight the same battles. They might look different on the surface, but the patterns are the same. So often people argue and fight about something and then just apologize and say they really do care about each other. But without understanding why they were fighting in the first place soon something else comes up and they are fighting again. It’s the same thing in relationships romantic or not. The people may change, but the same/similar problems always reappear.
What people think, the belief system, ideas, and values that they think through may change, but this is merely a symptom of how they think, which is through an accumulation of psycho-existential authorities instead of thinking freely.
So are you willing to try something new? If so, then perhaps you would be interested in the End Of Fear Project.
The End Of Fear Project does not offer solutions to depression and other psychological ailments. The EOF is not a doctor nor interested in offering clinical advice. Instead, what the EOF Project offers is a profound investigation into the very mechanics that lead to psychological suffering such as anxiety, stress, depression, and so on….
The EOF has no methods, structures, techniques, nor strategies. It is not possible to understand the wholeness of the human psyche through such things because in adopting a theory or technique we limit our observation to what lies within that intellectual structure based on the past. Furthermore, all of the above require control and act as psychological authorities, and we can never find freedom nor peace through control. By thinking at our thoughts, without thinking through them, and without the thoughts that created those thoughts, we can explore inwardly so to understand how our minds work and how our psychological suffering, no matter what form it may take, is created.
By understanding the very roots of these things we can change our relationship with them. We can fully observe them and inquire into and beyond our conditioned reactions and confusion by using the entirety of our minds rather than the fragmented way of thinking with only our intellect and memories. The EOF is all about the possibility to think wholly, with all of the parts of our mind such as imagination, perception, intuition, inspiration, instinct, intellect, emotions, and memory all co-working in harmony. It is about the possibility to think without ideas, to regain that psychological serenity and totally private free observing + thinking that we once had. That place of inner peace and psychological freedom, which is the flowering of our intelligence, where there is no longer identity or the fear to lose anything, not even our psychological serenity itself.
Are we willing to try something totally new? By looking at the very ways in which we have been conditioned to think? By changing our relationship with our thoughts and fears? By inquiring into our confusion and how it originates? By thinking at our confusion without thinking through it and without identifying in it?
The End Of Fear Project has already begun to have success in helping people to understand and dismantle their psychological conditionings and subsequent discomfort.
When we are attentive, we are able to circumnavigate our conditionings. When we are in that place of quiet private psychological serenity, we think totally, freely, without thinking through our conditionings. As we stop feeding our energy to the psychological authoritarian constructs of conditionings they begin to wither. The point is not necessarily to erase all conditionings, otherwise we would simply accumulate new ones or reacquire old ones, but in attentiveness, in observing + thinking freely, which leads to the eventual dissolution of conditionings, being that they have a beginning and therefore an end.
The EOF Project is interested in being researched in a theoretic science study, connecting with a network of psychologists, researchers and other professionals as well as hosting conferences to really show people what the project is.
Some psychologists have already begun working with the End Of Fear Project, such as the prominent psychoanalyst Lisa Romero, of Milan Italy, who assisted in collaboration with the University of Tucson Arizona’s Department Of Consciousness Studies to have the EOF write articles for the “Towards a Science of Consciousness” 2011 global conference in Stockholm.
We are willing to have the EOF Project researched as or by Theoretic Psychology, and Sociology Departments. By bringing this kind of critical thinking and understanding to universities, for people to think very deeply, and radically way out of their comfort zone and boxes.
We have been massively conditioned by the society, and culture in which we live, and most of the time we do not even realize that we are not critically thinking, but are simply applying preconceived socially assimilated models of conditioning, constantly mistaking "normality" for reality. The EOF Project addresses the roots of this psychological despondency using ground-breaking inquiries not aimed to find a new method, which are now being considered for application to current psychological practices. Prominent Psychologist Lisa Romeroof of Milan, Italy, is just one of the many psychoanalysts agreeing with the relevance of the EOF Project. In her thorough appreciation of our work she assisted in arranging a collaboration with the University of Tucson, Arizona’s Department of Consciousness Study; having us write an article for the “Towards a Science of Consciousness” 2011 Global Conference in Stockholm. So far we are receiving immense results working with people in a range of mental states.
I myself am a former new age speaker who recognizes the dangers of the superficial rhetoric and non-thinking of what I was promoting. I now expose the perils of negligence, abuse, and psychological suffering that comes from such thinking. This rhetoric is not just limited to religion and spirituality, but also encompasses the whole of our societal, cultural and political beliefs. Which have become our psycho-existential authorities and inevitably create a massive tunnel vision. That identification causes individuals to be blind about protecting their beliefs, rather than seeing what's really behind them, creating internal and external conflicts. The E.O.F. Project is not interested in promoting any ideological, political, religious, demi-religious, spiritual, and similar contents of any kind. This is a project that invites people to think outside of all of these things. The EOF Project is not about promoting new beliefs, or trying to turn people into followers so as to merely reprogram them once more. Rather, to help them dismantle all of the layers of psychological authorities and conditioning's, that they have accumulated over years, and years of being handed down and repeated, so as to finally be able to start thinking on their own again.
Here at EOF we do our best to provide various ways to include you in the project. It does not matter if you wish to be a silent pioneer or not. There is something for everyone here.
"The problem is not the problem, the problem is our relationship with the problem" -
Come see what we are doing on Facebook and join us towards the movement of your psychological freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENDOFfearPROJECT/
The EOF is a good place to connect with like minds who are willing to inquire into their past beliefs, share their personal stories and ask their questions. This project is very unique and gives a lot of food for thought. It is like a gym for your mind. From working with The EOF Detox your Mind Coaching 1 year commitment you will gain insight, tips and radical understanding on:
"The only way to be free from fear is to understand it"
WHY IS THE E.O.F IMPORTANT?
First off, we are not talking about natural instinctual fear but inner psychological fear, such as thoughts going on in our heads that happened or could happen. These are the thoughts that we tend to convince ourselves are so real and that we more than often react to. This seems ridiculous but we do it all the time. Yes, we let our mind and illusions run our lives, and because of this, all aspects of our lives are effected; from relationships with others and ourselves to physical health, mental health and even physical appearance.
How important is this? Our relationship with our thoughts, what’s behind our thoughts, and the lack of understanding on how our thoughts work, our negligence, refusal to understand and think, is actually what’s creating our reality, not our surface thoughts or best intentions like we tend to think and are often told. It's all happening in the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind.
The EOF is unique, its cutting edge, even radical, and it’s unlike anything you may have come across before. Its not uplifting or motivational its actually de-motivational, a severe reality check, and is often found to be highly controversial and upsetting, we do not sugar coat anything. It is intense and deep, because in order to be psychologically free we must get to the root of the problem. How can we move forward in life or make anything work if we are not psychologically free? We care more about our physical health then our mental health.
Do We Have A Healthy Mind?
We live in a peculiar world with very advanced technology but we have not advanced at all psychologically, because we live in a world that is taking us further and further away from having a healthy mind. There is the rise of psycho-social anxiety, no wonder so many are feeling the inertia and are succumbing to depression. It can be exhausting and frustrating trying to live in this backwards world.
The time we are living in is peculiar and our situation precarious. The subject we are presenting is of utmost importance for the evolution of our species and it is a choice we all have to make—sink or swim. The patterns are thick, strong and harsh, and will repeat themselves as many times as they have to in order for us to fully understand them and break that pattern once and for all. It’s not just an individual problem, it’s a historical and collective problem, as we have seen time and time again, history repeating itself.
We are in prison and at the mercy of the past. The more we understand how this works, the more we can take our mind back, so we can build our future. This happens psychologically first, and then in the world. Our minds are deep, and in order for the roots of the tree to sustain itself to be able to survive anything, we just go through it.
What is Meta-Cognition?
Meta-cognition plays a big part in The EOF Coaching; it’s a scientific term that is used to explain the study of thinking about thinking. It’s about examining the processes by which we think about and arrive at our own beliefs. This requires questioning everything that you think, the process of your thinking, and everything that you think you know.
Critical thinking is important to as to understand and be able see that what we think we know may be hurting us, but if we are unable to see it how can we stop it little on even understand it? As in the way it is right now if we do not understand something we fear it.
Most of what we remember and believe is flawed or simply false. Our brains seem to constantly generate false observations, memories, and beliefs—and yet we tend to take the truth of our experiences for granted. There are many ways in which our human brain deceives us and leads us to conclusions that have little to do with reality and we have been a slave to this for most of our history.
We need to be able to know how to perceive the world around us. Everything we think we see, hear, and experience is not a direct recording of the outside world; instead, it is a construction. Information is altered, distorted, compared, and confabulated—ultimately to be woven into a narrative that is our assumptions about the world. Our experiences and thoughts are also altered through our beliefs, ideas, ideals, society and the many emotional needs
humans constantly feed, which often times leads to confusion.
Furthermore, everything we think and experience becomes a memory, which is further constructed, altered, and fused. We rely upon our memories as if they were accurate recordings of the past, but the evidence shows that we should be highly suspicious of even the most vivid and confident memories.
We don’t recall memories as much as we reconstruct and update them, altering the information every time we access it. Our brains also fill in gaps by making up information as needed. Additionally, a host of logical flaws and cognitive biases plague our thinking, unless we are specifically aware of and avoid those fallacies.
With The EOF, you will explore logical fallacies and cognitive biases in detail, understanding how
they affect thinking in often subtle ways; such as mental shortcuts we tend to take in thinking; these shortcuts may
be efficient in most circumstances, but they can also lead us astray. We are generally very good at pattern recognition—so good that we often see patterns that are not actually there. However, many of us are inherently poor at probability and statistics, and this innumeracy opens us up to deception and errors in thinking. Perhaps our greatest weakness is our susceptibility to delusion, the ability to hold a false belief against all evidence.
After a full year of working with The EOF, you will have a thorough understanding of meta-cognition and why we all so desperately need it. Left to our own devices we will be subject to the vagaries of perception and memory and slaves to our emotional needs, beliefs, ideals, ideas and biases which leads to manipulate abuse and violence.
Are we able to operate on the meta-cognitive
level so that you are able to think about the process of your own thinking? Yes, but it is not easy.
The human brain is a tool by which we understand ourselves
and the world in which we live. By understanding the nature of human cognition and the methods of thinking clearly and critically, we can avoid common errors and make the best use of our minds.
The inherent tendency of humans is to make many errors in thinking. One example is flaws in logic, which are called logical fallacies, in which we tend to make logical connections that are not valid, or real.
Our thinking is also plagued with many false assumptions. Our heads are filled with knowledge that we think is actual, but is, in fact, false. Either these bits of knowledge are simply wrong, or they’re assumptions that fall short of what is.
Our memories are also massively flawed. We tend to naively assume that our memories are an accurate, passive recorder of what has happened, but our memories are actually plagued with numerous flaws that make them highly unreliable and just because we wish or imagine something is so that does not mean it is.
All of our beliefs must be open to revision. When new data comes in, or maybe just a better way of interpreting data, we have to be open to revising what we thought we knew.
Most people are subject to delusions. Sometimes our thinking goes so far awry that we can invent our own reality so as to escape actual reality, or we become swept up in the beliefs of others. One common manifestation of this is a public panic, or following a religious spiritual or political leader and so much more.
It’s helpful to consider thinking as a process and to focus on the process rather than on any particular conclusions or ideals. Which is what the mind so often tends to do and this how we know we are not actually thinking or rather are not attentive or perceptive to thinking about what we are thinking. Once we emotionally invest in a conclusion, humans are very good at twisting and rationalizing facts and logic in order to fit that desired conclusion. Instead, we should invest in the process and be very flexible when it comes to any conclusions or ideals hopes beliefs etc.
In addition, we are currently living not only in the age of
information with the Internet, but we are living in the age
of misinformation. There are many rumors that now spread faster than wild fire; they spread with the speed of electrons through the Internet. Whether they’re innocent or malicious, myths are spread through the Internet in order for the people behind the myths to try to steal other people’s money, lure them into a scam, or even lure people to abusive situations.
Thinking critically is a process, and the first component is to
examine all of the facts that you are assuming or that you think are actual. Many of them may not be reliable, or they may be assumptions. You may not know whether they’re actual, but you’re assuming they’re what is so, which often leads to confusion and self manipulation then we share it and manipulate others in this way.
You also need to examine your logic. Is the logic you’re using legitimate, or is it flawed in some way? Perhaps it’s systematically biased in a certain direction due to past experiences or conditionings.
In addition, you should try to become aware of your motivations. People are extremely good at rationalizing beliefs when they are motivated by a desire to believe a certain conclusion because they are convinced that it is good and right but they are unable to see the blindness that comes from this. Understanding your motivations especially when it mostly comes from fear or wanting consensus will help you deconstruct that process and will give you the skills to discover conclusions that are more likely to be actual, as opposed to the ones that you just wish to be true.
You have a limited fund of knowledge and a limited perspective. In fact, your knowledge and perspective may be limited in ways that you’re not aware. You don’t know what you don’t know. Therefore, if you check your beliefs with others, it increases the probability that any holes in your thinking will be covered up. Rather then being afraid of the unknown.
When a large consensus on a specific claim is achieved, there’s a greater chance that the consensus reflects reality than the process of an individual. A consensus may be systematically biased as well, which is often rhetorical acting like a quick fix easy answer addressing the symptoms and not root thus making things worse in the long run. For example this world and all society, religious structures even academia is lacking in meta-cognition hence the mess we see today in the world. With fewer people being able to understand their mind or to be able to perceive attentively their own thinking meta-cognition is it any surprise that mental illnesses are on the increase?
The EOF is, in fact, a defense mechanism against all the machinations that are trying to deceive us—whether for ideological/spiritual/new age/religion, political, or society marketing reasons. This also liberates us from being weighed down by the many false beliefs, and perhaps mutually incompatible beliefs, that we tend to hold because of our emotional and historical makeup.
Questions to consider
1. Why is meta-cognition important to the average person and to society as a whole?
2. What are the neurological, psychological, and cultural barriers to critical thinking and meta-cognition?
-Notes reference from Dr Steve Novella
YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM
Think of us as an Existential Emergency Contact Center; a psychological fear, support, dismantle and recovery group and a place to reconnect you to your ability to think. Make a personal commitment to yourself and cultivate in your psychological freedom by giving a one year commitment to the Detox your Mind Coaching. Give yourself the chance to get to the bottom of your mind and see what’s on the other side.
You can do this in the comfort of your own home with the various multi-media tools we provide, free of charge.
Some even choose to visit us in person.
OUR INNER FEARS REALLY ARE RIDICULOUS HERE IS WHY
Can you imagine what the world would be like if our inner fears were not just the product of human complexity but animals and plants suffered as well? Imagine if birds did not fly because they were too afraid or they were told it is evil to fly. Can you imagine them spending all their time walking around forgetting that they were meant to fly? And what if a flower was too afraid to bloom, worried about what the other flowers or plants would say? What if they were not good enough or pretty enough as a flower? What if they chose the wrong color? What if the bees do not like them or their pollen? Should they try implant petals? What if the sun decided it was not good enough and because it was hurt it decided not to shine anymore? What if a seed in the ground gets paranoid that it will never become a tree, so why try?
I hope this post helped you to see how truly ridiculous we sound with our inner fears that we battle inside ourselves every day. If nature doesn’t care about these things then nor should we. We care too much about the things that are are ridiculous and unimportant, and not enough about the really important things. The next time you find yourself thinking you’re not good enough, remember the examples in this post and laugh at those silly and ridiculous thoughts, so you can clearly see how illusionary they are.
Here at the EOF we learn how to not take our fears and insecurities seriously
We have been massively conditioned by the society, and culture in which we live, and most of the time we do not even realize that we are not critically thinking, but are simply applying preconceived socially assimilated models of conditioning, constantly mistaking "normality" for reality. The EOF Project addresses the roots of this psychological despondency using ground-breaking inquiries not aimed to find a new method, which are now being considered for application to current psychological practices. Prominent Psychologist Lisa Romeroof of Milan, Italy, is just one of the many psychoanalysts agreeing with the relevance of the EOF Project. In her thorough appreciation of our work she assisted in arranging a collaboration with the University of Tucson, Arizona’s Department of Consciousness Study; having us write an article for the “Towards a Science of Consciousness” 2011 Global Conference in Stockholm. So far we are receiving immense results working with people in a range of mental states.
I myself am a former new age speaker who recognizes the dangers of the superficial rhetoric and non-thinking of what I was promoting. I now expose the perils of negligence, abuse, and psychological suffering that comes from such thinking. This rhetoric is not just limited to religion and spirituality, but also encompasses the whole of our societal, cultural and political beliefs. Which have become our psycho-existential authorities and inevitably create a massive tunnel vision. That identification causes individuals to be blind about protecting their beliefs, rather than seeing what's really behind them, creating internal and external conflicts. The E.O.F. Project is not interested in promoting any ideological, political, religious, demi-religious, spiritual, and similar contents of any kind. This is a project that invites people to think outside of all of these things. The EOF Project is not about promoting new beliefs, or trying to turn people into followers so as to merely reprogram them once more. Rather, to help them dismantle all of the layers of psychological authorities and conditioning's, that they have accumulated over years, and years of being handed down and repeated, so as to finally be able to start thinking on their own again.
Here at EOF we do our best to provide various ways to include you in the project. It does not matter if you wish to be a silent pioneer or not. There is something for everyone here.
"The problem is not the problem, the problem is our relationship with the problem" -
Come see what we are doing on Facebook and join us towards the movement of your psychological freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENDOFfearPROJECT/
The EOF is a good place to connect with like minds who are willing to inquire into their past beliefs, share their personal stories and ask their questions. This project is very unique and gives a lot of food for thought. It is like a gym for your mind. From working with The EOF Detox your Mind Coaching 1 year commitment you will gain insight, tips and radical understanding on:
- What does it mean to have a clear mind?
- Why is confusion predominant in society and in our psychology and why does irrationality seem to be always more alluring than rational thinking?
- Why are we the most intelligent yet the most cognitively disturbed of all the species?
- Why is love linked to violence, wherever there is love there is violence?
- Why do we strive for and preach about peace but are unable to achieve it psychologically first then externally?
- Why are we slaves to our beliefs, identity, answers and the truth? How believing is not thinking, why do we fear our own mind?
- What is the study of psychology missing or not considering?
- What is missing in our school and education field that is crucial and must be there? Why is knowledge and learning not enough?
- How do all solutions, no matter what they are, become a part of the problem?
- Why do we refuse to be clear or to understand?
- How can hope be a trap?
- Find out how our beliefs and ideas can take over our mind and think for us, no matter how pleasant the belief may seem, if it’s thinking for us then we are being negligent and this often turns into confusion, mental instability, abuse and violence
- Why we mainly tend to think solely through our memory and intellect, and an introduction to the other facets of our mind that we repress
- Why do we mostly only know what to think rather than how to think?
- Understand the thinking that brings abuse, exploitation and manipulation
- Understanding what is behind addiction, depression, loneliness and anxiety
- Understand how we deceive ourselves first before anyone else can deceive us
"The only way to be free from fear is to understand it"
WHY IS THE E.O.F IMPORTANT?
First off, we are not talking about natural instinctual fear but inner psychological fear, such as thoughts going on in our heads that happened or could happen. These are the thoughts that we tend to convince ourselves are so real and that we more than often react to. This seems ridiculous but we do it all the time. Yes, we let our mind and illusions run our lives, and because of this, all aspects of our lives are effected; from relationships with others and ourselves to physical health, mental health and even physical appearance.
How important is this? Our relationship with our thoughts, what’s behind our thoughts, and the lack of understanding on how our thoughts work, our negligence, refusal to understand and think, is actually what’s creating our reality, not our surface thoughts or best intentions like we tend to think and are often told. It's all happening in the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind.
The EOF is unique, its cutting edge, even radical, and it’s unlike anything you may have come across before. Its not uplifting or motivational its actually de-motivational, a severe reality check, and is often found to be highly controversial and upsetting, we do not sugar coat anything. It is intense and deep, because in order to be psychologically free we must get to the root of the problem. How can we move forward in life or make anything work if we are not psychologically free? We care more about our physical health then our mental health.
Do We Have A Healthy Mind?
We live in a peculiar world with very advanced technology but we have not advanced at all psychologically, because we live in a world that is taking us further and further away from having a healthy mind. There is the rise of psycho-social anxiety, no wonder so many are feeling the inertia and are succumbing to depression. It can be exhausting and frustrating trying to live in this backwards world.
The time we are living in is peculiar and our situation precarious. The subject we are presenting is of utmost importance for the evolution of our species and it is a choice we all have to make—sink or swim. The patterns are thick, strong and harsh, and will repeat themselves as many times as they have to in order for us to fully understand them and break that pattern once and for all. It’s not just an individual problem, it’s a historical and collective problem, as we have seen time and time again, history repeating itself.
We are in prison and at the mercy of the past. The more we understand how this works, the more we can take our mind back, so we can build our future. This happens psychologically first, and then in the world. Our minds are deep, and in order for the roots of the tree to sustain itself to be able to survive anything, we just go through it.
What is Meta-Cognition?
Meta-cognition plays a big part in The EOF Coaching; it’s a scientific term that is used to explain the study of thinking about thinking. It’s about examining the processes by which we think about and arrive at our own beliefs. This requires questioning everything that you think, the process of your thinking, and everything that you think you know.
Critical thinking is important to as to understand and be able see that what we think we know may be hurting us, but if we are unable to see it how can we stop it little on even understand it? As in the way it is right now if we do not understand something we fear it.
Most of what we remember and believe is flawed or simply false. Our brains seem to constantly generate false observations, memories, and beliefs—and yet we tend to take the truth of our experiences for granted. There are many ways in which our human brain deceives us and leads us to conclusions that have little to do with reality and we have been a slave to this for most of our history.
We need to be able to know how to perceive the world around us. Everything we think we see, hear, and experience is not a direct recording of the outside world; instead, it is a construction. Information is altered, distorted, compared, and confabulated—ultimately to be woven into a narrative that is our assumptions about the world. Our experiences and thoughts are also altered through our beliefs, ideas, ideals, society and the many emotional needs
humans constantly feed, which often times leads to confusion.
Furthermore, everything we think and experience becomes a memory, which is further constructed, altered, and fused. We rely upon our memories as if they were accurate recordings of the past, but the evidence shows that we should be highly suspicious of even the most vivid and confident memories.
We don’t recall memories as much as we reconstruct and update them, altering the information every time we access it. Our brains also fill in gaps by making up information as needed. Additionally, a host of logical flaws and cognitive biases plague our thinking, unless we are specifically aware of and avoid those fallacies.
With The EOF, you will explore logical fallacies and cognitive biases in detail, understanding how
they affect thinking in often subtle ways; such as mental shortcuts we tend to take in thinking; these shortcuts may
be efficient in most circumstances, but they can also lead us astray. We are generally very good at pattern recognition—so good that we often see patterns that are not actually there. However, many of us are inherently poor at probability and statistics, and this innumeracy opens us up to deception and errors in thinking. Perhaps our greatest weakness is our susceptibility to delusion, the ability to hold a false belief against all evidence.
After a full year of working with The EOF, you will have a thorough understanding of meta-cognition and why we all so desperately need it. Left to our own devices we will be subject to the vagaries of perception and memory and slaves to our emotional needs, beliefs, ideals, ideas and biases which leads to manipulate abuse and violence.
Are we able to operate on the meta-cognitive
level so that you are able to think about the process of your own thinking? Yes, but it is not easy.
The human brain is a tool by which we understand ourselves
and the world in which we live. By understanding the nature of human cognition and the methods of thinking clearly and critically, we can avoid common errors and make the best use of our minds.
The inherent tendency of humans is to make many errors in thinking. One example is flaws in logic, which are called logical fallacies, in which we tend to make logical connections that are not valid, or real.
Our thinking is also plagued with many false assumptions. Our heads are filled with knowledge that we think is actual, but is, in fact, false. Either these bits of knowledge are simply wrong, or they’re assumptions that fall short of what is.
Our memories are also massively flawed. We tend to naively assume that our memories are an accurate, passive recorder of what has happened, but our memories are actually plagued with numerous flaws that make them highly unreliable and just because we wish or imagine something is so that does not mean it is.
All of our beliefs must be open to revision. When new data comes in, or maybe just a better way of interpreting data, we have to be open to revising what we thought we knew.
Most people are subject to delusions. Sometimes our thinking goes so far awry that we can invent our own reality so as to escape actual reality, or we become swept up in the beliefs of others. One common manifestation of this is a public panic, or following a religious spiritual or political leader and so much more.
It’s helpful to consider thinking as a process and to focus on the process rather than on any particular conclusions or ideals. Which is what the mind so often tends to do and this how we know we are not actually thinking or rather are not attentive or perceptive to thinking about what we are thinking. Once we emotionally invest in a conclusion, humans are very good at twisting and rationalizing facts and logic in order to fit that desired conclusion. Instead, we should invest in the process and be very flexible when it comes to any conclusions or ideals hopes beliefs etc.
In addition, we are currently living not only in the age of
information with the Internet, but we are living in the age
of misinformation. There are many rumors that now spread faster than wild fire; they spread with the speed of electrons through the Internet. Whether they’re innocent or malicious, myths are spread through the Internet in order for the people behind the myths to try to steal other people’s money, lure them into a scam, or even lure people to abusive situations.
Thinking critically is a process, and the first component is to
examine all of the facts that you are assuming or that you think are actual. Many of them may not be reliable, or they may be assumptions. You may not know whether they’re actual, but you’re assuming they’re what is so, which often leads to confusion and self manipulation then we share it and manipulate others in this way.
You also need to examine your logic. Is the logic you’re using legitimate, or is it flawed in some way? Perhaps it’s systematically biased in a certain direction due to past experiences or conditionings.
In addition, you should try to become aware of your motivations. People are extremely good at rationalizing beliefs when they are motivated by a desire to believe a certain conclusion because they are convinced that it is good and right but they are unable to see the blindness that comes from this. Understanding your motivations especially when it mostly comes from fear or wanting consensus will help you deconstruct that process and will give you the skills to discover conclusions that are more likely to be actual, as opposed to the ones that you just wish to be true.
You have a limited fund of knowledge and a limited perspective. In fact, your knowledge and perspective may be limited in ways that you’re not aware. You don’t know what you don’t know. Therefore, if you check your beliefs with others, it increases the probability that any holes in your thinking will be covered up. Rather then being afraid of the unknown.
When a large consensus on a specific claim is achieved, there’s a greater chance that the consensus reflects reality than the process of an individual. A consensus may be systematically biased as well, which is often rhetorical acting like a quick fix easy answer addressing the symptoms and not root thus making things worse in the long run. For example this world and all society, religious structures even academia is lacking in meta-cognition hence the mess we see today in the world. With fewer people being able to understand their mind or to be able to perceive attentively their own thinking meta-cognition is it any surprise that mental illnesses are on the increase?
The EOF is, in fact, a defense mechanism against all the machinations that are trying to deceive us—whether for ideological/spiritual/new age/religion, political, or society marketing reasons. This also liberates us from being weighed down by the many false beliefs, and perhaps mutually incompatible beliefs, that we tend to hold because of our emotional and historical makeup.
Questions to consider
1. Why is meta-cognition important to the average person and to society as a whole?
2. What are the neurological, psychological, and cultural barriers to critical thinking and meta-cognition?
-Notes reference from Dr Steve Novella
YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM
Think of us as an Existential Emergency Contact Center; a psychological fear, support, dismantle and recovery group and a place to reconnect you to your ability to think. Make a personal commitment to yourself and cultivate in your psychological freedom by giving a one year commitment to the Detox your Mind Coaching. Give yourself the chance to get to the bottom of your mind and see what’s on the other side.
You can do this in the comfort of your own home with the various multi-media tools we provide, free of charge.
Some even choose to visit us in person.
OUR INNER FEARS REALLY ARE RIDICULOUS HERE IS WHY
Can you imagine what the world would be like if our inner fears were not just the product of human complexity but animals and plants suffered as well? Imagine if birds did not fly because they were too afraid or they were told it is evil to fly. Can you imagine them spending all their time walking around forgetting that they were meant to fly? And what if a flower was too afraid to bloom, worried about what the other flowers or plants would say? What if they were not good enough or pretty enough as a flower? What if they chose the wrong color? What if the bees do not like them or their pollen? Should they try implant petals? What if the sun decided it was not good enough and because it was hurt it decided not to shine anymore? What if a seed in the ground gets paranoid that it will never become a tree, so why try?
I hope this post helped you to see how truly ridiculous we sound with our inner fears that we battle inside ourselves every day. If nature doesn’t care about these things then nor should we. We care too much about the things that are are ridiculous and unimportant, and not enough about the really important things. The next time you find yourself thinking you’re not good enough, remember the examples in this post and laugh at those silly and ridiculous thoughts, so you can clearly see how illusionary they are.
Here at the EOF we learn how to not take our fears and insecurities seriously
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