There is something very interesting about this subject, and it is called perspective. The truth for me might not be the same for you… Now, why is this? Your vision has a determined experience that differs from mine.
Peace only exists if it is individual, so it is a personal responsibility to find peace within ourselves [...]
Belief goes deep into concepts. This occurs because concepts nurture belief, and belief is nurtured by concepts. This goes way into the way we process information through a possible prediction system (Hawkins, Blakeslee) or an interpreter (Gazzaniga) in the brain that creates justifications to sustain beliefs. The studies about how the brain works are in [...]
Each language differs in structure, symbolism, interpretation, intention, sound, etc. It distinguishes one culture from another, and consequently influences the way we have been taught to process information.
As a simultaneously taught bilingual child, you can use different brain pathways to understand things. When studying foreign languages, so you can think in two more languages. Thus, [...]
To questions your own thoughts is a interesting path to really understand freedom.
Therefore, I can change because there is no need to be who I believe I am because you need to admit you can be wrong to accept change.
They teach us to see freedom as something external; like the capacity to choose a president or to choose what to buy, but freedom actually is the removal of paradigms and chains your mind ; to remove those limits, so you can live fullfilled and happy.
Freedom can even mean to be a child again, and ask: Why? to everything, even what seems most obvious.
Do the voices inside my head control me or do I control the voices? Those voices are conditioned by my past experiences. I see a tree. I know it is a tree because someone told me it was so. I am not focusing. I believe there is a man standing beside it, but I focus and no one is there.
Was it my mind or my senses?
Our thoughts become an intrinsic form of self knowledge in a place where to communicate your needs, you need to use words to express yourself and be understood.
Are thoughts a trustworthy source of self knowledge? Why?
Thought 1: I don’t like you.
The same person, within the same hour.
Thought 2: I love you.
Thought 1: I am sure.
The [...]
What is the collective mind? How does the collective mind affect our daily lives?
Society as a group of people is just an aspect of the collective mind, it is the conjunction of different factors like: the general state of consciousness of the population, your inner division (what you believe vs. others believe) causing peer pressure, [...]
Life is full of breaking points, instants creating the opportunity of change, your choice: Take them or leave them. You walk the way you believe makes you feel is great about yourself. Most of the time, our ideas depend, if they are not thought by yourself thoroughly, on the collective mind, they way [...]
Yes, we are, as long as we still have mountains, lakes, rivers, oceans, prairies, animals, chocolates, pineapples, mangoes, and a beautiful world, we are sensible.
It is really weird because somehow people don’t relate nature with themselves, when we are actually very much the same. We are nature, as nature is in us.
Why do we want [...]
Have you ever taken some time to read about poverty or liberty? Have you ever seen a movie about India, Africa or other countries where poverty is famine and liberty can only be inner because they are trapped in a structure of power and control?
Liberty is an inner thing, why do we always want to [...]