Uncomfortable Truths, I

4. Creating Your Life: Uncomfortable Truths, I

The Story So Far

Short Version:

Death is the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on humankind.

Long Version:

I started off this series with The God Game.

• Part 1: I introduce the idea that it's good to recall that it's not necessary to believe in God in order to be a fundamentalist. Then I discussed the meaning of the First Amendment establishment clause regarding freedom of religion, and why all interpretations should rest on defining the limits of the Federal government.
• Part 2: I talk about a certain domain of rationalist skeptics and their limitations of interpreting truth. I also introduce The Micro-Scientific Method, which only can be used to prove truths to oneself, no one else. I end by setting up The God Game.
• Part 3: I give my answer to The God Game, namely that if I were an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent being, I would create EVERYTHING, and everybody gets to play every possible role.
• Part 4: I introduce The Satan Maneuver, an avoidance tactic used by fundamentalists to avoid uncomfortable truths.

At the same time I wrote the series, Evil Dictionaries And Money.

• Part 1: I talk about how changing definitions is used to control people.
• Part 2: I begin a fairy tale on banking and money.
• Part 3: I finish the fairy tale.
• Part 4: I talk about how manipulative definitions work to change taxation and attack liberty.

Next we explored How The Mind Works.

• Part 1: I talk about how the mind inately possesses blindspots.
• Part 2: I talk about how the picture that people have of themselves can dictate their reality. I also give a technique I successfully used to quit smoking, and more importantly see myself as a non-smoker, not a smoker who has quit.
• Part 3: I introduce the Reticular Activating System, a network of cells in the brain that creates blindspots based on what you believe to be true.
• Part 4: I introduce the Censor, which is part of your subconscious, and how the Censor blinds you to truths. I also talk about ways you can start using the Censor for your own purposes.
• Part 5: I talk about your self-image and how it is related to how you talk to yourself.
• Part 6: How your mind will lock on to things, and then lock out other things. And how people can use this function of your mind against you.
• Part 7: I get personal and then talk about the formula Imagination x Vividness = Reality.
• Part 8: I introduce The Pygmalion Effect, and how the pictures we hold of other people can actually affect them. Also, I talk about how you may have uncritically accepted pictures of yourself from other people.
• Part 9: I talk about Rites of Passage and The Wizard of Oz, and how the world is full of positive and negative wizards.

Finally, I began this series, Creating Your Life.

• Part 1: I talk about how the mind is a good slave but a poor master, and how important it is to be End-Result Oriented in order to achieve your goals.
• Part 2: I talk about how making changes in your life is like Kitchen Remodeling. You have to take out the old kitchen before the new one can be installed. I also mention 12-Year Cycles and how they relate to changes.
• Part 3: I talk about Full Power Imagination and how the image you hold in your mind's eye, with the right attitude and attention, will eventually manifest in "reality."
• Part 4: This post. A summary so far.
• Part 5: Next, some more outrageous propositions and a note about pluralistic tolerance of benign ideas.

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