There are many problems in the world. There is much deception and manipulation of our behavior to get certain results created in the world. Our way of life is conditioned into us. Social engineers have a large degree of control over our lives.
The solution to overcoming most of our problem lies within ourselves, with the importance of understanding consciousness. The level of clarity we have of seeing the problems in the world and applying solutions to them, depends on our level of consciousness.
If we have a low level of awareness, or are focused on lower base aspects of our consciousness, we are essentially wondering in the dark. To have less awareness of reality means we have less frequency of contact with aspects of reality being known, which puts us in a lower vibrational state of consciousness. This prevents us from me being able to accurately discern the difference between truth and falsity and understand what is really happening in the world.
Every problem has within it the information required to arrive at its solution. If a problem is like a tree, the seeds within it have the potential to grow into a solution.
The problem of having a lower level awareness and vibrational frequency of consciousness is solved by the solution of raising conscious awareness and consciousness to a higher level. This is how we can get out of our current way of life towards doing things better.
We need to notice the patterns of events taking place around us, and also understand what is taking place within us, within our psyche. We must ask and learn the who, what where, and when, but also ask the pivotal question why. The why is to get the nature of the problems we face, which is the essence of the condition, situation or event. The why is the motivation and drive for something having happened in the first place. The why is the reason and purpose for actions being done.
If we can understand ourselves more, and understand why we or others or everyone in the world at large is engaging in certain behaviors, we can understand the drives and motivations that produce those behaviors. Understanding ourselves as a solution to our problems. We don't understand ourselves enough. We don't have knowledge about how we function and why we are doing the things that we do.
To understand the core nature of the problems being generated in our world, allows us to change the conditions we prefer didn't exist. The root cause of our collective suffering is from a lack of knowledge of ourselves. Learning self-knowledge, about consciousness, about thoughts and emotions, can allow us to be better guarded from those who wish to manipulate and control us. Rather than being conditioned to live a certain way, we can work our way out of that conditioning and live in ways that we recognize actually right instead of wrong.
I would agree with this. Do you think there is a preferable way to gain self-insight? The world is flooded with competing strategies, and it may turn out that there are multiple ways of getting there, that contact themselves from first principles.
Interested in your thoughts 🙂
Self-examination, analysis, introspection of one's own behavior and the relation to morality; psychology, brain functionality, neuroscience, and probably others. But those are the main ways to learn about ourselves that I can think of :) What are your thoughts?
Yeah, I have settled on introspection, it works very well for that. I would say study of psychology and Neuroscience, but this can be a very mixed bag, and can mislead as much as illuminate. (Think the dogmatic psychologist from the 80's, refusing to discuss high-functioning autism?)
I suppose this is because people are also drawn to knowledge for reasons of power. If you adopt it for that reason, it becomes quite rigid; loosing its ability to adapt over time. I'm not sure why this is the case, just something I have observed.
Knowing yourself can only be done with a very soft touch!
Once again thank you for your words. Very insightful.
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