The Power of Beliefs

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It’s not easy to undo a lifetime of conditioning with a few sentences.

The Power of Beliefs – the previous statement is true across the board, in politics, religion and Changing your Life. I have included this not for its political content, but to show how ingrained our beliefs are and how much energy it takes to change a belief, even one that has no basis in the very principles that one proclaims.


The excerpt below is from the interview found here-

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz11222004/



It’s not easy to undo a lifetime of conditioning with a few sentences. How can I match 10000 hours of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and The National Enquirer? In the current edition of my newsletter, The Anti-Empire Report, coming out soon, I write about such people, whom I call the Valueites.

Certainly, with any one individual amongst them, if we secluded that person on a farm with a dozen articulate progressive activists for a year, and with a plethora of moving audio-visual materials, something would probably click in that individual’s head. But we haven’t got enough activists, time, or farms to make even a crease in the target population of “Valueites”.

As ignorant and lacking in imagination as they might be, these people, if transported to Iraq to see the bombs falling, the houses destroyed, the missing limbs, and the mangled children’s bodies; if forced to look upon and smell the burning flesh of victims of policies they support—even such Americans would be moved to a higher political consciousness.

This has already happened with a number of American military personnel in Iraq, but is of course impossible to arrange for the many Valueites.

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So you see it is a very daunting task to modify ones beliefs, particularly if it is attached to group consciousness.

Most people look to someone else to provide them with their beliefs, and gather together in tribal enclaves (religious, political, and even racial) that are based on those beliefs. Like sheep they follow their charming leader, (remember Jim Jones?).

I cannot change your beliefs or your conditioning… I can only point out that there are other Truths.

You have to decide if you are going to continue to follow the ingrained conditioned and distorted truths that have been given to you by others or discover what the real Truth is!

This requires an open mind, which strangely enough even the most educated people tend to have difficulty employing. They emphatically resist any discourse that disagrees with their ingrained belief system.

This is why Jesus said “The Truth shall set you free”,

But YOU have to find that Truth...If you look to someone else to bring change, you will soon find that it is Their change that they want to bring. They may be simply proclaiming their truth as "THE TRUTH" and the masses fall into step and follow, believing that they have found their Messiah.

The Truth and change begins with you...what will you do to live it?

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