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Mind Your Head

Challenge Your Paradigm!

Throughout history, when enough people reject an accepted view in favor of a new and different view it can be said that a paradigm has changed. This is true regardless of the established political power or the subject matter of the paradigm.

Paradigm changes are never easy, almost always occur very slowly, and are not final until the guardians of the previous paradigm retire leaving a new, younger generation in a leadership role. Events signaling change are often reflected in public opinion, where the media is at the cusp of change. Through books and the cinema new ideas finds an audience, and sometimes an audience that senses a correction in thinking is needed. This is particularly true for history, specifically ancient Egyptian history. ...

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Have you ever considered the nature of knowledge or thought about how do we know what we know?

We know what we know either through direct experience or by someone else’s instruction. From the individual’s perspective, direct experience is irrefutable although others may refute another person’s experience based on his or her own experience and how unusual the experience is. Still, regardless of such opposition to the person encountering the experience that experience is real.

One case in point is those who claimed to have been abducted by alien beings. For those of us who have never seen a UFO, let alone be abducted by aliens, such a claim is preposterous. Yet, for the person experiencing the abduction phenomena the experience is very real.

Another example is the dream. While sleeping, the experience of a dream is very real. Yet, upon waking it’s easy to identify experiencing a dream as just that, a dream, and conclude that it’s not real. We know this to be the case because we have been taught that dreams are not real and assume that those who are doing the teaching are correct.

What if those doing the teaching are wrong? What if most of what you have been taught about religion, politics, and history, three of the biggest factors that determine cultural views, are based on false assumptions? How would you know?

Through experience; one facet of life that all human beings everywhere can agree upon that we are all having a conscious experience individually and together. In fact, experience provides the thrill that makes like worth living. Perhaps there is only experience.