The best way to raise your consciousness is to do things that stimulate and open your mind. We live most of our lives in a box, hardly ever going out of it. It’s the box that our belief system fits in. We’ll easily discount anything that lies outside the box and blindly accept anything that’s inside this box. If I were to ask you how you can prove that something exists independent of your awareness, maybe you’d say yes and maybe you’d say no. It has nothing to do with proof because saying yes is an unprovable assumption. Saying no is also an unprovable assumption. How do you know this world doesn’t work like a dream? Where only what you experience is real? I challenge you to prove that something exists independent of your awareness. When you are away from your family members, can you prove they don’t exist if you’re not currently aware of them?
Our reality is up for question all the time. Most people deny things that don’t fit. If they see a psychic on television, it has to be scripted. If they hear about a haunted house, those people have schizophrenia. It doesn’t matter the perspective. Most people will spend their entire lives in a box filled with unprovable assumptions. Why? I guess because it’s too much work to question what is around you and think for yourself. It’s easier to just accept what other people tell you. Let them do the thinking for you. That way you can relax and watch an episode of your favorite TV show, where all the characters share the same perspective as you.
If you think about most major religions, much of their teachings were good, but the reality they lived in was so very different than the one we live in today. I’m not going to condemn them for thinking the Earth was the center of the universe and that it was flat. And if you did dare question that “fact,” you were thrown in jail. Imagine what “facts” we’ll know tomorrow. The fact of the matter is that the only thing you can be completely sure of existing is your own awareness. You know you have a consciousness. You don’t know anything for sure except what your consciousness feeds to you. Everything else is a big question mark.
Just open your mind to this perspective and see where it takes you. That you’re basically living in a dream world where the only thing that exists is what you are consciously perceiving at this moment. See where it takes you. I guess you could call it the most basic belief system and the most sound. Everything in it is provable. Your experience of it proves it. If there is anything out there other than your awareness, you can’t say it is there or not because you are not currently experiencing it. You can choose to believe what you want about the rest, but know that you could be wrong. But you really don’t know that because in order to prove something exists, you must become aware of it. I’ll say that I challenge you to prove that I exist independent of your awareness. You can’t do it. Even if you came down to Myrtle Beach and saw me, you would then be aware of me and therefore could prove I exist.
It’s hard to break out of your box. It’s hard to say to yourself that many of your beliefs unrprovable. When you start opening this box, it makes things very complicated. You’ll be more unsure than you’ve ever been in your entire life. But then you’ll start to notice things that actually happen through first-hand experience that will add to your belief system. I say don’t believe something unless you’ve experienced it yourself. Otherwise, you could be buying a lie. Firsthand knowledge of your reality will make you confident in your belief system. Unless you’ve experienced talking to dead relatives or other spirits, how can you possibly believe in life after death? Because some authority figure told you so? But you are free to choose your own beliefs.
I’m just saying it is stupid to take someone else’s word on the nature of reality. Think about it. Those people could be completely full of shit. You’re the only one who knows what you’ve experienced. So choose based on your experiences. You can use the morals from other belief systems if you feel intuitively that they’re right, but never take any religious text literally. How do you know Jesus walked on water? How do you know he didn’t? You don’t.
I think our beliefs do shape our reality, so it makes sense to keep beliefs that empower you. It does not make sense to keep beliefs that make you powerless. If you choose to believe something, make sure it is congruent with the reality you currently experience. Otherwise, it will be nothing but delusion. If you believe you’re a multi-millionaire, but have $200 in the bank, wouldn’t people consider you to be crazy? They would bring you back to reality by saying, “You’re broke!” You can intend for your money to increase, but saying you are a millionaire is just deluding yourself. You have to look at your beliefs and see if they accurately match the reality you experience. Otherwise, why do you believe what you believe? Because of some old book?
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