7 - Blue Sky

So, even the most self-righteous person will likely admit he can't be right all the time although he acts like he's right 100% of the time. We are all self-righteous to a certain extent when it comes to our beliefs. If you're willing to admit to yourself that you can't be right all the time, which also means you're wrong at times, what could you be wrong about? If you're willing to admit that, what do you actually know as fact? Knowing and believing are two different things but we often conflate them. We usually believe we know what we actually only believe. So what is your number? You have to believe 100% of your beliefs are correct to believe in them, but how many of your beliefs do you think might be incorrect?

 

Here is another paradox and conundrum. The ego honestly believes that all its beliefs are correct. It has to for it to believe in them. But, rationally, the ego knows that it is impossible to be right about everything it believes. It knows that fact but doesn't really believe it. It believes that 100% of its beliefs are correct so it can't objectively come up with an estimate of how many of its beliefs are wrong. Its estimate is obviously going to be swayed by the fact that it believes 100% of its beliefs. This is the perfect example of what the ego does on a daily basis. It has to interpret and perceive the world based on its beliefs because it can't help but to believe them.

So what is your number? Can you admit that you can't be right about all your beliefs? If you're rational, you must. So what percentage of your beliefs do you believe to be absolutely correct? 90%? 99%? 99.99%?

If you are genuinely curious as to what that estimate is, you have to evaluate your beliefs. To evaluate them you first have to identify them and separate them from facts that you actually know that can be proven true. A beautiful yellow flower is a fact about the flower being yellow and a belief that it is beautiful. When you begin to separate your beliefs from facts, you begin to see how you have thousands of major and minor beliefs and nearly all of them are subjective. You'll see that many of those subjective beliefs you don't consider to be subjective. You can argue that the flower is yellow, but you can't argue it is beautiful. It is your opinion that the flower is beautiful. By your definition of what you believe is beautiful, you believe it to be beautiful. It is a fact to you that it is beautiful to you. But I don't like the color yellow so it isn't beautiful to me. It's a fact for you, but not for me so it isn't an over all fact. Your belief in that flower being beautiful can't be considered right or correct outside of your personal perspective and can be wrong if you apply it to everyone else. It's not absolutely correct.

So when I'm talking about being absolutely correct, I'm referring to a belief as it applies to everyone. Absolutely means without limit or completely. So that's more information than you had before and now that you've seen how many of your beliefs are subjective and simply can't be absolutely correct, has your number changed? Now what percentage of your beliefs are subjective and can't be considered absolutely correct? Is it a third and now you're down to 66.99% of your beliefs being absolutely correct? Maybe half of your beliefs are subjective and are your own personal opinion and can't be considered correct for everyone. Now your down to 49.99%. And you haven't even begun to analyze your beliefs according to the amount of factual information you have supporting them so you can evaluate your certainty of them.

We all have certainty to our beliefs. Beliefs requires that. But absolute certainty is impossible with beliefs. Absolute certainty would require it to be a fact. Facts aren't beliefs. A fact doesn't require any beliefs. But we often consider our beliefs to be facts. You may believe in absolute certainty of a belief, but that is a belief also – not absolute certainty. Even facts themselves are subject to our beliefs. What we consider an undeniable fact might be proven not to be a fact with more information. We might believe something to be a fact even though it isn't. From the information we have at that time, it might appear to be an obvious absolute fact and then we base other beliefs on what we consider to be a fact. But then those beliefs are likely to be incorrect if the fact isn't a fact and what is actually a belief turns out to be incorrect.

For example, something as simple as the sky is blue. When you look at a blue sky, is it a fact that the sky is blue? I can argue it isn't and I'm right. The sky isn't blue. The fact is that the sky isn't blue and I can prove it. If we paid attention in science class, we know that the sky isn't blue. It appears to be blue because blue light is being scattered by molecules in the sky. The sky only appears to be blue. It isn't blue.

You might think I'm trying to trick you. Did I trick you by using the term “absolutely correct?” Did you take the time to think what “absolutely correct” means and how it applies to what I'm saying here or did you immediately make a judgment about my statement? Did that judgment distract you from considering what I actually meant? Did you form an opinion that led to assumptions? I hope so because it illustrates my point. Even though the term “absolutely correct” is unambiguous and straight forward, you might have paid more attention to the implication that you are wrong. Now that you understand better what my point was, were you wrong in any way in evaluating my statement that “we'd be damn lucky if we were absolutely correct half the time.” Do you still disagree with it as much as before? Is it more credible and are you more willing to consider it a possibility? Has more information changed your perception of my comment?

It may seem like I'm arguing semantics. But it isn't a fact that the sky is blue. It is a fact that it appears blue. By not accepting it as absolutely correct and a fact, we are open to learning why it isn't blue and why it appears to be blue. We gain more information and knowledge such as that light contains different colors and it is the blue light that is being predominantly scattered by molecules in the air. If we are learning all this, say, in middle-school, we also need to learn what molecules are and what air is to fully understand. If we don't take the sky as being blue on face value even though it is so obvious that the sky is blue, we learn that sunlight appears white but is actually composed of different wavelengths of light that make up all color. Our teacher might demonstrate that by placing a prism in the sunlight and showing us the different colors and that is what happens when sunlight shines through water droplets and forms a rainbow. Then we can learn that it isn't a fact that a yellow flower is yellow. It appears yellow because it is reflecting yellow light. It's not even an absolute fact that the flower is yellow! Only light has color and everything else simply reflects color. What we are seeing isn't the actual flower but the light the flower is reflecting. This is true of everything we see. We think we are seeing something and can act on it, but the reality is that we aren't actually seeing it at all — we are seeing the light it is reflecting.

Some people might have the tendency to think it isn't that big of a deal because from the light that we are seeing we're still able to function the same as if the flower really was yellow and it really doesn't change things either way and they don't really give a damn, but that is an extremely limited perspective that blocks them off from so much information, understanding, and knowledge. We may now accept this as common knowledge taught in schools, but it has been incredibly revolutionary and changed our world and all of our lives. It led to countless discoveries and inventions. By knowing this, scientists and doctors can understand the workings of the eye. Photography owes its existence to this knowledge. Your radio and TV reception comes from the knowledge of light and the electromagnetic spectrum. Your cell phone, medical x-rays, wi-fi, the microwave in your kitchen and the radar that allows planes to fly safely all owe their existence to that knowledge. The list goes on and on. That knowledge that explains why the flower isn't actually yellow is responsible for our modern day society. Something so basic as a flower not actually being yellow or the sky not actually being blue might rock our world. It already has and maybe we just learned how it has. So we might become curious and want to know more about light because our reality has changed somewhat because we've learned the sky isn't blue and the flower isn't yellow. So we study light and learn some incredibly fascinating things about it. We learn that not all light is visible. That visible light is only part of the electromagnetic spectrum. And then knowledge builds on knowledge and we want to know more.

Something that you just took for granted became something remarkable. Learning about light may have led you to learning a wealth of scientific knowledge. It may have spurred curiosity about physics and other fields of study like astronomy where you learn that light travels at 186,000 miles in one second. Wow! Around the Earth 7.5 times in one second. And then you learn that we see the stars as they were and not how they are at this moment because it might take thousands or even millions of years for the light to travel at that incredible speed to reach Earth. Then you learn that there is a galaxy so far away that the light from it takes 13.4 billion years traveling at the fastest speed possible to reach the Earth and that is how unbelievably and incomprehensibly vast the universe is. HOLY CRAP! The light from that galaxy traveling at a speed to go around the Earth 7.5 times in one second began it's journey 13.4 billion years ago before our sun, solar system and the Earth were even a twinkle in our galaxy's eye. We are literally looking back in time 13.4 billion years!

And then because you've developed such curiosity and interest, you pick up a science magazine and read that the most recent estimate of the number of galaxies in the universe is now 2 trillion and some estimates go as high as 10 trillion. And these galaxies have tens to hundreds of BILLIONS of stars each. You think for a second and make a rough calculation and a simple estimate that if life existed on one planet in one solar system of just one star out of every one trillion stars, life would exist on billions and billions of planets! And that is just one out of one trillion! Maybe the odds are better. Maybe life exists in one out of every billion star systems. That would mean that life exists on TRILLIONS of planets in our universe. Boggles the mind doesn't it? Kind of puts your self-importance into perspective.

Now your mind is absolutely BLOWN and you realize you're pretty darn smart and so you thirst for more knowledge to more fully understand and comprehend this knowledge that your mind can barely even assimilate. You realize how little knowledge you actually have and dedicate your life to acquiring more and more and your life has been transformed. You begin to study physics and then the fun really begins and things really get wild such as an electron being able to exist in two places at once. You learn theories presented by some of the most brilliant minds on this planet backed by huge amounts of knowledge, data, experiments and mathematical calculations. Theories such as there not being anything that happened or existed before the Big Bang because there was no before the Big Bang because there was no time before the Big Bang. And that the Big Bang may have occurred spontaneously out of nothing — not even out of a singularity. Out of absolutely nothing! Also, that all the matter in the universe that trillions of billions (This is a one trillion billion 1,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo.) of stars, planets, asteroids, comets, dust, etc. are composed of is just a tiny fraction of all the matter first created in the Big Bang but then was destroyed by matter and anti-mater canceling each other out. There are physicists that believe, or at least consider the possibility, that there are infinite universes with infinite scenarios and in one, many or infinitely many you would be the President of the United States. (In this universe Donald J. Trump just became president so anything's possible. It must be his turn.) These theories are based on huge amounts of information by some of the smartest men ever. So you try to acquire more and more knowledge and information so you can simply wrap your mind around the possibility of these theories. You acquire so much knowledge that it enables you to formulate ideas on your own that are considered so significant that you are awarded a Nobel Prize. But even then you are well aware of the fact that your knowledge is miniscule compared to the vast amount of information contained in the universe. The more you know, the more you know of what you don't know. The more knowledge you gain makes you aware of how much knowledge you don't have. Ha! And you thought the sky was blue!

This is an over simplified scenario, but it shows how not accepting something as an absolute fact could lead to endless information and knowledge. (But it happened if some physicists are correct about infinite universes.) By not just accepting what you believe is an obvious true fact to be true keeps you open to new information that might just have an impact on your life and rock your world!

5 - Mankind's Disease: Rightosisis

 

Beliefs are meant to be believed. That is their simple nature. A belief can't be a belief until it is believed. To believe in something, we need to think it is correct, right or the truth. But a belief is a belief and not a fact. If it were a fact, we'd know it instead of believing it. Facts should be acceptable as fact to everyone, but often people don't believe in a fact. Sometimes facts don't support other beliefs so they are disregarded or not believed. We are all certain that what we believe is true and often to the point of where we believe what we believe isn't a belief but the absolute truth and knowledge.

Certainty of beliefs is universal. It isn't just that we believe in our beliefs, we have certainty in our beliefs.  Our beliefs are what we believe we know, but we really don't know because beliefs aren't facts and only facts can be known for sure. But the ego/I conflates knowing with believing. It's no longer considered a belief; it is considered knowledge. It is considered a fact with the same amount of certainty. This degree of certainty can be very problematic because it blocks us off from considering additional information that might give us a greater understanding of what it is we have beliefs about. Our certainty keeps us from being curious about the subject. It makes us disregard and ignore more information. We believe we know enough information to support our belief and we're not interested in any more information that might change our mind. Not only that, but we don't want our mind changed. That would mean that we were wrong in the first place. We don't like being wrong.

The ego/identity wants to be right all the time. Not only does it want to be right, it believes it is right all the time about all of its beliefs, all of them all of the time. Out of the thousands of minor and major beliefs the ego has, there isn't one of them that the ego believes is incorrect. Not one! Not a single solitary one. To have a belief requires belief in the belief. The belief in the belief is that it is correct or right. The ego can't help but to believe it is right about everything it believes. Everything! It automatically believes it is right all the time about everything it believes up until the moment it believes it is incorrect or not the truth and then it is no longer a belief. The second the ego believes it is incorrect about a belief it has, that former belief is no longer a belief. That's the basic nature of belief. If you think about it, isn't that unbelievable?

It is absolutely incredible! Everyone knows that they can't be right about everything all the time. It's impossible. We would have to know everything. We are all fallible. We are human and not perfect except in our imperfection. We can admit that we must be wrong about things, and we can admit we might be wrong about something; but if we believe it, we don't think we are wrong about anything we believe. That's a huge problem with beliefs. It's a disease that all of mankind suffers from. It's a psychological disorder that is destroying the planet and threatens mankind himself. We can't point out one single belief of ours that we think is incorrect! All we can do is admit to the possibility of us being wrong about a belief. Many people find it hard to even believe in the possibility of them being wrong about many of their beliefs. Some people have such certainty that they won't even consider the possibility of them being wrong about any belief they have let alone admitting that they were even wrong in the past. 

No wonder the ego is self-righteous. No wonder humans have such a hard time getting along. We all believe we are right about everything we believe all the time! We might believe that we can't be right about everything all the time, but we do believe all of our beliefs all of the time.  It's truly amazing! It's unlikely that two people out of 7 billion people agree on everything and our ego can't help but to think it is right about everything it believes! The ego/identity essentially thinks it is the one person on this planet that has it all right and all the other egos of the world also believe they have it all right, but there aren't two people on this planet that can agree on absolutely everything. Isn't that absurd? It's delusional, but we can't help it. It's a disease.
 

Some people are more open to other possibilities and are willing to consider other information that might change their belief than others. The more a person is willing to accept information that contradicts their beliefs, the more open minded they are. The degree of certainty and importance they place on a particular belief determines how willing they are to consider other options. The more a person is willing to be wrong determines how open their mind is. The more closed minded a person is limits their ability to actually be correct. We all suffer from closed mindedness to a certain extent. That's the ego's way.

The more willing you are to being wrong allows you to be correct more often.  Believing you could be wrong about everything you believe unlimits your belief system. It is an unlimiting belief. Knowing you don't know what you believe you know opens your mind to currently unbelievable possibilities. Those possibilities are currently unbelievable because your beliefs block you from believing them. The only way to remove or change those beliefs is to first consider that they might be incorrect.
 

To consistently come from the perspective of conscious awareness with an open unbiased mind , the belief in the importance of beliefs and the resulting belief in having to be right about beliefs has got to be dropped, replaced or changed. It simply can't be important for us to be right about our beliefs if we want to view the world with an open mind that considers all the other possibilities. But the real problem arises in the belief of the importance of importance and that comes down to the belief in the importance of the ego/identity --- self importance. If mankind didn't believe in his own self importance, it wouldn't be important for us to be right about our beliefs and the world would get along just fine.

What are your thoughts? Share them.

2 - Non-identity.

 A few years back, I was sick and in excruciating intestinal pain from eating very spicy soup that was affecting my diverticulitis (TMI?). I was laying in bed in absolute agony and had no thoughts in my mind because all of my attention was on my pain.  With my mind empty of thoughts, I had an astonishing realization. The realization popped into my mind without thinking it or thinking about anything. It seemed to come out of nowhere. All of a sudden I realized "I" wasn't who I thought I was. I wasn't what I believed I was. This is much more profound that it first appears to be. Not only does it involve myself, but it involves the entire concept of "I." I realized my concept of identity was a thought, a belief. The idea of  I is a concept. "I" wasn't the identity that "I" believed was me.  Identity in that thought form wasn't real. "I" realized "I" wasn't my ego/identity. What I truly was, wasn't the collection of beliefs of the identity because those were just ideas in the form of beliefs. At that time there was a clarity in my mind that I haven't experienced before. There was no internal dialogue. No thoughts.  My mind was clear without any concepts or beliefs. I was just consciously aware. All the definitions of the ego were gone and what was left was my Conscious Awareness. At that moment I was only Conscious Awareness without identity. I (Conscious Awareness) had experienced an epiphany. 

The realization didn't come in the form of all the thoughts above. It was very simple, but it came with a wealth of instant understanding. It wasn't just a thought created in my mind. It was a realization of something true -- something true about my being and all of us. It was an experience of existing or being without ego identity. Within that experience of realization a whole new paradigm came with it. In that clarity of mind was a great deal of instant awareness of understanding. I understood that my ego/identity was a collection of beliefs and nothing more. My ego was a concept--an idea, a thought, a belief and that the very concept of that identity was false. It is false because it is a concept--- a concept comprised of beliefs and manufactured with thoughts that are believed. The ego isn't real in terms of an identity. It is identity, but identity isn't what you are. My ego isn't a real self. It is a portrayal of the self. It is a belief in beliefs.

This realization was rather earth shattering for me! Something that I had believed in my entire life was all of a sudden shown not to be true and I could see the truth of it very clearly.  I saw the false nature of something very very important to me--myself! Not only that, it goes against a basic fundamental belief of mankind. I hadn't been seeking any kind of self-realization or anything similar. I wasn't seeking anything spiritual or "enlightenment." I had been seeking the nature of belief and the role of the ego/identity with it, but I had no expectations of something like this happening which pretty much explained it all in one brief instant of realization and understanding. All of a sudden I could see the ego/identity as beliefs--nothing but beliefs and its fundamental belief was the belief in itself as being the identity and that itself is responsible for all beliefs. It all made perfect sense to me even though it is a grand paradox. The ego/identity is the believer and it maintains itself with beliefs. I also clearly saw how our judgments, opinions, evaluations, thoughts, decisions, etc. were all beliefs or based on beliefs. I saw how incredibly biased our ego/identity was and how it skewed our reality with its beliefs and perceptions based on its beliefs. I saw how our beliefs keep us from being aware of what actually is what we truly are.

For many this would appear to be unsettling at the very least. In a way, my reality that I had governed my entire life on had just been pulled out from underneath me. Also, all of my beliefs were shown to be pretty much worthless. Instead of being unsettling, just the opposite happened. Along with that realization came euphoria. I was ecstatic. Without contemplating it, I also was aware that the implications of this realization were phenomenal. It was truly a whole new paradigm that opened up endless new possibilities. I was in a state of euphoria for weeks after. It may have been the single most significant moment in my life besides my birth. I've come in contact with people that have had a very similar experience and it was equally significant for them as well. The experience I had is an experience that many people have had and in no way unique to me except for the circumstances. Those people also understand everything I'm writing here--they are aware of it as well and they are aware of it through the same experience of realization that they are not their identity. I wish for everyone to have this experience for it is an experience of the true self and it is truly remarkable.

Next: A schmoe of an identity. 

 

1 - Dichotomy

Thanks for coming to my blog.

Are you interested in changing your perspective and learning something new that would change your perspective and open up new positive possibilities or are you happy with the perspective you have? You're likely happy (or unhappy but still comfortable) with the one you have because you've been developing it your entire life. You've got a lot invested in it. It's yours and a part of your identity so why would you want to change it? Hopefully, because there is a grand expansive reality that your perspective doesn't allow you to see and you're curious and want to see it. I'm not getting spiritual or religious on you. This is very down to earth. Our perspective has been based of the concept of "right" and "wrong" and we've identified with that perspective our entire life. It is a part of our identity that we perceive ourselves to be. We don't want a new perspective unless we want a new identity. Who wants that? Well, we don't need to perceive ourselves that way. There's a whole lot more to you that you aren't aware of and your awareness of it is blocked by your limiting beliefs. In the next post I will tell you about the experience of my life that changed my reality and made me aware of how much more there was to me and everyone else. What we truly are is unlimited potential and possibilities.

 

For the past few years I've become a student of belief and why and how people believe many of the beliefs they believe. I wondered why a person's personal beliefs are so important to them. I often saw how people will believe things that are unfounded and entirely refuted by science, evidence and facts. This intrigued me as to why and how they can ignore what I considered reality. Not only do they believe these beliefs, but they won't even consider the possibility that their belief might be incorrect or wrong.

Beliefs are the major source of conflict in the world. Wars are fought over beliefs. People kill for their beliefs. People are killed for their beliefs. The environment is being destroyed because of the belief in the importance of man and wealth. Greed is a belief in the importance of money and the importance of self over others. Crime is due to the belief in the importance of oneself over others. Global warming is threatening the entire planet but people refuse to believe it. Their belief is in the form of non-belief. Politics are never ending conflicts of beliefs. Everyone thinks their view is the one correct view. Religions all promote their beliefs as being the one religion that knows the unknown that is impossible to know. Beliefs in nationalism cause conflicts and wars. Everyone thinks they're right and anyone who disagrees is wrong. Arguments escalate to violence over beliefs and people die. Relationships are destroyed and families are broken apart over conflicts due to beliefs. Show me a man made problem in the world and I'll show you how it boils down to a belief or a belief system. Excluding natural disasters and events, the world's problems can all be attributed to beliefs. The belief in the importance of beliefs and self causes extreme self-righteousness that causes deadly conflict every day. Everybody thinks they are right and it's the other persons fault -- another belief. There is something seriously wrong with the concept of beliefs. Mankind is destroying himself over beliefs. He is destroying the planet and the creatures that inhabit it because of belief. But its not your beliefs --  right? It's the other persons beliefs that are the problem.  It's your belief and everyone else's belief that you are right and others are wrong that is the problem. It's the dichotomy of the belief in right and wrong in the first place. That's the problem with limiting beliefs. You and I suffer from the same problem that is destroying the planet and mankind. Since we believe we are right, we automatically perceive someone else wrong that has a contradicting belief and they perceive you the same way you perceive them. That perception blocks us from seriously considering and understanding their point of view. Conflict is inevitable.
 

Seemingly otherwise rational people have some of the most bizarre beliefs and they are convinced they are absolutely correct without any doubt in their mind. A few years back, members of a religious group in the San Diego area were persuaded to believe that if they killed themselves, their soul would be picked up by an alien spacecraft that was following Hale-Bopp comet. 38 people committed suicide. Bizarre beliefs like this aren't that unusual especially when it comes to spiritual or religious beliefs. Just look at all the people that are willing to kill others and even kill themselves in the name of Islam. Many people believe other peoples' spiritual beliefs to be bizarre and ridiculous but have equally bizarre beliefs of their own. But bizarre beliefs aren't limited to spirituality. There is a popular documentary TV series called “Finding Bigfoot.” It's almost hilarious to watch it because these people are so convinced Bigfoot is out there and they are going to find him. Many people believe Elvis is still alive. Conspiracy theories abound. There are many people that believe 9-11 was a government plot. There are people that honestly believe the Earth is flat according to their literal interpretation of the Bible. I've actually had conversations with such people and they have it fully justified and can argue it all day long with all kinds of other beliefs and rationale. They, and others as well, believe the moon landings were staged and NASA is part of a giant world wide government conspiracy that includes all governments and all scientists. WOW! The range of unfounded beliefs is endless.

Unfounded beliefs don't need to be bizarre though. As I started to observe people and their beliefs, I saw that most of what we believe is unfounded. When I say unfounded, I mean that they are not based on enough facts, knowledge, experience and information for us to honestly say with certainty that they are fact and are the absolute truth even though that's exactly what we often do. I also saw  how incredibly biased beliefs are. I took an honest look at my own beliefs and saw how many, if not most, of them were unsupported with concrete facts, experience or evidence and were very biased according to my self interests. But that is the nature of beliefs. Beliefs are ideas and not facts. If they could be proven without a doubt they would no longer be beliefs. They would be knowledge.

So why do we consider them to be the absolute truth and have such certainty they are true? Why do we hold onto a belief so tightly even though there might be overwhelming evidence that it is wrong? Why is it so hard to admit a belief of ours is wrong and why is it so hard for so many people to even consider the possibility that a belief of theirs might be wrong? Why are people willing to die and kill for something they don't even know? Why are our beliefs so precious to us? The questions go on and on.

I wanted to understand this human behavior and thought there must be a psychological explanation for it. I concluded the explanation is found in the ego -- our personal concept of self. We identify with our beliefs as an integral aspect of our identity -- one of the most significant aspects. Then I had an earth shattering realization.  Whether we are aware of it or not, beliefs are the most significant aspect of our identity. Nearly everything I'm writing here came from that realization. It all boils down to beliefs and particularly the limited beliefs we have about ourselves. Beliefs are incredibly powerful and shape our reality. Beliefs have the power to change our reality. But that is just a small part of my realization as you'll see.

What I'm sharing with you can free you from many limiting beliefs about the world and yourself that keep you limited --- beliefs that are limiting you in a negative way that keep you from a more fulfilling and happier life and that might be keeping you from achieving what you want in life or possibly limiting what you want to achieve in life. But only if you are open to it. My hope is that this blog will be helpful in some way to everyone who reads it. That's probably unrealistic, but I would be happy if it was helpful to just one person. Maybe that person is you.

What you're about to read can very easily be taken personally. It is personal. I'm not criticizing or judging negatively, but the very nature of it will most likely bring about a negative reaction. It will challenge something that is very important to you---your ego/identity and your beliefs. Your ego isn't going to want to agree with much of what I'm saying. That presents me with a challenge and predicament. How do I get across my ideas when they are likely to be rejected by the very thing that I'm challenging but that is the very thing I need to get through to. I'm faced with a dilemma. People want the world to change but they don't want to change their beliefs. They'd rather go to the grave with them. They'd rather believe they are "right" than actually be right which would mean they sometimes must perceive themselves as being wrong and that they don't know. There must be another perception and solution to this dichotomy. There is and it comes from unlimiting your beliefs.