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October 2009 
Do you believe in guides or angels?
Posted on Sep 29th, 2009
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will
will
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 29, 2009:
No, no such things ever enter my consciousness through my five senses. To me it's pure folly to believe in someone else's fantasies surrendering my reasoning for the sake of belonging to communities of agreement and sleepwalk through life. Like Helen Keller said; "life is either a daring adventure, or it's nothing." Life to me doesn't mean following belief's and fantasies of others, but discovering what's immediate to me.
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So what I hear you saying is that you do not believe anything exists outside the range of your five senses?
No! I didn’t say that. I said I don’t believe in angels or guides. What is outside of my senses exists as it is regardless of what I believe. Believing in someone else’s belief is meaningless to me, it is their belief, it is their privilege to believe what they want……………………………………………………………………………………….Knowing consists of knowing that I know I know (experience), knowing that I know that I don’t know (i.e. Nuclear physics etc.), and knowing that I know that I don’t know that I don’t know ( outside my senses, but nevertheless exit). The real tragedy in life is not knowing that one doesn’t know that one doesn’t know, that’s called ignorance which is tragic, because it is self induced……………………………………………………. . Throughout recorded history beliefs have been the main cause of human devastation, and yet today the so-called evolved mind and advanced societies are killing one another because of their beliefs. And what makes it worse is that it is not their beliefs, but someone else’s belief, which validates that all mystics are potential dictators. The majority of human minds seem to have a need to be lead, to be told what to think and believe in order to fill the vacuum resulting from selflessness, loneliness and the need to belong.
Well then, my friend. Tell me, how do you go from the place of not knowing that you don't know to knowing that you don't know without a guide? Does this new information just appear out of nowhere and you can take full credit for it coming into contact with your brain?
I believe that if you take a closer look at history you will find that beliefs have not caused any harm, only the actions of people. Beliefs are necessary for the human condition especially if you consider the fact that our senses tell us nothing of the outside world, they only tell us how the outside world affects our bodies. Most of what we say we “know” is really just a belief constructed from the information our nervous system transmits to our brain. I will admit that beliefs have been used as tools throughout history to rally support for people who desire to control and have power over others. Beliefs are not to blame only people who will not accept the rights of others to believe differently are the cause of most of the atrocities in history.
Guides can only take me to where they have been, I’m not impressed! My life is my adventure, my discovery and not about following some penguin only to go over the cliff and then realize that that was an inane waste of life. If you truly believe that beliefs will lead you to a promised land and fulfillment then that is your path along with the consequences. …………………………… . We have a choice that is rarely used, we can operate our lives from what ‘they say’ and follow the crowd like a school of fish, or choose to say ‘I know’, and discover our own natural epistemology and use our reasoning to lead us to self fulfillment and our basic instinct to survive, that is; surviving as a whole and complete human being, independently, without demands or expectations on others, nor having others making their demands on us. I think the basic choice in life is to follow, or to discover one’s own path, few have chosen the latter because that requires courage, and that courage has been tempered out by inculcating fear and doubt, so the only alternative is to follow.
Guides don’t take you where they have been. They show us what we don’t know. I can use a star as a guide when I am sailing yet the star has never been to the port I am going to. I can us a map as a guide yet the map has never driven down the road I am on. I can use another person as a guide to tell me the dangers of living life their way so that I do not go to the places they have been. Keep searching. One day my friend you will discover the great “they” that has told you all of this propaganda is really just another part of you. Good luck with your belief that you don’t operate on beliefs!
Thanks for the tip. But my star exists in my moment, that's the star I'll follow rather than believing and following some one else's star over the cliff of regret. I'll look for the bumps along my path and remedy them by my standards and values, so far, life has been pretty much a felicitous concatenation of fortuitous events and look to experience several more before my flame extinguishes.
Correct me if I have misunderstood, Wil. Are you saying that your consciousness is your guide?