In cult deprogramming work, it's important to learn the skill of reality-testing your truth v.s. your beliefs v.s. your opinions so you can DISCERN reality from illusion (which is the whole point of Awakening).
In this episode, I provide a framework for critically examining our thoughts from a nondualism and scientific perspective. This is episode will add value to anyone who is interested in developing critical thinking + media literacy skills. Enjoy!
Topics covered:
- How new-age spirituality has co-opted the concept of "Truth" to become a buzzword (and why it has created so much confusion and misunderstanding).
- Understanding Truth through the Hindu teaching of sat-chit-ananda (truth-consciousness-bliss)
- The Paradox of Truth
- The psychoenergetic mechanisms of how truth becomes a belief, becomes an opinion
- Understanding first-order and second-order reality
- What are beliefs and why they are meaningful, but not valid?
- What are opinions and what makes them right/wrong.
- The importance of falsifiability in reality-testing (understanding the unfalsifiability bias)
- Self-inquiry questions for reality-testing to practice
References:
- Sat-chit-ananda
- First-order and second-order reality discourse by Hareesh
Theme song credits: Laff- Said Mrad & Dany El Helou