Are You Seeing the Questions the Bible Raises?

I was raised in a religion in which “the Bible” was “a book of answers.” The words below came from a bumper sticker I saw and it describes what we believed perfectly:

The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it!

Being surrounded by people that believe the same things you do is a very comfortable situation. Everyone shares the same beliefs and knows the “right answers” – and, most importantly, they know the questions that shouldn’t be asked!

When you study the Bible with a group of “Explorers of Biblical Heritages” it is a very different experience. People have different beliefs, conflicting answers and ask lots of questions. Continue reading at -

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Emerging Successfully from Three Major Storms that Will Soon Dramatically Change America

Before the coronavirus unleashed the most severe health crisis in a century, experts were already focused on preparing for two major storms that will hit America in 2020s. The first storm reappears every fifty years in America’s history. It unleashes a major economic crisis. In every previous cycle, this has been a very painful and wrenching experience for many Americans.

● Policies that worked for the previous fifty years stop working and became the cause of significant harm to the society.

● As the crisis intensified, what had been regarded as “common sense” is discarded as leaders grasp for straws to save them.

● Members of the political elite class insist that nothing is wrong with the economic institutions they created and control. They tell people to just hang on, the “old normal” will return, and the institutions that caused the problems will save them.

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How Changing a Belief Changes What You Actually See!

The human brain is a powerful belief engine. It processes massive amounts of information flowing into it, but we can use it until the brain chooses a belief model. We perceive what the belief model it has allows us to see. Continue reading at -

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Immersed in a Sea of Irrefutable Realities Inside Our Bubbles of Rightness

Our realities -- waking lives and dreams -- emerge from the brain’s billions of zapping cells and trillions of synaptic connections. It is from this inner universe of synaptic constellations that human decisions arise and imaginations are forged. All of our life experiences take place in storms of activity within the computational material of our brains.

From the moment we awaken in the morning, we are surrounded with a rush of light and sounds and smells. Our senses are flooded. All we have to do is wake up every day and without thought or effort we are immersed in our irrefutable reality. It is our awareness of everything we sense, believe and think. It includes the ways we perceive ourselves, others and our world, as well as our appetites, desires, longing and fears.

We all assume our “irrefutable reality” to be that of the entire objective world. We all live in our own bubbles of rightness, in which we are the ultimate standard for determining what is right.

Why would anyone ever stop to consider there’s something beyond his or her reality?

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Before We Can Have Successful Talks About Beliefs We Must Be Able to Talk About This - We Are All Genetic Creatures!

Beliefs play key roles in dividing people today. One fact has become very clear to me as I studied religious, political and economic belief systems over the past thirty-five years is that beliefs change. Something I didn’t know until a few years ago is that the biology of beliefs doesn’t change.

Until the 21^st century, science had not discovered “how people know.” But, today we have a growing body of factual evidence about “how people know” and it is called “The Biology of Beliefs.” “Believing” is a biological process and it is the same in all people. The first step in understanding it is learning what it means to be a genetic creature. Understanding the Biology of Beliefs will play a key role in bringing people together. Continue reading at -

https://mailchi.mp/6fde43dae5a4/before-we-can-have-successful-talks-about-beliefs-we-must-be-able-to-talk-about-this-we-are-all-genetic-creatures