Secret Research Big Picture Understanding

Have you ever wondered if what you are really learning in life really matters? This takes me back to my childhood and the indoctrination that occurs through the traditional school process.

Leo Gura the Founder of Actualized.org really expanded my mind to the brink. Leo focused on the epistemological foundation on questioning all tightly held beliefs and assumptions.

Leo purported to not hold any perception as truth and your strongest beliefs are mere guiding principles that could be changed if new information debunks held beliefs.

What I believe this means is to not hold any thoughts as sacred. Everything can be questioned. Even who you are. You are the amalgamation of all your thoughts, beliefs, and life experiences that have transpired throughout your life.

This helps you develop a big-picture view of reality. Thinking back to our childhood, we really do not know what is true in life and we rely on other authorities, parents, teachers, and family, and “facts” taught to us by experts without witnessing it firsthand.

Every interest warrants an investigation. It could possibly be something glorious at the end of the road or a colossal waste of time but you will not find out until you have personally gone down the path. So put faith in your own experimentation and your ownself-journey.

The first step is admitting to yourself that you truly don’t know. Without humbling yourself you currently will fail to grasp the truth of reality.

Self-deception is the number one enemy to developing understanding and truth. It requires emotional labor because it triggers fears and defense mechanisms. Confirmation biases cause a huge epistemological blunder. Being biased at gathering evidence that only supports your perspective of the world is an example of it.

When you develop your perspective, you must understand that it is played upon hidden assumptions. A web of beliefs is a representation of reality that is constrained. Beliefs loosely connected to “facts”. People have different interpretations of “facts” self biases. Foundationalism is false. You cannot use theory to understand and explain reality by with experimenting it yourself.

Rationality is a subset of reality. It will never be sufficient to rationalize reality. Believing happiness through the acquisition of money and items will lead to a life of hallowed existence. An academic approach will not lead to big-picture understanding because it tends to focus on the specific practice rather than looking at it from a holistic perspective.

You can learn a lot about philosophy and psychology but you will still live an unhappy unfulfilled life with no emotional control If you merely purely study without applying it and experiencing it. You must embody Love and happiness to every fiber of your being, which can take years for it to become an extensionofm yourself.

New trend of following specific spiritual teachings. Dogmatic. Could potentially lead you to enlightenment but still a narrow view of big picture of the world. Picking a spiritual teaching can at least give you guiding principles to experiment in your life.

Direct approach throwing away any preconceived notions and trusting only experience. The only problem is self-deception. Hard to learn all self-deceptions without learning the blunders of others.

Leos method: No foolproof system to develop the biggest picture. Fully commit to understanding rather than position thinking. Be mindful of how you debate and argue about reality and yourself. Look past the language terminality and go for the root of the issue.

Do this every day by questioning tightly held assumptions can forever change your life.

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