The paradox of Hypocrisy.

Anyone who complains about hypocrisy is a hypocrite, since everyone has been guilty of hypocrisy at least once.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

Double standards and hypocrisy.

That's the topic of the day. This is a powerful and sneaky self-deception

mechanism which I have touched upon in my three-part series called self-deception, part one, part two, part three. I briefly mentioned double standards and now we're going to go into some depth on it here.

Basically the way it works like this, the less conscious one is, the lower one's stage of ego development is,

the more selfish one is, the more biased one is, the more double standards one holds, the more of a hypocrite

one is. So there is a deep connection between hypocrisy and consciousness or stages of ego development.

For more on stages of ego development, go check out my three-part series called The Nine

stages of ego development where I explain the

Susan Cook-Groider model, very powerful model for Ego Development, which basically shows

you all the stages that you'll be going through along this self actualization journey.

It gives you a really great roadmap so that you know what to expect.

But one of the things that I like to do is just I like to look at the features of highly developed minds

What does that entail and also the features of less developed selfish minds and what that looks like.

So double standards is one of these features.

Which was why religious fundamentalists are some of the biggest hypocrites of all time.

Have you noticed this? This is not an accident.

Have you ever wondered like why are the most moral people, the people who cloak themselves in morality and speak the most fervently about morality,

why are they some of the biggest hypocrites?

The hypocrisy of religious fundamentalists is legendary to a comical degree.

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