Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the mechanics of belief. This episode is basically Epistemology 101.

Epistemology means the theory of knowledge.

How do we know what we know?

How do we sort truth from falsehood?

And this turns out to be a much more practical and important

subject matter than you might initially think.

One problem we have is that most... you might initially think.

One problem we have is that most people, I would say like 99% of society, does not have a

clue as to how beliefs actually work, what they are, and what are the actual

mechanisms by which we come to know things, to hold things as true or as false.

Now that might at first seem like it's a philosophical matter,

but actually it turns out to be a very practical matter because if you accidentally mistake

falsehood for truth and vice versa then you leave yourself in a very bad situation in life.

You basically can't grow and you can't raise your consciousness.

So the reason, in a nutshell, why this topic is so important is because your beliefs

restrict your ability to raise your consciousness and they distort perception.

And given the fact that your prime directive in life is to be raising your consciousness, what do you think is the biggest

obstacle to that? It's your beliefs. It's your beliefs. That is your biggest obstacle. Now you might say but Leo I don't

hold any beliefs. You might be talking about some religious people and I'm with you on that

but how does this apply to my life? Because I'm a rational person. I'm a scientifically minded person.

Wrong.

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