<In the final analysis all beliefs are, strictly speaking, untenable,
therefore I choose those that are most probable, based on the
evidence, not emotion or indoctrination.>
Hi Delbert,
How about this: The purest level of consciousness, that is, the level most capable of "knowing" is the one free of beliefs...After all, what is our ego except a collection of beliefs which we consider to be our identity? And, if we consider ourselves to be what we believe, then would it not follow that any threat to our beliefs would, at some level, be seen as a death threat? If so, then defending our beliefs would be a matter of life and death...
I think of it as similar to when one identifies with ones money or material possessions- often, when these things are lost, one considers suicide. Where I live, a teenager recently killed himself after he lost his driver's license. I think he identified with his car. This also happens with unrequited love(sometimes even with a bad hair day)
I seriously doubt that we experience who we are at our core through what we believe(we are)...
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