What it creates…
So many man-made divisions in the world today. So many illusions of the mind that bring prejudice, jealousy, hatred. So many beliefs and philosophies that put people in boxes with labels. And all, whether you know it or not, separate and estrange people. Democrats. Republicans. Independents. Christian. Muslim. Black. White. Wealthy. Poor. Woke. Non-woke.
The truth is not found in a group like a political party, or in a specific religion, or in the color of someone’s skin, or in the geographical origin of someone. The truth is universal. But a philosophy, or a belief, or the idea that skin color is better or worse–this is all happening in someone’s mind, which is born from the ego of someone and not a reality. Society takes these ideas and creates propaganda, systems that due to repetition stay in your subconscious.
How it works…
And how the subconscious works is subtle: Information enters it without your conscious knowledge–could be a commercial, could be a political speech, could be from a book you have read, could be from something that was said to you in childhood. It stays there, all your life. You live your life without knowing it, but it is there. And then, one day, you start believing that information that has now transferred from your subconscious to your conscious.
And your attitudes start changing. Your thoughts and your actions become corrupted, bias, and even irrational. Because what triggers the way you behave today, your habits, your addictions, your attachments, and the way you see yourself and the world around you is the information that is in your conscious mind right now. This is the information that was once in your subconscious. This is how your mind works, how my mind works, and how their minds work. No exceptions, not one.
What it means…
So, to know yourself is knowing your subconscious mind and how it operates. To know yourself is to understand all the bias and wrong information that once entered your subconscious and stayed there, and that now has transferred to your conscious and rules the way you think and behave. Not knowing yourself brings division, suffering, jealousy, hatred, and all negative outcomes to your life. Knowing yourself gives you freedom from all these.
This true freedom is happiness. Because happiness is freedom to think for yourself, without bias, without beliefs, without religions, without politics, without philosophies, and without anything that chains you to a narrow way of thinking and feeling. This makes you unique. Uniqueness does not exist in a group, in a religion, in a political party, in a skin color, or in anything else society sells you in their propaganda. Uniqueness means to live in this world without allowing yourself to be enslaved by it.
- Asa Rodriguez - 