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Brain Wars: Six Cognitive Biases and How to Combat Them

cognitive gears “Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.” ~ Anthony de Mello

Nobody is immune to cognitive biases, not even trained psychologists and logicians who thoroughly understand them. We can become more aware of them, but we will never be immune to them. And that’s okay. We don’t need to be impervious in order to be more open-minded. We just need to be more understanding, more intelligent, and more imaginative in our approach, especially toward beliefs that have not previously been questioned.

Like Robert Anton Wilson cryptically said, “I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination.” Indeed, we generally only need to turn the tables on belief in order to combat most cognitive biases. But if that’s not enough for you, here are six particularly prevalent cognitive biases and how to combat them.

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7 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Emerged Only After Big Pharma Made Its Money

Have you ever noticed how warnings about dangerous prescription drugs always seem to surface after the drug is no longer marketed and its patent has run out? Whether it’s an FDA advisory or a trial lawyer solicitation about harm that may have been done to you, the warnings are always belated and useless. If a drug you took four years ago may have given you liver damage, why didn’t the FDA tell you then? Why didn’t the FDA recall the drug or better yet, not approve it in the first place?

The official answer from the FDA and Big Pharma is that problems with a drug are only seen after millions begin using it, which is why post-marketing surveillance is conducted. In other words—who knew? But in a startling number of cases revealed in court documents Pharma did “know” and clearly misled medical journals, the FDA, doctors and patients, hoping to get its patent’s worth before the true risks of a drug surfaced. In other cases, Pharma and the FDA should have known before rushing a dangerous drug to market and making money at the expense of patients.

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Geomagnetic storming continues: G3 Strong levels reached on September 11

Our planet's magnetic shield is again under stress today with brief G3 Strong geomagnetic storm levels reached around 09:00 UTC. The storms began on September 7 with positive polarity coronal hole reaching geoeffective position and an impact of plasma filament eruptions from September 4th and 5th. Aurora images we've seen over the last 4 days are astounding, be sure to check out some of them at the end of this article. 

Geomagnetic K-index of 5 (G1 Minor geomagnetic storm) threshold was first reached at 15:00 UTC on September 7. K-index of 6 (G2 Moderate) threshold was reached at 16:25 UTC that day.

With changing intensity, the storming continued until September 10, when K-index sharply dropped, and intensified again to 7 (G3 Strong) at 08:59 UTC on September 11. 

By 09:36 UTC today, this brief period of G3 Strong storm was over. However, enhanced geomagnetic activity is not over yet and we might experience more isolated periods of moderate to strong storming over the next couple of days.

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One People, One Responsibility


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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

The planetary controllers have gotten us to divide ourselves by convincing us we should fight over our differences. They want to make sure we don’t come together or take back our planet, and they’ve programmed the masses to show so much pride for their appearance, their beliefs or their way of life that they hate people who think or live differently.

The elite have us convinced that we need to fight for our values, our history and our lifestyle, because some other group wants to come and take it away. You can interpret this any way you want, and examples are everywhere.

Hardcore Christians are worried that liberal America is trying to take away their religious freedom, which, in some cases, includes the ‘right’ to discriminate against anyone who doesn’t fit in with their narrow view of reality. Diehard Americans are convinced that immigrants, legal or illegal, will take away their country by stealing all of their jobs.


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“You Can’t…..”

How many times have you heard, “You can’t because….you’re too young, too old, not the ‘right’ color, you’re a woman, you’re a man” or any other variation you can think of?  Please remember that the person using that phrase is not speaking to you, they are speaking to themselves.
As always, you are given a choice.  It is completely up to you whether you accept their words.  You have been gifted a rainbow of talents and it is up to you to decide what to use and what to let fall by the wayside. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/you-cant/

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The Dew on the Meadow

God said:

You are Greatness. You do not quite grasp this yet. Tell Me, dear children, do you really think that you, Who are My Creation, really aren’t much? Be clear now. What you are truly lacking is awareness. How can anyone in his right mind think My creation is just so-so or less than Greatness? Tell Me, what is the matter with you?

Tell Me, why do you focus on minute details when you could be comparing yourself to the Stars, the Moon, and the Sun? Is not the dew on the meadow enough to create a rhapsody? What are you missing? Have you never seen a baby or a puppy? What do you mean by not adoring and being amazed at the Creation of the World and the Lights within it? I placed a marvelous Creation in the world, and you are the Leaders of it. Well, who do you think sets the tone of the world?

You think I am filled with superlatives when I describe you, as if I am gushing and don’t know what I’m talking about. What I say is only a portion of your superlativeness. If I wrought the teletype through Morse, what in God's Name do you think? that you are less than the teletype to ooh and aah over?

You are beyond My dreams. You are My emissaries on Earth. What do you think a mother is? A father is? A child is? I ask My children to look for the best they can see or say.

I, God, might say in amazement, “Rosy cheeks, who would have conceived of rosy cheeks?”

You might counter: “Illness. God, Who would think of illness? You may not have created it, God, yet You allow it and appoint professors of it.”

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Triple Water Astrology – The Critical Degree! Weekly Horoscope – Week Starting Friday, September 11, 2015

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The week begins with Moon edging out of Leo on September 11 and forming a stellium with Sun and Jupiter in Virgo early in the week. No doubt that thinking about work, service to others, careful attention to details, and solving problems with analysis is prominent with the luminaries expanded by Jupiter in Mercury’s earthy sign. Neptune and Chiron oppose the Virgo stellium, creating a strong theme of ‘service and sacrifice’ early in the week (credit to Carol Rushman for the term) and gives the first several days of the week an inspirational, healing, and spiritual feel.

Saturn leaves Pluto’s sign, Scorpio, at the very end of the week. Saturn will not see Scorpio again for about another 29 years. An item that must not be overlooked is that Saturn and Pluto will not be in each other’s signs again for a vast stretch of time! No doubt that the ‘behind the scenes authority’ theme of the two in mutual reception is tough (and remains as a less prominent theme in the transits with Pluto still in Capricorn). One might also ask, how were you able to expand your limits over the past few years and increase your sense of perspectives and personal power? Saturn can be very rewarding when we respond to his demands, indeed, and occasionally a planet beyond him complements the reward handsomely.

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EACH AND EVERY HUMAN BEING ON THIS PLANET IS A PRODUCT OF CREATION. CREATION IS MADE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AT A VIBRATION OF BEING PRESENT. IS THAT MIRACLE ENOUGH TO EMBRACE HUMAN EQUALITY?

WHEN HUMANITY WAKES UP FROM ILLUSION HUMANITY SHALL FIND THEMSELVES AND THE LIVING UNIVERSE IS ONE = 1 = ALL, UNIVERSALLY.

LIFE REALLY IS NOT A MYSTERY IF YOU LIVE IT. BE HAPPY, JUST LOVE, THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH, GOT LOVE, GOT EVERYTHING. FIND LOVE WITHIN YOU, THEN YOU FIND THE ALL WAITING FOR YOU. WE ARE A VERY HAPPY FAMILY, UNIVERSALLY.

THE TRUE ABUNDANCE FOR HUMANITY IS: "YES, YOU HAVE IT, NOW!" WHY WAIT? BE HAPPY. THERE IS ONE THOUGHT I HAVE ABOUT ALL "HIGHER SELVES" ON PLANET EARTH IS THEY ARE ARRIVING IN NOW.

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This Rare Volcano Erupts Electric-Blue Streams Of Molten Sulfur

If you’ve been to the Indonesian island of Java recently, you’ve likely been treated to a stunning view: electric blue rivers streaming out from underneath the Kawah Ijen volcano. It looks like lava, but it’s actually molten sulfur.

“I’ve never seen this much sulfur flowing at a volcano,” U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Cynthia Werner said.

Although seeing this much sulfur is a bit rare, it is common to see blue flames around volcanoes. Sulfur has a pretty low melting point at 239 degrees Fahrenheit. Kawah Ijen has the largest blue flame area, though.

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How to Slip Into the Expanded Awareness of Flow States

HJ: Flow states are magical moments of expanded awareness where we reconnect with our truest self and the pure creativity that is our essence.  And best part is you can train yourself to slip into them with a little practice.

– Truth

Flow

By Tom Murcko

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When was the last time you flowed? When you were immersed in the present, guiding each moment to the next through the unimpeded action of mind and body at the outer edge of your abilities? How beautiful, how exhilarating, how vibrantly alive was the moment?

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