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Originally Posted by Lallymac  A common misconception Shamou. 
It more often raises a whole pile more questions to seek answers to.
Lallymac |
I agree. To quote Steve from his article,
Read a Book a Week:
Where does [the habit of reading a book a week] lead? I thought it would lead me to acquire a great deal of knowledge about the field of personal development. That did happen, but it also expanded my ignorance. Imagine your knowledge of any field as a circle. Within the circle lies what you know. Outside the circle is what you don’t know. The edge of the circle represents your awareness of what you don’t know. As the circle grows in size, its area increases, but so does its circumference. So the more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to learn.
There is a benefit to that though. As that outer circle keeps expanding, and you gain a better understanding of what you don’t know, you can be more selective in what you decide to learn next. Your awareness increases. You can use what you’ve learned within the circle to predict where you’re most likely to learn some powerful new insights at the edge of the circle. It’s sort of a process of learning how to learn.
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Originally Posted by Lallymac Why are we not taught from a young age how to axcess and utilize extra sensory perception? |
I don’t think there’s one answer that covers everything, but rather many interconnected answers that together will add up to the current state of our collective societies. Generally, though, I think it mostly has to do with limiting beliefs, social conditioning, ignorance, and a lack of desire/interest in such things.
You could ask the same question about a lot of things, though. For example, why are we not taught from a young age how to effectively maintain our bodies and keep them healthy with proper diet and exercise? Why are we not taught how to create a profitable business (or “businesses”) that is not only enjoyable to run/maintain, but leverages our strengths and provides value for a great amount of people while providing us with financial abundance?
It would seem downright intelligent to do any of those things since we generally benefit enormously from the inclusion of such things (as well as the knowledge of how to get those things) in our life. Unfortunately I don’t think we’ve reached a global level of awareness where we see such things as not only intelligent options, but vital knowledge/skills that are very much needed to live a "decent" life.
Worry not -- I think in time we will start to see this sort of positive change and we won't have as many of these question to be asking since we'll be busy answering them with our actions. The inefficient systems of old will be broken down and from the ashes, new, more effective, more empowering systems will take their place.
... or we’ll be hit by an asteroid and all be sent to the abyss... either way.
(But then we can start saying, “Why are we not taught how to access and utilise our non-physical extra sensory perception when we die? Why don't I know how to float left, damnit?!.” It’s clearly a vicious cycle.
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