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Beliefs and Assumptions to Question

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Most of us operate on certain beliefs and assumptions, probably most of the time, that usually go unquestioned.  These beliefs and assumptions may have even worked for us at certain stages of our lives. Either way, it behooves us to question the assumptions upon which we depend and operate. This becomes especially critical when we bump up against frustrating issues whose solution continue to evade us. We may unknowingly be orienting ourselves to life from a point of view that is erroneous. Here's what The Urantia Book has to say about that: 115:1.1   Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master universe, would be unable to form the first rational thought pattern, were it not for the innate ability of all mind, high or low, to form a  universe frame  in which to think. If mind cannot fathom conclusions, if it cannot penetrate to true origins, then will such mind unfailingly postulate conclusions and invent origins that it may have a mea...

WHAT CAN WE DO TO "SAVE" OURSELVES?

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    As I continue to study and  ponder the various dilemmas that confront humankind, one of the most effective long term strategies I've recognized is  SYNERGY. "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects ." In order for something new to emerge in the human context, you need WILL, ENERGY, IMAGINATION As individuals, we can supply the will and the imagination, but energy requires two or more.  Energy is always the result of synergistic  relationship. The potentials of human synergy. Like two protons converging to liberate light, when two or more people synergize, power is released and the partnership can direct that power-that release of energy- toward the good. When you get enough people working in partnership doing that, it can become equivalent to the power potential of atomic fusion on the human interpersonal level...