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Life is a Risk

every step we take, every action, every choice to do anything is ultimately an act of faith.
most of the time, thankfully, we live with an ongoing sense of certainty.
we imagine that the world is predictable enough to support us.
then there are those moments in which everything gets swept away.
we lose a job, we crash a car, a loved one departs,
and we realize that nothing was ever certain.
and yet we have to act as if it is or live paralyzed by doubt.
life is a risk.
to believe... (continue reading)

For this topic we will have to delve into perception and judgment. The definition of perception and judgment will each be defined for the purposes of this text.

perception - process of organizing sensations or data into information / unified experience;

judgment - a conclusion reached by a process considered valid on the quantity or quality of something (true or false, yes or no, probable or improbable, good or bad, etc) determined by comparison with a standard or capacities and knowledge... (continue reading)

experience-existence fallacy

In sum, the experience-existence fallacy is to equate personal / private experience with the totality of existence itself; it can be phrased as, 'my experience is all there is', or 'what is not in my experience, does not exist'; this fallacy is pervasive in the mystic tradition although it is either not well known or not spoken of;

Mystics declare whenever we examine the concept 'I', we will discover it is "just another thought"; and that this thought is created to... (continue reading)