I would only suggest that you (and others) are not just combating the conditioning from just *ONE* lifetime, rather you are most likely combating the fear of *MULTIPLE* lifetimes of religious conditioning. You know how even if you haven't ridden a bike for years you can pretty much just hop right back on that sucker and ride it again with no significant issues (for the most part)? Well, any serious subconscious conditioning is like that (even beliefs). The cognitive pathways have been grooved, and then some.
That is to say, this is probably not the first lifetime you have had the pleasure of being brainwashed as a child in. So naturally, it is going to be rather strong on the subconscious level. If you want to call that subconscious conditioning a magical working, the label could certainly apply because that is ultimately what a magical working is -- the entrainment of the behavior of consciousness. How long has our Earth been swallowed in religious ignorance and alternate spiritual modality intolerance? How often do we get to incarnate in societies free of such conditioning? Probably not too often.
You'll find in any cult like belief system that any behavior that expands awareness or leads to challenging existing thought structures will be strongly discouraged, vilified even (such as meditation, which tends to expand one's awareness). It is essentially a psychological lock (or a virus in cases of aggressive proselytization) in the sense that the mechanism is such that one is rewarded if the limits of the cognitive structure are respected (you get validation from your religious peers and the promise of wondrous heavenly rewards) and punished when the taboo of the structure is violated (with threats of hellfire and eternal damnation). This is prototypical of negative STS psychology and hierarchical social constructs because it strongly reinforces unquestioning loyalty and forgoes critical thinking which, of course, would give back one's sovereign autonomous right to hold their own opinions and perspectives. As is customary, fear and greed are used to control the masses.
This is just one of the more successful STS instigations in our society. If there wasn't Christianity, there would be something else just like it. The involutionary forces of the universe will always lay their traps, just as the evolutionary forces will attempt to make others aware of them.
That is to say, this is probably not the first lifetime you have had the pleasure of being brainwashed as a child in. So naturally, it is going to be rather strong on the subconscious level. If you want to call that subconscious conditioning a magical working, the label could certainly apply because that is ultimately what a magical working is -- the entrainment of the behavior of consciousness. How long has our Earth been swallowed in religious ignorance and alternate spiritual modality intolerance? How often do we get to incarnate in societies free of such conditioning? Probably not too often.
You'll find in any cult like belief system that any behavior that expands awareness or leads to challenging existing thought structures will be strongly discouraged, vilified even (such as meditation, which tends to expand one's awareness). It is essentially a psychological lock (or a virus in cases of aggressive proselytization) in the sense that the mechanism is such that one is rewarded if the limits of the cognitive structure are respected (you get validation from your religious peers and the promise of wondrous heavenly rewards) and punished when the taboo of the structure is violated (with threats of hellfire and eternal damnation). This is prototypical of negative STS psychology and hierarchical social constructs because it strongly reinforces unquestioning loyalty and forgoes critical thinking which, of course, would give back one's sovereign autonomous right to hold their own opinions and perspectives. As is customary, fear and greed are used to control the masses.
This is just one of the more successful STS instigations in our society. If there wasn't Christianity, there would be something else just like it. The involutionary forces of the universe will always lay their traps, just as the evolutionary forces will attempt to make others aware of them.
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