Why We Need Conspiracy Theories

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.”
~ Carl Sagan
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[@robertjennings2728]

These are great videos, bro. Succinct and straight to the point. Thanks.

[@DanMcLintock1980]

Very glad they’re helping Robert ✊🏻🙏🏻

[@TheDogzBody]

Great video, in many ways. But we have to be careful when we think we are right. Because ‘KI is better than any other modality’ is a conspiracy theory, too. And in one of your videos you dissed a lot of other modalities before singing the praise of KI. You make it cult-like when you do this. Different modalities have value for people at different times. Gabor would attest to this.
In ‘The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark’ Carl wrote, “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
new ones rise.”
When we are accustomed to the charlatan that is codependence, we can jump out of the frying pan into the fire. And so the old bamboozle we thought we were free from persists in a new form.
Carl also wrote: “ The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.”
And he wrote, “But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
We really know so very little. And conspiracy theories are all about the safety and special status of being in the know.

[@DanMcLintock1980]

Thank you and good timing on your thoughts about other modalities (with which I agree) because I JUST did a video yesterday about this.
I’ve never said and would never say “KI is better than anything else” - only that it’s more effective at addressing and resolving emotional repression than any modality I’m aware of - maybe there are others out there I don’t know about but I’ve looked and not many if any are as directly addressing the root of suffering; repression and buried emotions. This doesn’t make us ‘better than others’ or ‘right’ (I’ve looked around this because the last thing I want is KI to be confused for a cult), just new and different and we have to communicate this somehow.
In fact, the tools are really effective at dissolving the drivers of the compulsion to be ‘superior’ or ‘inferior’ and the need to be right, which as you said above is all about staying safe.
KI is also a great deprogramming tool for those who have been through cult abuse whether that be the cult of their dysfunctional families, religion, spirituality, clinical or scientific worldviews or anything else thought or belief-based. My sense is that emotional repression is the most popular and widespread covert cult around and so I consider our work cult-busting (we need a theme song now 😉🚫 👻).
Anyhow, thank you for your comments and if you’d like to and get a chance, watch tomorrows video called ‘Why Addressing Emotional Repression is so Important’ and it may help clarify why we point at other modalities that don’t include addressing the root. They’re not bad at all, they’ve helped a great many, they can just be easily co-opted by repression - check it out.

[@TheDogzBody]

Thanks for clarifying. Maybe I misunderstood that previous video. I agree that repression is an insidious covert cult. And very much worth focusing on. I think many modalities are useful for addressing trauma and reducing suffering. But as you say, they can be co-opted by repression (identity). Anything can, though. Anything at all. So honesty, humility, vigilance and external feedback are required, perhaps.