consciousness

cognitive dissonance

The constant struggle to retain consciousness can be trying at times.

"The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously." - Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

"Allow the Dharma Rain to penetrate the soil of your consciousness. Allow your consciousness to receive the rain, and the seeds buried deep within will have a chance to be watered." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"The history of Western civilization is a history of the growing segregation of the strands of consciousness, separating the moral and spiritual from the sensual and physical, a lose of unity." - Arthur Zajonc

spirit animating matter

special awareness or sensitivity

in psycho analysis, the conscious

feeling, persuasion, or expectation

the state or condition of being conscious

an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation

immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation.

the state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc

alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation; a movement aimed at raising the general public's consciousness of social injustice.

a sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and opinions held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group: Love of freedom runs deep in the American consciousness.

It has been said that beauty is the splendor of truth.

Now moral beauty is goodness.

It is beautiful to be good.

To be intelligently good, one must be just.

To be just, one must act reasonably.

To act reasonably, one must have the knowledge of reality.

To have the knowledge of reality, one must have consciousness of truth.

To have consciousness of truth, one must have an exact notion of life.

Alphonse Louis Constant aka Eliphas Levi, French magician

Consciousness has always seemed to be separate from the physical material animal body because when life leaves the body consciousness leaves the body as well. Consciousness outwardly appears to motivate and is, in fact, a force that motivates life.

Consciousness and intelligence are not synonymous. A computer is intelligence, it is not conscious. An ant is conscious, it is not intelligent. Intelligence is a cumulative process of distinction and judgment.

cognitive dissonance

Cognitive dissonance occurs when ones subconscious perceives a logical inconsistency and fails to suppress it. The ensuing emotional reactions, experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states, are created by consciously avoiding self-awareness of one's behavior by refusing to acknowledge contradictory ideas, attitudes, beliefs held.

The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by one of two opposing methods:

They may change their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors,

or they may justify or rationalize their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Cognitive dissonance theory is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.

This is the main reason that governments, corporations, religions or popular movements use propaganda to create unity within a social culture.

Popular movements only come into being when the triumvirate of control - governments, corporations and religions - fail to meet the needs of the people. When people's ideas are consistent with each other - unified - they are in a state of harmony, or consonance.

In modern industrialized civilization it is theorized that cognitions that are apparently unrelated can simply be categorized as irrelevant to each other and therefore do not lead to dissonance. On the surface this may appear true but 30 million prescriptions of anti-depressants suggest otherwise.

A powerful cause of dissonance is when an idea conflicts with a fundamental element of the self-concept, such as "I am a good person" or "I made the right decision."

The anxiety that comes with the possibility of having made a bad decision can lead to rationalization, the tendency to create additional reasons or justifications to support one's choices. A person who just spent too much money on a new car might decide that the new vehicle is much less likely to break down than his or her old car. This belief may or may not be true, but it would likely reduce dissonance and make the person feel better.

Dissonance can also lead to confirmation bias, the denial of disconfirming evidence, and other ego defense mechanisms.

As it is often easier to make excuses than it is to change behavior, dissonance theory leads to the conclusion that humans are rationalizing and not always rational beings.

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