I wanted to mention some sources of many of my ideas about freedom of thought. Alan Watts died about 40 years ago. However, his work in audio, video and text is available on the internet at Alan Watts dot com. A free podcast is also available there.My ability to think freely was influenced by Alan Watts for at least 30 years. His lectures were broadcast on WDUQ, a national public radio station in Pittsburgh at Duquesne University. I never met Alan Watts, yet I believe that he has contributed more ideas to my personal beliefs and behavior than any other person. His ability to explain how humans think and act seems to me to be the most enlightened freedom of thought that I have ever seen.In particular, recently I listened to his podcast about fundamentalist Christian bigotry, that distorts the ideas of Christianity to justify xenophobia. Generally disrespecting any other beliefs in any religion or culture other than the distorted bigotry of fundamentalist obsessions? In my opinion, these obsessions that humans have with racial or cultural bigotry are caused by various disorders, including biological diseases and chemical abuses which affect the brainAnother person who has influenced my ideas is Michel Martin. She is a wonderfully talented interviewer and journalist at Amanpour and Company One of her excellent articles, called Witness to Doubt, has the subtitle What if the enemy of faith is not doubt but certainty? Witness-to-Doubt https://www.beliefnet.com/wellness/2003/01/witness-to-doubt.aspx