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Of the six parts to chapter 1, this one is my personal favorite.

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How does learning work?  Is formal education the only path to meaningful knowledge, or is this a natural capability steered by where we direct our attention?  If so, how can we better use this knowledge to better our own lives?

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This speaks for itself.

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We humans often find ourselves confined within invisible cages of our own making - they limit our freedom and constrain our potential.  How do we break free?

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This episode is about the value of a child's perspective when it comes to understanding what freedom truly is - and what that perspective can teach us later in life.

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What if the limits we encounter in life are most often self-imposed?  What if the phrase “I can’t” is nothing more than a jail cell built from two words? This project has the goal of becoming a book - as each segment of the book comes together, I put it out as a another podcast episode.

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Lying has been an effective defense against totalitarianism when it's used in self-defense against intrusive and abusive authority.

In case you haven't noticed, technology is reducing and inhibiting that power of pushing back against the abuse of authority.

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In this episode, we investigate the question of "are we energy beings?", from multiple angles, looking at different sources of information on the subject, many of which have credible, documented scientific sources.

Chapters:

1. A medical doctor's perspective.

2. The 4 fundamental Energy Centers of the human mind, a concept put forward by Manly P. Hall in https://youtu.be/wOh3o-XgbMI?si=lPJZB-fXgy6aNWM-&t=572

3. The 100th monkey effect.

4. The "Noosphere" - evidence that human minds impact activity at the quantum level, as shown by research at Princeton University.

5. Negative entropy - the opposite of disorder.

6. The body of humanity: the concept one innate consciousness arises from all humans collectively by natural processes.

7. A little experiment of our own.

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In part 2 of "Freedom and You" we look into the importance of communication, the impact of censorship, and delve deeper into overcoming that greatest block to freedom: our self-imposed limits.

Chapters:
1. Reaching out beyond the familiar: there is no freedom without risk.
2. The importance of novelty.
3. The 3 stages of escalation: from communication to disassociation.
4. The importance of communication.
5. Abusive relationships and censorship.
6. The importance of black sheep for social progress.
7. The path to de-escalation.
8. Making the best use of your free time.
9. Overcoming our self-imposed limits.

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This series an investigation into how our perception, conditioning and instincts influence the choices we make that impact our personal experience of freedom.

Part 1 Overview:
 1. The importance of perception.
 2. The difference between freedom and liberty.
 3. The compassionate view of freedom vs. the narcissistic view of freedom.
 4. Giving, taking, and balance. Transactions.
 5. The benefits and the dangers of trading freedom for security.
 6. Coercion: the common thread between communism and fascism. Coercion is the problem that they have in common.
 7. Subconscious assumptions and implied contracts.

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