As you move through levels of awareness, you will likely encounter at least three types of information sources. Those that 1. contain mostly information you've already learned, thus is considered to be more suited for those at an early stage of learning that particular topic. 2. contain information you sorta know and sorta don't, but you feel is a source that doesn't know any more than you, thus is on your level, thus is not worthy of listening to. 3. contain a lot of information you don't know and you feel is credible enough to learn from. As I've made progress in different topic areas, my perception of these sources change position. What used to be in #3 position, is now in #2 position and then moves into #1 position, and so on.
As understanding improves, I recognize parts of information that are incorrect or incomplete or don't fit current logic. Also noticed are certain sources and people who are misleading intentionally and those who are misleading but not intentionally. Even so, despite misinformation, many of these sources are necessary as part of the total mix.
All sources contain the complete truth.This truth changes into truth and lie depending on our level of awareness which is caused by understanding which comes from information which forms our logic which gives us the basic context of our thinking which is knowledge of self and all else. This is our personal worldview context utamawazo. Optimal theory, suboptimal theory, African-centered, Eurocentric, American, Chinese and so on, are national worldviews formed by personal worldviews which are formed based on information and how that information is integrated into understandings about self and others (all else). As we mature, what we've accepted or perceived or believed or knew to be complete truth, should begin to change into partial truth and partial lie, some of it's true, some of it's not. Why? Because the sources of information are expanding and the information is lastly being filtered through self, the best double-checker you've got. Why? Because self is spirit, soul or spirit-soul, however you want to look at it. Different sources help us practice discernment at each level of awareness so we can learn to continuously review what we've learned and remember to consider how each piece of additional information fits into the totality of what we understand and consider true or false. Contradictions always exist and must be resolved as discovered.
This good and bad, plus and minus, benefit and detriment, nutrition and toxin nature of sources of information is the nature of the beast. It is a beast that has become divided such that we view the beast as existing outside of ourselves in different forms and as existing within ourselves, usually in far fewer forms. To the degree we are aware that every moment of life contains information we are learning from is the degree to which we are able to discern the accuracy or appropriateness of information we rely on. No matter what, all information we rely on and don't rely on, speaks volumes about self (who we think we are, where we came from and why we are here). There is no aspect of anything we think or do, or don't think and don't do that does not reflect our understandings. These understandings are directly correlated to the range of sources we encounter and how we grow and do so consciously and subconsciously, instinctively and extinctively. Everything and any piece of information in the universe can be used as an example to illustrate these points. For instance, many adults have passed the stages where we successfully have tested the logic of Santa and now understand how, when and why it is appropriate or not. Generally, those who find it inappropriate, do so based on new understandings from new information from new sources. This is why many of us have not gone through the stages of testing Christian Jesus logic.
This is so only because level of awareness has stagnated at the Jesus stage of logic. This is true of many other pieces of logic such as racism. This is the nature of the beast that cheats self from remembering self that is both part of and representative of the totality. The first form of the beast is God, The Supreme.
We and everything else are part of that experience, which is why “cheating yourself” applies to many of the things humans do, especially when we cheat others. Which is why God said whatever you do to the least of these you do it to me. This is God talking to us, and also God talking to self, as a self-reminder. This is why God said love me with your entire being and love others as you love yourself. And this is why God said the second commandment is like the first. All this logic swirling around in humans is God logic, out of balance, intentionally so and unintentionally so. It's happened before in different forms and has been changed and corrected. It is and has always been changing and moving in a different direction what still moving in the same direction overall. So basically, we are only cheating ourselves when we don't consider information or understand it appropriately enough or use information in such as way as to cheat others. All sources contain complete truth. The problem lies in not having, using or relying on enough information properly understood.
