Compounding Mistakes: Sunk Cost FallacyUnity Consciousness #704

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Hidden in the sub-logic of non-confirmation bias is the “sunk cost fallacy.”

Sunk Cost Fallacy means sticking with something due to amount of time, materials, money or other resources already invested in the decision.
This logic leads to sticking with something that needs to be changed and would be changed if not for the amount of resources already invested. Instead of adjusting or abandoning the decision, the person continues to invest more resources.

Why Would Someone Do This?

1. Lack of Understanding - The person thinks making changes to decisions means a mistake has been made. A mistake is viewed as being unintelligent. The person does not understand that one of the purposes of this life is to make the necessary adjustments to move closer to becoming one with the Creator and that this life is just one leg of a continuous journey and that adjustments not made in this life will have to be made in another life. The person does not connect the other understandings which teach that making adjustments is part of the learning, growth, development and maturity process. The person does not understand that a grown-up is not someone who does not make mistakes but is someone who does better as they know better.

2. Identity Crisis – A large part of the person's self-esteem (knowledge of self) is based on what they think intelligence means. This comes from a suboptimal context of a suboptimal culture. Anything that even looks unintelligent is a threat to self-esteem. The ego is in control and the façade has become the preferred image.

3. Emotional imbalance - (Fear, Guilt, Shame, Pride, etc.). The person sinks deeper and deeper into despair because the only way out is changing the decision but the person is unwilling to do this. As a result of this contradiction, turmoil inside shows up on the outside in behavior that causes physical sickness. This person is in danger of emotional and physical breakdown, because as time passes and nothing changes for the better in the area they know they should have already changed, hidden pressure continues to build. The person acts out and lashes out. Whatever is in range is in danger because a sinking ship creates suction.

All of the above is the domain of the lower self. This spirit within all of us is very good at self-deception. The person thinks they are too clever, smart and intelligent for self-correction because no one can prove they need to change or make them change or know they need to change. This is perfect. So it seems.

If the person is a follower of the Jewish-Christian Bible, they continue to overlook the fact that God made frequent adjustments starting in Heaven when some angels revolted. Adjustment was made in the Garden of Eden and then with the flood and then with sending Yeshua (Jesus) as a sacrifice. Many more adjustments to the plan were made when things did not go as expected.

The Ecosystem within and without are ever-changing, always making adjustments in response to information.
Life is an adjustment process.

It is abnormal not to make adjustments.
The biggest thing is not that you're prodigal and have been gone for so long. The most important thing is that you turn and head home.

Without adjustments and self-correction, a person has not repented because the person is in denial and resistance of the need to make corrections.
Clearly, the benefit of making adjustments along the way of a journey outweigh the sunk costs because lessons learned are automatically reinvested into the next steps taken. Nothing is lost or wasted.
In other words, you transform sunk costs to work for you as you do what you know to do.
In other words, there is no such thing as sunk cost. Sunk cost is energy not yet recognized and/or not yet properly applied. Sunk cost is a function of understanding. Sunk cost exist to the degree understanding does not.

The biggest thing is not that you're prodigal and have been gone for so long. The most important thing is that you turn and head home.

Stop being stubborn. Forgive yourself! This gives the greater portion of you, inside you and outside you, a chance to help you do the rest.
Use your free will to choose the spirit of the higher self which is very good at self-correction and leading you towards knowledge of self.

(UC#566), (UC#567), (UC#571), (UC#595), (UC#670)

Relationships | Stupidity, Sadistic & Anti-God Behaviors

”Family Planning Developments, Self-Esteem And Abuse & Neglect Context.”

African Plateau, Aquaria & Woman Thou Art LoosedUnity Consciousness #701

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The consistency of repeatable cycles and cause/effect allows us to predict broad events with reasonable certainty. Where there is repeatability there is pattern. Where there is pattern there is rhythm. Where rhythm is possible, you, the African, excel in the rhythm of math, astronomy, agriculture, language and all knowledge areas. The rhythm of thought is no different. You experience rhythm deeply. You think deeply. Once your natural self connects with the pattern of the rhythm, you can anticipate its moves and nuances. It has been this way in every Age and so it is with the rhythms of thought in the Aquarian Age.

Yes, Ecclesiastes, for every thing there is a season. Whatever is right now, is only for a season and is already, as always, in the process of change.

As the Aquarian star continues to move into position to rule Universal energy for approximately 26,000 years, many related cycles must also move into position. We know what to expect through recognition of repetition, pattern, rhythm.

Aqu(aria)/Aqu(arius) is from the word “aqua” – water. (See also agua and acquifer)

When Aquaria rules, water rules, the female rules significantly more than the male and so does the higher self.
Each year, when Earth and Aquaria correlate, rivers, streams, creeks and other bodies of water rise and nourish valleys and other lowlands in places where human dams and other activities have not changed the water flow or elevation. Hapi is both Aquaria/Aquarius and so is the Aquarian Age. Aquaria will be more prominent.
Ground water is being replenished. This foretells wellness for the African Plateau (the entire continent of Africa) because it is becoming freed from pockets of drought, dearth and famine, thus stress and strife. The African Continent is the mountain of continents. Africa is to other continents as a mountain is to its surrounding valleys. Africa is Ptah, the moundtain that rose out of the waters of Nun.
Out of water Creation begins and is renewed. Out of Africa, humans begin and are renewed from the Mountains of The Moon within the Moundtain. The three within one.

Seeds filled with genetic potential are sprouting in numerous dimensions. Mitochondria are generating more levels of energy. Knowledge is returning. Drink with all your abilities, all your senses. Eat from the field.
The water cycle is increasing in frequency and volume.
The Age of Aquaria/Aquarius means the Age of water in air and water in the area. It means more rain, more humidity and more moisture in the soil.
This foretells the return of abundance due to more water and warmth, thus the Aquarian Age will cause more areas of Earth to become more favorable for life for more months of the year. Deserts will become less desert-like. This, of course, has happened before so these things are nothing new under the Sun.

Water brought down the wicked witch and water will continue to bring down the Wizards at Odds with both Aquaria and legions who have pledged their allegiance to re-balancing the Ecosystem.
Logic momentum demands water to burst through dams like blood through blocked arteries to restore circulation of nutrients.

Though all Primordials are assisting, pay extra close attention to the changing Earth, Air and Sun.
The Aquarian Age is one of cleansing, purifying, healing, abundance and whatever is necessary to restore optimal health. It is the Age of reclaiming birthrights (Rights of Creation). In the 1800's, Africans worldwide began the process of reclaiming their African selves. This continued into the 1900's and continues now in the 21st century. The Universe is preparing the way and awaits reunion with the rhythm of our energy as we add momentum by seeking the greater portion of who we are.* Your rhythm has been held captive just like water behind dams. Rhythm's water potential is being released. As water rises higher broadly, you must seek its rhythm deeper wider. You must strive and study to get the full range of nutrition so the full range of your rhythm once again becomes as fluid and as powerful as water so you can again do all that water does.

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Upon wakening, “Woman Thou Art Loosed” flashed through my logic. It was a repeat message.
Two hours later, the words “Woman Thou Art Loosed” appeared across the computer screen as the movie by the same name began playing.
The higher self, which is your stronger nature, and also of the Aquarian Age, is changing the climate in favor of the optimal context for genetic potential.

Forgive yourself, “stay free and you're gonna make it!”

(UC#39),, (UC#116), (UC#141), (UC#371), (UC#372), (UC#406).

*“Are We Ready For The 21st Century,” Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Remove Stumbling Blocks, Forgive YourselfUnity Consciousness #686

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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to greatness is a focus on the smaller, less powerful amount of genetic potential.
Despite all that the lower-self has manifest in the world to sicken it, there is more higher spiritual nature in you and in the Universe than there is lower spiritual nature.

The best you can do in this life is to choose the higher spiritual nature to guide you as you use your genetic potential.
You can also increase understanding of self.

You can do these two things at any point of any day.*
You can change direction or change momentum in the same direction.
You can do this despite the impact the decisions of others have had on your life.
But before you even begin to consider the impact of others you must do something about the impact you have on yourself.
At this point in your spiritual journey, it's time to forgive yourself.

Forgive Yourself by Inna Modja

Up Against The Wind by Lori Perry

Soul in Mind by Lira

To not forgive yourself is to allow the impact of a decision to continue having impact which is the same as making the same mistake over and over and over.

When you forgive yourself you release the resilience of your genetic potential.
Your genetic potential to make adjustments and corrections is greater than your potential to make mistakes because self-correction comes from the power of the higher spiritual nature of self – the source of the larger, more powerful love.

The Creator created this world and created the lower-self. The Creator is doing something about this stumbling block. You have the same Creator-given spiritual potential to forgive yourself and remove stumbling blocks so you can gain access to your higher larger greatness.

*In other words, you can be the worst of the worst and still become your best by using the basis of your genetic potential, your choice of which spirit to follow and continuous improvement in understandings.

I Didn't Know My Own Strength, sung by Whitney Houston

Something Inside So Strong as sung by Lira (originally written and sung by Labi Siffre)

Re-education & Definition Of Forgiveness For AfricansUnity Consciousness #443

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Definition Of Forgiveness For Africans, Especially In America

Apology accepted contingent on full restoration before you apologize. Only then does forgiveness become a possibility.

Africans, stop saying you forgive those whose greatest achievement is death and destruction. Their hearts are sufficiently hardened and solidified like the two feet of shit in the holding pens of slave castles where our Ancestors were held physically. All of the enemy's continued actions say Africans don't deserve to live so how is it that our enemies deserve forgiveness? We must give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. Forgive the family we know. Forgive the family we don't know and forgive those who we know are family just because.

Forgiveness For Believers

According to the Judeo-Christian Bible, after the very first sin of Adam & Eve, God punished them both. There was no forgiveness for that sin, plus their punishment became everyone's punishment. Is forgiveness always appropriate.? If so, there would be no need for Hell and Revelations. God sure has a lot of wrath and anger in the Bible which doesn't leave much room for forgiveness for everything. People were punished. God has said there is no forgiveness for blaspheming the Holy Spirit. God has limits to forgiveness. So should Africans.

If we go by the Bible, in modern times, do we really think we should forgive someone or anyone seventy times seven especially those who have laws that say three strikes you're out and for those who say our beautiful, powerful, God-anointed blackness is one strike and for that alone we're out?

How can we forgive those who have not repented or relented?
I say to Africans,
if we forgive the unrepentant, there will be no one to forgive us our regret.
Not even our own selves.

When you are sick, do you forgive the virus in you that's trying to take you out of this life? Do you empathize with the virus? What shall be the fate of that which sickens the world?

If there is such a thing as punishment, there must be a point when there is no forgiveness. Africans have a right to all the rights of Creation, which of course includes life and other liberties yet these are being denied up to this second.

Forgiveness might be appropriate either after punishment or after full restitution or both. We know the enemy knows better yet refuses to simply stop and do better. If people do not make extra efforts to do better, they should not be forgiven. This is how punishment is justified in the Judeo-Christian Bible. If you don't change you can't be forgiven and deserve what you get.

”Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever”
- -Thomas Jefferson

Chattel slavery is justified based on the curse of Africans in the Bible. We have not even been forgiven this make-believe curse. Our enemies hide behind this and other lies with pride and then cries out for forgiveness.

Understand this clearly, an apology, is not a first step if there are clearly other steps that must accompany it. Sometimes all you can do is apologize. You can't do anything else different or fix anything. However, in many cases you can do something or a lot. This is what is absent from the good-heartedness of our enemies – abundant actions that precede words.

The enemy is scared to death of the higher spiritual nature that is the strong force of the universe. The enemy is seeking an escape route from accountability and for the need to repent and for the need to make recompense and for the need to change in a healthy way. The enemy is hoping Africans, the parents, will overlook their behavior and will be gullible enough to let them off the hook for the greatest barbaric, uncivilized, legacy of ongoing societal behaviors the world has ever known building on barbaric slave system of Rome.

Shall we forgive them for absolute crimes when they forgive us for absolutely nothing? Are we forgiven for the non-crimes we commit? Are we not criminals from conception according to their cognitive deception? Shall we forgive the poison fed to our children in every one of their systems? Africans, we must save our capacity to forgive for family.

Just like salvation, forgiveness is connected to actions, not words. If the extent of apologies is written words, then clearly the apologizers must still take Africans as unintelligent fools who are just so in love with the Judeo-Christian Bible version of forgiveness and so desperate to be in a loving relationship with our attackers, that any suggestion of decency is greedily gobbled up. They think we need their respect to live and feel good about ourselves. Kindness is not blindness and kindness never remains weakness forever. The healing process never overlooks the removal of the pathogen for the sake of unity.

Forgiveness comes through self-correction. If the enemy wants forgiveness the enemy can easily get it for themselves. It is not the responsibility of those under attack to forgive. If you do, you are not ensuring your salvation, you are only ensuring continued African devastation. If you forgive those with cognitive dissonance and who are conscience-less you beg for more trouble. While you're busy feeling good about forgiving, the enemy is busy plotting more ways to hasten our demise.

Do you not know there has never been a moment since the enemy arrived that all our tears have dried?

"...For Adonai is a God of retribution; he will surely repay." (Jeremiah 51:56)

Ten Cardinal Principles Of Ancient African Deep ThoughtUnity Consciousness #45

"...Tehuti, the Kmtian (Egyptian) sage, known as Thoth by the Greeks, detailed the aspects of being that must be mastered in order to achieve the highest stages of human development; they are known as the Ten Cardinal Principles. (1)

Ten Cardinal Principles Of Ancient African Deep Thought (Summary)

1) Cultivate the ability to distinguish between the real and the unreal.
2) Cultivate the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
3) Learn to be free from resentment under the experience of wrong.
4) Learn to be free from resentment under the experience of persecution.
5) Believe the truth can be found.
6) Believe the truth can be lived.
7) Have faith in the ability of the Higher Power to teach the truth.
8) Be devoted to the purpose of realizing union with your Divine Creator.
9) Learn to control your actions.
10) Learn to control your thoughts.

Ten Cardinal Principles Of Ancient African Deep Thought (Detailed)

1) “Cultivate the ability to distinguish between the real and the unreal. This mandate requires us to think for ourselves and question for ourselves. We must learn to think critically and deeply, strengthening our reasoning abilities so we can get beyond “either/or” conclusions and can understand “both/and.” That which is unreal tends to be illusory and temporary and will, upon awakening or enlightenment, disappear or dissipate. That which is real tends toward the everlasting and eternal. In a social context such as ours, where the highest value is placed on appearances, material gain, and consumption, the potential for deception and the distortion of reality will be great.

2) Cultivate the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. The development of our capacity for moral reasoning is critical for our good health. We must identify and articulate the standard of ethics governing our moral conscience and behavior. We cannot rely on the standard of ethics of a society whose development from the beginning has been based on theft and the terrorizing of others for personal gain. Africans in America have brought the United States a long way by leading the fight for equal civil rights under the law; we cannot lose sight of our historic role.

3) Learn to be free from resentment under the experience of wrong. We must not judge by appearances, rather, we must look beyond appearances. Looking with only the physical eye, it may appear the universe is not just. The universe is governed by the law of opposites, and all life processes are conducted based on the principle of duality. In other words, in order to know good, we must also know what is not quite as good. To know life, we must know death, to know male, we must know female and so on. When challenges, which may involve struggle or sacrifice, come, we must not be resentful, but consider them as special opportunities for the exact growth we need to achieve mastery and the highest good.

4) Learn to be free from resentment under the experience of persecution. Practice forgiveness for your own sake. When disagreements occur, assume a lack of information is motivating the other party rather than mal-intent. Our ancestors understood no one has the power to steal your joy, peace of mind or opportunity to realize your greatest good, unless you give it to them, because no one can control what you think or feel but you. As we maintain our power, we realize there is no reason to be resentful. The universe is just. Everyone reaps what they sow. Our challenge is to sow only good and therefore, only good must return to us.

5) Believe the truth can be found. Seeking truth takes courage and trusting, that what will be found, will be sustaining and “the truth.” We must seek the truth. Commit to finding out the truth, develop the ability to discern through multiple dimensions, reason, intuition, insight, revelation, and sensing. With the goal of gaining knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, ask the universe and the order and laws of the universe require we be answered.

6) Believe the truth can be lived. Faith in ourselves to internalize the truth we find, and sustain our choice to live it, is invaluable. Should we get off track, we must forgive ourselves, master the lesson to be learned, then get back on track, being clearer, stronger, and more committed than ever before.

7) Have faith in the ability of the Higher Power to teach the truth. Be mindful of where, and in what, faith is placed. All that is, is faith, our positive belief in it makes it so (even if later found to be in error, it was “real” at the time). Belief that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient Creative Life Force, whose nature is love, the source of all good, means everything must be in Divine Order. We must trust that Force in us, to lead us to our highest and greatest good.

8) Be devoted to the purpose of realizing union with your Divine Creator. Consistent and persistent critical self-reflection and self-examination are imperative. Life is about lessons leading to the achievement of a greater and higher good. In the African cultural tradition of wisdom and deep thought, the purpose of life is to become one with God. This process of deification could take many lifetimes. With each incarnation we choose, with the Creator and our Guides, exactly what context and experiences are needed for us to grow closer to realizing this objective. Devotion to this process will yield mastery and mean, upon achieving conscious union with God, we would not need to return to earth. We could choose to return to help others or move on to another plane of existence. Whether or not we believe as our ancestors did, let us be devoted to whatever life’s purpose we have identified.

9) Learn to control your actions. Think before acting. None of us is yet perfect, though striving, so there will be times of acting from other than our Higher Self. Let those times be lessons for growth. What we think and feel are reflected in our behavior. Others may (mis)interpret our actions based on what would be true for them, but checking ourselves for internal congruence between our intentions, thoughts, feelings, and actions is most valuable. This ability requires us to stay in touch with our heartfelt feelings and bring them to conscious awareness, so unconscious emotional issues or unresolved conflicts do not drive our behavior. Let the habits we create be good ones, helping us achieve optimal health.

10) Learn to control your thoughts. We must be as selective of the thoughts we let into our consciousness and find a home, as we are of the food we put in our bodies. We must become consciously aware of whatever it is we are assuming is true about life, knowledge, the universe, or whatever, because these assumptions shape the parameters of our thinking and our conceptual system. Thoughts are things. “As a man thinketh so is s/he.” We can best control our thoughts by making sure our assumptions are conducive to and congruent with the values and beliefs toward which we aspire and desire to create using wholesighted (inclusive of heart, mind and soul) reason. Every thought that crosses the mind you need not own, but develop the cache that allows you to treasure most thoughts. Whatsoever things are good… think on these things." (2)

Practicing these fundamental principles will result in right alignment of self as sacred spirit. This protects and supports health and well-being. (3)

(1) Myers, Linda James, “Our Health Matters: Guide To An African (Indigenous), American Psychology And Cultural Model For Creating A Climate And Culture Of Optimal Health.” Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Commission on Minority Health, (2003), p.26. [Mostly quoted with minor changes. Summary, headings and formatting added]
(2) Ibid.
(3) Myers, Linda James, Ph.D. & Speight, Suzette L., Ph.D., "Reframing Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Persons of African Descent: Africana/Black Psychology Meeting the Challenges of Fractured Social and Cultural Realities,"The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2010, June), vol.3, no.8, p. 76.