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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge: Something known to most
people. (knowledge) – facts – belief. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: Just because everybody believes or ‘knows’ something
to be true doesn’t necessarily mean it is a fact. All knowledge in the realms of the Human Condition is firmly rooted in the ‘Wisdom’
of the past and almost exclusively consists of what is passed down from generation to generation. Such passing down of knowledge
has been formalized into a system of schooling, both secular and spiritual, whereby history, morals, values, prejudices,
superstitions, facts, beliefs, and concepts of the previous people on earth is taught to the new recruits to Humanity.
On the other hand, all of the practical, mundane discoveries and
advances in human knowledge have come from a ‘standing on the shoulders’ of those who have advanced human knowledge in the
past. And much new knowledge and discoveries have come from questioning the failures and/or limitations of knowledge to date and
finding new and better ways of doing things.
The resultant advances, particularly this century with vastly improved communications
and transport, is in turn giving ever-increasing numbers of humans direct access to a stunning amount of knowledge – both facts
and beliefs. This same abundance and availability of information now means that knowledge is now passing from the restricted ‘hands
of the few’ – usually the scholars and priests, aided and abetted by the rulers and politicians – to a free and unfettered
access to all.
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