Cognitive Dissonance: To Believe or Not To Believe
By Kim Hutchinson Cognitive Dissonance Have you ever read a spiritual book or article that shakes you to the core and leaves you questioning everything you believe? If you have, you know that it can cause a great deal of spiritual and cognitive dissidence. When we are faced with strongly divergent ideas, we experience discomfort, bordering on psychological pain. Spiritual Awakening is Destructive In 3-D we were living with very limited awareness which kept us in the dark, so to speak. Our old beliefs were based on past experiences that were more limited in scope and awareness than our present awareness. We filled in the blanks and extrapolated based on our limited understanding. As we started to move our awareness outward, we encountered new ideas, concepts and paradigms which caused…
