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Episode 20, Lesson 12: I Am Upset, Because I See A Meaningless World

None of the most common convictions of our culture is anything more than a human creation. Not one of them is part of Life’s inherent order.

Episode 18, Lesson 10: “My Thoughts Do Not Mean Anything.

The lesson asks us to clear our minds of all falsehoods (i.e., of ALL our brainwashed thoughts without exception) and even to make our own the prayer, “Release me, Lord, from all that I now believe.”

Episode 17: “I See Nothing as It Is Now”

Episode 16, Lesson 8: Preoccupation with Patriotic Illusions We Should Have Outgrown

Since the Second Inter-Capitalist War, all of our nation’s wars have been fought against the poor. But despite our spending $2 billion per day on preparing for war, “we” haven’t triumphed in a single one since 1945. Our “glorious” troops have been thrashed by farmers, tribal people, mothers, grandparents and children defending their homeland against U.S. imperialism. That’s happened undeniably in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. When will we ever learn? No one is attacking us.

Episode 15, Lesson 7: On Visiting Our Country’s Past Again for the First Time

Shadows on our cave’s wall have established controlling ideas in our minds that determine what we see. Controlling ideas have taught us for instance, that America is the greatest in the world, that it’s a democracy, that its Founders were nearly saintly men, that the policeman is our friend, and that all of us are equal under the law. All those ideas prevent us from looking at our country with new eyes – from seeing it as it “really” is today.

Episode 14, Lesson 6: I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There

Things upset us, because we lose sight of the only Reality that does not change and that persists eternally as the Background of ever-changing present perceptions.