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• A new age is upon us. About this new age, Blake states… Similarly Crowley… What does this age entail?
• Which age is the real new age is only the concern the idolator.
• What can at least say is that this is indicative to major shifts in the social sphere around this time. What changes happened to be occurring around this time?
• People commonly revered by society were those with complete trust in themselves
• Humanities greatest thinkers are those who defied groupthink and authority bias and followed their own judgement

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• Why are we so certain? Why don’t we trust ourselves and follow our true will?
• We generally struggle to examine and criticize our own neural programs
  • Operant conditioning
  • Much of the growth of the human brain occurs after birth
  • The brain selects for the brain circuits that are most utilized throughout development
  • Imprint
  • The right hemisphere has a more loose orginazational structure than the left hemisphere ❗️
  • Default mode network
• Mechanical mode
• Intelligent mode
• Children and babies act independently without caring what others will think
  • ”Ye must become like children to enter the kingdom of heaven”
• Gopnik would probably agree with Emerson: Children serve to inject new ideas into the system of cultural evolution
• Humanities greatest thinkers are those who defied groupthink and authority bias and followed their own judgement
• Without the potential for creative thought, people would only evaluate things mechanically through preheld beliefs