How Much Of What We Accept And Live As True Is

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2019/01/02/what-causes-heart-disease-part-60-prediction/?replytocom=115064#respond 

How much of what we accept and live as true is because it serves to protect from deeper and perhaps unnamed fears - rather than because it is true?

Opening reality to question is perhaps the last thing anyone would allow - as distinct from questioning about it from unquestioned articles of faith. Many choose to die in its assertion rather than be exposed without it - for such reality believed offers a solid sense of self and world to an otherwise uncritical adaptation and experience within it. 

All our eggs are in a basket outside our own curiosity and responsibility for recognition or reevaluation by running as a default. And this is not altogether done to us, excepting  an initial extension of trust as infants to our parents and society frames the range of choices by cultural induction or indoctrination until the capacity and opportunity to broaden or deepen our consciousness arises.

The Scientific paradigm as a worldview is so deeply given faith that it may feel odd to call it such because it seems a world beyond question. Science settled as consensus reality in conformity and compliance - rather than being active in a willingness to question and challenge its presumptions or beliefs. If not trained as a specialist, you have no qualification to know anything but rather to comply in what you are given from above. 

Strictly speaking no one actually knows anything, so much as arrive at an extremely high probability based on matching of models to observations or to predicted outcomes and applications.

The discovery of truth as science is upheld by the miracles of applied technology, and founded on a belief in a progressive enlightenment that is simply filling in the gaps of the leaves of an expanding tree of knowledge and ability that informs and structures our social world to have almost arrived at overcoming whatever problems come up.

Medical science has its own history of miracles - of discovering germs and ever more ways to kill them and ever more complex technological approaches in terms of investigating ever more complex disease conditions and interventions as the means to hold back the inevitable.

Steal the kingdom and they call you king, but what does a stolen mind know of its true condition excepting its thinking tells it, without which it would be not only helpless but at the mercy of quacks and charlatans; robbed and poisoned or abandoned to the ravages of a treacherous nature that is out there with the intent to sicken and kill?

Truth cannot be enforced on the unwilling or unreadiness of acceptance. But falsehood HAS to be forcefully asserted and protected to seem to be in its stead. I note that when we delay the inevitable we mean delaying  'death' rather than 'truth'. Yet there is the phrase, 'truth will out' - but again, more often 'murder will out'.

'That's my cover story and I'm sticking to it!' - is everyone's right or freedom to engage in - and so therefore is the right to release it in desire for a better story - when an old spell of telling wears thin to joylessness or pain. So we can be wilful in our wishing, beliefs and assertions, but not without a price. And while the going is good, we hide the cost while shouting the benefits.

The storing up of denied consequence can at a certain tipping point, suddenly break through as IF an attack or violation to our self and world. Reaction of a like kind is the disposition of a protective survival response - fight and / or flight - but as the protection of the cause against further violation and loss. This is the pattern of a control mentality divorced from the very life it is called on to serve; be it in our own mind or as the global corporate pharma expression of power and protection.

While we believe it is our power of protection, we are insulated from awareness of the fears that are thereby kept at bay or hidden but not from the consequence of such presumptions where they work against our health or wellbeing in ways we don't yet know - or want to know.

Because fear operates distortions, love is the condition in which to see or indeed think clearly. We don't assign power to love until its lack becomes clearly our overriding condition and need.

Health is a radiant disposition - not under siege. Clear thinking extends from clarity of purpose - not conflict. I hold for the renewal of Science from a true and joined or shared foundation.