Monday, January 18, 2021

Harmful ideas

Beliefs and ideas can be as poisonous as heavy metals. Nazism poisoned german minds in the 1930ies; religious beliefs are poisoning fundamentalist Muslims in the middle east and evangelical Christian Trump supporters in the US. You can also be poisoned by personal beliefs. You can, for example, be deeply convinced that you are a loser, a slob, or a superior human being. We can become deeply convinced of many kinds of unhealthy stuff. 

So, how do you remove heavy metals and venomous ideas from your brain? Meditation, celery juice, and modern psychotherapy will obviously not cut it.