I'll tell you what the most fundamental error a living being can make is: it is to accept an identification with energy or solids.

My own perception, regardless of semiotic labeling,is that this a treacherous confusion to fall into because it leads directly to the conclusion that your greatest powers -- to see, know, intend, and create, to perceive -- are fancy curlicues of wiring and sparks caused by carbon-oxygen machinations. What codwallop.

If you elect a belief that evidence is a good way to know and that without it you can't know, why for sure you'll live that experiential track, straight as an arrow. If you believe that belief has nothing to do with your life, it won't. If you believe that the beliefs you really hold (not just the ones you give lip service to) are what sets your experience in certain directions, why then you open the door to doing something about it.

And if you believe that you hold contradictory beliefs, you feel divided, and sort of pushed about by time and event, because which ever one you are favoring at the moment you will be heartily resisting the other, which leaves you exposed to all kinds of cruel fates :>)

Aw, never mind. Some people know who they are, and some have yet to dsicover they are not a what, let alone find the who behind it! Blessings on ye all who tread threads like this one, for your curiousity if nothing more.

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