The question then arises, what happens if our collective agreement no longer serves our basic survival needs?  The sensible thing to do would be to change it and carry on.  Unfortunately if these core race beliefs really do exist we are unable to collectively see them because we are looking from within them.  It would be the same as trying to imagine the colours on the outside of a box when you have always been only on the inside.  If our agreed upon ‘facts’ are pointed out to us as myths we will laugh them off.  Most of us will go to the grave before we will even realize a need to change our minds.  Having realized the need the change will still be extremely challenging.

There are so many historical documentations of  the costs of an inability to change that one would think today we would be collectively searching for our limiting beliefs and consciously working to change them before the next possible cataclysm.  Unfortunately our deepest core belief appears to be a collective self righteous egocentricity.  We believe that what we perceive is our reality, and we could not possibly be mistaken on such a fundamental level.

This is a wonderful thing for life’s greatest visionaries, inspirational speakers and writers.  They will all continue to have work because the majority of people the majority of times will collectively nod their heads and carry right on walking to the precipice.

The good news is that every one of us can change if we can only, as the great philosopher Emerson once said, “get our bloated nothingness out of the way.”  We must be able to first admit that what we are seeing, what we are doing, might not be working; that the world as we see it may just be an illusion.  We must be able to admit that we have been wrong. 

May the Force be with you.