Along the way, I often write about the importance of values as a basis for harmonious existence, both as individuals and as a society.
Moreover, I have often emphasized that the evolution of a society and its ability to survive upheavals and crises, stems from a willingness to examine these values, improve and perfect them, so that they may evolve and continually support a new level of development.
As the events around us become more extreme, we are facing a significant crossroads as a society. This is a crossroad that forces us to look deep within, wake up and redefine our priorities.
In this column, I would like to help you better understand why values are an important component when seeking to sustain evolution, develop, maintain cognitive growth in the reality of the twenty-first century, prosper, and have a life of harmony, balance, and renewal.
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The transition into the twenty-first century involves tremendous change. This change is based on a technological acceleration that touches all areas of life and creates a sharp rise in the amount of information we are exposed to.
Virtual worlds exist alongside the physical world and are expressed through the rise of social networks, a large amount of information coming from the various internet channels, online shopping sites, the gaming and the virtual reality worlds, and many more channels of information and influence that flow into the human consciousness and influence it.
The ability to consciously conduct ourselves and remain oriented when facing this overload of information and a multitude of dimensions is an acquired ability that forces the mind and human cognition to evolve and adapt.
Those that don’t evolve and create the described change, find themselves maneuvered and controlled by consciousness engineers who play and manipulate with their thoughts and brain, in order to gain control and navigate the masses, by influencing the perception of reality, influencing self-esteem, influencing self-identity, influencing political opinions, consumerism, lifestyles, and more.
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At the present time, we can already identify this trend: many people are experiencing decreased cognitive ability, which is the product of exposure to a new reality.
The cognitive decline is expressed through an inability to contain data or broad and complex information, an inability to focus, impatience, a need for constant mental stimulation, superficiality, numbness, and a lack of clarity and self-estimation.
The general use of legal and legitimate substances to dull the mind and consciousness has become widespread:
Commercial TV channels produce shallow and addictive formulas that enhance a decline in cognitive abilities and enhance a fictitious reality that is based on distorted values. This is a reality that supports a hunger for the narrative produced by those who control the media.
Social network celebrities distribute a fake and illusory image that promotes a hollow and distorted model of inspiration, which influences body-image and self-image, encouraging an appetite for personal fulfillment that lacks vision and values but is rather focused on hedonism, selfishness, ignorance, detachment and superficiality.
Reality is not absolute. It is layered and complex. The cognitive decline encourages a perception of reality that is absolute, shallow, and dichotomic, thus hindering the ability to perceive a broad and layered reality and open up to new channels and additional dimensions of thought, belief systems, consciousness, and knowledge.
This makes it easy to maneuver and control large sections of the public, creating a fall in consciousness, and deterioration of values and morals.
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A natural evolutionary process holds within it a gradual transition from one level of consciousness to the next and requires an evolution of the values that provide the foundation for society and its existence.
Values express a threshold of consciousness.
Through the use of words and language, values provide a reference point for all to aspire to, in order to express worthy humanity that restrains animal-like impulses, granting priority to a spiritual and conscious world that fully utilizes the best of the human psyche.
This is a reference point that creates a common truth, an agreement that connects the different shades and approaches and enables cooperation.
Values draw a framework in which the individual and society can act in order to fulfill their vision and express essence and meaning.
Therefore, the existence of a set of values is immensely important as the basis for all layers of society.
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In addition to this, values are the basis through which we can develop a mental capacity to cope with the trends described which will become stronger as we move deeper into the twenty-first century and the new era.
A set of values provides a mental construction that allows stabilizing thought with the help of values that provide mental anchors in a world overflowing with information and systems that influence humanity.
Containing the values, contemplating them, and cultivating the meaning and essence they express, creates information crossroads in the mind, which supports the process of deciphering, containing, processing information and filtering it, according to the measures and criteria dictated by the set of values and its reference points.
This process begins with an ability to contain the ideas and consciousness at the foundation of the values. This changes the transmission systems of the human brain and influences thought patterns, logic, and reasoning. Through the change in mental deciphering and translation systems, the perception of reality also changes.
Once the individual is connected to values, their cognitive ability is channeled towards addressing that which is important.
In this state, the brain effectively sifts through anything that is irrelevant (everything that stands in contrast to the mental anchors found within the values and the standards they provide) and enables to maintain clear and open consciousness and awake awareness, even in an unstable and stormy environment.
Values, which act as mental anchors, enable the individual to adjust their thoughts in a manner that creates a clear estimate of reality that is free from influences and bias. This estimate is possible because values provide a stable and continual reference point.
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The self-observation through the mental anchors provided by values, enables self-estimate, self-control, and an ability to improve manners of conduct and lifestyle so that it is adapted to the values, backs them up, and builds a bridge between the standards and the actual conduct.
For example, when a person upholds the value “purity of word”, this provides a mental anchor that creates a cognitive reference point that helps to sift out irrelevant data, such as contexts containing gossip, lies, slander, violence, quarrels, and so on.
Thus, the brain and the cognitive system are free to process information that is void of such contexts.
This is a process where a connection to the value “purity of word” creates a framework for conduct that sifts and rejects the information that does not meet the criteria of “purity of world” thus freeing the psyche from aspects that negatively influence and arouse the emotional system and cloud the thinking in an effort to control and manipulate the individual.
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A connection to values and to the mental anchors they create establishes a cognitive infrastructure that contains premises we can adopt in order to live a full and enhanced life.
This infrastructure acts as a safety net that enables both the individual and the society they are part of, to develop, grow, and manifest their vision.
The connection to values, the ability to develop them according to the spirit of the times, and the ability to rely on them as infrastructure, are key to the evolution of human society and its ability to survive and continue to exist as it enters the twenty-first century, which heralds the beginning of the new era.
Think about it…
Yours with love,
Louharya
