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2. Then man is offered automatic solutions to problems and guidance through life into an "effortless" Garden of Eden or a utopian hereafter if he exchanges his own invented consciousness for faith in external "authority" -- bicameral faith in some leader, doctrine, or god. He is offered the "reward" of escaping the self-responsibility to make one's own decisions and to guide one's own life. But for that "reward", he must renounce his own mind to follow someone else's mind or wishes disguised as the "truth" promulgated by some external "authority" or higher power. But in reality, no valid external "authority" or higher power can exist or ever has existed. Valid authority evolves only from one's own independent, conscious mode of thinking. When that fact is fully realized, man will emerge completely from his bicameral past and move into a future that accepts individual consciousness as the only authority. ...Man will then fully evolve into a prosperous, happy individual who has assumed full responsibility for his own thinking and life.
My father put down his pen and sat in stunned silence. He grasped the scientific significance of what he had just written. He gathered himself and stood up to go eat something. But his mind never left the page. The next morning, my father said to Zon, "Despite the great advantages in using the man-invented mode of thinking and all the power that goes with it, most of us depend to various degrees on our automatic bicameral mentality and external 'authorities' to make our decisions for us. We actually search for 'sure-thing' guidance from 'higher authorities', rather than using our own consciousness for making decisions and determining our actions. Zon, we are throwing our power out the window! In our search for automatic guidance, we seek automatic answers from religion, politics, idols, leaders, gurus, cults, astrology, fads, drugs, feelings, even shrinks. No wonder altruism controls us and a ruling class rules over us. Wake up! Our bicameral minds seek outside sources that will tell us how to think and act. No wonder neocheaters exploit the automatic bicameral minds in the masses by setting themselves up as 'authorities' for influencing or controlling that bicameral mentality seeking external guidance." Zon answered my father:
Still, the resistance to self-responsibility is formidable. The bicameral mentality grips those seeking mysticism or other "authorities" for guidance. Those who accept external "authority" allow government officials, religious leaders, faith, homilies, cliches, one-liners, slogans, the familiar, habits, and feelings to guide their actions. Throughout history, billions of people unnecessarily submit through their bicameral tendencies to the illusionary, external "authorities" of government and religion. And that submission is always done at a net loss to everyone's well being and happiness.
To some, the implications of Neotech will be frightening, even terrifying. To others, the implications will be electrifying and liberating. ...The implications of Neotech are that each individual is solely responsible for his or her own life -- responsible for making the effort required to learn honesty and guide one's own life through one's own consciousness. No automatic, effortless route to knowledge or guidance exists.
No valid external "authority" exists that one can automatically live by. To live effectively, an individual must let only the authority of his own consciousness guide his activities. All consistently competent people have learned to act on reality -- not on their feelings or someone else's feelings or doctrines. An individual must accept the responsibility to guide his own life. He must constantly exert the effort needed to identify reality through his own consciousness in order to live competently and happily.
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