When passions become extremely strong “confirmation bias” can really distort how one perceives reality.

This is extremely true in these days of intense political polarization. I believe we live in one of the most polarize and politically divisive time in our country’s(USA) history. Spiritually one needs to look very deeply in the complicated middle in order to see the whole picture clearly especially in times of great spiritual and political disunity! It is not surprising that in this spiritually backwards world, that in times of crises people become more polarized and divisive. But when this happens one crises can sort of set up the next one until the hard lessons are learned and spiritual growth is forced to happen. Do not be quick to demonize those who have a differing viewpoint than yours and try to see all sides of issues and the whole picture as much as reasonably possible, not just the part you would like to believe is true. If you wonder why the news media is so biased these days confirmation bias and excessive self righteousness has a lot to do with it. Some people are clueless as to how much their bias is obvious to those who are more spiritually/intuitively connected to reality. Here is a link to research on “confirmation bias”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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