Why would you choose such a path, or why did you? If you’re like me, it wasn’t all that much of a conscious choice. You just went along with what seemed like the right way to go, or a fun and enjoyable way to go. Yet, even though you may not have been choosing your path and each twist and turn consciously, those choices were governed by your belief system, your worldview, and your rulebook – all essentially different terms for the same thing. You did, or will do, what seems right according to what you have accepted as real, valid and important in the world. And since all of your choices are basically directed by this level of your consciousness, I think it is worth spending some time exploring some aspects of it.

We human beings find it absolutely necessary to explain and organize the world in order to live in it. We create our own personal rulebooks, as I have said repeatedly. We create cultural stories with which large groups of people identify. And we create competing belief systems that one part of a culture will use as a club with which to bash another who happens to see life a bit differently.