Since our birth, our minds have been constantly bombarded by false stories.   We've been lied to about everything you can possible imagine.  

Personal Fairytales:   Here are just a few examples of the personal fairytales that were plug into our minds before we were old enough to know fact from fiction:   Santa Clause  --  The tooth fairy  --  The Easter bunny  --  Sex is dirty / bad /sinful / et ctera.

Religious Fairytales:   No matter what religion your parents believed in and/or didn't believe in, and no matter what social and political surroundings you grew up in, you got bombarded with false religious stories.  Here are some of the Christian fairytales:   We are separate from Creator/God, separate from nature, and separate from each other  --  Original sin  --  God's instantaneous, supernatural, transcendental, conception magic act  --  The rapture.  

Most promoters of life-controlling beliefs are honest and tell you what they, themselves, believe, however, there are those who use religious, economic, cultural, and political beliefs to promote their hidden agendas and/or to make money.

Social Illusions:   Here are a few of the social illusions that get promoted daily by way of the public media:    We can continue to destroy our environment and not reap the consequences  --  Violence solves problems  -- Constant economic growth is a realistic business model  --  Human overpopulation can simply be ignored  --  Yes, there are environmental problems, but we deal with them later.     *

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How It Happens:   Beliefs may enter our minds by direct statements.   They also come to us indirectly, often without our even knowing that our minds are being programmed.   Here are some examples:   By implication (by what a statement says without saying it)  --  By simply believing what others believe and acting as others act  --  By buying into the existing collective illusions  ---  By misusing words   --  By being included in an otherwise entertainment story --  By intentionally-deceptive advertising.  

Implication:   The classic example of this is the question:  "Have you stopped beating your wife?   The unspoken message is that the person being asked this question is a wife beater.   

Mindless Beliefs and Behavior:   Have you ever done something just because you saw someone else do it?   Of course!   We all have.   That's a normal learning process, but we don't need to be mindles, blind followers.   "Monkey see, monkey do, monkey get in trouble, too." 

Collective Illusions:   Some of the most destructive false messages come from religion.   Here's the most blatant and most destructive religious misstatement of all times:   Humans are separate from Creator/God, separate from nature, and separate from each other.  

Misusing Words:   "Pro-abortion"  and  "Partial-birth abortion" both give highly emotional and completely false messages.   Nobody is pro-abortion.   Abortion is the choice of last resort.   Partial-birth abortion implies that women in hospitals in the middle of delivering their babies decide that they don't want the baby so they and their doctor kill it, instead.  

Cloaked in entertainment:   Thousands of commercial products are intentionally inserted into films and videos.   The product manufactures pay the film makers to include their products in the film/video.  The goal (the intended message) is to give the impression that its use is a normal part of our culture.   Smoking cigarettes is the most obvious and most destructive example of this underhanded mind-programming.   Fortunately, underhandedly promoting cigarette smoking is no longer in vogue, at least  here in the USA.  Unfortunately, hundreds of other unhealthy products have stepped in to fill the void.   Drinking carbonated beverages is an obvious example.   

Deceptive Advertising:   How many advertisers tell the full truth about their products?   For example, when have you ever heard the soft drink sellers tell you that their products rot your teeth and throw you body's acid-alkaline balance way out of kilter?  

Political Deception:   Most state and national politicians speak and vote to satisfy their corporate sponsors.   They do not serve the public interest.   When a national politician tells you something about a controversial issue or about another political candidate, you can pretty much guarantee that you're getting only a piece of the truth.   For example, the overwhelming evidence tells us that anti-drug laws are social, political, and economic disasters, that they are antiquated, dysfunctional, incredibly-expensive, highly-destructive, all-but-useless, and they simply don't work.   Did you ever wonder why most politicians still speak and vote in favor of keeping and enforcing the drug-prohibition laws?  

Lies of Commission and Lies of Omission:   Deceiving others (particularly by omitting portions of the truth) is rampant, wide spread, and commonly accepted as the way of life.   Deception is used to get us to speak and/or take action to support what someone else wants at the expense of our own best interests.   It's all but impossible not to, at least occasionally, get suckered in and chumped by the silver-tongued liars .  

There Is Another Way:   If you are interested in breaking out of your invisible prison of false beliefs, check out the websites described below on this page.