Belief is an affirmation of a previous worldview. Living in paradoxbelieving and not believing at the same timeis a movement into the future.

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Belief is an affirmation of a previous worldview. Living in paradoxbelieving and not believing at the same timeis a movement into the future.

People want to "settle". They want clarity and security and they are willing to give up a great deal for that. The problem is that in the quest for security people create for themselves physical and intellectual boxes, and in the wide world these boxes confict. Much of the violence and suffering in the world comes from these boxes in which people are only trying to find protection from violence and suffering, and that's a paradox, too.

-- Jeff Kripal

Authors Bio:

Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.

Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.