Full Video: Deep superstitions of the modern mind || Acharya Prashant, with OCLF (2021)
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00:00Some of the elite ideological circles today, people are believing in stuff without knowing the facts, the reality.
00:07For example, somebody has a position on climate change, somebody has a position on flesh consumption.
00:14And people are sticking to their guns and very stubbornly defending their opinions.
00:22And you just scratch things a little and you discover that those opinions are without any factual base.
00:29We do not even know what is really going on and yet we are so insistent on what we want to say.
00:35Now this is superstition. So a lot that is very very modern is actually very very superstitious.
00:42Even in the most modern, even post-modern circles today, we call ourselves modern but we are actually
00:51operating from very primordial centers. That's not good at all, that's not the way of consciousness.
00:57To operate as per your instincts and then use logic or reason or argument
01:02to just defend your instinct, that's hardly good.