The problem with gurus is that they are not addressing you; they are addressing their own psychology, outwardly projected. Few minds have circumvented this natural blind spot and provided true means for self-understanding instead of a methodology or system of thought (e.g Jung).
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What if my own bias cause me to miss the bias of the creator/methodology? genuine qn. And also I’m thinking out loud at same time...
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This means simply that you are unaware of you projecting your own bias, and therefore miss it as such in others or their work. Cognitively we are all biased because we all perceive and judge reality with a different set of tools, or functions. One of the things Jung understood.
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The question has to do with undwerstanding the limitations of your bias, not eliminating it, which besides being fundamentally impossible as it is hardwired, is also not preferable or a real solution. The moment you judge, your bias happens automatically.
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>The moment you judge, your bias happens automatically I fully agree with this. Genuine qn. What do u think might be urs in your original tweet on few able to realise natural blind spot and articulate a system instead?
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I am a individualist by nature, and an extreme one at that, therefore I am blind to the growth process that others (at least 1/2 of population) derive from engaging with humanity at the level of the group. I do not perceive groups—I only perceive individuals (& their dynamics).
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Said differently, my bias is my inability to perceive global values and address them on any level. This is the reason I insist in most I express on individual values, but this, of course, is not how everyone perceives it. What I lack, someone like Peterson lives by & vice versa.
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So when I hear a guru it is filtered through my own individual value sytem and judged by that measure. If it is not agreeable, it will be rejected. Gurus appeal mostly to global values oriented people, because this is what most also encourage.
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Interestingly, Jung was also global value oriented psychologically but his immense vision allowed him to perceive both group and individual values and recognize the eternal polarity of and interplay of the two. This is partly also why I cited him as an example.
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