Integration & Critical Thinking - What is critical thinking, or the lack of it. - 108+ Biases - Examples: - Pandemic - We don't know what we don't know. - blindspot - Confirmation bias - Observation - assessment - drawing conclusions - Suffering is correlated with circumstance - error: suffering is caused by circumstance - error: we assume happiness is circumstantial - "I don't know" – openness - "all of our thinking is relative" - relative, but accurate - relative that is completely wrong - Seeing from different perspectives - "me" is attached to feeling right, to be validated. - it will defend its actions, its conclusions, its thinking - surrender is a falling away of that defense - the object is not separate from the subject - surface experience suggests: - the object is separate from the object - there is an objective object outside this subjective subject - Roger: - the object is not outside the subject - Subject – Object – Experience - not three, but one! - The Subject is Awareness - Awareness envelopes the entire experience