Jim's Secret Thoughts

Here I talk about paradigms and belief systems.

Riots, Religion and Fear

I want inspiration. I need answers. I want to know the right thing to do. Have you had these and similar questions going through your head? You analyse, you look at the pros and cons, you search for ideas and evidence, yet you still can’t make up your mind if the particular move you have [...]

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong, you don’t fit in? Does your life constantly bang against the wall of conformity and crash against the common perception of life? This is what the authors of Wings of Change, Jim and Katharina Murdoch, were facing when their lives were turned upside down by unexpected events. [...]

In the movie The Matrix, Neo is faced with the truth that the world as he knew it did not exist, but was a virtual reality created by machines to fool the human populace that their world is real and physical. Once Neo had grasped this truth he was able to eventually master the virtual [...]

A Paradigm is a mind-set, or mind pattern, or a set of ideas. For example, a long time ago it was a paradigm that the Earth was flat. That paradigm has changed. Another paradigm could be, “I can never be an artist,” or whatever. This paradigm also can be changed. Paradigms determine how we think [...]

Are you aware that you think in patterns? Did you know that most of your thinking is an automatic pre-programmed response? Ask yourself: “How many people react like me in a given situation?” A lot, right? Why is this? Why do so many people react this way, even say the same things in response to [...]