Philosophy – familiar = strange = familiar.

Philosophy…sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. Its mind is full of air that plays round every subject. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices….

William James – The Essential Writings

Philosophy is one of the fundamental keys to mental freedom.

Mental freedom from the *archetypes and *paradigms (*read: thinking patterns) which many of us are ‘pickled’ in since birth. Believing stuff because of a whole host of reasons, none of which are necessarily based on fact. Culture, what grandmother said, teacher said, religion said are just some examples.

Are you perhaps one of those people who clings on to the ‘comfort’ of their own opinion with no genuine regard for truth?

If so, then you are a slave to ideas, doctrines, archetypes and paradigms concocted by other misguided people(s) too.

Break free – embrace philosophical thinking and you will find it easier to see in the dark. (Mental dark).

What you seek you will find.

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