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Being rational is one of the many powers that humans have in their possession, and this power, just like a muscle, has to be continually developed and trained in order for it to be of practical use. And so, to be rational means to think clearly, sensibly, and also logically.
Now, understanding this, there are many instances in which our ability to be rational is superseded by our ability to be emotional. And now, emotional powers have their area of rulership, right? There's a time where you need to rely more heavily on emotions as well, but there's certain instances, many instances, where the ascended power needs to be in the form of being rational. And so, especially areas where we're trying to analyze problems, where we're trying to come and figure out many solutions, we're trying to get down to the bottom of certain events and and and and occurrences, we need to rely on our ability to be rational and less of our ability to be emotional if we want to be able to solve problems with accuracy.
And another very important aspect to understand when we're talking about the the the various powers of humans, and in this case, we're talking about being rational, is that just because somebody is rational in one area or in one subject, that does not necessarily translate to someone being rational in another area, right? So, someone could be perfectly competent in one area and and very irrational or incompetent in another area. For example, there was this scientist who was very proficient in math and science, and he was able to solve many complex problems and equations, right, by the use of his logic, reasoning, and being rational.
And one day, his best friend that he had known since since the first grade, who had a reputation of being an honest person, came to him and he said, "Listen, I have to tell you something." And he says, "The scientist says, 'Okay, well, what do you have to tell me?'" He says, "One day when I was in the garden, grabbing the fruits off the trees, trimming the bushes, and tending to the garden," he says, "in the middle of the garden, I opened up these bushes, and what I found in there was a snake." He says, "Okay, well, what happened?" He says, "Well, when the snake turned around and looked at me, it reared up its head, and it came eye level with me, and it did something that was absolutely mind-blowing." He said, "Well, what did it do? Did it bite you?" He says, "No, it started to talk to me." "It started to talk to you?" is what the scientist said. He says, "Yes, I need you to believe what I'm telling you. It really started to talk to me."
The scientist then started to think about it, and he started to consider all the impossibilities of a snake being able to talk because it had it lacked the vocal anatomy that would allow it to do so. And so, the scientist began thinking about this over and over. And so, the more he thought about it, the more upset he became. And he became upset because he thought that his friend was trying to insult his intelligence and trying to pull a fast one on him. So, he told his friend, "Get out of here right now and don't come back if you're going to keep talking that craziness." And so, the friend left, and from that day forward, they were never friends again.
A few days later, the same scientist found himself in a church in which he attended ever since he was a young child. And the pastor began reading from a book, and the author of that book, the scientist had never met, never known, neither in character did he know if that author was an honest person. But when the pastor began to read from the pages of this unfamiliar person and go into his account about how, in his time, snakes were able to raise themselves up and talk to people, the scientist found himself jumping for joy and praising and saying, "Oh my goodness, how much of a miracle this must have been for this to take place!"
And so, many of us, like I said, are rational in certain areas, but then there are certain areas where we become completely irrational, right? And so, it's important for us to take inventory of many of the ideas that we have, especially many ideas that have come into existence within the last 400 years. It's important to take inventory of those ideas and to put them out on the surface, the forefront, on the desk, and to examine each one of these ideas and to be rational about each one of these ideas. And the only way we can do that is if we can we detach ourselves emotionally from the ideas, right? Each and every one of the ideas has to be reexamined because a lot of people have placed and invented certain ideas which we come to find out isn't in the best interest for many people.
And so, like I said, we have to take inventory of these ideas and find out if we have actually thoroughly investigated these ideas, or have we just accepted prepackaged ideas that have been handed on over to us by people who may not have done the actual thorough investigation themselves, right? So, that's our responsibility to do that and and and becoming rational people.
And so, if we have ideas in our minds that rouse up heavy emotional responses when they're challenged, that's one of the clear signs that we have not taken the time and invested the energy to go in and dissect these ideas. And so, what happens is when we begin to put many of these ideas on the chopping block for examination, to find out what they actually stand for, what it is that the idea represents, how is the idea benefiting my life, how is this idea harming my life, when we get to start asking all the questions about these ideas, we begin to find that there's many of these ideas we have inherited are irrational, and it causes us to be irrational.
And so, when you are able to lay things out, detach yourself emotionally, examine things, pick things apart, find out what things really are about, it starts to give you a level of confidence once you have examined them from different angles, right? Where you can stand in front of your own self in the mirror and you can say, "You know what? I did my my due diligence." And then when you get in front of other reasonable and rational people, then you can actually have discussions that are profitable, and idea exchanges can occur where certain things you may be able to accept from people, and some things they may be able to accept from you. But notice that the key word is rational. It's rational people that you want to get to the level of being able to deal with.
When you're when you're dealing with irrational people, it's a waste of time. You can't get anything done. It's it's it's unproductive. And so, that's when you have to dig into your power of of of being able to ignore, right? That's another power. And it's not ignoring people in all areas. It's just in certain areas people are extremely irrational and fanatical, and there's no time and there's no room for discussion, right? You have to ignore those people. And by you entertaining conversations with irrational people, you by default make yourself an irrational person, right? Not thinking clear. Because if you know somebody is not thinking clear and you're trying to get in there and and and convince them to think clear, and you see that they're not responding to that, and you keep doing it, then that's making you irrational because you have ideas that are not clear as well, right? So, you leave that alone, right?
So, sharpen the tool of being rational. Question things. Always question things. Continuously question things. Teach the children to question things and to not hold on to ideas because ideas are creations of man. They serve a time and a purpose, and then once they are finished, you know, serving their their purpose, then we move on, right? That's just part of being rational, right?
So, this is Earthology, the earned insights of the Earth. Poise. And I want to thank you very much for watching. My name is Brooklyn St. Michael, and I will see you on the next one.