Why Do People Believe What they do?

The first reason that people believe what they do is conditioning. For example, if you are a baby or a little child and you state some belief not acceptable to your family or whoever may be raising you or babysitting you for any reason you might be hit or have your life threatened. Since this is a very common occurrence around the world believing in whatever the people hitting you or threatening you are saying you need to believe in might seem like a necessity for survival. However, after a person grows up, often one continues to believe in things that maybe they shouldn't because many people stop thinking about what happened to them growing up. And also, most people don't get to go to a public college where all sorts of ideas and beliefs are tolerated. So those that are conditioned through violence or threat of violence continue in their beliefs because of psychological conditioning. So, unless they study psychology and find out how this messes with people in a post traumatic stress disorder kind of way, there is no way for most of the people of the world to ever have any control at all in what they believe.

So, most people in the world literally are mentally enslaved from birth on with no real hope of unraveling what they want to believe or able to take the time to find what they really believe except maybe for those educated enough or rich enough to take the time to try to figure out what they really believe. So, unfortunately most people of the world are mentally enslaved to the beliefs of those who raised them or threatened them with no hope of escape since birth.

Though all this sounds really depressing and horrid all one has to do is to find a way to discover what they really believe and start to undo all the conditioning that others have done to them. In the process they might be able to find what they really believe and have the joy of actually being free in all their thoughts, lives and dreams. I call this process the Path to Enlightenment because it is always different for everyone who takes this path. But once you embark on your path to enlightenment, your first step tells you that you are free forevermore.