The Core of Who You Are

Ideology is the greatest obstacle when wanting to seek the truth. It’s a cohesive web of personal beliefs in regard to how your reality works, with a stubborn attachment to a set of beliefs, on how you think things should be. Materialism and capitalism are some examples of ideological morality – very often these ideologies are taken on with good intentions. The problem is the mind gets hung up on certain theories which it then robotically defends.

People build their identity out of their belief system, which is based on their ideology, which causes problems because it creates closed-mindedness and stubbornness. Ideological thinking is about holding onto a belief. The things that people get most ‘ideological’ about are identity issues, that pertain to the core of who they think they are.

Every ideology is born in your mind, and is based on your perception, around your belief system. It feels true because your mind will cherry pick evidence to support your beliefs, and the evidence will seem very convincing. It’s not something you will be consciously aware of. You may think you have it all figured out, and that everyone else is deluded but the reality is, whatever you choose to believe your mind will find the evidence to support it.

Ideologists are arrogant, stubborn, closed-minded, and refuse to open themselves up to new experiences. They don't want to self-reflect and look inwards, they just want to be right. Their emotions come for a place of fear and attachment, which close their minds to enquiry; because they believe they already have the answers.