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    Our Psyche and Beliefs
    Our Psyche and Beliefs
    Our Psyche and Beliefs
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    Our Psyche and Beliefs

    By Shelton Ranasinghe

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    Though we do not give much emphasis and accept it as an integral entity of life, our psyche and how the psyche operates is uniquely out of the ordinary, weird and mysterious. This book discuss the nature of our psyche and about its inseparable companion “beliefs” in a rational manner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShelton Ranasinghe
    Release dateJun 17, 2016
    ISBN9780989276375
    Our Psyche and Beliefs
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    Shelton Ranasinghe

    Shelton Ranasinghe is an author and a retired professional engineer. The exposure he acquired living in five continents over a large part of his active working life combined with his interest on human behaviors, has given him a unique and intimate understanding of putting his thoughts into writing on philosophy and science fiction, combining both these streams.“Self A Delusion” - A good read to understand that the self could arise from deluded cognition.“Thinking Explored” - Cleverly explain how thinking process develops from day one.“Are We Being Fooled by our Brains” - Explore the complexity and cunning nature of the brain.“Our Psyche and Beliefs” - Is an idea of how our brains geared to adore beliefs.“Buddha Impetus to Primitive Psyche” - Refreshingly unforced and thought-provoking dissection of Buddhist doctoring.“Our extraterrestrial Neighbors” - Readers will perceive many complex philosophical overtones beyond the Sci-fi content.“The Phone Rang in the Middle of My Shower” - This Sci-fi explores afterlife, along many religious beliefs.“DoooD” - Excellent Sci-fi on Artificial Intelligence.Shelton’s email address: sr2665@gmail.com

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      Our Psyche and Beliefs - Shelton Ranasinghe

      OUR PSYCHE AND BELIEFS

      By: Shelton Ranasinghe

      ISBN: 978-0-9892763-7-5

      Copyright © 2015, by Shelton Ranasinghe

      sr2665@gmail.com

      Published in United States of America.

      All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced without permission from the author.

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      Discover the other titles written by Shelton Ranasinghe at smashwords.com

      Our Extraterrestrial Neighbors

      Buddha Impetus to Primitive Psyche

      Self – A Delusion?

      Are We Being Fooled By Our Brains?

      The Phone Rang in the Middle of My Shower

      Thinking Ehxplored

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      Our Psyche and Beliefs

      Our Psyche

      Though we do not give much emphasis and accept it as an integral entity of life, our psyche and how the psyche operates is uniquely out of the ordinary, weird and mysterious. Given below are some of my thoughts on the nature of our psyche and about its inseparable companion beliefs.

      Each individual has its own operational traits associated with its psyche. This includes its preferences – likes, dislikes, secrets, behavior patterns, affiliations with various organizations such as sports teams and political parties, affinity to superstitious ideas, religious beliefs and many other boundless traits that one can think of. However, undoubtedly the beliefs (i.e. Religious, superstitions, other metaphysical phenomena and supernatural ideas) that each individual associate, is one of the core drivers of our ego based life operation. The belief system is the strongest domineering element of the human psyche. It is estimated about 90% of the world population follows some form of a religion. The rest of 10% cannot be ruled out as atheists or materialists for not following any religions. A good proportion of these people, also have alliance to other belief systems or have inclinations to numerous metaphysical ideas. It is interesting to note that in Japan the total number of people who have accounted for following a religion is more than the population of Japan. This is simply because many people follow more than one religion. The above facts explain how closely our psyche is associated with beliefs.

      Our attachment to belief systems is so intense; it isn’t surprising to find people who could be motivated to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their beliefs. This is quite evident from the reports that we

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