Become a Freethinker to Become Whole

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain

To say the least, 2020 has been a year full of challenges. But as the year comes to a close, we may be reflecting on how we can move into 2021 with more meaning and more wholeness. Some of the questions I’m asking myself these days are: How has 2020 affected and changed my life? What did I learn during these challenging times? What should I change in me to overcome all the challenges I went through and improve my life? 

I don’t know what the challenges you faced during 2020 were, but I can tell you I went through a lot and learned a great deal during this process. And as I reflect more deeply, I realize that, for me, it all ties in to becoming and remaining a freethinker.

A freethinker thinks outside the box—outside of what others say, what they think, and how they behave. Freethinkers form their ideas and opinions based on what is true for them, outside of others’ ideas or following the majority—a type of thinking that is simply repeating blindly, or on autopilot, the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors of others.

So, as we transition into 2021, I have a question for you: Are you a freethinker? Or do you repeat and imitate others’ ideas? Do you form your opinions based on what resonates with—what is true for—you? Or do you go along with the crowd in order to be accepted and fit in a social group?

Generally, freethinkers reject conformity based on fear of social consequences. They like to think for themselves, remain open to new concepts, and are authentic. Freethinkers determine truth for themselves based on their ability to stay neutral. They possess the intellectual integrity and courage to think outside of accepted norms and challenge the status quo, dogma, and prevailing beliefs.

Freethinkers are those who go beyond their own learned biases.

In 2020, we witnessed how our rigid structures of engaging and perceiving the world have changed thanks to a pandemic. For example, in the United States, people were exposed to an ongoing wave of civil unrest, comprising protests and riots against systemic racism. Discrepancies in the results of US elections have half of the US population thinking about fraud and rigged elections—affecting the public’s confidence in American democracy. And to top this off, according to the Gallup Poll, currently, 13 percent of Americans have a great deal of trust, 28 percent a fair amount, 30 percent not very much, and 28 percent none at all when it comes to overall trust in the mass media.

Unrest, uncertainty about the future, and distrust of government and media sources is also on the rise throughout much of the world today.

In one way or another, our reality is pointing out that we cannot rely on what others tell us anymore. Now, more than ever, we need to become freethinkers. 

But how can we become freethinkers if we have far less control over our behavior than we think? Studies by neurobiologists, cognitive psychologists, and others indicate that from 40-95% of human behavior—how we think, what we say, and our overall actions— is habitual. 

Aware or not, we’re on autopilot most of the time, operating from programming built by our continued exposure to the same information. The repetitive perspectives of our families or those who replaced them; of those who educated us or who we learned from religiously, culturally, and politically; and of those who we receive daily information from, including coworkers, friends, media, government, and the city or country we live in all form our habitual thinking. The stories of the tribes we belong to override our individual commonsense desire to present alternatives, critique a position, or express an unpopular opinion. The passion or pressure of the group can drive inauthentic decision making. 

Some of the causes of lack of freethinking include:

• Peer pressure. A person who is not in compliance with the rest of the group is judged and penalized.
• Complacency. No one disagrees, so all are led to believe that the decision made is the right one.
• Moral high ground. When morality is used as a basis for decision making, the pressure to conform is even more remarkable, as no one wants to be perceived as immoral.
• Stereotyping. When a group is uniform in its thinking, opposing sides are rejected.
• Censorship. Members of a group censor their own opinions and those of others to enforce conformity.
• The illusion of unanimity. Because no one speaks out, everyone in the group feels the group’s decision is unanimous.

For better or worse, our tribes and subtribes and the different sources we’re exposed to are continuously shaping our inner landscape and, through resonance, attracting what we’re living today—including our world crisis.

If repetitive information continually influences us unconsciously, how do we know whether our thoughts are authentic or a repetition of information we’ve been exposed to?

Simply put, if you have a tendency to copy or imitate, if you blindly reject and accept ideas, and if what you consider your own ideas include the repetition of others’ ideas, you’re not practicing freethinking; you’re missing out on using one of your most valuable innate abilities—the ability to think freely.

You may have the best intentions and may daydream about how to save the world. Maybe you believe that you already are a freethinker and that you own your beliefs.

But let’s be realistic; repeating others’ habits, beliefs, and ideas won’t get you there. We have become so good at living on autopilot that we don’t even notice that we live others’ lives and fight others’ battles.

But don’t feel bad. Having no freedom or control over the way you think isn’t about you; it’s about the information inside you.

Like an iCloud or energetic data center, the mind is where we store all the repetitive information we receive from our surroundings. This information inside us behaves like a program, automatically accepting matching content and discarding the rest. If we are resonating with only what is familiar to us, this means that we are discarding a lot—including who we really are.

Sadly, we’ve imprinted our iCloud with so many parts we’ve uploaded from our surroundings that we’ve learned to identify with parts and resonate with parts. When our aspirations and dreams go in one direction (to undivide) and our inner resonance goes in another direction (to divide), materializing this dream of living in an undivided world is impossible.

The information we receive from our surroundings has shaped us so that we no longer are aligned with the whole—the neutral part inside of us. That’s why we perceive ourselves as separate. If we perceive ourselves as divided, every effort we make to bring ourselves together will not work.

To bring to full fruition an undivided world, first we need our inner resonance to be aligned with the result. And for that to happen, first we must clear ourselves from all inside divisions.

Yes! Our governments, politicians, and philosophical schools of thought can promote a new world where we will all be united. But in the energetic world—the matrix where the matter is created—nothing materializes if we do not resonate internally with the information we want to emerge. We will not live in an undivided world without transcending first our inner divisions and the information that feeds that division into our mind or energetic data center.

If we continue to receive information recklessly, we will continue the endless cycle of accepting and rejecting and dividing more. Thinking outside the box in 2021 is crucial.

As Albert Einstein said, “Problems can never be solved by the way of thinking that first created them.”

I promote authenticity and neutral thinking, not sides. Instead of unconsciously being manipulated to think and behave inauthentically, we have the right to be who we indeed are, to think freely, and to perceive and decide for ourselves.

Neutrality doesn’t abide in the inauthentic parts but in the authentic whole.

When we resonate inside with the undivided whole, we are open to experiencing compassion, unconditional love, peace, and well-being.

How about, instead of conforming and following the majority, being authentically you? How about exploring new alternatives; challenging existing ideas; and questioning your preferred choices, your assumptions, and why you reject certain information? How about trying to explore information outside your tribe and processing the information objectively?

Holistic tools are great at helping you to get outside of the box and to hone your innate ability to be a freethinker.

Instead of copying or repeating others’ ideas, how about focusing on recovering the file of who you are? Why not, instead, dig deep inside of you to become aware of your baseline and undivided wholeness? Using holistic tools can help.

If we want to create a better world, we need to delete from our iCloud anything that resonates with division and consciously choose undivided thoughts.

To unite every one of us, we need to be functioning the best way we can as a whole. To become whole, we need to imprint wholeness in our iCloud and resonance.

Imagine if you could surpass the layers of different voices inside you—the voices of society and culture, of your gender or ethnicity, of your religion or politics, and of the many other voices making up your program of habitual thinking. Unapologetically, you would follow your voice and your genuine blueprint.

When you know who you are, you will be clear on the best options, not just for you but also for all.

If you think about all that has happened in 2020, you’ll see that becoming a freethinker is the best service you can provide to the world. When you get to the end of the year, you really want to harvest what you want for the next year. You are reaping the purpose. That’s why it’s so important to pause and reflect on this as we go into 2021.

You may have thought you knew your life purpose. But I’d guess that, for most of us, this changed during the pandemic and all we have lived in 2020. 

How about working consciously to free our minds from inner divisions and to become whole? Instead of taking sides and separating more, let’s unite to make decisions based on what’s best for every one of us. This is what our world desperately needs today. This is a time to dive into personal evolution and transformation. This is a time to become a freethinker. Deep inside of us, we are all freethinkers when we rely on and trust in our genuine inner source of wisdom. Free your mind and the world of divisions. The world needs you!

Crystal LIGHT✨

Beatriz Singer