Week #4 Film- Beyond Belief 7

The speaker Mahzarin Bianji talked about "unconscious awareness" which is how humans do things without actually knowing. To demonstrate this Bianji presented certain "bugs" that people are concern about. These "bugs" as she mentioned are constantly seen in test or surveys around the world. Some of them consist of questions like: What's the highest cause of death? Give three or four reasons why you love your partner. Write down your last numbers of your social security, estimate the number of doctors that live in NY and then add them up.
After watching this film it simply states that things don't always appear to be what they really are. That your brain can easily be tricked into thinking you are right about something when if fact it has been proven to be wrong. This is in fact the hardest thing to make people realize. That is basically why Bianji provides these examples to show that science works exactly the same way.

Week #4 Reading- Eckankar

This reading is simply about how Dr. Lane persisted on discovering the truth behind Eckankar. He begins his journey by interviewing Dodie Bellamy who was a member of this particular cult for ten years. Dodie claims that after reading several of Dr. Lane article's he was clearly aware of how his leader Twichell was taking other people's work and making them his own.
I really like reading this article. One thing that I enjoyed the most is the thrive that Dr. Lane projects to reveal the truth about cults. Its good to have people like this that take there time to investigate these religious movements. This also leads me to my next point which is people should take their time to research their religious beliefs before they begin to worship anything. A perfect example was given to us by Dodie Bellamy. It took him ten years of his life to realize that the person whom he worship was indeed a phony.