reality vs illusion, page-6

Now let's look at false values occupying the infinite space of mind matter, creating a different working mind incapable of achieving a free mind, fear is one that creates the mind to stagnate and ossify.

Irrational behaviour is a product of the mind not being pruned by the will as it finds itself comfortably into position only because the will has been deactivated for some unknown reason?

This is very much a first thoughts response, so if I contradict myself later, I hope that's OK.

I think that true or false values are not all set in concrete. Sure there are some, like don't go around killing people, and do to others as you would like them to do to you...etc

But then you get into areas where there are different points of view each with genuine intentions. An example is the stand people take on abortion.

Are our minds really free or is this just an illusion? In one sense I think that we are prisoners of our own experience, but another part of me rebels against that.

I suppose part of the strategy to preventing the mind from stagnating is to keep mentally active. Keeping informed, teaching and explaining concepts I find keeps the aging grey matter going.

The only way that I can think of right now to prevent irrational thinking is education. And I'm not thinking only of formal education, but to most of us, informal education. I am thankful that I live in an information age in which information is so readily available.