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"Once people are committed, faith is key. During the bull market people who spoke bearishly were criticized for trying to hurt the economy, ..naysayers were ridiculed as pessimistic killjoys who didn't understand.., the faithful were cheered by experts [in] the role of a preacher, buoying the "faith" [with]enhanced theories that pointed to eternal growth, infinite returns.. [Just] push through doubt and forge ahead!

"Once people are committed, faith is key. During the bull market people who spoke bearishly were criticized for trying to hurt the economy, ..naysayers were ridiculed as pessimistic killjoys who didn't understand.., the faithful were cheered by experts [in] the role of a preacher, buoying the "faith" [with]enhanced theories that pointed to eternal growth, infinite returns.. [Just] push through doubt and forge ahead!

"The farther away our modern experience takes us from our mythological routes, the more we long for media, ideas, and images that help us to reconnect to them. .. If the audience's "grand narrative", the overriding story of their emotional core of mythology, the framework they use to organize their perception of the world, is devoid of rationality, they are particularly vulnerable to reengeneering from the outside.

"The state of consciousness [where] your experience of volition is reduced to .. "guided visualization" renders you quite vulnerable. The moment you frame your awareness within a second level of self-consciousness is the moment your mind is most up for grabs.