(May 31, 2019 at 3:51 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 31, 2019 at 1:02 pm)TristanJ Wrote: I want to understand psychology and our minds and i can't understand how our minds fully work if i'm also not willing to let go
Why don't you simply learn the science of the brain and study different psychological theories without first letting go of your beliefs? After you have educated yourself and gotten a solid scientific understanding of how the mind works, any erroneous beliefs you have will simply "show themselves out" so to speak. There is no reason to do everything at once, y'know. You don't have to force religion out of your mind before you're able to learn science.
I wouldn't say it is a process of "forcing" anything out of one's mind in as much as being open to the fact you don't need it.
Nobody forced me to ditch my religion. And I didn't force it out of my own mind. I simply questioned it over years and the more I did, the less it made sense. I finally could not logically defend my former position.