Or maybe it's Satan, Isis, a dæmon or some jinn planting these ideas. Maybe your mind's weaving a comforting tapestry depicting a pleasant and familiar world.
Are you sure you're not inserting yourself into the mythology you grew up with?
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Revelation or Psychosis?
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Are you sure you're not inserting yourself into the mythology you grew up with?
So be cautious using it as a tool for assessing reality. Don't trust it without empirical back-up evidence.
Not everything has empirical backing.
Agreed, and without it things remain uncertain and hypothetical, and should be acknowledged as such, until some objective backing materialize. "I don't know" isn't a mental defect needing an immediate patch with whatever unevidenced explanation comes to hand.
For decisions of purpose, value, meaning, propriety, &c; faith based decision making may be all we have, but care should be taken that this magisterium not overstep its applicable bounds.