Knowledge can empower us. Knowledge is power to a certain degree, but knowledge itself isn't the power to change. Action through willpower allows us to change based on the knowledge we have to understand what we can or can't do. The power to act, and to know how to act rightly, is where we apply the knowledge and understanding through the wisdom of right-action.

1. Knowledge to be known
2. Integrate knowledge into ourselves
3. Understanding is developed and embodied
4. Right-action based on understanding

Knowledge has power in our lives in 2 main ways:
- *power to you*
- *power from you*

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### Power to You

**Knowledge gained can empower you to understand something and act in accordance with that understanding.**

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### Power from You

**Knowledge restricted can disempower you by keeping you ignorant of how to change things.**

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If someone can control the information you're getting, and/or feed you titillating distractions to captivate your attention, then your ability to function in reality is being restricted by others.

The information we receive allows us to be informed about certain things. What we pay attention to with the time we spend, allows us to gain quality knowledge or remain ignorant of it. Quality truths allow us to function more accurately in reality. If quality truths are being ignored or restricted by others, then our ability to perceive, conceive, understand and navigate reality and our lives will be hindered.

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We stay confused when we lack knowledge and understanding of meaningful quality information. We become empowered when we gain knowledge and understanding substantive truths.

Knowledge of the functionality, motivations and drives within our mind, psyche and consciousness empowers us in life. Ignorance of important quality knowledge is detrimental to survival and well-being. Those who have this knowledge and use it with their dark care, have the power to manipulate and control the minds of the ignorant and confused, and keep them in that lower state of awareness and consciousness.

By keeping knowledge hidden, secreted or occulted, we are manipulated, deceived and controlled by falsity they purport as truth. We are fooled, tricked, conned, hoodwinked, bamboozled, uninformed, duped, misled, lied to and mind controlled into negative manifestations in reality.

Eventually some people get tired of the lies and deception, and find the alternative media and alternative press. The free press and media are now under attack through the fake mainstream media's claims that fake news is a problem outside of the mainstream media, when in actuality the mainstream media invented fake news.

People will go get the truth somewhere else if they're not getting it from the mainstream media. The media gets caught lying, yet they keep treating people like fools to be manipulated.

## Quality Truth, Quality Life

The foundation for everything is based on truth. Truth is synonymous with reality and existence. The more truth we have in common, the stronger the bond we have, because it's based in reality, what 'is', and not on a semblance of reality based on ignoring or denying the truth we don't want to face.

Learning about quality truths has the potential to empower us with that knowledge and affect the quality and condition of our lives and of the world at large.

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## Self-Knowledge

There is minor/micro and major/macro level knowledge about who we are that will help us change the quality and condition of our lives and the world. 

#### 1- Knowledge of the individual

The self-knowledge of the function and behavior of individual consciousness capacities (psychology, biology, neuroscience), along with our own particular self, ego-personality-identity construct and the falsity we are attached to.

#### 2- Knowledge of the universal

The self-knowledge at a larger level of application, of self + other interactions of consciousnesses and creating the world we create, where we reciprocally cooperate for survival and optimized living by recognizing moral truth/laws to interact by.

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## Working Together

We can all learn and share knowledge to help people each other. We can learn about the problems around us so that they can be understood, and then we can learn more to be able to find and apply a solution with everyone else working on the same goal. We can change ourselves and the world if we put int he time, energy, attention, dedication, determination and persistence to seek out and know the current condition of our world.

True care/“love” for truth is about facing the beauty and horror, positive and negative, light and dark in the world and in ourselves. Care for truth brings about the inner-work of facing our shadow, darkness, demons and negative. We can recognize and let go of what does not suit us in a positive way, and may indeed be causing us or other beings harm and perpetuating self-inflected suffering on a collective scale.

True freedom and peace is possible, if we learn how to create it. Living in anarchy without any rulers or masters is possible, if we learn how to do it by being more moral and working together with more personal responsibility and accountability for our actions and behavior. We can take the power back into our own individual lives and not let rulers rule over, manipulate deceive and control us.

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