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Open-minded skepticism is the exact pointer which led me to understand the process of honestly examining a belief. I got it from a bookby a physicist named Thomas Campbell. He claims to have had out of body experiences, where he talked to aliens.I have no clue about this, but in his first book he urged the reader to not accept or deny anything he claimed, and instead be both open-minded to it's possibility, and skeptical enough to find out for yourself if it is true.How this works is, take an idea, any idea whatsoever, no matter how odd it sounds."There's a monster in my closet."Accept the possibility that it MIGHT be true. You know, general open-mindedness. If your closet is closed, and you're not currently in it, hell, there might be a monster in your closet. You don't know for sure.That's step one.For the skepticism part, actually open up your closet door, and look to see if there is a monster there. Yes? Well you've got a big problem on your hands. No? Great, you now have direct experience that the claim is false.Try this on the idea that you exist. Be open-minded to the possibility (if your not liberated, you've got this belief), and look around to see if a self is there. Yes? Great, if it's a concrete, real self, you've proved everything I've claimed in this blog wrong. Tell me about it. No? Cool, but this isn't yet direct experience of no-self, only direct-experience of not finding a self. See the difference?For a final inquiry, try out open-minded skepticism on the idea that there is no you. The opposite of the previous test, in this case you're not looking FOR a self, but are looking for the absence of one. See the absence of a you? Please oh please post here. Don't see it? Keep looking, you'll see it eventually.Do it.