Rational thought, how you do it, how to be your best, written at a sixth grade reading level as a public service, free to all. A complete itinerary to empower you with rational literacy.

There is no substitute for the power of rational know-how. You either understand it, or you work for, are controlled by, or serve, people who do.

Better tomorrows depend on a better understanding of yourself and others; in fact, become rationally literate and you will understand more about others than they know about themselves.

Today you need more than just the old-fashioned three “R's” to be in control of your life and your future, deal with difficult people, and have the rational know-how to guide your children past their emotional vulnerabilities:

Yesterday's expertise was based entirely on emotional drives, and limited to the level of understanding at the time, leaving you, and your loved ones, at a profound disadvantage. So little attention has been given to making today's know-how available to general audiences, in disgust I chose to commit to a full-time awareness campaign over a career.

With today's advancements in understanding the rational process, if you stay where you are, you are falling behind, and taking along loved ones looking to you for guidance. In today's competitive world, lack of rational competence leaves you deprived, and an easy mark for unhealthy stress (distress), frustration, confusion, hopelessness, and the associated grief self-ignorance assures.

To yesterday's standards of readin', `riting, and `rithmatick, add rational literacy. Mastering rational literacy is far easier than any of the original “three R's.” Within an hour of reading the following you will know how you “do it,” and understand the formerly “mysterious” process absolutely. Each further step will reveal another former “secret of the universe” within you; see if you don't agree that is an understatement.

We take pride in being rational beings, yet, at this time, the reality is that you have no casual access, much less formal, to an understanding of “how it is done, how you “rationalize.”

Mankind's “emotional side” is well publicized. Our psychological proclivities and “emotional mind” are understood universally.

Our emotional “feelings” lack any degree of rational judgment, they are devoid of rational intelligence, and can be the weakest link in our metal process if not balanced with rational power.

As emotions are easily accessed, they are the key others use to override your “logic” and have power over your decisions, peace of mind, and your very ability to be your best.

The study of emotion is a profoundly evolved science in countless professions. Used for good, and for bad, practitioners, from advertisers, politicians, salespeople, attorneys, collectors, police detectives, personnel managers, and on and on. Emotional “handles” are used on the other end, all the way down to con-men, as they have the know-how to manipulate emotions in today's environment, as rational literacy and its self-understanding is NOT available to the general public. That is about to change.

Present-day ignorance of our rational process makes expertise in emotion highly marketable, with its immense power to unknowingly control people, once more, underwritten by rational illiteracy.

Your rational process is profoundly simple, especially when compared to the infinite variations and complexities of your emotions, requiring years of study, and then a progression of practice to master, which never ends.

To gain a grasp of human emotions, even your own, would take no less time than required of a psychologist to master its complexities, which, even then, can vary from moment to moment.

Rational context is stable, universal, something easily understood, and worth your attention, as it is your only access to what is, by far, the most powerful "tool" known to our species. It gives people the ability to step from the lowest social level of un-evolved emotion, which is singularly reactive, to the power of rational response.

The paradox is we call mankind “a rational species,” yet, universally, an understanding of the rational process is not a part of our culture. How can this be? There are several answers:

In certain areas, by empowering the general populace, rational literacy would limit, to some degree, the unchecked power of selling, advertising, even political campaigns, to name but a few.

“Ignorance is bliss” is only an old saying, but in reality, there are many professions depending on rational ignorance for their key to income.

I suspect that, just like the first awareness of the “emotional mind” in the early 1900's, the best answer could be: “Nothing before its time,” and then, only when we are ready. There may well be something to the saying: “When ready, the teacher will come.”

Freud introduced the “emotional concept” and for most of a century it has held our attention, our focus. So much so, a rational balance is lacking, which is evident at all levels of our culture. Much confusion, wasted effort and grief is underwritten by a total ignorance of the rational process. At this date, there is more usable public knowledge available to people about their digestive system, than their rational process.

This vacuum of information about our most powerful facility exists in spite of our present understanding of just how we “do the process,” which is easily understood.

It is time to break the cycle and empower our children and us. Regardless of education, even environment, for “lack of a ten-cent part,” we are producing a disproportional number of rationally illiterate citizens, regardless of their intelligence, education, or social standing.

Nature abhors a vacuum and, minus a concept of their rational process, no one is exempt from their inborn nature to be dominated by the emotions of the moment, a majority of which are the people who tend to grow into the “emotional invalids” you see everywhere you look. I do regret having to use that label; however, that is the reality, and I choose serving you over running a popularity contest.

Lacking rational literacy, the analogy would be one of pulling oneself through life with just the emotional “oar in the water,” moving through life in circles and with no RELIABLE ACCESS to workable answers as to “why?” Without the balance of the rational side, the harder one “pulls,” the greater the intensity of their frustration cycle becomes.

It is time to make the rational process available to all, to create awareness, by opening a dialogue about it to the "average person." I would add knowing no more than “the average person” is the only thing that makes and keeps one "average."

Remember, there was a time when the "average person" had no concept as to the source of infection and, though an entirely personal act, no conception as to why washing hands was anything more than an aesthetic function.

Our thoughts are also personal, but also conceptualized by what today's level of knowledge allows us to understand and thereby manage. Today we have the understanding of rationalization; the dilemma is that too many people have no access to the knowledge.

The goal of RationalPower.com is to share the latest in our understandings of the rational process, and to do so at a level ALL will understand.

As you learn more, see if you don't agree that, in today's competitive environment, the most important tool for you and your childrens' future is a basic understanding of how our minds supply us with rational answers, rather than defaulting to an emotional reaction lacking wisdom, power or promise.

Rather than taking most of a century, as it has for our “emotional side” to become common knowledge, our world makes new technology universally available efficiently.

Rational understanding will become common knowledge. Soon, and I trust very soon, without rational literacy one will be even further disadvantaged, and, as is usual at this date, suffer without a reliable access to their most powerful ability: their rational skills on demand.

Once more, just as in today's world, one either understands rational “reasoning,” or they are doomed to work for, or be subject to people who are rationally literate.

See if you also find that the only difficult point about how we rationalize is getting past its simplicity, and then satisfy the natural follow-up question: Why has it taken so many millennia to put the rational procedure into everyday words? I would posit that science had to probe the depths of our emotions, first, to get to the bedrock of our rational functioning.

As you will discover, how we rationalize is so natural, anyone can comprehend it -- can understand himself or herself in ways absolutely natural, and benefit from the “added horsepower” from the only superior tool marking our species: the power of our mind to give us rational conclusions without automatically defaulting to an emotional level.

Sadly, we have millions of good people who are conditioned to default to emotion, at any level of pressure; the term for this is "Emoter." "Emoters" are, regardless of intellect, "emotionally crippled" (I regret the need to use that label) for lack of, what is, today, something we could label a 10-cent part: An understanding of rational context.

RationalPower.com has no hidden agendas, no goal other than to make rational literacy tractable, make it readily available by putting the technology into everyday words.

Start with yourself and discover the untapped power that comes when today's emotional dominance is replaced with self-directed power unique to our species: The supreme authority to quantify the Universe, and your personal universe, with reasoning.

Catch the headline news or just look at the people around you for crystal-clear examples of where emotion leads people lacking rational balance, which is due to our present culture's absolute unawareness of the process of rational function.

On the other hand, you also see those rare-today instances where rational logic directs ordinary people to greatness, power, wealth, and fulfillment. Time to see where it can take you, and lead those you love. (c) 2006 by Ernest Earl Dennis

My 22 years of devotion to full-time research assures I am “up to the task” of informing. Getting the word around, however, is up to you.

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Contrary to popular consensus, IDEAS ARE NOT PROTECTED by, or subject to, copyright, patent, or any other legal application for income, and the reason most “think tanks” depend upon grants. Application of knowledge for you and your children is at the level of public service.

The only resource available to those working on evolving brighter tomorrows for one and all is trust in the wisdom of others to grant them another day of progress. In all research it seems universal to shoot the first one daring to step onto a new field, and the very people the knowledge will empower are unaware the "pioneer" is accustomed to missing meals to fund better tomorrows, nor the cost of choosing the pursuit of knowledge over the level of income their education would qualify them to earn. Why not make history by being a part of writing it. One has no need for fear of the future if they are part and parcel of creating it.