Why are we so blinded in our behavior that we deny the truth when it is in front of us?

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It’s the nature of consciousness and existence as an agent with free will.

Free will implies ignorance. It also implies desires. We desire to have experiences that we are ignorant of. Yet our actions to achieve our desires are inherently limited by our ignorance. To give up ignorance would be to give up free will. And the most important thing that we are ignorant of is our self.

The ignorance drives another crucial aspect of existence, that of the need for certainty. Emotional safety and a space for free action must be created. We need this safety, so the mind turns a blind eye to the beliefs that create it. To confront the ignorance that creates emotional safety, is to challenge the very things that make us free, as without emotional safety we are forever fearful.

To be an individual we must be ignorant, to be free we must be safe. Ignorance means our created safety will be blind. The needs of safety mean we will avoid confronting it.

The way out is the same as it has been forever. Remove the source of safety from the limited self and place it in that which is neither ignorant nor limited. Faith, faith in the process, faith in history, faith in what is true and good, faith in the conviction that it’s all fundamentally a benevolent world, all these different forms of faith, when realized and understood and adopted, slowly allow us to stop relying on our limited abilities. To create a limited, ignorant person who is nevertheless unencumbered by fear.