ONLINE Wed, Mar 4: "How Real are my Values?"

Authority definition: (Merrriam-Webster)
Power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior;
Freedom granted by one in authority.

Fundamentally, upon what are my values, morality and ethics based?
Are they based upon an authority inside or outside?

"I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakeable bulwark". . . the words "bulwark" and "dogma" that alarmed me, for a dogma, that is to say, an indisputable confession of faith, is set up only when the aim is to suppress doubts once and for all." -Memories, Dreams, Reflections -.C.G.Junge p150

"Beliefs are foolishness. To doubt, is sacred. Doubt even me." -R.Rose, Cleveland Lecture 1975.

Does doubt play any part in my values, morality or ethics?
What are my levels of certainty?

"Thus every effort is made to teach idealistic beliefs or conduct which people know in their hearts they can never live up to. . . What is more, nobody ever questions the value of this kind of teaching. Therefore the person who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil as it is posed today, has need first and fore most of self-knowledge, that is the utmost knowledge of his own wholeness. He must know relentlessly how much good he can do and what crimes he is capable of, and must be aware regarding to what degree one is real and the other illusion. Both are elements of his nature. . ." M.D.R. p330

"This course can be summed up very simply in this way: "Nothing real can be threatened, Nothing unreal exists."

• The Course in Miracles introduction centerpiece

To what extent are my values, morals and ethics based upon the real or the unreal?

"Touching evil brings with it the grave peril of succumbing to it. We must therefor no longer succumb to anything at all, not even the good. A so-called good to which we succumb loses its ethical character. Not that there is anything bad to it on that score, but that we have succumbed. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter if the narcotic is be alcoholism, morphine or idealism.The criterion for ethical action can no longer consist in the simple view that good is imperative, and bad is to be . . . shunned. . . In practical terms, this means that good and evil are no longer so self-evident. We have to realize that each represents a judgment." M.D.R. p329

Can my values, morality or ethics in some way benefit from the Indian philosophy "Neti Neti"?