We must constantly self-check and self-evaluate to try to ensure--there are no guarantees that we are on the right track--that we are not deceived or embracing false beliefs. We cannot know that we are still on track even if we once were well-oriented.
We need to talk to others, and dialogue so that they can give us instructive feedback about what we believe, do and say. We must always seek to learn new things and see familiar things in new ways so that we ever expand our knowledge and search for truth.
We may also want to talk to God and the Good Spirits for they are objective truth and live it, so their input will enable us to see the world more clearly, closer to how it is as noumena.
Once we are committed to seeking truth and refuting deception and illusion via applied epistemic humility, then we must immediately apply this same technique to our consciousness of our proclaimed spiritual and moral goodness.
Here again it is easy to self-regard oneself as one of the chosen/the Elect/ the saved inevitably bound for heaven, almost flawless and free of sin, awash in God's grace. It is easy to self-deceive and decay, falling away from the Good Spirits. We must be on guard for this loss at all times and remain humble enough to accept that we are sinners, so born, and that it is easy to lose our way once again, while still assuming that we are right with the Good Spirits.
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