Consonance holds the following principles to be a useful program of assumptions.

Psychological suffering is caused, for the most part, either directly or indirectly by cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is caused by disparity between reality and worldview.

Disparity can be reduced by correcting worldview to reality, or, in cases where desirable and possible, correcting reality to worldview.

When worldview resolution grows beyond a certain tipping-point, a fifth Piagetian stage of cognitive development is achieved.

This stage of development has traditionally been referred to by names such as Nirvana, Enlightenment, Salvation, etc.
Here, this stage is called Consonance. Piaget might have called it Consonant Operational Stage thinking.

It is cognitive consonance not only in the sense Festinger described, but a comprehensive consonance between one’s entire worldview and objective reality.

The benefits of this development include not only a pervasive peace of mind regardless of external circumstances, but also a maximized functional competency in the material world.

This is a mental discipline not easy to achieve, but well worth the effort.
It is essentially what all major world religions describe using their most sacred terms. No enterprise has been regarded more highly in human history.

Consonance is an effort to express these principles in practical, literal terms, rather than in customary verse. It is not intended to displace any tradition, but to simply offer an additional perspective.

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