The Nature of a Belief
posted by Kane | April 23, 2010
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IcerocketWhat do you believe? What if collective beliefs hindered the power of our most well meant intentions and our dreams? This is my main beef with religions, cults,universities, societies, and organizations. The idea that in order to join you must share their beliefs and therefore allow someone else to dictate where your attention, intention, and action are projected. This not only dis-empowers the individual, but slowly sucks humanity down a narrow unenlightened path of existence.
According to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Belief” is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. In Logic, the foundation of an arguments conclusion rests in the validity of the premises and the goal of the logician is to come to a sound conclusion based upon truthful premises. As individuals we should be testing the premises (beliefs) in human potential and coming to our own conclusions of reality instead of being manipulated by outside forces.
On a spiritual journey pondering belief and perception contained in religious doctrine becomes quite interesting. For instance, in Genesis of the King James Companion Bible, the word knowledge put in context as the knowledge of good and evil which the serpent gave unto Adam and Eve, is defined as “Sense or Perception”. So the Serpent gave Adam and Eve the perception and belief in good and evil.
Similar to how modern day preachers, gurus, monks, and teachers preach what is good and evil to their “flock”, the sense of perception and of “Self” is not coming from direct experience, but from an outside source. I like to visualize beliefs as eggshells which entrap our true essence from shining out onto the world. Television, schooling, media, and religious doctrine seem to make up the eggshells which control beliefs and decision making therefore allowing programmed beliefs to create reality for humanity rather than the loving, sharing, imaginative spirit of man.
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I am glad someone posted about belief
— Apr 26, 2010
This is probably the topic of our times, culture, evolution... in that if we are to really move forward as a species, we need to take a careful look at our beliefs, and the act of believing in them. How does belief limit our ability to perceive the world as it is. For many years there has been a dichotomy of parallel energies which sit side by side... Like Isaac Newton who was such a great physicist yet most of his writings were about the bible. The two energies sat side by side. Even Einstein's belief about the universe limited his ability to understand, know, accept quantum physics. So often people can act in a completely logical fashion and then split out from that and do something in the name of god, no matter how foolish that seems at the time. Our culture is schizophrenic with this dual approach to many things.
Belief seems to be hard wired into our root processes and developing brain. We need to believe, to risk, to hyperset ourselves up for the possible no matter what the probable or the actual says is going on... and good thing, for we have as a species made amazing leaps of intuition into deeper levels of knowledge and awareness as a result of this skill/talent for belief. But what I am noting here is why the need to hold onto out moded beliefs which do and often completely harm our way of being and moving forward... like salvationism... a favorite current pet peeve of mine... Why do we need to hold onto a personal god with such riviting distraction in the face of all we have come to know about the universe, its construction and its true beauty? The list goes on.
The unreflected life is not worth living... and the hardest thing to change is our beliefs; we don't want to question them for they are rooted in the substructure behind all of our perceptions. We will not change if we cannot look behind the curtain and get to the substructure and make better choices without the dominion of our beliefs. At any rate, my thoughts... peace.
Totally Agree
— Apr 26, 2010
Belief has a hint in the word LIE. Which lie do you want to live and base your life apon? haha There are so many "ILL"usion's that supposed "civilized" society has become spiritually sick because the lie that we are collectively living is heading us in a direction that we unconsciously know is not going to bear the fruit that we desire. The sense of purpose and of wonder is missing, and the only way to experience this in my opinion is to suspend belief and trust in the divine forces that seek to guide us on our life path and purpose.
Thanks for the wonderful comment
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