08-13-2009, 01:05 AM
What makes us believe?
Interesting question.
I would say that the mind cannot keep a vacuum; it feels uncomfortable when not knowing; it needs data, it needs to be filled and therefore it is constantly creating.
So, what it doesn't know, the mind invents and believes.
After all, is there a Truth?
When the gaps or the porosity, so to say, of the not-knowing are getting filled little by little by consciousness and that, the mind expands in experience and understanding, then knowing replaces believes.
And so says wisely Lorna
Technically, beliefs are proportional to the lack of knowledge.
Beliefs show us what we do not know. What we believe, we do not know.
And since each person has a different timing for knowledge and for consciousness, there is no error in beliefs, only an endless experience of creativity with different perspectives for everyone at different moments in their life.
Keeping the light on in the dark,
With much Love and Light
W. (13 August 2009)
Interesting question.
I would say that the mind cannot keep a vacuum; it feels uncomfortable when not knowing; it needs data, it needs to be filled and therefore it is constantly creating.
So, what it doesn't know, the mind invents and believes.
After all, is there a Truth?
When the gaps or the porosity, so to say, of the not-knowing are getting filled little by little by consciousness and that, the mind expands in experience and understanding, then knowing replaces believes.
And so says wisely Lorna
Quote:...i said that i didn't believe, i just knew...
...i already knew i needed that information...
Technically, beliefs are proportional to the lack of knowledge.
Beliefs show us what we do not know. What we believe, we do not know.
And since each person has a different timing for knowledge and for consciousness, there is no error in beliefs, only an endless experience of creativity with different perspectives for everyone at different moments in their life.
Keeping the light on in the dark,
With much Love and Light
W. (13 August 2009)