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What were you thinking?
When your imagination and your thought are in conflict, your imagination will inevitably win. You will choose behavior based on what you imagine is real, and you represent every event or situation to yourself by the same process that we call imagination. The child who’s afraid of the monster in the closet is genuinely afraid.…
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Life Lived According to Facts
It’s very popular to declare that it’s doesn’t matter what a person believes, isn’t it? That somehow there is more validity in “facts” than in “beliefs”? Seems so, yes. The facts matter more. On what basis is that argument made? Do we perceive the facts, honestly? No. The phrase ‘the truth is the truth’ is…
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Magical Thinkers
One of the universal aspects of human cognition is we are all magical thinkers. No matter how rationalistic you may try to make yourself be, we form and retain information in patterns of association, sympathy, relationship. Yes, a person who avoids this is pretty dull. They have also established something very interesting. Perception is not…
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Pleasure and Pain
So, beliefs… Why do we form beliefs? Why do we seem to need them so badly? Meaning. To provide coherence among disparate circumstances? It seems they are a constant source of strife. A sense of context. Our brains and minds are dependant on inference. They are also a source of group identity, pair bonding, child…
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Looking for Reference
Is pain an absolute value? If pain is an absolute bad then we would never need to make a new choice. Ever felt bone on bone? My own pain experience is more sense on sense. Sounds so loud I can’t even feel my own bodies position in space. Sights so loud I struggle to hold…
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Sacrifice For Meaning
Is there nothing you would sacrifice your happiness for? Has happiness ever actually made you happy? There are many things, but then I suppose I’d become “happy” with that sacrifice. Yes. What would you sacrifice your happiness for? Someone I loved. Most of my life I was trained that others’ happiness was more important than…
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You Crave Inference
You crave inference because you crave identity. You crave survival. If this process of ongoing inference, ongoing assumption, is disrupted, you will even kill to reestablish it. Does this sound absurd? You will even seek death to re-establish it. Martyrdom. What reality do you have beyond your beliefs? It’s not at all absurd, especially considering…
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Meaning in Belief
Another example then. Only the existence of human life is good. Can I draw any further inference from that? There can be no isolated human life. Isolated from other life forms besides human. So that belief would be meaningless, yes? So to go further… If life’s existence is good, and the forms in which life…
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Attempts at Connection
Goozle. That interjection, does that have meaning? Only if I relate it to “Google” or some such word. I will offer that it does not have meaning because it bears no actual connection to anything else. It is not a word, but see what your mind did with it? Yeah. John Lennon’s poems, like. Your…
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Inferences Create Your Frame of Reference
Your inferences create your frame of reference. Those things you have denied create your problems. Anything you felt you must actively deny, that it was meaningful to reject, to disbelieve in, later create all your problems. Name a problem and I will name its anti-belief. Insanity-belief? The belief in insanity or the beliefs of an…
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What is Belief?
It’s my experience that even away from organized religion, people still have very strong feelings about “belief.” I think I will start with what belief ultimately is. It’s a feeling of certainty and it does not require logical support. It does require experiential support and it is necessary to human function. It is a part…
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Belief and Science
Does anyone have a strong belief that seems contradicted by life? Say, you believe in the law of attraction. Really invested in the idea of the law of attraction, but you perceive that it doesn’t seem to work? I’m not so sure that life contradicts what I believe, rather than most people’s perceptions – the ‘common’ view…
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Belief, Reality and our Evolution
Magic or Shamanism is where we started. There were no worries about who was in charge as we didn’t have time. Our initial instincts were good, but then as we got organized and formed nations, the spirit had to have a boss and that served socially. It allowed for great strides in cooperation, but we…
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Focus of our Attention
What can we focus our attention on? We don’t actually ever focus it on objects, it’s too abstract. The brain always processes any sensory data well before we are even aware of the object. It is how it is supposed to function. Matter isn’t a valid choice for awareness focus. So seems we are in a…
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Action and Rest
I have an issue of action to share. Recently, I had an issue with a loss of trust. Major broad spectrum loss of trust. It was activating me like crazy. I didn’t like feeling so badly about people, even about people I love. Well, no amount of action was going to fix that. I was…
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Spiritual State
I have experienced a spiritual state. A variety of issues sort of gave me no choice. I used to suffer seizures, irregular theta waves. Those are what make you “unconscious” or at rest, but it wasn’t the sleep cycle. I wasn’t asleep. I was sort of scared, not even aware of my body. I experienced a shift…
Category: Belief
Beliefs are all false? Belief is a belief. We will all adopt a stance on things, make decisions about how we behave. We come up with many names for what’s inside us and why, but it all works no matter how it’s viewed. The intuition shows but doesn’t speak.
Belief is certainty. Belief is not as divided from science as people claim it is. Belief has spurred all major scientific discovery. So why do they spurn it today? Action comes before awareness, so what causes action? The regulating factor in life is beyond us. What about the natural impact of the shift in indicator species on the overall ecosystem? Belief exists even in animals. If anything it is even more obvious with them.
The mind is too strong for us to see through its limitations and disbeliefs. So we find another center. There is consciousness beyond what we call mind. The mind is part of the body and it is good that it is strong. Means we have a chance to live. It has rhythms. Is strength stiffness? In that case the strongest people are buried in our cemeteries
“You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.” Dr. Robert Anthony