'Faith' Articles
Do I have a higher power I want other people to adopt? No. A creed I feel other people should hold above all else? No. You are where you are. You believe what you believe. Faith is a holistic sense. It’s letting your experience all go together, letting your mind elaborate according to its natural behaviour and not censoring that. Accepting there is a wisdom behind these mysteries. Trust is seeing, and admitting you see. Faith is knowing.
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible” William James (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
What is Faith?
Faith is a tricky concept, and sort of muddles with the other principle of trust. They aren’t identical. We know in this day and age that our senses can deceive us, yes? Yet what do we have to rely on but our senses? So knowing they deceive we still have to use them, don’t we? Is faith trust? No. Trust is acceptance of what you experience, and that you experience it correctly or as correctly as you need to. Faith goes beyond trust. When you find faith…well, let’s use an example. If you trust your partner, you accept that loyal… Seek More
Reality to Experience
Maybe nations are the gullible ones? An old acquaintance of mine once said, and you might recognize this from ‘Men in Black’ also, one person can be smart, crowds are stupid. So, yes. Just last Christmas, there was no emergency, no natural disaster, but three people were trampled to death. You can avoid accountability in a crowd? True, you can avoid accountability, and this is part of why people flock to religions. Can true faith be shaken, or if it is was it not true faith? True faith, well no. True faith can’t be shaken, because it’s dynamic, not static.… Seek More
Process of Faith
The word promise is abused and overused. The only true promise is merely a recognition of what is already a spiritual reality and an affirmation of it. You promise, and believe what you already know? Yes, and promises can be real. Example; If you are traveling along a trail that is dependant on a bridge along its way, as you are moving someone comes from the direction you were going and says the bridge collapsed. Do you really have to see it for yourself? Yes. It’s a moment of denial ‘he must be wrong’? I would, cause I’d like to… Seek More
Keep the Faith
Chasing windmills is a strange pass time. Don Quixote had to have them be monsters, because he meant to revive mythical chivalry. Dragon slaying. So where there were no dragons he made some. People do that when they adhere to creed without faith. The character had a loss of faith, and he sought to revive it with creed. Acting on it was admirable, sort of like Emperor Leopold was it? Norwegian guy who just declared himself emperor of the world? He started acting like it, and even producing his own money. He had such passion, such conviction, people went with it.… Seek More
Faith Goes Beyond
The topic is faith, and I’m not talking about religion or trust. Trust is sort of going with the flow, and accepting your experiences. Accepting that you are who and what you are, and that you see the world as you see it. Faith goes beyond these things. Faith is the grey area in your senses, the fuzzy element to experiences, and the realization that though you might not perceive it clearly, that there is a reality anyway. Is faith belief? No, people often don’t have faith in belief. They adopt it because it is the families tradition, or for… Seek More
Faith in Science
There is a term they use in particle physics, but it has been popularized in parapsychology. Psi, or the psi factor. It was a value used to explain that although any two particles are detectable as separate bodies, the force makes them act as a single object though we cannot detect this force. It’s well beyond our current technology. In a sense, it is physical attraction. Kind of like a binary star? Yes, also potentially the more mysterious zero point field which is still heavily debated though the psi factor isn’t. They just don’t like or believe in the implications.… Seek More
Have Faith
Not all moments are “good” moments, we learn from “bad” moments as well. As an example, Mother Teresa was a nun. A member of her order. She had all the background and was well versed in her faiths teachings. Her bottom line was in how she lived her life. Her life was very modest and by no means guaranteed safe, but her faith was in the principles of love as she was taught, and her willingness to relate to the spirit of the faith more than the dogma. She showed very little concern for whatever the organized faiths catechism was at… Seek More
