THE T.O.L. - MORE ON FAITH AND BELIEF #5

 

This quote could have many meanings but if one thinks of the one bird as being Faith and Belief and the other as Doubt and Disbelief - the one eating the fruit of Faith and Belief is spiritually more inciteful. 

Belief is usually based on evidence - Faith not so. Faith can be blind which has its shadow, side (as does belief.)

One of the factors responsible for spontaneous remission of diseases that have defied the best of what Western medicine has to offer, is an overriding Faith that the patient would be well.  A powerful healer that knows how to manipulate the placebo effect or Belief can sometimes convince the Inner Healer, that anything is possible. However, this requires a special kind of intervention. Shamans are better at doing this than physicians with their magical rituals that allow the patient to get beyond their usual Western conditioning regarding a grim prognosis. The question is ...

How much do you really believe if there is no proof or if there is proof of the opposite?

No matter what the prognosis, the power or prayer and placebo can be more powerful than the nocebo effect of a bad prognosis or a medical hex . There are now at least 70 cases of spontaneous remission of "incurable diseases" that occurred in devout Christians who went to Lourdes in France to be cured. These have been documented by the Vatican Medical Commission who had all the data before and after the cure.

 Faith; reveals proof, trusts and surrenders,

and is propelled from within through Spacious Mind. 

Faith exalts in wonderment and is embraced by unearned love. 

Its shadow side is presumptiveness.

Belief requires logic and proof, 

Belief seeks evidence in facts, 

It is propelled from without by Narrow Mind 

and formulates and defends. 

Its shadow side is dogma and restrictiveness.

BELIEF

Sometimes one cannot see unless one first believes. When the ships of the settlers arrived on the East coast of the U.S.A. the Native Americans could at first not "see" them - being nature bound they had no visual framework for a ship.

One usually doubts initially, then trusts in the evidence, then 

believes

and our inner vision expands.

If you believe you can see, you will see.

If you do not believe you can see, you will not see.

There are many that refuse to believe unless they can hear, see, touch, feel or smell something.There belief is confined to their outer rather than inner senses. Their experiences will be limited.

" There are two ways to live your life, one, that nothing is a miracle, the other that everything is a miracle." Einstein

 Passion and Will actualize intentions with Belief and even more so with Faith.

FAITH

Both skillful Belief and Faith are qualities of Wisdom although Belief is first manifested through the evidence residing in the sephira of Understanding.

Faith can activate Divine Grace. With the Grace given by Faith one can achieve Keter even without the intellect of Understanding or the power of Wisdom.

Becoming is assisted by Understanding and Wisdom but cognitive abilities are not essential in order to reach Keter.

 The San Bushman easily travel out of body into the spirit world and even describe encountering the Divine essence. They do this in their trance dance by realizing Keter or what they call "Kia" through the energy of "Num" or  Kundalini as represented in this rock painting. Here the soul leaves the body in Kia to travel to the heavens. 

When I witnessed my first Bushman trance dance I did not fully believe in what I had been told that they had some control over fire while in a trance state. In this dance I saw a bushman in trance fall with his foot in the fire long enough to sustain a severe third degree burn. When I examined him after the dance there was nothing wrong. I became a believer, previously always too cynical to believe or have faith. I have seen and believed similar experience since that first time.

Unfortunately faith motivated by negative intention - for example when Satanic based - also works. The good thing is that love is more powerful than hate.

With will, commitment, eyes on the goal and a can do attitude almost anything is possible.

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what cannot be done." H. Ford

In some, their subconscious is conditioned differently.

The subconscious must best be in line with faith for conscious intention to be successful. We mostly act out what is in our subconscious rather than our conscious mind. With complete faith the subconscious is in intimate connection with Divine Infinite Intelligence which can then act on its behalf. No matter what we think we think, we usually will manifest what is in our subconscious rather than our conscious mind. The subconscious can be primed with postive thoughts and mantras especially around sleep and in a meditative state.

UNDERSTANDING vs. WISDOM

As you think it (Understanding) so it can be,

 as you imagine (Wisdom) 

and believe (or have Faith) it so it will be. 

The Ancestors urge us to find the way

 between Contraction on the left and Expansion on the right 

between, Understanding and Wisdom, 

between Hopeless; 

and Hope, 

between Doubt, Denial, unskillful Beliefs and Detachment; 

and Trust, Surrender and Non Attachment. 

Concerning Understanding (on the left side of the Tree)

Facts can mislead and deceive, deliberately, from prejudice, or out of honest error.

Sadly we are seeing more and more of this now when it comes to politics, Covid and climate change.

The value of information is in its use for transformation.

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” Nietzsche 

Doubting can be useful. It is possible to doubt and trust at the same time. Trust and doubt are not usually exclusive. The shadow side of doubt is complete disbelief.

Doubt  is a way of exploring wonder, and anxiety is a way of expressing caring. 

It is only in their excess and misdirection that they are futile and counter-productive. 

But all the same ...

 "Do not believe a thing because it is said by an authority or because it is said to come from angels, gods, or any inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart, mind and body and found it to be true."  The Buddha 

 We are not asked not to doubt. We are asked to trust.

 If you say that there is much that you have never heard of, you should consider more importantly how much there is you have not encompassed.

 Information is not to be equated with knowledge...

 Being aware of the lesson is different from learning it.

We have a huge amount of information available to us on our smart phones. That does not mean we know any of it.

Knowledge is not to be equated with understanding (and

 Knowing the path is different from following it.)

We can know a lot about fake news and still understand nothing. Understanding is not to be equated with wisdom...

 Moreover,

And on the right, Wisdom side of the Tree  ... 

 Wisdom is not to be equated with heartfeltness, virtue or holiness.

Wisdom alone will not get us to Keter

Hoplessness, denial, doubt and resignation are a giving up and

Resignation leads to Detachment.

Trust and Surrender are a giving in to something much greater than ourselves.

 Concerning detachment, one of its paths leads to a lifeless world without enthusiasm or hope. A place of indifference where one could become ensnared in hidden traps of dejection and despair, where one no longer cares to love nor dares to trust.

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