Abstract:
We form belief based
on perceptions as we live our lives day and and day out. These beliefs form the filters through which
we view each other, the world and ourselves in the Quantum Whole of
consciousness existence. Our tiny little
“c” consciousness via the ego doesn’t always know fact from reality, truth from
illusion or belief from untested hypothesis and that’s really okay. We learn though our beliefs and we must start
somewhere in order to move in any direction or arrive at any destination no
matter if it is even a temporary one.
So, we start with what we come to understand from the outside world and
then we begin to learn what our beliefs are for.
Key
Words
Belief,
Continuum, God, Source, Truth
Background
Belief is an untested
hypothesis. That might sound bad but it
isn’t really. It’s actually perfect. You
see, we all must begin with a premise as we explore and experience this
dimensional experience in which we currently find ourselves. We must agree that it exists, maybe that it
was created and that it had a Creator outside of us, we must agree that we are
individuals, we must agree that we are within creation and then everything else
sort of falls into a rhythm or vibration to which we respond to in kind with
vibration in reaction to what we experience stemming from our beliefs. This article explores the concept of Source
or God from the perspective of belief with the highlighted focus on belief
itself as the main point. Too many
philosophical arguments have been put forth for and against the existence of
God and I will not add to that body of work with my own at this time. Instead, I wish to touch on belief, the
mainstay of any God, Goddess or Diety hypothesis or considered reality. My hypothesis is that with belief, something
is unreal unless you believe it is real.
I will explore a few works that delve into belief in order to bring the
reader a certain context with which individualized belief may be carefully
considered and understood to be very powerful. I assert that it is the holder
of the belief that has the Source power to create and that the Source is a
continuum of consciousness of which we are part.
In researching works
to address this concept without writing a book, I naturally gravitated towards
the informative work of Dr. David Hawkins.
Coming from a psycho-spiritual perspective, coupled with an educated
biological background lent much credibility to the concepts presented by Dr.
Hawkins. If you are well-read in the
area of metaphysics and spirituality or even philosophy and psychology, you may
come to realize that many of his ideas, were not new but were ancient in origin
but just very well described in current times by Dr. Hawkins. The ancients understood much concerning
belief it seems until the season of forgetting began for reasons only the
Creators of Source existence know. Much
of what was presented by anyone from any discipline that slightly seemed to
delve into any area not acknowledged and accepted by Western science was
considered, well, “woo woo” as my Step-Father used to say. I understand this perspective but I also
realize that it is antiquated speak for anything the mind cannot comprehend
that seems magical or even illogical.
This prevalent concept of cold hard scientific fact only and only
scientific fact had it’s time but isn’t it time we start to support new ideas?
Even some of our beloved scientists admitted to making discoveries while in a
meditative of relaxed state in which their intuition could come through (e.g.,
Einstein, Edison, etc.) Even the discipline of physics dictates there must
first be a premise and then from there equations are created to balance out the
theory and voila, the newest theory of the universe is born and no one looks
back. Research Dr. Nassim Haramein and
his wonderful work with The Resonance Project to understand more about his work
defining the New World View. I bring
this up because this is the perfect example of what happens with belief, why we
need it, what we can do with it and why at times we need to be wrong with our
beliefs and learn to be okay with our seeming errors. Our beliefs are the starting point to our
discoveries in life.
Dr. David Hawkins
spoke much in his works about positionality and that our perceptions were mere
positionalities on the same continuum.
This is a very unique perspective worthy of deeper digging. To explain, within his work I, Reality and Subjectivity, Dr. Hawkins explains
various gradations from the perspective of both light and goodness. After outlining the gradations on each of
these continuums, Dr. Hawkins states:
The
gradations are all on the same continuum, not on two opposing ones. There is merely one continuous quality
track. One will see that there is no
‘good’ that is the opposite of ‘bad.’ The scale on the left indicates the
presence or absence of Love and is therefor only about Love, just as the scale
on the right indicates degrees of light and not opposites of light versus
darkness. Apparent ‘facts’ are illusions
of truth, and it is obvious to see that such denotation actually depends
totally on context. On an absolute
level, total context would include comprehension of every contribution to an
event throughout eternity, plus an equal knowledge of all karmic history of
everything and everyone involved. This
accounts for the spiritual declarations of ‘judge not’ and “judgment is mine,”
sayeth the Lord.” It isn’t that the ego is incorrect, it is just incapable of
arriving at an accurate comprehension of any seeming event. (47)
Further
Consideration
When we think of
belief, we humans in the West seem to turn instantly to morals and religions as
if the words were all one and the same in reference to a biblicaly defined
God. Interestingly, Laurence Gardner (The Origin of God, Dash
House 2010, Brockenhurst, UK) in his work The Origin of God deals with the
specific belief in this context by outlining the ways in which the manner of
‘knowledge’ most have come by in the description of God is actually refuted by
the bible and other texts written around the same time. Rather than see this narrowly as blasphemy, I
see it as a disruptive concept worthy of merit.
Disrupting theories give us pause to stop whatever it is that we are
doing and consider what it is we believe about something and whether or not
that belief is true. Further, we then have the distinct opportunity to decide
whether or not we’re going to take it (whatever “it” is) on faith and continue
believing or seek the truth if there is one.
In an excerpt from this referenced work Mr. Gardner states:
In
pursuing the evolutionary story of the Judaeo-Christian God to this point, we
have considered the biblical text of the Old Testament by way of a flowing précis
of its chronological contents. There is actually no other way to learn how the
God Yahweh came to exist as a venerated
cultural entity, since the Bible is the recognized document of record from
which all related teachings are
drawn. God, in the way he is religiously
understood, was primarily featured in the Bible, which remains the base
reference work for all theistic writings that have emanated in the millennia
since its composition. As we have seen,
however, the Old Testament is not actually a book about God; it is a
generational account of a patriarchal strain which became the Israelite
nation. It is a story of individuals,
families and kings, of hardships and successes.
In the course of this narrative, God plays a major role at the outset,
making a few personal and semi-personal appearances down to the post-Abrahamic era
(c.1750 BC). He then moves into physical
obscurity and, from around 1350 BC, becomes almost incidental to the plot from
the time of Moses. What the Bible does
not do, neither does it attempt at any state, is to prove the existence of God. His reality is taken as read from the outset.
(312)
In order to take this
in without becoming upset or losing track of the main point, step back from the
subject matter for a moment and return to the basic premise we started with
that belief is something we work with
until we have more details to either confirm it as fact or refute it as
untested hypothesis or proven falsehood in the face of finding definitive
truth. For some interesting reading,
speaking of beliefs, read the work from the philosopher Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages for some
interesting alleged occurrences about the time the bible was canonized. Elaine
Pagels also has some interesting things to say about that time period in her
work on Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel of Thomas. I mention these two works because within them,
some of the things we have been given as a belief purported to equate to
definitive truth begins to falter a bit in the light of truth which makes
certain former beliefs fall to the category of untested hypothesis rather than
definitive truth. But while I can say
that, I have to come back for a moment to Dr. Hawkins discussion on
positionalities and continuums. I’m left
contemplating the consciousness of the universe for my own reasons and seeing
everything in existence as part of one massive continuum I’ll call
Consciousness with a very big “C” and from the Source of it to the heart of us,
I see nothing but positionalities, stages and variations of beliefs and testing
via the process of experience.
Conclusion:
Some of the things I’ve mentioned above may seem a bit
harsh to some if I have seemed to insensitively trample upon their belief. To be quite frank, my intent was not to
commit any personal insult or injury but rather to point out that belief is a
great place to start. I think where we
falter as the whole of humanity is when we either individually or collectively
hold a belief blindly as definitive truth without question or testing and shut
down our minds and hearts to all other possibilities that we may need to
continue searching for the truth whether it is with or outside of us
seemingly. If we find one belief doesn’t
bear out as truth in the light of day, it could be troubling or disappointing
for a time. Unfortunately, some
individuals are willing to fight for their beliefs. That is very sad to me. Would that they could instead simply assert
their right to speak their opinion while allowing others to seek their own
understanding, there may be less conflict in this place we co-exist within. However, this can also be the impetus for the
creation of much growth through the exploration of the path to truth of a
matter. I am beginning to love the
disruptors that show up in our lives challenging our beliefs because it is
their benevolent existence that has allowed me to graciously and some times
very clumsily set aside those things that are illusory in order to better
enable myself to begin to open my heart and soul to grasping what could quite
possibly be the greatest truths in existence.
Maybe none of us have found them yet.
Maybe some of us have. It’s all
beautiful and perfect regardless. In a
way, in my conclusion I find acceptance for things as they are, beliefs as they
are, truth seekers as they are and disruptors as they are. All serve purpose. As for Source, I believe in a Source but my
belief is based on my experience and connection to that Source. I treasure the moment and all thereafter and
every position on THE continuum that is this Quantum Whole of our
Consciousness.
Sources:
The Origin of God Gardener, Laurence, Dash
House 2010 Brockenhurst, UK print.
The Secret Teachings of ALL AGES Hall, Manly P. Penguin Group, 2003 NY, print.
I, Reality and Subjectivity Hawkins,
David R. Veritas Publishing, 2003 AZ, print.
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels, Elaine. Random House Publishers, NY 2003, print.
Rev. J.L. Harter, PhD,
M.Msc., B.Msc., Author, Blogger, Teacher, Spiritual Counselor and Founder/Editor of the
JMCC. See Bio section for more information.
