To beLIEve is to also have a lie in the middle of that belief. Beliefs have no foundation or stability because they are based in faith not evidence or proof. We all have our beliefs and most are superstitious in nature. Most are based in the mind that is desperate for something other than reality.

We all have needed to believe in something usually during traumatic events or losses. We become desperate to avoid the inevitable and therefore faith comes to masquerade denial.

There is a different between belief and “knowing” something. Knowing is more than a gut feeling. It has manifested, persisted, bore fruit, and spread to others. And I know belief can mimic “knowing” as mass hypnosis can spread through a church congregation. Especially during tithes and offering time.

Knowing comes when we have exhausted beliefs and are no longer hiding behind the illusion of beliefs. Beliefs are made up of what we have concocted in our minds as well as what culture and religion has programmed us to believe. Also childhood trauma effects the lens in which we perceive ourselves and the world. Put all of these together with the programming of repression and denial and we have the perfect believer.

Belief comes from memories and thinking. Not rational thought but fantasy thoughts to avoid the rational. While knowing comes not from memory that had concluded but from questioning conclusions. Critical thinking is a great way to graduate from belief and enter “knowing.”

To know something is to be intimately acquainted. To bear witness of truth that has proof and fruit. We might believe something in the beginning that ends up as a knowing in the end. We all start with belief because we lack experience. We believe because we hope something is true but lack the proof that it is. And this is why beliefs change. Because we found out there was either proof or lack thereof.

Never defend your beliefs. Why? Because you can’t prove them and why would you want someone to believe what you believe if you have no proof it is true? We can share where we are at in attempting to perceive truth but only have belief. In fact, the way to see if you are living from a knowing or belief is whether or not you feel the need to defend it. We defend what we do not “know” and yet belief defends and becomes the shame stain to not get caught in a lie. So we fight to be right to cover up the lack of intelligence in what we claim is true and yet unproven.

Belief is something I grab hold of because I don’t know myself. Belief is big with those who believe they are separated from divinity. The lie of separation keeps you believing instead of knowing. When I don’t know myself belief becomes my artificial intelligence.

We are raised in beliefs and surrounded by the need to believe. So it can be difficult to let go of belief all together and simply behold without conclusions what we are experiencing. We do not need to label our experiences with beliefs. Rather, let us experience life without labels and continue to be intimately acquainted with life that never ends. For conclusion is the foundation of belief. And conclusions stop us from experiencing life. And only life knows what is known.