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To have Faith is to have positive confidence
or trust in something.
It's a belief that something is true even without proof.
But then the question stands -
How does one have confidence, or trust in something,
without the evidence to back up that confidence and trust?
The famous philosopher Bertrand Russell once said
'Where there is evidence, no one speaks of Faith'.
We do not speak of faith that 2 and 2 are 4
or that the Earth is round -
we only speak of Faith when we wish to substitute
emotion for evidence.
Unfortunately for Bertrand Russell he forgot a little something.
The reality is - somebody had to go on faith
that the Earth was round
before there was proof or evidence to back up that idea.
And, there is no way to scientifically prove yet
that Emotion is not Proof.
Every single thing in existence begins as a Thought first.
When that Thought is thought enough is becomes a Belief.
Proof is the manifestation of a Thought
that you think often enough
that it becomes part of your physical reality.
You look at that physical manifestation
and it reinforces the thought
so that now you have confidence
in the truth and validity of that Thought.
Having confidence in the truth and validity of the Thought
based on manifested proof is called a Belief.
Faith is the step or bridge between Thinking and Believing.
It is the confidence in the truth or validity
of something positive,
before the proof has manifested physically.
The person who does not value faith
values the idea that there is an external world
that exists, separate from us -
that we merely interact with, and observe, this world.
This is not a person who believes that Thought creates Reality.
This is a person who belongs to the 'religion' called Science.
Science does not yet recognize the Observer
as the creator of what is observed.
Fortunately for us,
Science is a religion that is always evolving.
Notice how in the previous paragraph
I not once said that Faith was *knowing*
before the evidence presented itself.
Faith in our modern society is synonymous with ignorance
because, so often, Faith used by individuals
to establish a sense of certainty and cognitive closure.
It is the excuse people use
to make a claim of the certainty of 'truth'
which closes them down to all of the possibilities.
In other words - it is pretending to know something
that they *do not* know.
A good example is Heaven.
Most people have never seen Heaven for themselves.
They have no proof
other than the promise of the words belonging to other people
to back up the belief that Heaven is real -
either the words of their parents,
or the promise of the bishop,
or the promise of the priest -
and so, most people do not actually believe Heaven exists
or know that it exists,
(even though they may say they do).
Instead, people have 'faith' that Heaven exists.
They mistake Faith for Knowing,
and by closing their minds down around the truth of Knowing
they become unable to experience other potentials
and other realities.
They become selectively Ignorant.
To close one's own perspective down to possibilities
and to latch-on to the knowing one specific Truth
is to live in a state of ignorance.
To have Faith is to have confidence-in or trust-in
but to not-know.
People only confuse Faith for Knowing -
this is the shadow-side of Faith and it presents a problem ...
Often when we observe people who have faith
we are jealous of that faith.
We are jealous of their certainty.
We're jealous of their ability to create cognitive closure.
But we don't understand
that we are mistaking their Faith
for their false-Knowing.
The only certainty in this Life is Uncertainty.
And the highest of Objective Truths
is that Truth is Subjective.
Faith becomes Ignorance when faith becomes proof of Knowing.
To have confidence in something, or to hope for something,
is not to *know* something.
Instead it is a kind living bravery -
it is the bravery to walk open-armed
into the world of the Unknown,
only, with your emotions leading the way ...
Emotion is like a tether
between your soul and your physical life.
He who has faith is brave enough
to follow that tether into the unknown.
Faith can only happen in the absence of knowing.
Not one scientific discovery began
without a scientist first having faith.
After all, he did not yet know ...
After all, he did not yet have the proof he needed to be sure.
The scientist does not yet recognize
his inner urgings and hunches
as Emotion, Intuition and ultimately, as Faith
but that is exactly what they are.
Many critics of Faith claim that Faith is only used
in the absence of good supporting evidence
and that is true,
because if Faith had good supporting evidence
it would no longer be Faith
instead it would be a Belief
that you would call a Truth or something that you Know.
But Faith is a bridge between Thinking and Knowing.
Faith should never close a person down to possibilities.
Faith should never be confused with Knowing.
Most of what a Spiritual Person is
is a person who is full of faith.
It is a person who is willing to live
with confidence and hope in a universe of 'unknown'.
Therefore, to have faith is to be brave.
Many people think that faith is the absence of doubt.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
We only think that faith is the absence of doubt
when we confuse Faith with Knowing.
To doubt is to have uncertainty about something.
Faith cannot exist in a universe of certainty -
certainty is Knowing.
Faith is not required when we Know.
And so, if doubt is uncertainty,
doubt is a necessary condition of faith.
If we take doubt a step further
and let it mean what it means emotionally to most people,
to doubt is to consider something unlikely.
To consider something unlikely is to act as if you know,
it is to pretend you know something that you *do not* know,
it is to bring certainty to uncertainty.
This is why, it can easily be said,
that Doubt is actually the flip-side of Faith.
Another way to look at this is -
Doubt is just another kind of 'faith'.
People use Doubt to gain certainty and cognitive closure
in the same way that they use Faith
as a replacement for certainty and cognitive closure.
If you are a person who doubts,
you have a great capacity for faith -
the only difference between you and a person who is full of faith
is that you have endless confidence and trust
for negative, instead of positive, outcomes & things.
Like Faith, Doubt is a bridge between Thinking and Believing.
It is best to burn this bridge down.
It is best to only build the bridge of Doubt
between thoughts that feel bad to think
and things you don't want to believe.
It is best to build the bridge of Faith
between thoughts that feel good and things you want to believe.
When we begin to experience pain
is when we build the bridge of Doubt
between thoughts that feel good to think
and things we want to believe.
So the question stands:
How can we Manifest without Faith?
To manifest without Faith,
or if you're a doubtful person,
all you need to do is to become okay with uncertainty.
It's to pull your teeth out of the idea of 'truth'
and to move, instead, into the space of Curiosity.
Curiosity is a state of not-knowing.
In reality, no one knows what Reality is.
To commit to Curiosity is to release resistance
to the painful things we have confidence in,
or that we think we know.
And so, when we do Manifestation exercises
and look for proof of something we want to believe,
we do so without an attachment to whether it is true or not.
This is a state that true scientists can teach us to uphold.
It is to take-on an attitude of
'Wouldn't it be nice if ... ?' or 'Maybe ... '.
If you visualize what you want -
make it a game instead of a matter of life-and-death.
Do the visualizations out of curiosity
about the potential that Mind *could* create Reality.
Remain open to all possibilities
instead of expecting yourself to believe.
Also - allow yourself to prove things to yourself.
Quit thinking that you should
have the same faith as somebody else
and that you should 'know'.
There's no Earthly reason why you *should* know
or why you *should* have faith,
given your life experiences.
In fact, the main reason that the idea
of not being able to feel Faith hurts us,
is because we think we *should* have Faith.
Why should we have Faith
when we have come to expect negative outcomes?
We, after all, have learned that
that only ends in disappointment.
For this reason, I suggest that anybody
who has a difficult time with Faith,
watches the video which I created on YouTube
about Disappointment - they go hand-in-hand.
He who lacks faith has been victimized
and thus, see himself as a victim,
sees himself at the mercy of external circumstances.
The person who lacks faith
has lacked trust in the world.
And he who lacks trust in the world,
lacks trust in himself.
Faith is corrupted in the Human system
when we do not trust ourselves.
Ultimately, we recognize that the world at large
is a reflection of us -
so if we do not have confidence-in or trust anything 'out there',
there is something inside us that we do not trust.
And if we're experiencing something negative,
there is something in our creator-nature that we do not trust.
We need to figure what it is about ourselves that we do not trust
because we need to learn to trust ourselves again.
Faith is the organic result of trusting ourself.
Confidence and trust is a natural by-product
of trusting ourselves to create positive outcomes.
No one on Earth can fake Faith,
but deep down inside all of us,
at some level,
we have an acknowledgement and a recognition
of the true, eternal, creator-nature of our Being.
And therefore, somewhere deep inside of us
there *is* a buried faith.
A buried faith not only in the World,
but also a buried faith for ourselves.
Have a good week ...
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