I Believe, I Believe

Conceptual impressions surrounding this post are yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument or network.

As stated earlier what we perceive both subjectively and collectively is symbolic of an unknown mystery that appears to permanently reside within us. Some describe this essence as our conscience. * So, in order for us to resolve the mystery we observe outside ourselves we need to begin to resolve some of the mysteries that reside within ourselves.
* Is what has been described as a conscience the immaterial spiritual core and source of consciousness? And exactly who and or what is it that presides over this awareness?

I suggest that we attempt to justify our existence by first projecting what we believe to be a reflection of who we are into space and time. This projection is based upon a number of impressions that together have “conditioned” us to believe that we think we know who we are. Our parents, friends, colleagues, institutions, cultures and societies have imprinted these beliefs upon what we mistakenly describe as our consciousness, but what is actually a figment of our imagination, i.e. an aspect of our mind. Collectively these belief systems contribute towards helping us create the person who we believe we are or rather, what our mind describes and imagines us to be.

"Belief is the death of intelligence"
Robert Anton Wilson

Belief systems have contributed to how we perceive others. Both collectively and individually belief systems have fostered, encouraged and influenced certain patterns of behavior that affect how we think and feel each and every moment of each and every day.

A conditioned response to both the subjective and objective worlds we live in basically requires that we “buy into” one or more belief systems in order to support a position or opinion that has actually been pre-described by someone or something else. Kind of strange when you think of it that way isn’t it? However, belief systems are important in maintaining a certain degree of psychological stability as we experience Life’s ups and downs … and that also includes what we describe as our dream life. Even if we don’t believe we partake in a belief system supports the fact that this position is a belief in its own right. It’s a paradox that no one can escape. We all believe in something as we should. What is of importance is if there is any truth in what we believe.

“The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn’t, you should seek a deeper truth.” — Terence McKenna

Our minds are engaged in a closed system of perpetual self-evaluation based upon experience and discovery. Our minds are likewise calibrated to broadcast and receive information symbolically. Consciousness leads us along Life’s journey by experiencing the constraints of time and space through the symbolic vehicles of our body, mind and emotions.

Belief systems have been designed to leave an emotional impression upon our mind and our mind’s “eye” as to how we should perceive the world. However, we also know that what we perceive doesn’t always reflect who we really are even after we've fully accepted a certain set of beliefs.

“In reality, standard human cognition is primarily driven by cognitive biases and emotionally based heuristics. People will rationalize to make the evidence and observations align with their existing beliefs and prejudices. The essence of the human condition is the clash between our emotional unconscious that has guided our ancestors for millions of years and our noisy, overzealous consciousness that enables us to exquisitely perceive our own struggles for existence.” 

Mitchell Diamond 

https://darwins-apple.medium.com/about 

The Problem with Consciousness 

https://darwins-apple.medium.com/the-problem-with-consciousness-50e2575f6af2 

“The problem facing humanity today is a spiritual problem. It has to do with humanity’s beliefs.”

Terence McKenna

Belief systems offer us different directions we might consider experiencing along our Life's travels towards self-realization. Generally, belief systems are designed to expose us to a variety of experiences while simultaneously grounding us in the process. However, every belief system also harbors certain inherent limitations. Not all belief systems are created equal, nor does every system interpret the world in a similar fashion. Likewise, not all belief systems will approach or ever reveal the many facets of the unknown in the same way.

For example, the paradigms of religion and science are both designed to reveal and make sense of the unknown. Both rely on their own set of symbols and symbolic methods for guiding and controlling the mind’s perception of the world. Yet neither system has the capacity or ability to wholly satisfy our drive towards greater awareness due to human and symbolic limitations.

When individuals perceive and interpret the world in a similar fashion they collectively give birth to another belief system; the result ... another sense of consciousness in the form of a network appears to emerge. Each individual appears to resonate with another by agreeing upon a certain collective view of the world based upon a symbolic interpretation of what they deem to be "reality". A type of “collective awareness” becomes the origin of a newly designed, i.e. symbolic system, of patterns, convictions and responses whose primary purpose is to maintain the image of a collective interpretation of the world and how it functions.

Comparable to the consciousness of an individual, a collective consciousness creates its own concept of an immaterial ego or self consciousness similarly driven to sustain, maintain and perpetuate its own power over the awareness of the group. Carl Jung proposed that some of these patterns are archetypal in character and have a major influence on human evolution. I can’t agree with him more.

Repetitive projections into 3D space/time whether individual or collective “condition space” by creating patterns of energy in and of what has been pre-scribed and perceived as consciousness. These projections are cause for response in what is commonly viewed as the phenomenon of cause and effect. In order for us to become aware of these patterns and more importantly the consciousness that supports and projects them, we must become intimately sensitive to the symbols that harbor, enhance and perpetuate their existence.

To be unconscious is to unaware of the symbols and vibrations of an energy pattern that instigates the way we respond to situations in a conditioned fashion. Whereas to be design conscious is to be aware and question the symbolic patterns that are instrumental in causing us to respond in such a manner. When patterns are repeatedly projected in time and space their reflections become reinforced, which in turn affects our response to those projections. Here is where the concept of change enters into the mix. To be design conscious is to be sensitive to change and all that it symbolically re-presents. 

"How spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness."
Eckhart Tolle

It’s no longer about what you believe rather it’s more about what your being led to believe. Always look within.

Beliefs create false impressions, hold opinion and appear to be true and forthcoming. To know recognizes the truth and perceives it directly with facts, knowledge and understanding. To know is to be familiar, factual and aware. To believe runs counter to knowing and experience. Always be extremely aware of what you believe to be true.

- Train for any argument with Harvard's former debate coach

- The Design Registry

- Anger

"To believe is to accept another's truth.

To know is your own creation."

Anonymous

Edited: 11.29.2013, 11.19.2014, 02.25.2015, 04.24.2017, 03.25.2019, 01.24.2021, 04.05.2021, 10.21.2021, 11.01.2021, 01.13.2022, 04.04.2022, 06.25.2022, 04.16.2023, 09.01.2023, 11.22.2023

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