Proof of Something Greater and Your Beliefs

There is a short fable about beliefs and truth, where one man would point at boxes each time he saw one and claim "that's a box". The reason that it didn't make sense for him to do this is because all the people around him knew it was a box – there was no reason to claim that it was a box.

However the reason we use labelling in some instances is to attest something that is ambiguous as being real or to fit it into a specific understanding framework. If something is clear and unambiguous then there is no reason to label it. People don't often point upward and claim "that's a cloud" but people do point and claim that 'this or that' is God.

You can experience something on such a clear level of consciousness that it doesn't seem to be important to state "that is". If something is clear then the need to define or affirm it disappears. You can state "I am feeling upset" to bring clarification to an emotion. But we do not state "sadness is a real emotion" – because we know that it is real. So what is the point of starting religions to prove that God is?

It is ironic, but the less obvious a thing is, the greater the need to define, name, and affirm that thing becomes.

Trust Yourself

This comes back to what I was discussing in the previous two articles — there is a difference between proving an agenda and being aware of what lies beneath that agenda. For example, there are no groups that claim "apples are real" because we know that apples are real. Even if there is a special magical fruit that has not been discovered, agendas still don't form around its 'possible existence'. In regards to issues of God and the afterlife, some agendas arise out of the fear that people have about death, as one example. Religions, then, attempt to bring salvation. But does believing in one religion or another bring different levels of salvation?

If there is an agenda, if there is some motivation to believe in "the right" perspective, then the chances are that there is some emotional issue or issue of awareness that people are not prepared to face which is causing this agenda to form – to safeguard the belief.

People who know that God is real do not need someone to label 'God', because to them the existence of God is as clear as the existence of the grass and tress outside – we do not label a tree "Tree", because we know and understand it with consciousness. On the other hand what option is left when we do not know God, when a person has no faith, for example? It seems there is no alternative except in joining a belief or agenda that makes that fear seem less real and seems to prove the existence of God through labelling that existence as real.

Being More Conscious

This is not just in religion. People run to doctors screaming on a subconscious level "what is wrong with me? Please define what is wrong and fix it." so doctors come up with explanations like: "You have fatigue. You have generalized feelings of anxiousness. You have a regular headache. Take pill 1. Take pill 2. Take pill 3." Problem solved. Or is it? Could some of the illnesses we are experiencing and attempting to label be based on beliefs that we are forming as a defence from facing the clear and obvious?

If a person thinks for example "the doctor told me I am feeling anxious but I have never felt like that before… what could be the reason?" If he then recalls that he broke up with his girlfriend last night and has been avoiding thinking about it until now, the anxious feelings might begin to disappear. In that case he has become aware of the clear and obvious, even without the need to label it as "anxious feelings – how to deal with them", but he did on a subconscious level bring consciousness to them: "anxious feelings – where is the source?"

Consciousness. Consciousness. Consciousness. It is in stepping back and becoming conscious that we find greater meaning, not through the endless formation and reinforcement of beliefs.

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