Beliefs are everywhere. We can believe whatever we want, even things that are not demonstrable as a truth. This doesn’t stop some beliefs from being believed in as though they are reality or truth. Beliefs are very powerful. We have beliefs, but often, beliefs have us. Even when evidence to contradict a belief is presented, we refuse to let go of that attachment. Sometimes it’s not even a choice to believe, as the belief has such a hold on us that evidence doesn’t matter.
Many people believe in things as if they are true. But belief is not truth. This is why words and their definitions are important. So too is correctly thinking and using words. Knowing what a word means gives us power to use it properly. We can be masters of a name or words, like a magician. To have the power to describe and reference reality, and further abstract knowledge and understanding to create and alter our own lives and the world around us.
We aren’t automatically great thinkers. Rationality, reasoning and logical thinking can be hindered or developed further. We don’t know words through explicit definition. Most of the words we learn have their meaning expressed implicitly through an intuitive learning process. A word symbol is used to reference things and we develop a basic general understanding of what is the word means. We don’t look up the definition or the etymology of the true meaning of the word as it was created to reference and correspond to reality.
Belief and truth are two words I’ve found to have confusion about their true meaning and how to use them. A belief is not an automatic truth. Recognizing the difference between belief and truth is crucial for evaluating reality accurately. The confusion surrounding these words is due to how they are commonly used incorrectly and not knowing their definitions.
This failure to accurately differentiate has people categorize things incorrectly. Truths are spoken of as opinions. Beliefs are spoken of as truths. People popularize denying actual truth about something by saying something is merely “your truth”.
There are regular beliefs which are speculative in nature. And then there are beliefs people erroneously conclude are truths.
There’s no problem not knowing if something is true or false in reality. It could be true, but if you can’t demonstrate it or have had it demonstrated to you in the past, then you can’t call it true. The default is that a belief is unreal as it is only held in the imaginal realm of our minds as a concept. If we are the originators of a belief, it came from our imagination. It could be possible, or even probable. But it isn’t a truth by default.
This regular form of belief is what I consider valid. There is no attachment to it as a truth in reality, since it isn’t demonstrated as such. One isn’t beholden or bound to it through loyalty, trust or faith. If evidence of truth nullifies the belief, we let the belief go. This belief doesn’t constrict us into false perceptions of reality.
Conversely, the unhealthy or invalid kind of belief is when you take the belief as truth. A belief as “truth” is when we have trust, loyalty and faith in it being true and real. We are attached and bound to the belief through the loyalty, trust and faith that is real, despite that belief not being demonstrable or verifiable for it to be real and true. In attempts to logically connect information, the belief we are attached to as though it’s truth will have us reject information that conflicts with the belief. Not differentiating between belief and truth can lead to automatically associating beliefs as truth. Truth is a synonym for reality and existence. The acceptance of something false as though it were true will give us a false perception and create a misunderstanding of reality.
What brought me to go deeper into the words truth and belief was seeing how people used these words to refer to things. The valid form of belief helps us imagine and discover new ideas and concepts that can bear truths if we can verify them as such. The other form of belief in general has us accept things that aren’t verifiably true. It could be true, but you need to verify and demonstrate the truth to call it truth. Merely thinking of something or accepting what someone else says about something doesn’t mean it’s true.
A belief starts off as a potential; something unreal, envisioned from the fantasy of our imagination in consciousness. This is our subjective multi-verse where we can envision many worlds inside of our mind’s eye – the inner-vision. This is what happens in a dream where we fabricate an alternate reality, and through lucid dreaming we can take control of this inner existence that we create through the fantasy of our imagination. We can also do this with ideas and beliefs.
From that potential, the unreal, we can observe and gather more information from reality to make it into a possibility, or even a probability that it exists and is real. Beliefs are like the unknown, arising out of the discovery and invention domain coming from our imagination. We invent beliefs to try to make sense of things. We can imagine and fantasize about anything. When we are trying to discover principles, laws, how something works, or invent something new (like tools or technology), this is where it happens: in the subjective multi-verse of our consciousness, the imagination factory powered by the abstraction engine of consciousness. This is where we can discover and invent things first in the inner-reality of consciousness that can potentially be reflected or created into existence. This doesn’t mean that whatever we imagine or believe automatically exists or can exist in reality.
There is a process of discovery. We can verify and demonstrate if something possible or probable to exist can be demonstrated to exist. Until we can, it’s a belief. The first fork was imagined before it was created into the world. It was envisioned in the inner-light of consciousness, created in that inner-reality. From the possibility, then working with wood and increasing the probability of creating a fork. Eventually, wood was shaped into the actuality of a fork. It was created into the outer-reality, to be seen by the outer-light. This is the power of consciousness we have as consciousness’s, as generators, manifesters, affecters, alterers or creators from consciousness into existence.
