Believe it or not everyone ‘Believes’. The biggest crock of shit you’ll ever hear is when someone says that they deal with knowledge and not belief such mutterings are utterly hoarse shit. Every single one of us live with some belief or another-every second of every minute of every day we are alive on this Earth. All human knowledge that has progressed to become a manifested tangible reality was at a stage of belief before it ever arrived at the point of being classified as actual knowledge from some objective scientific source. Pure Knowledge is objective. Elements like ‘Hydrogen’, ‘Carbon’, ‘Helium’ etc. exist in nature, and the fact that they do exist proves the objective nature of knowledge. The subjective nature of Knowledge manifests as ‘Wisdom’, ‘Understanding’, Culture etc. Essentially every numerical value after the objective value of the pure reality of One is subjective, meaning that in ‘Oneness’ there is no difference, no expression of subjective multiples, in pure oneness there is no differentiation nor separation. Oneness is non-conceptual from its own standpoint, it would appear at the point of absolute ‘Oneness’ that there would be no alterable characteristics, nothing that distinguishes this from that or vice versa. If you associate the objectivity of ‘Oneness’ with Knowledge you add into this numerical adjective a conscious awareness. Everything spawned from this Original Objective Oneness is a point of subjectivity. While living in the subjective human form we gather information-information is a stream of data points, how we perceive the information shapes belief and it is our ability to filter that which is pertinent and essential about any given data point that allows us to classify a bit of information as knowledge.
Very few of the
7 billion head of cattle on the Planet have the scientific instrumentation at
their disposal to filter actual knowledge from belief. It’s the non-scientific standard established
in the majority of the human population that is steeped in belief-belief is not
a bad thing necessarily, it is in fact a natural state of affairs for the human
brain. It is the nature of the human brain to formulate patterns, our brains actually seek out patterns because
it is the nature of a human to feel secure in this very volatile universe. In patterns connections are made, and in turn
both meaningful and meaningless patterns are found. A meaningful pattern will give us a branch of science
and a meaningless pattern will give us a religion or a superstition. Example:
An individual lay’s on his or her back in the grass, looks up at the sky and
notices a cloud that appears to have the profile of Abraham Lincoln. The cloud
has nothing to do with the former American President per se, however the
observer has found a pattern of no real world consequence. Go to Wikepedia, or
any other place on the Net and research the part of the brain known as the
Anterior Cingulate Cortex, it is the part of the brain that regulates, emotion,
decision making, rational thought, heart rate, blood pressure etc. It is this
part of the brain that draws conclusions.
So why do people draw such fucked up conclusions? Decisions that we make
as human beings are for the most part not well informed, all the data we use to
make decisions are for the most part limited, particularly to the part of the
human populace apart from the scientific community. This is why religion and superstitions are
big around the world. Religion
represents the fusion of emotionalism with rationalism and just as there are various
emotions, there are multiple aspects of rationalism. Religion is not completely
irrational. Religion is responsible for organizing large groups of human
beings, it is a social force, it covers like a blanket the myriad of
conclusions that an individual can draw with a singular answer: God. The
natural question of a human being is ‘Why’ and Religion state ‘God’-God is Why.
‘God is Why’ is the same as ‘Why Equal Self’, the context is in essence virtually
indistinguishable. Religions state that
God is behind ‘why’. This conclusion that religions form appeals to, and
satisfies to the extent that people accept this so-called ‘God’ and as time
passes it becomes tradition to passively accept this God. By holding together large groups via belief
the Religion becomes a Government in essence: Theocracy. The belief keeps the cattle in check, and
heresy in the first form of government is a crime punishable by death. An act
of heresy is the cognitive process of the human being shifting toward science
and away from religion. The core principle of any theocratic regime is God,
when a herectic says the Sun doesn’t revolve around the Earth this
scientifically progressive individual is labeled a ‘herectic’, as was the case
with Galileo. Belief is only as rational as the state of affairs in which the
belief is centered, if an individual is born into a culture, society, and
community that has deep traditions centered around ‘God’ it would seem
difficult for an individual to break with the historical momentum of that given
belief. The Black Christian Church is a
prime example of a massive group of people steeped deeply in a common belief
system. The Black Church culture in
North America remains a part of the American landscape, moving parallel to the
American way, careful not to rock the American boat. The last time the Black
Church rocked the American Boat was during the Civil Rights Movement, nowadays it
remains a passive fixture in the Black Community, unspectacular outside of its merriment,
succeeding only in effectively marketing and selling bottles of Jesus sleeping
pills wholesale to black people.
Jesus is not
hard to sell to a people who by their nature are hardwired to believe, also
Allah is not a ‘hard sale’ in the Middle East, Shiva is not a hard sale in
India, nor is Yahweh a Hard Sale to the Jew. A mysterious God is in fact an
easy sell to a human being who has not been taught to be scientifically objective. For things that cannot be immediately
explained ‘God’ is a quick fix, fast food for the existentially hungry. Even their own consciousness does not reflect
upon itself and take to ask their own self, “What Am I?” The thing about such a
question is that it can never be fully answered in a substantive context,
because ‘Consciousness’ is not fully understood. However the ‘seeker’ or the
herectic are searching for the answers from within a new longitudinal and
latitudinal paradigm. “What is going on with Me?” “Who Am I?”: such a question leads to an
existential awareness known as ‘Knowledge of Self’, from an individual
framework this ‘Knowledge of Self’ can in no way be ‘Generic’. Religion is generic,
it doesn’t cater to a human being’s true sense of individuality or
originality. The context of ‘Knowledge
of Self’ is subjective and defies the Generic pseudo truths packaged in
religions. Generic pseudo truths eventually arise to establish the political
paradigm of the group, where as subjective truths tend to decorate themselves
around personality types. Knowledge of
Self is an abstract idea, because to some extent every living being has ‘Knowledge
of Self’. A coma patient’s level of awareness is below the threshold of
awareness however the very fact that the coma patient is alive means that on some
level a sense of being persists. Knowledge of Self in the sense of a social,
political, and cultural framework shapes perception just like religion.
Religion, and Knowledge of Self have differences, and distinctions. What runs
consistent through them both is the need to believe. Science offers an incomplete
model, because all that there is to know relating to human awareness is still
relatively unknown and thus we believe. The best belief to have is that you can
‘know’, knowing that you can know is like knowing you will eventually graduate
from a state of belief. There will always however be something that we believe
until that something is fully known. No beginning Nor Ending is applicable to
the wisp of Universal smoke that is consciousness. That which has no ending can
never be fully known by a being created in finitum, and thus there will always
be points of belief, and points of the ‘known’ on the eternal scale of no beginning
nor ending.
Em