100% Faith

New Gods: Should we banish faith forever?

Presumed knowledge is blindness to what is actually present.
The terms faith and belief are misused and misidentified.
It is quite so that personal identity professes beliefs or to have faith in what seems reasonably evidenced to their particular perspective. But these are often aspects of a masking identity - for what we actually do, comes from what we actually define and accept ourselves to be in any given moment or situation.
Everyone has 100% faith - but what is it invested in (in any given moment)? One may have faith in 'rational thinking' and presume no faith is involved. But this is the realm of the mask or personae in which assertions of self are justified and defended against the ever changing un-knowability of manifest existence.
The higher mind is out of range to the personality construct - but is natural to one's awareness.
The persona self is a construct and not a thing existing in and of itself.
Identifying exclusively in mask is to be defined and to suffer a coercive and threatening sense of existence. Everyone comes up with their own ways of coping with this - including the supremacist arrogance of a presumed rationality. "Should we banish faith forever?" Is this the New World Order? A joke? or both?
A true science recognizes its foundation in definition - for without self-definition there is NO perspective-experience available. A false science operates as if its predicate is exclusively true.
The "One true God" mistake, is one of exclusive personal definition, and replicates as the one 'empirical truth'. This is a liability of the fight/flight mentality in which the personality has become pervasively identified.
No one has to 'justify' their beliefs in terms of another - but may communicate if approached in a willingness that values communication.
Rationalism divorced from Reason would invalidate anyone who does not conform and use the form of communication as a coercive device. This sort of thing feeds anti rationalism - because meeting a lovelessness in others, is the temptation to project one's own fears and guilts' - one's own feared and hated evil intent - ONTO those who blindly assert power or propagate lovelessness in ways that effectively undermine any other perspective than their own.
This reaction is then equally blind and easily manipulated. Power struggles USE such tactic as a matter of course - hiding within a masked agenda.
Freedom is the inherent capacity to accept into your mind only what is true of you. A conflicted mind is a split persona, and a conflicted world-experience. The evidence belies the foundation. Unless of course one WANTS to keep one's foundation hidden, so as to  interpret all things in its defence.
Belief in separateness - whether apparently religious or apparently atheistic is the same faith. Science can be distorted so as to reinforce this 'faith' as can any spiritual or religious path or culture.
Materialism posits reality without consciousness - or WOULD if it could achieve it. Does not this reveal the hidden agenda of 'rationality' as DENIAL of Consciousness? Is that not THE 'faith' by which the human ego - in any disguise, maintains a semblance of believability and thus its operability in its filtered and distorted version of 'the world'?

Psycho-logical

 

Comment to an article on op-ed news:The Psychological Moment We are In

One can appeal for validation by extending the presumption of 'we' statements, and this is part of the way the self definition works to select and reflect the world that validates it.
The world is consciousness as extended or projected - and reflected. What one is actually projecting ONTO or UPON cannot be experienced without some self-definition relative to it.
Psychology tends to posit its study within a materialistic model of external cause to an internal defence mechanism - of 'self' or ego or even learned (programmed/evolved) behaviours.
So the 'moment we are in relative to the various facets of the currency of self is an interpretation of an already operating interpretation that is tending to be accepted as fact or true when in fact it is assertion or presumption of meanings given priority OVER true that has become largely accepted and unchallenged as the 'human condition'. All that is required to open this is the addition of 'ing' to indicate the nature of the verb that acts within the apparent noun; the human conditioning.
One can use the reflections of experience to illuminate one's own verbing consciousness - that is to uncover the word that comes forth from our own mind by which then a corrupting influence seems to assail us from without.
The 'altered' ego is in a sense the fascination with and subsequent addictive identification within, power OVER.
Within any script are personae to represent all the split off facets of consciousness that operate to support this wish to be a 'someone' in and of your own right - rather than an integral expression of a universally communicative Creation. And it may be becoming apparent that the device for 'splitting' the Indivisible, is terror and guilt believed. Divide and rule is for those who who be as gods OVER Life - and others. But no matter what we dress up in, it does not ACTUALLY divide the Indivisible, but no one can see that who WANTS to protect the 'power' that fear and guilt seem to confer upon their wielder.
There is a Bible sentence that indicates the 'Beast riseth out from the Deep'. The devices of manipulation of consciousness that support the illusion of command and control, are being exposed, and can only operate in the dark. In the obfuscation of communication or of the knowing of a clear self-awareness. And so the attempt or desire for darkness is magnified as the self protective urge to keep a sense of violating power hidden or disguised - not least by pointing anywhere OUTSIDE one Consciousness. There is no outside to Consciousness - but there is a resonance and communication of what I accept and give out as the currency of value - that operates energetically as communication within the totality of Consciousness that is Indivisible yet Infinite in its reflective richness of unique experience.
What one tunes into is one's primary diet from which one automatically shares out. Self-honesty is discernment is a true valuing or indeed a love of truth. To focus ONLY on what is true of you in any given moment is the result of recognizing what is untrue of you, to the point of giving it no further validation.