Belief, Its Force and Effect

Belief, Its Force and Effect

John Lilly, M.D. concluded: “Anything we believe either is true
or tends to become true as a result of having believed it.”
Lilly reports this in his book, Center of the Cyclone.

Is it true?
How is it possible for it to be true?
What does it mean?
What does it imply?
These are questions with answers.

It may seem to require courage to gain the answers,
but it takes more courage to live without gaining the answers.
If you simply realize that each of us now lives with
and bears the consequences of beliefs we hold uncritically,
beliefs which shape our life experience,
and yet we do not even know sometimes
that there is an alternative to our set of beliefs.

We believe as a consensus in this world
that the means by which something happens is the cause.
If your voice utters truth, you gain the credit,
if your words are false, you are to blame, totally.
Even if you simply are expressing something you believe
which you have heard from others, credit or blame focuses upon you.

It is partly an extension of the belief in personal property and ownership.
If you own things, then you own ideas. They are yours.
Copyrights protect intellectual properties.

An illusion of separateness of mind and consciousness
perpetuates this concept of property and the responsibility
that accompanies your ownership.
If it is your dog, you are responsible for its behaviour.
If it is your child, you are responsible for his or her behaviour.
You have liabilities or contingent liabilities
for which you must insure yourself.

Ownership of personal property and even intellectual property
is a belief structure with contradictions.
It is a belief structure with illusions.
It is a belief structure with absurdities,
but we find whole nations and cultures which support the belief.

We transmit this property to our heirs.
We have rights which extend beyond death by law
to the disposal of our property.

A large part of the world believes in ownership by the state.
Is that any less a fallacy?

We live and function for a lifetime.
We hold purposes of greater or lesser dimensions.
We have needs relative to our purposes.
If our purposes are few, we have few needs.
Some people over-furnish their person and purposes.

Both what you believe and what you lead others to believe
yields the same effect – it either is true or tends to become true,
either as a result of your belief
or the belief you impart to others.

The propagation of belief is a means of creation.
What you believe or fail to believe shapes your reality.

Within the domain of the body,
what you attempt is based upon what you believe is possible.

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