If you're gonna talk aboutbelief it is really really important to distinction between the various grades and kinds. An intellectual belief is merely a piece in a mental puzzle about existence. Religous "beleifs" are sometimes only intellectual. Then there are the "solution" beliefs which carry a lot of emotion or pain behind them and are elected as a solution to ward those waves of experience off because they are considered to be unsupportable. Such beliefs have a lot more energy to them, but it is borrowed energy originating in the resistance to unwanted experience. Religious beliefs often are of this sort also -- they fend off great confusions about one's own nature by electing a ward to keep the hole question at bat without actually ever facing up to it in the first place. Often these are also "invisible" beliefs, in that they operate below the threshold of conscious inspection.

The most important sort are the deep beliefs which define the framework of experience, which are the postulated "pragma" or defining boundaries of what we see and know and experience in the universe. These beliefs are the ones that generate the patterns of normal experience. They include beliefs in existence itself, beliefs about being someone and having a past, structures that qualify the meaning of perception and beliefs about what is possible to see, have, know or do in the universe. Those are the ones you want to wrassle.

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