Pat, you're commentary on beliefs and their profound impact on the patterns of life is a weiner, i believe.

//Wax On//Seriously, where beliefs come from is the unlimited and sometimes mad creative will of self. The problem evolves in creating from without and then identifying with the resultant construct, so the belief integrates with the identity, and thus becomes invisible....because you can't see it while you're being it.

To reverse this pattern (which leads into denser and denser corners of being) the algortihm has to be along the lines of recovering the creative level from which the create occured int he first place.

The hard part about this is it requires being willing to reexperience all the feelings associated with the belief, in order to move through them. If you just try to shove them aside you don't get back to point A, from which the original impulse of creation occurred. If you do recover that point of awareness, you then have the level of creativity from which you can redesign the belief into a preferabel one (such as "Snakes are cool and we get along well". Or dispence with it altogether.

But this path involves going through discomfort and out the other side of it, rather than just resisting it. A hard notion to get used to.

//Wax off//

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