To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/11/17 08:33
Subject: [K-list] Beliefs
From: Mhortling
On 1999/11/17 08:33, Mhortling posted thus to the K-list:
Steve wrote:
>I like conversation but I am more interested in learning about others. Why do
they believe what they believe,<
Hi Steve & list !
The question of beliefs , where they come from and how they somehow become an
essential part of our reality is pretty mind-boggling to me - we're fed
information by parents and society and the whole cultural tradition we live
in. This stuff is then processed by our individual psychological makeup which
in turn is already wired to a specific response pattern through those same
influences...
If we take a biological and physiological view of the whole thing, genetics
and the structure of the nervous system also determine structure and content
of our belief system - i.e someone with a strong nervous system and the
"right" input will definitely have a different view of everything (including
spiritual beliefs) than a sensitive artistic individual with a
psychologically difficult background.
Just to make matters a little bit more complex still, we can factor in possibl
e earlier incarnations or influences such as collective archetypes.
If we then try to understand what happens when we "deliberately" or
otherwise change our belief structures, I personally get to a point of severe
cerebral overheating...
For instance, many people on the spiritual path initially have the feeling
that there is something inherently "wrong" with the way reality and life are
usually seen - there's the original belief system and then the new one
indicating discontentment with the old. Then all sorts of activities are
undertaken, drugs get ingested, ashrams are visited, money is paid out left
and right and all of a sudden a rewiring has taken place, a third belief
system has emerged which includes the first two, the original and the
transitional. One now has the unshakeable certainty (another belief
structure...) that life is fundamentally alright even if there's loads of
hassles and misery going on, life is fundamentally spiritual etc. Now what
about the genetic and environmental factors - how relevant are they for this
new state of consciousness ?
If Kundalini then comes into play, I at least get the feeling that "belief
systems" as such are removed from the nervous system/consciousness, but again
this is also a "belief", even if it's based on the ongoing experience of the
body/mind-unit...Then there's the opening of the intuitive and higher regions
of the brain, that when stimulated seem to ooze absolute truth ( the pompous
stuff...), that isn' t really available for debate, because the mind in which
all this takes place realises in itself that the back and forth of arguments
in a debate is just beliefs being thrown at each other - and this again is
just a set of beliefs --
Right, time to send for the strait-jacket guys
(or alternatively do some mantras, the nice thing is that when the mind is
quiet, it doesn't really give a hoot about all these things...)
Michael whose location is mostly Brussels/Belgium and Bonn/Germany
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