Possibilities Lead To Faith & Belief And MetaphorsUnity Consciousness #462

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Faith & Belief help us move from places we know to places we don't know.
Faith & Belief is an intermediary step to Knowing & Understanding.
Faith & Belief is the approval phase for possibilities. We move from awareness of a possibility to having Faith & Belief in it. Once we reach the approval stage, called Faith & Belief, we must then continue into the testing phase. We do this by the ongoing acquisition of information and experience to test those things the possibility is telling us and that we currently have Faith & Belief in.

A seed sprouts because it uses what it already knows and uses what is available. While doing these things it simultaneously has Faith & Belief that what is needed later, will be obtainable.

At each stage of development, the seed must acquire nutrients to transform Faith & Belief ultimately into Growth & Maturity.

In the beginning, a seed needs water and heat for germination. It needs not light. It doesn't even need nutrients from without because those nutrients are already within the seed. It is able to progress. However, at some point the plant must receive light and many more nutrients in order to progress further.

Possibilities are the seeds of Faith & Belief.
Faith & Belief is the seed of Knowing & Understanding.
A seed that holds the possibility of producing fruit must go through the process of receiving nutrients in order to bring that possibility to life and into reality.
A seed cannot produce fruit based on Faith & Belief alone or more and more Faith & Belief of different types or more of the same Faith & Belief.
From this we are able to Know & Understand that Faith & Belief is an advantage if used as part of the process to reach Knowledge & Understanding. We also simultaneously know then, that Faith & Belief is a limitation if we think it represents completeness of the thought process and that Faith & Belief is by itself, a conclusion that needs no further examination. This is the crux of the confusion and delusion we lose ourselves in.

Life and existence in Earth and in our physical bodies are both representations of our spirits being in cocoons. Cocoons are places where transformation always, always takes place. If we get nutrients, the cocoons of Earth and body become wombs to birth us into Knowledge & Understanding and then into Growing & Maturing and then into more Possibilities and the next stage of Faith & Belief.
If we do not continue to receive nutrients at any point during this life, these cocoons becomes tombs that hold us motionless in Knowledge & Understanding. Spiritual sickness and death follows if we do not get back to getting what is needed.

A child has Faith & Belief that when it cries it will be attended to. This Faith & Belief holds true to a high degree of certainty. No adult should have this kind of Faith & Belief in crying.
Faith & Belief are very useful but not without Knowing & Understanding that they are intended for certain seasons and certain situations. This is supposed to be instinctive from inherent programming in our genetics. We're supposed to already understand that the type and kind of Faith & Belief we use, must change as we Grow & Mature. A seed knows this. A baby knows this.

Faith & Belief bring a degree of certainty to possibilities simply because we have approved the possibility for testing. Knowledge & Understanding bring a degree of certainty to Faith & Belief simply because we test the possibility until we Know & Understand whether the possibility holds true or false and under what circumstances and what adjustments must be made to our thinking. Each of these three (Possibility, Faith & Belief and Knowing & Understanding) secures the other and each procures the other. Each is a part of chains, circles and cycles of lives and existences within the Creator.

What I'm Also Saying Is That Process Is Important

Faith & Belief is part of processes. Faith & Belief is not the end of thinking in regard to any subject. Faith & Belief come from the process of seeds, nutrients and fruit. Faith & Belief are seeds, nutrients and fruit. Faith & Belief produce more seeds, more nutrients and more fruit when they are used to help complete the process.

These processes move possibilities within a seed into the world outside the seed. As each stage develops, we need less and less Faith & Belief in that which we Know & Understand. We don't have to say that Faith & Belief is based in our heads and in our hearts because, through process, we have acquired Knowledge & Understanding in our spirits/souls.

In other words, Knowledge & Understanding is the maturation of Faith & Belief and Faith & Belief is the activation of Knowledge of Understanding. We must turn our attention to the processes that move us between each stage. Seeds, not placed where they can receive nutrients, won't develop on their own and fruit, not replaced with more fruit, won't provide benefit for long. We must continue to go through the processes to bring seeds of Faith & Belief into fruit of Knowledge & Understanding. Then we must remove the seeds from the fruit and plant them again. Thus, there are many births and many rebirths we experience during our journey of learning.

We must take Knowledge & Understanding we already have to acquire more Knowledge & Understanding. This is a more excellent way because once we have been fortunate to experience this process enough times, it is our duty to our spirit to feed it so it may develop properly to free itself from its cocoon through the birth of Knowledge & Understanding we are acquiring. If instead, we possess Knowledge & Understanding and then do not use it to test any and all Faiths & Beliefs that meet our approval, then we commit a foul against our own senses by making the resource of Knowing & Understanding we have in some areas, of no use in other areas. We lie to our spirits by telling them they must live on Faith & Belief because that's the best we can do when, truth is, we already have enough Knowledge & Understanding to feed them a much better diet but refuse to. We do this because we Know & Understand, if we do, we must eventually let go of some or all of the Faith & Belief we currently have. We know this instinctively from the many processes working within and without that don't need our permission to bring information to us. These automatic processes are part of our saving graces. They help us Know & Understand when we don't know the next step in our process. If we are willing, they will show us the way.

Transform Faith & Belief Ultimately Into Growth & Maturity

The title of this section was bolded near the beginning, above. This provides opportunity to make clear that it is not possible to go from Faith & Belief directly to Growth & Maturity. To have Faith & Belief in such a possibility for long is evidence of not putting Faith & Belief to the test. Far too many of us have Faith & Belief that if we have Faith & Belief long enough and use emotional conviction as evidence, we will Grow & Mature. If anyone has examples of what is able to Grow & Mature without going through a nutrient-providing process, please share this understanding.

Facts & False Notions About Faith

1. Faith & Belief is an acceptable substitute for facts but only in the beginning of a process. As we learn using multiple ways of knowing, Faith & Belief should become less and less a substitute for facts and more and more a flexible framework by which we test the theories upon which Faith & Belief rest. How long did it take us to test the Faith & Belief in Santa Claus? We were able to analyze information and experience and transform these facts into Knowledge & Understanding. It was automatic and instinctive. We did not have to be taught the truth because we used all Knowledge & Understanding available to us to arrive at the correct conclusion. We were able to do this even though many books, people and other forms of media tells us otherwise, we do not allow those things to override well-reasoned judgment. Has this ability to Know & Understand declined within us or is it that we decline to use it? Are we more inclined to abuse Faith & Belief because we perceive it as easier, safer and the best way to disguise plausible deniability – something we absolutely need to justify our behaviors?

2. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen because Faith is what exists before something is Known & Understood.

3. We must stop allowing ourselves to continue to be deceived by the “faith without works” statement. Just because we apply works to Faith & Belief doesn't mean we will move beyond Faith & Belief if those works are not open-minded to information necessary to properly test the Faith & Belief hypothesis. Thus we will remain at the beginning of the process chewing curdled milk thinking it's meat.

4. Faith is the beginning of the search for the Knowing & Understanding.
5. Faith is the end of the search for the possibility. As the process is being followed, we will continue to gain Knowledge & Understanding. Whatever that Knowledge & Understanding is, it can no longer be called possibility and no longer be called Faith & Belief because it will have been transformed. And so will we.

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