Quantum Living - Part Thirteen - Need for Faith

THE NEED FOR FAITH

When we accept that things are both impermanent and, for want of a better term, ethereal, then we must look elsewhere for our sense of security. To know that our entire sense of well-being relies on a purely mental construct, having only a loose correspondence to materiality, may cause us to be more hesitant in our plans, less sure of our decisions day-to-day, if we do not adopt a thought-model that steadies us in our confidence.

The quantum paradigm calls for an expanded use of a much neglected power. It calls for a renewed sense of Faith. When we know at a deep level that our beloved material world is really somewhat immaterial, that our possessions are less than solid, less than permanent, then we must develop a trust in our place in this shifting, drifting world. We must develop a knowing that we will be supported, that we will be all right in the end, even though our certainties are false.

Faith has had no place in the scientific, material view of the world. It has come to be regarded as a childlike attitude, which is true, and has been largely replaced by the model of materiality which is almost universally adopted.

Those who have seen the error of the model in times past have been thought unbalanced, insane. It has been the norm that faith has been considered an element of old-fashioned thought, bordering on superstition. Thus the field of religion has been split apart from the knowledgeable disciplines, left to itself, as a remnant of a bygone era. Not that people have had no faith; they just have not felt that daily life depended on it.

We do have faith, of course; we just do not call it that.. We have faith in our institutions, our schools and our banks; we have faith in governments and corporations. Since these are essentially organizations of people, it is tantamount to saying that we have faith in people. Above all, we have blind faith in our mental construct of the world, since it is taught from birth and is largely held in the unconscious.

Maybe we can let go of some of the faith we currently have in money, property and possessions - you know, all the stuff that we can't take with us when we leave the planet. Remember, nobody gets out of this experience alive!

A great paradigm shift will have to take place, if quantum reality is to be incorporated into our mainstream thought.