The voice of Blind Belief
Hi, I’m Blind Belief – my main purpose in life is to anchor people to a strong, immovable position of thought, providing a false perception of belonging, safety or solidarity. I do this very well by being quite subtle in the ways that I influence someone’s perspective. Often, I begin with presenting something quite admirable, or heroic, something that will capture people’s attention and emotion. Once I have piqued some positive interest, I then begin the subtle work of negatively portraying other people, situations or beliefs that are different to what I have presented. I don’t begin by straight away telling everyone I’m right, but instead I point out flaws in others. That’s how I usually start, but then after a while, once I have built such confidence in myself from those believing in me, it becomes a very natural process for me to then start flaunting my righteousness! This narcissistic behaviour is then easy because of course, by that stage, I have inspired such a huge amount of negative thought and more importantly fear, towards anyone or anything else that differs from me. I think one of my main attractions, is the sense of relief in not having to make any more choices or decisions around what is ‘right’. Once totally and blindly immersed in a belief like me, the believer is relieved of otherwise thinking for themselves and can falsely relax into an illusion of safety, righteousness and belonging – and I mean, that’s the root of it isn’t it? People just want to feel safe and belong – and that incredibly desirable illusion is exactly what I’m selling – for the small price of your freedom.
The voice of (true) Belonging
Dear Blind Belief,
I am worried about you. I know that you have some truly wonderful and worthwhile attributes, but I can see that you have been using your power recklessly. Beliefs are a powerful collection of many different bits of information, opinions and human biases, but like a torch, they usually bind together to shine brightly in just one direction. I love the way that you help to bind together a cohesive perspective, but I worry about the way you then blind the perceiver with that.
Beliefs are like stars, all shining a light of their own, but without understanding the immensity of the space in between them, how can we ever understand the full reality of the sky?
Yes, you offer a sense of belonging, but I am the True sense of Belonging, and I am just like the sky, in its totality, all inclusive – inclusive of all perspectives, all stars, all fragments in all directions. To Truly Belong, I inspire in people an openness – the opposite of a closed one directional torch, I help to give rise to light in all directions, to illuminate the fullness of our connection with one another. Where ever we are, whatever we believe, true belonging celebrates our differences by seeing our same-ness.
Love Ange x
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