Hi Girls:
There are 3 types of “belief system.”
Type One: mostly dogma, indoctrination, and controlling beliefs.
Type Two: common sense beliefs.
Type Three: scientific, fact-supported beliefs.
First, what does it mean to believe? If you trace the word back to its roots you’ll find that it means “to be comfortable with or satisfied with.” The belief that a person in a Type One belief system is comfortable with and satisfied with is not always the same thing that a person in a Type Three belief system is comfortable with and satisfied with. We have an idiom in English for that: “different strokes for different folks.”
When I say, “I believe you,” what am I saying? I’m saying that I’m comfortable with what you told me, or that I’m satisfied with what you told me. Truth and efficacy are not necessarily factors of why I believe something. Some truths are very uncomfortable, and hard for me to believe. Some lies are easy for me to believe because they make me feel comfortable. If you tell me that my mistakes are not my fault, it’s easy for me to believe. If you tell me that my mistakes are my responsibility, that is uncomfortable and I would rather not believe you. I find it a little bit of a revelation that belief has more to do with comfort than it has to do with truth. Any effort to find the truth will likely take you out of your belief comfort zone.
If you said to me, “hey, there are three elephants in the parking lot,” and it is a totally made up story, how am I going to process it? Part of my mind goes, “wow, that’s unusual---three elephants in the parking lot!” The another part of my mind says, “well, it could happen.” In the Ocean Center, Daytona Beach Florida, there is a large door called the “elephant door.” The Ringling Brothers Circus, uses the door to bring in their “elephants” when they are in town for a show. So, yes, I now know that it is possible as a point of future reference.
In a Type One belief system, “yea. It could be true,” amounts to verification. So I believe your story, because it could be true. And, I even pass the information on to someone else, “hey Mary, did you know there are forty elephants in the parking lot?” Now, I have been known to tease Mary occasionally, April Fools’ jokes and that sort of thing. She’s going to receive my story about the forty elephants in the parking lot with some skepticism. She doesn’t feel comfortable to be fooled. “Sure, Danielle,” she says. “Would you believe three elephants?” “Maybe.” She is checking her experiences to see if it could be true.
And as long as she’s checking to see if it could be true, I tease her: “and one of the elephants stepped on your car?” “The intention behind a Type One belief is to be right.” A person in a Type One belief system, will find this belief very comfortable: “I am right and they are wrong.” This is the intention that leads to war and strife. It sets family against family, neighbor against neighbor. “I am right and they are wrong.”
Type One believing is more or less taking an inventory of your memory and determining the plausibility of some statement. As long as you come up with, “Yea, it could be.” And the source of the information is making you right, you will be persuaded. Persuasion in a Type One belief system is based on emotions connected with being right or wrong. That is the Type One process of believing: someone says something; it sounds plausible; and you get this little emotional surge because what you suspected was right is really right or what you suspected was wrong is really wrong. This is a well known formula for getting elected by a large group: say something, make it sound plausible, and stimulate some righteous emotion. Most political platforms consist of Type One beliefs.
With Type One believing , you checked the record to see if a statement was plausible, but with “Type Two” believing you don’t have to check for memories because you already know. You know without looking. Knowing has more certainty in it than remembering.
How many times do you have to experience a cause and effect sequence before you know? How many times do you have to repeat an action, always producing the same result, before you can say that you know without looking for what the result will be of that action? That is a Type Two belief.
Type Two beliefs are common sense and there really is no effort involved in believing them. You just know. If someone tells you they dropped an object and it fell to the floor, your going to go, “Doh! What did you expect?” You don’t have to see if it is plausible, or if the person is making you right, because you know that dropped objects fall to the floor. The belief is transparent. Now, if someone were to say that he dropped an object and it fell up to the ceiling, you’re not going to feel that your rightness is threatened, you will just consider that the guy is some sort of whack-job.
The intention behind Type Two belief systems is to conform and act rationally. And in this case, rationality is based on transparent beliefs that everyone pretty much agrees on. If you want to persuade someone of a Type Two belief, you appeal to their sense of conformity.
OK, lets move up to Type Three believing process. If you want to experience a complicated believing process explore a Type Three belief system. The intention behind a Type Three belief systems is to prove it. You are going to persuade by presenting facts that support your theory, and disputing facts that don’t support your theory. There is still a shadow of the urge to be right from Type One.
Type Three is the realm of physical sciences, …and facts, …and hypothesis, …and propositions, …and suppositions, …and theories, …and especially physical measuring devices. Did you know that there are measuring devices to measure how accurately other measuring devices measure (the “Science of Metrology”, (“not Meteorology, that’s Weather science”)). An area of science that I have spent several years in with the Aerospace industry.
The mantra of the Type Three believing process is, “What evidence do you have for believing that?” A large part of the Type Three believing process is debating over the evidence. And the only way of settling a Type Three debate is with the measuring devices. And, even that doesn’t always work.
The Type Three process of believing is a factual investigation of the perception of a reality, which, based upon transparent beliefs, is assumed to be real. For example, two Harvard psychologists discovered that when a 100-volt shock is applied the right side of a rat’s cage, the rat moves immediately to the left side of the cage. From the experiment they were able to conclude that rats are intelligent enough to avoid being shocked. After the experiment, one of the psychologists accidentally stumbled and touched the live electrodes. Responding to his screams, the other psychologist, instead of moving away, grabbed the first psychologist and both of them were so severely shocked that they required medical attention. Proving that a rat is smarter than two Harvard psychologists.
Type Three beliefs are based on scientific evidence, which is based on measuring devices, which measure something that is assumed to be real. Science doesn’t so much extend the frontier of human experience, as it extends backward from the frontier of human experience. The Type Three believing system is a maturation with the Type One believing process and the Type Two believing process falls somewhere in between.
So here you have the evolution of the believing process. You have a linear evolvement of child, adolescent, adult.
The material here in vast majority is from a speech given in June 2007, by Harry Palmer, to the International Avatar Course attendees. Star’s Edge International, Altamonte Springs, Florida.
Avatar is about a different “belief system. The Type Four system not to be discussed at this time is the core concepts of the Avatar program that is taught World-Wide by certified Avatar masters.
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Danielle Marie
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