What I am getting at is that having an effective method, and putting in the required effort are how you develop abilities.
I've got tons of friends, that are into magick who think this next spell is going to let them influence reality to the degree they need to win the lottery, or hollow out a mountain full of dwarf *** slaves and an army of undead skeletons and demons to bring about the apocalypse.
Reality doesn't work like that.
People who have amazing abilities worked for it, they also had systems that allowed to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps, they didn't wake up one morning believing it and poof they were rich, or geniuses, or brilliant musicians, or polygots, or polymaths, etc.
Everything has a price, everything. There is no free lunch.
Arnold didn't get muscles by thinking about getting muscles really hard.
The practices of the masters I study, work irregardless of what you believe religiously, spirituality or philosophically.
The only thing you have to provide is the hard work, and diligent training and meditation.
That's what I am getting.
Adder wrote: Ooops I posted in the other thread...
maynoth wrote:
I can believe I can fly, I can be even confident in that belief, doesn't make it so.
I dont understand the relevance of that statement. No-one is saying belief is proof, rather its connection to action. You can fly, you'll just fail miserably at it.
maynoth wrote:
Confidence doesn't give you muscular strength, your training does.
Confidence is an important part of all decision making, without it most nothing can be achieved and absolutely nothing can be achieved with professionalism.
So I think belief plays an important role in all decision making, usually existing as small influences to assist the decision making process. Perhaps serving as short cuts for decision making where a topic might not be accurate but is accurate enough to assist in shaping your decisions. When beliefs becomes bigger and more complex they can start to become weaker due to the nature of the assumptions contained in that particular belief. So it makes me wonder that it might be important to carefully reconsider our beliefs from time to time to make sure we are not being done an injustice by them, or are using them incorrectly.
