Are Your Beliefs Serving You?

Did you ever wonder how someone could in one breath talk about spiritual possibilities, and in the next be attacking the beliefs and institutions upon which our world is based? For me it's easy because the system upon which they're all built is broken.

The human mind wants certainty. Either it's this way, or it's not. So we've built a world upon what we think we know, and not necessarily what is so.

Religions have sprung up differing beliefs how to live in relationship with a divine creator. Political systems have formed around the desire to control our destiny, built on fears and beliefs that individual freedoms are a threat to social order (and by extension, that we must dominate other cultures lest their expression infringe on our own). Commercialism, our prevaling economic systems, relies upon a belief that getting for ourselves (profit) outweighs the common good, again believing that some can do or have, and others can't.

What if the underlying beliefs were wrong, or incomplete? That religious views fail to account for a divine plan, or the application of universal laws that bring it about? Or that shifting perspectives might allow us to apply such laws to create our every desire without restricting the ability of others to do the same? If so, there would be no need to assert our wills over other individuals or nations, much less create an economic system with entire classes of those who can't win by its rules.