TRUSTING AND BELIEVING

Trusting and believing is not easy for anyone and is becoming more difficult today, as we now live in a very challenging world, but there remain many decent people, who are worthy of trust and accordingly we can believe in them.

The challenging times we have been living in have taken us into the very dark places of the soul, in terms of suffering and to living and moving instinctively rather than reflectively so the question arises, how do we overcome ?

The first thing in the idea, and practice of overcoming is awareness, no longer denying the enormity of the experiences of the pandemic, and the whole chaotic society, that has ruptured and without our knowledge or permission has drastically changed our world into a chaotic and unsteady place, taking us more and more into a world where we live through the use of devices and increasingly have more difficultly finding a human to talk us through procedures.

The word device conjures up, in my mind the notion of corruption, and included in this is the idea of ‘underhand deals’ It is true of course that devices whether of the technical type or the means of a plan to bring something to pass or not necessarily bad, but we need information and means of evaluation if we are to believe in them and trust their authors.

In my experience, reflection and observation It seems that the aforementioned circumstances have made us distrustful of ourselves and of others to an almost paranoid degree, so we need to restore our belief and trust in ourselves before we can move forward.

Recently I heard of a person who has received an invitation into a prestigious organisation, that outlined the gifts required for membership in a very high end way, instead of being delighted they began wondering who they were talking about and how on earth did they get chosen? Considering this I could see that the person concerned had lost trust and belief in themselves, and needed to seek this out again, in order to be of service to others.

The core of our being is fed on our experiences and nurturing from the beginning of life and even after much suffering it may be possible to access and know our qualities for living a useful life sometimes with the help of others. Indeed we must help ourselves and be balanced in order to have something to give to others.

Human beings need contact with other human beings in real time in order to restore their trust and belief in themselves and others yet society would appear to be pushing a more and more ‘stand to the back’ ‘device to the front’ approach, even as I write I am wondering about all the stink that could be occurring behind the devices. I know that people’s devices are part of their personality and selfish untutored desires such as the desire for power.

It is interesting that in the awful chaos of the pandemic, and global suffering the powers that control broken institutions would, and did consider and bring into power further changes removing human contact without devices. The closure of the bank on the street is a case in point.

The story of Aladdin and the treasure comes to mind each of us has treasure however cloaked it may appear to others at first!

USE IT FOR GOOD! GO ON SEARCH IT OUT!