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and use promo code breath to get started. Welcome back. We continue on faith. And today's focus is on the concept of belief.

I say this with a little hesitation because I know it annoys people, but in my view,

belief is a cover-up for insecurity. If I asked you, do you believe in electricity, you would say, that's a silly question. I use electricity to listen to this podcast. Today we can't even survive without electricity.

Or if I asked you, do you believe in gravity?

That would be a silly question as well.

If something is real, you don't need to believe in it. You need to experience it and

understand it and know it. That's why belief is not necessarily a good thing because it can anchor you into a system of thought that may not be true, that may be only partially true, that may be only partially true, that may be a myth. In fact, in my view, most

religion is cultural mythology, mostly invented in the Bronze Age.

And so if we believe in the strict interpretation of religious decks,

we'll realize that they don't actually match our understanding of the world or of the universe.

So my opinion on belief is, if you have a strong belief about something, ask yourself,

is this belief true? Why do I think it's true? What does holding on to this belief do to me? Does it

constrict my awareness or does it expand my awareness?

Who would I be without this belief?

Are there alternate beliefs to the ones that I hold on to? When you start this kind of self-reflection,

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