Materialism and human belief

May 17, 2025 - 18:41 Updated: May 18, 2025 - 16:26

Material reality and human belief are what determine the  shape and feel of what we sense and experience every minute around us.

  1. Material reality is what would exist around us without human intervention. Raw nature, primordail and pristine. 
  2. What we actually see and expereince is what the world has become after centuries of human intervention and action on nature.
  3. Material reality and human beliefs acting upon each other - these  together produce what we call reality as it exists and as it exists today. The reality around us is a continuously changing and could be called a work in progress. Other than natural forces, the principal agent of change is the human being. 
  4. But material reality is different from belief. One is concrete and exists in the sphere of what we experience through our sense perceptions. Belief is immaterial, abstract and is an expression of what we believe in  But it is not material, it cannot be touched or weighed or felt. It exists only in our minds. It is an act of faith. 
  5. Belief is a truth yearning to materialise itself through human agency. It is an unborn child waiting for birth. A truth before its time, and urged on by historical forces acting in the realm of possibility. A kind of predawning. Any historical event manifests itself only after signals of its arrival have been heard clear, a knocking on the door. 
  6. Belief is very different from imagining something and defilitely not day dreaming. These have no serious intent behind them and should be discarded at first sight. Belief is something which is based on an xray vision into the future, and a reality based hope with quantum connections to possible worlds. This hope gives belief its stamina to continue forward. That is why true belief never falters until the goal is within grasp.
  7. If what you call belief is always successful, is there not a danger of it being misused for selfish  purposes? There is one ocndition which prevents it. It works only for a good purpose. The person who operates this effort cannot benefit himself/herself, only for others. In otherwords this effort must be for a good purpose, not a selfish one, otherwise it fails.