About

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The Belief Doctor® is the alter-ego of Steaphen Pirie, Director of the Belief Institute, and author of Be and Become.

This website and blog includes content that diagnoses and improves ‘bodies of belief' in all areas of life including business management and development, innovation, science, religion, politics, psychology, relationships, philosophy, health, spirituality and creativity.1

When the comments section is opened to registered users, this site will be kept as a "True Identity Site", meaning no avatars, false identities, aliases or fake identities will be accommodated for those who contribute or wish to comment.

As was explained, "maybe the first step towards a more connected, saner and caring world is one in which we stop sneaking around (on the Internet), and start being our full, open and genuine selves - the selves we are all capable of being."

Introduction to process

The following list details some of the principles and techniques by which we may analyse belief-systems.

  1. Observe and question
    One of the first freedoms to disappear in frightened, repressed societies is the freedom to ask questions. Questions can engage deep unconscious processes that help initiate change and action.
    Questions such as "what do I really want?" might require significant change in one's life. Socially awkward questions are often avoided in order 'to get along' with friends, family and the community. Generally, the depth of our questioning reflects our capacity for growth.
    a.  Include
    As a corollary of point 1, if we genuinely wish to observe and question, we need to include anomalous phenomena. Anomalous phenomena are examples of how our existing belief-systems are inadequate, incomplete or of limited scope and applicability.
    Presently, the field of quantum physics research offers a rich field of anomalous phenomena which have generally not been incorporated into the mainstream belief-systems of science, religion, politics, psychology and sociology.
    b.  Universality
    Any belief-system that cannot accommodate other belief-systems into one coherent framework of principles is, by definition, not a universal belief-system. Belief-systems such as science and religion are, given their incompatibility, limited localised perceptions of life. Science and religion are "sister belief-systems" in that they both objectify "out there" - they objectify our personal experiences of physical and meta-physical realities (resp.). Note, the term "meta-physical" is by definition that which exists behind, before, after or beyond immediate (observable) physicality (such as our perception and experience of the future).

    As is explained to some extent at this site, mathematical theorems such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Turing's Uncomputability Problem indicate that the root source of physicality (and everyday experiences) cannot be entirely physical. The root source of physicality comprises fluid superpositions of potentials (waves) that cannot be reduced to simple mechanical processes or concepts. It is the fount of creativity and possibility from which our everday world and experiences unfolds.

    Practical applications of this understanding would be, for example, to look beyond the physical brain as being the root source and cause of human behaviour.

    Conversely, application of this understanding would also require accepting the cause for meta-physical phenomena as also having a physical cause (in that physical and meta-physical cannot be completely independent, for otherwise there would be no "connective tissue" joining the two). Thus, spiritual experiences are necessarily related to, caused by, or invited by conscious, physical causes. It follows that we cannot be victims to "things that just happen."

    Clearly, any coherent, comprehensive belief-system needs to include principles that can cover or include both physical and meta-physical dimensions.
  1. Seek and allow
    When we seek to find answers (in response to our questions), we set in motion processes that sharpen our attention, receptiveness and intuitions. However, the resultant intuitions (subtle feelings, odd thoughts) may be consciously avoided or ignored if we are not willing to change. For example, intuitive information connecting with (relating to) future undesired probable events can be ignored if one's belief-system does not include the ability to perceive nonlocal influences and connections ( ... read more).
  2. Act
    'Actions speak louder than words' - an age-old truism that provides testimony to the level of belief in oneself and in our understanding.
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