Experiencing your dreams and desires isn’t about faith and belief. It’s about confidence and determination. You don’t lose faith in something if it doesn’t happen, you lose confidence that it will happen. Quite simply, you stop being determined to experience whatever it is that you were focused on.

Belief and faith are built on hope, muddled focus, and weakness. Confidence and determination are built on unquestioned choice, supreme focus, and inner power.

Belief and faith suggest a hope that something will come to pass. Confidence and determination suggest knowledge of a foregone conclusion.

Inspirational metaphysical teacher Neville Goddard was fond of saying that “Whatever you desire, if you will but believe you already have received it, you will.”

Human beings are beings of physical presence. We exist in a physical reality of three dimensions. We find it hard to believe in anything that we can’t see, hear, or feel. Having said that, there is one area of the invisible that a great many people do have seemingly inexhaustible faith and belief in: religion

Having faith (believing) in a God is very easy for some people. In fact, a great deal of money can be made from religion, and whole nations can blindly worship mythical beings of unlimited power and condemnation.

The fact of the matter is this: religion is based purely on weakness.

There is a very simple reason why some people find it easy to believe in a mythical supreme being watching over planet Earth: pain.

For example, when we look at many ‘born again’ Christians, we see that prior to ‘finding God’, these people had hit rock bottom in their lives. Perhaps they had previously suffered from some sort of addiction, or perhaps they had suffered a bereavement. In many cases, a person has just been diagnosed with some sort of life-threatening disease such as cancer, and turns to God for comfort.

Many are simply lost and alone, unable to cope with the everyday stresses and strains of everything from marriage break-ups to not being able to find a decent job.

Every single person following a religion today may seem different or unique, however all of them share one simple thing in common: every single person that turns to religion for help, guidance, or comfort does so because he or she is measuring a lack of inner purpose.

Each being of conscious awareness exists in this reality for one reason: to measure a sense of purpose. What is meant by measuring a sense of purpose?

Every time you feel loved, you are recording a sense of importance and relevance, which contribute to your overall inner measurement of a sense of purpose. Every time you are praised for a job well done, you are recording a sense of importance and relevance, which contribute to your overall master measurement of an inner sense of purpose.

Every time you are able to afford anything you desire, you are recording a sense of freedom and power, both of which contribute to you personal inner measurement of a sense of purpose….however, every time you feel powerless or helpless, restricted or confined, unloved and unappreciated, unwanted or addicted, you are experiencing feelings that take away from your overall master measurement of your inner sense of purpose.

When you put ‘God’ or some other religious figure above you, you are giving up the power that is yours to command.

Most people who find religion feel powerless to begin with, and so look to another in order to give them inner strength or outside help.

The problem is that you will never find the power you are looking for if you seek it outside of yourself.

The concept of ‘God’ is man-made, and it is one borne from the inability to recognise the true source of the power to shape our experience of reality.

The power to shape our individual experiences of reality resides within you and I. We are the ones measuring purpose. We are the ones who determine the values which are assigned to those measurements.

When considering who or what is the source from which all consciously aware beings originate, do not focus on an image of an all-powerful being in white, judging and condemning amid the sparkling splendour of a gleaming heaven above.

Picture instead an image of something that simply is, existing in all places and ‘time’ as one, a multidimensional concept exploring one simple question: What is my purpose?

You and I are individualised aspects of that one whole multidimensional concept which has projected itself into a three dimensional reality, governed by space and time, in order to measure itself.

It, and we the individualised aspects of it, are the ultimate power. We are the one being measured, and yet we are also the ones performing the individual measurements.

When you think of God, think of yourself and the one question hardwired into every individual born across the universe:

What is my purpose?

When you think of an all powerful being capable of generating our universe and everything it contains, recognise your true point of origin, and your continued connection to it.

In a reality separate from our own, a multidimensional consciousness asked a question, and from one intention to explore the answer to that question, an entire reality was created.

Recognising that you are an individualised aspect of the multidimensional consciousness that generated our local three-dimensional space-time reality will replace hope and prayer with power and choice.

Test your power by declaring an intention. Test your power by envisioning your goals as achieved. Use your imagination as the inner blueprint for your outer experience of reality. Do these things, and you will no longer need to attempt to generate belief and faith.

Confidence and determination are built on unquestioned choice, supreme focus, and inner power. That inner power is waiting to be used by you.

Source: http://metobserver.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/why-religion-belief-and-faith-will-never-connect-you-with-your-dreams/

This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan

Incidents which occur with regularity in hero-myths of all cultures:

1. Hero’s mother is a royal virgin;

2. His father is a king, and

3. Often a near relative of his mother, but

4. The circumstances of his conception are unusual, and

5. He is also reputed to be the son of a god.

6. At birth an attempt is made, usually by his father or his maternal grand father to kill him, but

7. he is spirited away, and

8. Reared by foster -parents in a far country.

9. We are told nothing of his childhood, but

10. On reaching manhood he returns or goes to his future Kingdom.

11. After a victory over the king and/or a giant, dragon, or wild beast,

12. He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor and

13. And becomes king.

14. For a time he reigns uneventfully and

15. Prescribes laws, but

16. Later he loses favor with the gods and/or his subjects, and

17. Is driven from the throne and city, after which

18. He meets with a mysterious death,

19. Often at the top of a hill,

20. His children, if any do not succeed him.

21. His body is not buried, but nevertheless

22. He has one or more holy sepulchres.

Here is the deities and how they measure up with “The Hero”

Deity / Hero & their (points):

Krishna (21)

Moses (20)

Romulus (19)

King Arthur (19)

Perseus (18)

Jesus (18)

Watu Gunung of Java (18)

Heracles (17)

Mohammad (17)

Beowulf (15)

Buddha (15)

Zeus (14)

Nyikang, a cult-hero of the Shiluk tribe of the Upper Nile (14)

Samson (13)

Sunjata, the Lion-King of Ancient Mali (11)

Achilles (10)

Odysseus (8)

Harry Potter (8)

Czar Nicholas II (14)