What is the difference between belief and knowing? Belief is accepting someone else’s words or explanation as truth, whereas knowing is having the experience yourself. Believing is giving your power away, knowing is empowering. When you have experienced something yourself – felt the physicality of it and the emotions that came with it – there is no doubt in your mind at all that it happened. Belief may have to be revised, if it for instance turns out that the person you believe has lied or twisted the truth. How can you ever be totally certain that they have told you the exact truth unless you have experienced it yourself? And how can we base our lives on someone else’s belief when we have never experienced what we are supposed to believe?
There are many examples of this in society. Teachers in school teach history for instance – a history which has been changed and coloured by those in power to leave them blameless of any wrongdoing. The teachers know no better than that the history books tell the truth, because that is what they were taught themselves, and so they teach their pupils what they believe to be the truth. Very little of what we have been taught now turns out to be the truth however. The second world war for instance was planned, manipulated and engineered by the cabal and funded by the US federal reserve, in an attempt to gain more power, money and for population control – something you won’t find in any of the history books, nor would many people even believe it if you were to tell them. Humanity has been used, abused and duped for centuries!
Then there is the mainstream media. The media has been owned, controlled and funded by governments and big business for centuries. The politicians and the CEO’s of big business are controlled by the cabal or even part of the cabal themselves. The media has been used to control how and what we think and believe and will only publish the stories that the cabal wants us to know, which are not only twisted in their favour so they look blameless, but also to make sure that we believe what they want us to believe. As so many people watch the television, they make sure that only those programs that they deem suitable are aired – programs that discourage independent thought. TV has been used for decades to dumb us down. News bulletins are biased and negative in the extreme – to control us with fear – and don’t include news that may make us want to fight for our rights. The peaceful Occupy movement for instance, has had very little – if any – coverage, and the protesters are ridiculed and made to look like a bunch of layabouts and upstarts who are out to cause riots and trouble. By forcefully evicting them – something which was covered extensively – they hope to make people side with the police, who are in fact doing the cabal’s dirty work, be it wittingly or unwittingly.
And then – last but not least – there is the system that has had control over what the masses believe for millennia. Religion has been one of the cabal’s most successful systems of control, through the misuse and abuse of truth and teachings brought to this world by spiritual masters like Yeshua. They made sure that the natural ways of living close to nature and the Earth, which had for instance been taught by the Druids, and which empowered people through their own personal experiences, was rooted out by force, replaced by their religious belief system, and enforced through fear.
It is not my intention to give these negative systems or the people who have used them for control over us any more energy than I already have, so I won’t go into this subject any deeper. What I’m hoping to do is open people’s minds to the fact that we don’t know anything for certain unless we’ve experienced it ourselves. Believing and following what other people have told us has put us in the position we are in today – our world needs drastic change if we want to survive. This drastic change can only come about if we start to follow our hearts and live by our own experiences, not by what others tell us. We need to empower ourselves, not give our power away to others. By mentioning religion, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t believe in God. What I am saying is that by searching for and finding your own experience of God in your heart, you will not need to believe – you will know what is true. And if your experience of God isn’t what you were always led to believe, but something much bigger, more loving and more All-encompassing than you ever thought possible, then no belief system will ever again have your power – it will be yours, and yours alone!
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great post and thoughts. They resonate!
Thanks for your comment Amy, I’m glad it resonates with you.
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Great post Gabrielle.
Am thinking that maybe it is to teach me to wait before I comment … perhaps )
My husband saw two golden eagles flying near where we live recently.
( I am still finding it a challenge to leave a comment … I only seem to be able to do so by replying to comments already left. This is not just on your site .. but on others .. so It is most probably more to do with me ..and possibly my comments.
Anyway … really enjoyed this post. We need to find our won ( wow … loving that typo .. I had meant to write `own’ … but truth is hard won at times) truth … in that truth there is freedom and then we can fly like the eagle.
Love your eagle btw.
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Glad you like it Matariki, that’s exactly why I put the eagle on there.
How lucky is that, to see two eagles! I wish they lived in this area, I would love to see them in nature.
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Wow. That was awesome. This exact theme — the difference between ‘belief’ and ‘knowing’ — has been really salient in my life of late, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the subjects you mention (socioeconomics and religion/spirituality). My very ‘devil’s advocate’ brother is visiting right now, and every day something is mentioned/discussed regarding ‘beliefs’. I have said more than once, ‘I don’t BELIEVE anything anymore, anything at all’ to him, primarily when he tried to ‘corner’ me about a probable outcome of future events, things that I HOPE to see happen (but obv do not ‘believe’ will happen necessarily). It’s tricky, I know, but it’s an aspect of discernment that we all must learn/acquire/remember sooner or later, right? Some day I hope to be able to tell him about my ‘knowing’ without triggering a whole mess of dark ego reactions from his over-sensitive personality . . . . .
People like your brother are usually over sensitive Waverider, because they are so insecure about what they ‘believe’ to be true, that they constantly try to ‘prove’ it to others – not because it’s important that you are convinced, but to prove it to themselves and to boost their own ego. If they only realised that the confidence they’re really looking for is to be found in their hearts and their own experiences, they would be able to turn their lives around. The only thing to do is to send them Love and hope that they will find it for themselves.
Thank you for commenting Waverider!
Peace and (((hugs)))
Exactly. You see/feel it so clearly, Gabrielle! This is one reason why I haven’t posted much lately — I’m waiting for when ‘the masses’ start actively SEEKING answers (and acting upon them), versus just my posting tons of info that they don’t pay any attention to. I hope I’ll soon be at it again, enthusiastically.
We all get despondent at times Waverider, but the more energy we put into providing the info, the more our energy will make others look for it. I also feel that way at times, and then I post an article that somehow resonates with others, or has just the right words to make them connect, and suddenly there’s a lot of response, so keep at it! Take this post for instance – I sat down, thinking I wanted to post something that people needed NOW, not knowing what to write about, and this is the result – visits to my blog are higher than ever!
So please don’t feel that you’re not needed – WE ALL need your energy! 
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This is such a good post Gabrielle, one spoken from the heart.. Yes All the above I have come to understand as Truth, And for some who still do not believe I always say believe nothing I say, but go out and find it out for yourselves..
People such as ourselves who have this In-built.. ‘knowing’ some may think oh its easy for us to say, as we feel it within our Being perhaps on that deeper level than others.. But I say I am but an ordinary woman, like the next, who has had her share of doubts and pain, and experience..
Through our experiences we learn and we grow, And for most of my young years like most others we learn from our parents, our teachers and our environment and society..
We follow the ‘herd’ for most part as we have no reason to feel other wise..
But I think there should come a point in everyones lives when we see so much happening in our world that isnt right.. We should Question..
It is only through our Questioning and searching that we discover more..
Once upon a time it was believed that the World was flat. and that to sail across the ocean you would fall off its edge..
It was only through brave explorers who ventured into the Unknown, who were called Crazy and Foolish at that time that it was discovered that there was a Whole New world out there..
So too.. we must look beyond that which we see, as we Trust our inner guidance as we like you say, ‘Take Back our Power’
We need to see that as we reach out beyond that which we are told, We will discover a whole new World waiting for us..
But we need to Trust and live from our Hearts and not be led into the Fear which the Media and others are putting out.. Because they know Fear Controls..
Gabrielle Many thanks for this wonderful post.. Your Heart is on track and together united with many more clear thinking heart loving souls, we can claim our power back..
Love and Blessings Sue xxx
Thank you so much for this lovely comment Sue.
I feel exactly the same…..I’m just another human being doing and writing about what she feels is right – but one who has experienced a lot. It’s that experience that is important – it’s what we learn from, not what we believe. Especially NOW is the time to take our power back, in support of the forces of Light that are trying to bring changes that are necessary for us ALL to start living better lives.
Much Love and (((hugs))) xoxo
thank you for posting. i have often been ridiculed for not watching tv and for being open minded with my relationship with God, i used to engage in heated debates, but i finally learned i have to allow people to be who they are, even when it pains me, i allow my life to represent the change and freedom i wish for others
Good on you Shantelle!
I’ve been ridiculed for years as well, but I’m so very pleased to be who I am, that I don’t care what anyone says. I’ve found such riches of spirit because of following my own path, that I wouldn’t have it any other way. Those who ridicule us are usually frightened of being different from the crowd.
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