Belief
* All beliefs are human creations, which can be accepted, rejected or modified by people as they wish.
* Most beliefs affect survival.
* Most beliefs have concepts
  - roots
* Some beliefs actually function as fact and govern our values.
* Some beliefs are like blinders, shutting off the power to choose one's own direction
  - rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world
  - govern our relations with each other
  - relate to death
  - weaken a child's selfhood
* Some beliefs weaken a person's self hood
  - self-hood
  * A 'belief' firm thought that something is true, often based on revelation. Belief is usually a part of belonging to a religion. It is different to scientific knowledge that can be tested, but belief is not able to be tested. For example, a person may believe in God or gods
* act as self-fulfilling prophecies that influence all our behaviors.
* add to the number of children in orphanages.
* affect actions
* affects behavior and behavior affects the body.
* allow the mind to stop functioning.
* also become more resistant to change as children grow older.
* always influences behavior.
* are basic 'assumptions' of right and wrong
  - beliefs and art is art
  - content
  - decisive in shaping children's choices from friends to lifestyle
  - essentially tied to action-they contribute to the production of behavior
  - generalizations about how the world is
  - habits of action, a determination to act in some specific way
  - important to many people in the world today
  - located in human minds
  - oriented towards protection of the body
  - part of faith
  - particular matters that individuals consider to be true or false
  - powerful engines that drive autonomic and automatic behavior
  - relative and vary from religion to religion, culture to culture
  - sacred only to the extent that they remain private
  - subjective emotions and expectations
* are the bedrock upon which all experience is built
  - deep rooted beliefs that a person holds dear
  - prearranged, organized filter to our perceptions of the world
  - primary source of our attitudes, reactions, feelings, and behavior or actions
  - products of primitive minds
  - rails on which lives run
* are what divide people
  - people hold to be true, or what they believe to be facts
* become facts.
* can also change ways of life
  - change in response to new information and experiences
  - greatly determine what happens to a person and how they handle their health problems
  - hurt people just as much as actions
* cause the mind to stop functioning
  - trust
* certainly influence expectations and ways of interpreting phenomena.
* change naturally and organically as people align with their goals and values.
* combined with values drive the actions of each individual.
* come from experience
  - to be seen as facts through folk wisdom, propaganda, myths, superstitions
* comes with the kinds of prayer that are manifest in action.
* concerning guardian spirits vary among the various tribal cultures.
* counts as knowledge when it corresponds to some kind of reality.
* creates reality
  - substance
* denotes that the person involved actually supposes the fact in question to be true.
* determine all of our experiences
  - happiness or the lack of it
* differ from both truth and values.
* drive anger or pain
* form the center of all of our behaviors.
* forms the greatest part of our perceptions.
* frequently play a vital role in the kinds of art produced.
* generate thoughts and emotions, which create experiences.
* give rise to reality.
* have a fundamental effect on the ability to act and on how things are done
  - impact
  - interest
  - objects, that is beliefs are generally about something
  - references
  - the power to create and the power to destroy
* influence behavior
  - events
  - major events
* is at the basis of attitudes and opinions
  - belief, by definition
  - concerned with revealed truths which are inaccessible to reason alone
  - encounter with what is real and true
  - freedom
  - ignorance
  - nothing but a state, an internal, represntation that governs behavior
  - religion's sizing chart
  - seen as hope, doubt is seen as fear
  - very important in healing
  - when someone else does the thinking
* occurs through faith.
* often give a foundation for values.
* point on a continuum of knowledge from no knowledge to absolute knowledge.
* rule over our emotions, which in turn determine our behaviors and actions.
* starts where knowledge ends.
* tend to be self-fulfilling.