We Want to Believe
by Dan Schultz, DC
Miracle drugs? Doctors with God complexes? Wonders of Modern Medicine?
There is so much around us and within us that is awesome.
No science can explain, let alone reproduce, the miracle of conception. No academician can ever approach, and certainly not exceed, the magnificent design of nature. No laboratory can grasp nor improve upon, the unexplainable wonders of life‘s workings. The most advanced computers in the world cannot come close to what one human child can do with his mind. Our scientists have created amazing robots, but not one can perform as well as a human hand. Life is the only true mystery.
Have you gained any sense of the mysterious, divine, unknown, or unknowable?
It has been said that it is inherent in all men to seek that which is greater than themselves. Awed and humbled, we are more connected with whatever one defines as God or spirit.
We want to believe.
The desire to believe is so strong that those who believe in nothing thing will fall for anything.
And magicians are there to trick us by fooling the senses
And drug dealers are there to tempt us through false ecstasy
And scientist are there to amaze us with technological complexity
And companies are there to profit from selling us fear, then comfort.
And authorities are there to force compliance by exploiting our ignorance.
There’s a part of each of these professionals that is well aware that you want to believe. They will gladly bring their wares to your door, billboards, books, televisions, radios, newspapers, all around you -- so there‘s no need to look for the true beauty in life. They will sell you something that should be free by appealing to your imagination, gullibility, or ignorance. The cost? Money, sure enough. But, as psychologists tell us, it is human nature to do it for power, control and the need to be right.
If they repeat anything long enough, most others will begin to say it, too. They know that if most people begin to repeat it, it becomes an accepted truth.
Indeed, to err is human, but our most grievous errors are confusing the things of man and earth as divine.
If you have ever believed in things such as vaccines, you may want to ask yourself: Why?
