What Are Prime Beliefs?
In describing prime beliefs we are not talking about the ideas that
we entertain in our heads on a day-to-day basis. We are talking about
assumptions and expectations that we might never think about
consciously or even notice, because they are foundational to the
construction of our experiences in this dimension.
Even gravity and blue skys are not prime beliefs, but acquired
beliefs in these terms, because we have created a reality that does not
involve either - space travel. Prime beliefs are rarely brought to
conscious attention because they are the basic underpinings of how we
think about all these other ideas. [Think of a fish not noticing the water he’s swimming in.]
This means there is a prime belief that straddles these two
realities - an underlying belief that supports both possibilities. What
kind of belief supports both gravity and weightlessness, and blue skies
or starry blackness?
Some
kind of belief in the inherent and extensible responsiveness of the
whole Universe, that supports us in being whoever we think we are, both
on this planet and off it!
Scientists have often mentioned the huge number of things that have
to be just right for our species to inhabit this planet. Everything is exactly
right for us to flourish on this planet! One could be forgiven the
feeling that it is our own requirements as human beings that inform the
blueprints for just about everything else in the known universe. [Turns out anthropocentric and anthropomorphic ideas are perfectly reasonable.]
It is also significant that the number of decimal places we can
perceive going bigger - light years and exploding stars - is about the
same as the number of decimal places we can perceive going smaller;
milli-microns, quarks and electrons. We can ‘see’ about the same
distance in either direction which suggests that we are smack dab in
the perceptual and conceptual centre of our universe.
[The universe emanates from us equally in every conceivable
direction because each of us is the centre of their universe. Put
another way our perception, through our senses, reaches equally far in
whatever direction we point it.]
Kris identified a beginning list of four prime beliefs and challenges us to get more from our neo-conscious minds.
The first four are as follows…
1 - I am who I AM - identity, individuality, point of awareness, unique perspective. [The “I” in the storm of realities we perceive swirling around us.]
2 - My energies will sustain who I AM - whatever is required
to express who I believe myself to be, will be automatically and
effortlessly provided by the universe I perceive around and within me.
3 - Value fulfillment is a done deal - Fulfilling the values
of expanding who we are, along with enjoyment, pleasure and fun are all
at the heart of our being here. [Our lives here are not a chore but a choice.]
4 - The Grid of Perception - Patterns of choices we make about the values and perspectives we are
activating - meanwhile veiling others - in order to express the
experiences we want within this dimension. Other species such as whales
or insects, choose other points on this grid of perception and
consequently are aware of - and not aware of - a different set of
perceptions.
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Acquired Beliefs
As you can see, these first four prime beliefs are not the everyday
concerns of most people. In fact it turns out that the everyday
thoughts of most people are being used to manipulate another category
of influences Kris calls ‘acquired beliefs’.
The prime belief might be that the body consciousness will do
everything it can to support our expression here. The acquired belief,
supported by Official Reality, is that we are doomed to decay with age,
and it’s only a matter of where and when.
This can be confusing for people who look to the outside world for
their understanding, because the outside world will seem to prove this
idea as our bodies start to show signs of this acquired belief in
aging. This is a confirmation though, of our powers to create our own
reality, not proof that what we believe and see the confirmation of, is
a universal truth.
If we look carefully, we can see the prime belief behind this acquired belief, “my body consciousness will sustain who I think I am”. In this case though, ‘who I think I am’ is a decaying oldster and so that is what my body produces for me to experience.
This has more to do with our divine abilities to generate realities
according to our beliefs, than objective proof that these beliefs are
universally true.
Kris is quick to point out that while we cannot do away with prime
beliefs and continue to express ourselves in this dimension, we can
choose different acquired beliefs, and this freedom provides more than
enough leeway for unlimited explorations and value fulfillment.
Thus we can freely exchange our ideas about decaying as we age, for
ideas much more in harmony with our new vision of ourselves. Ideas
about improving with age like a fine wine or a good pair of shoes. [Lots of things get better with maturity, apples for instance!]
In a recent session, Kris offered a powerful new vision of our
potentials in maturity. The difference in our life-skills as we age is
not just quantitative - due to being around longer - it is qualitative!
A mature person in their 50’s or 60’s can manifest things in this world
in a way that differs in quality from the manifestations of a
20-year-old.
[Let me be the first to admit that the rapid bursts of energy manifested by a 20-year-old have their own charm, but are qualitatively different from the sustained, strategic expressions and patient knowingness of maturity.]
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Let’s Expand Our List of Prime Beliefs
There have to be a fair number of prime beliefs, although Kris has
indicated that their number is finite. My suggestion is that we take up
this challenge and come up with a list of prime beliefs we can all
share.
Sort of like distributed processing, taking advantage of unused
cycles of millions of people’s computers, and turning that unused
potential into a super-computer.
[I see a website where people can enter their troubling acquired
beliefs and be led to the likely underlying prime beliefs. Then they
are offered a range of alternate acquired beliefs - and supporting
media - more in line with their preferences.]
Here is my first attempt to formulate some prime beliefs to add to our list.
The Circle of Life / Cycles of Life
There has to be something about rhythmic changes that is inherent in
our reality, like waves washing onto a beach for instance. I am
thinking here of day and night, the seasons, and the whole “circle of
life” thing. There is a natural pulsation about reality that must be
related to a prime belief. Our daily patterns of waking, sleeping, and
dreaming fit in here too.
Body Consciousness Supports Perception via 5 Senses, ergo all of Physical Reality
Certainly something about the body consciousness supporting our
reality creation activities, although this may be a subset of point
two. Taking it back a layer or two, maybe the prime belief is that the
body will correctly interpret our energy and generate an appropriate
external reality that metaphorically out-pictures our inner
representations.
Reality Is Always a Meaningful, Metaphorical Abstraction of Self
After all, any particular external reality we create for ourselves
must ultimately involve a lot of arbitrary choices - within appropriate
parameters of course. Each now is a unique arrangement of units of
consciousness, produced for us, by us in that moment.
Just that particular blue of the sky, that particular feeling in our
stomach, in short the whole unending sequence of effortless, immaculate
creativity we engage in. The whole ‘serendipitous happenstance’ that we
think of as our lives, as it rolls out endlessly before us.
JOHN: I do have a question but it kind of changes the
topic, but I guess we’re ready for that. You said recently that it
would pay us very, very handsomely to do a little bit of a study of
what prime beliefs were as opposed to acquired beliefs. And I’m picking
up the gauntlet there and I’m saying, “Yes!” I’m going to make a list.
I threatened to do this at the time, if you recall!
MARK: (Chuckling) Yep! I do.
JOHN: So prime beliefs, I’m starting to get a feeling of what they
are as opposed to acquired beliefs and I just wondered if you were
willing to help with that a little bit.
KRIS: Do feel free to continue.
JOHN: I want a list of the prime beliefs!
(Group laughter)
MARK: In alphabetical order!
MYRNA: And are you ready to write?
JOHN: I’ll start you out: one of them is that I shall have a
functioning physical body that operates autonomically for the most
part. There’s one prime belief.
KRIS: We would say that the first prime belief is that you are who you are.
JOHN: Ah. All right.
KRIS: Without this, your sense of self would be scattered and excessively fragmented.
JOHN: Sure, you need some kind of a place to put all of this.
MARK: A reference point.
JOHN: There you go!
KRIS: Indeed! That particular point of attention. Secondly: And just
as — and this is not in order of importance, because this is AS
important as believing who you are — is that your energies will
manufacture all of the necessary ingredients to sustain, maintain and
nurture the experiences of who you are. Thus, all of physical reality
in the way it is experienced in classic terms belongs to that category.
Without the notion of a reality to sustain who you are, who you are may
not necessarily unfold. So it is part of your energies. We have
referred, often, to your material energies.
JOHN: Yes.
KRIS: That is a prime belief.
JOHN: Okay. That’s excellent.
KRIS: Now what else do you think belongs there? Taking into consideration these two elements.
JOHN: “I am who I am” and “my energies will sustain who I am.”
KRIS: Indeed. That second one, sustaining who you are of course
includes what you call Earth, the galaxies, everything about life as
you experience it through your senses.
MYRNA: The belief that it will all be there and it will sustain. I have it.
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: I think that the third one for me would be that as I change
and allow who I am to change, then that will be confirmed. In other
words, this is static, but there is a process going on here and as who
I am changes, then the material reflection of that changes.
KRIS: Indeed, therefore as your physical expression grows, matures
and transforms through various stages and states of life, the whole of
material reality, physical reality, meets your challenge and growth and
provides the elements to stimulate that growth.
JOHN: Right, now I’m not sure that’s getting to be terribly different from the second one, is it?
KRIS: A slight variation.
BARBARA: I have one I think: In the “Heal the Broken Heart” workshop
you were saying that we all have the right to be happy. Would that be
another?
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: Value fulfillment.
KRIS: All of these, which comprise as you have said, value fulfillment, happiness, joy, love and so on and so forth.
JOHN: Excellent. Okay, so we’re making real progress here!
KRIS: Indeed. These are often referred to as your heritage, your birthright.
JOHN: These prime beliefs?
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: Okay, so shall we proceed?
KRIS: Indeed. Now, all of these and many more or interwoven into what you call “the Grid.”
JOHN: This is what we call it?
KRIS: It has been referred to as “the Grid.” You are familiar with this: the Grid of Perception.
—Kris - Political Storms - September 14, 2008