Book of Mormon Musical Trashes Beliefs
Are beliefs valid?
My wife and I saw The Book of Mormon on Broadway on Sunday. Yes, it was funny. And the source of most of its humor was exposing the fallacy of beliefs — all beliefs.
Michael Singer says: A belief is not a holy thing. It’s a thought you decided to hold onto in your mind. You’re building your solidity on a belief.
He says that’s what Jesus meant when he said: Don’t build your house on sand.
The rationale of all this being that the mind decides on its beliefs with only the limited information of its experiences. That true spirituality resides in consciousness, not the mind, not beliefs.
Okay. Okay. But aren’t beliefs helpful if they get you through difficult times? Like I remember during my career change from lawyer to musician, living alone in New York City, not being able to get a gig even when charging only twenty-five bucks. And imagining each night that I was being held in the palm of God’s hand. It got me to sleep. Isn’t that worth something?
I guess most of us depend on beliefs of one kind or another — until we don’t need them anymore.