Contemplative Perspective of Belief.

Belief in practical terms is what one finds true. The mind is constantly making a picture of how the world works and applies such to every action. One can think of belief as simple as the application of word and concept to observations or sensory experience. Red is a color, this is a belief. Yet belief can become very complex and exist subconsciously and precognitive, a priori is a term used for the structure of belief that gives continuance to life.
A great deal of belief is subconscious, prior to thought, and doesn't usually come into question because such is generally agreed upon. We don't have to think about our beliefs about how our body functions in space in order to exist in space without difficulty. We know about the fundamental properties of being just by being, there is no requirement to comprehend belief in order for such to work.
Then there are metaphysical considerations of belief, of which logic can create quite a infallible system of understanding from. One prime example is how belief is a part of memory, which functions involuntarily at an incomprehensible speed. Memory is mostly mystery, although we can come to the logical conclusion that in one form or another memory is a pattern of energy stored somehow in the mind. We can watch the brain light up and create a physical phenomena when memory is accessed, yet how the details of memory exist in the space of our mind is mysterious. For me simply understanding that belief exists in the smallest form as energy, or certain vibrational signatures that generate an electrodynamic pulse, is plenty enough to form logical absolution.
The idea that everything is wrapped in a fog of the unknown adds a certain property to considering metaphysical principles of life that doesn't seem to cause any interference with my process of deduction. When speaking of energy and what such is I refer to my ideas of geometry, symbolism and the realm of thought we call analogy. In a world where relativity is an accepted phenomena considering metaphysics through analogy doesn't appear to be any sort of stretch to me. Words can represent things, things can be symbolic for concepts, we take an idea and use such in a creative expression that adds emotion or individual context, all of this is analogy, looking at one phenomena by means of another.
When I say that belief is energy and energy can be related to sound and geometry I am getting into to fundamentals of belief of a very minute scale, a scale where everything is energy. Geometry is a very interesting way to consider such, although equally interesting can be sound to one who is more familiar with the inner life of sound. Geometry can give us a visual model of how patterns of energy might exist, although beyond ones individual logic there can be no real observation. We could record the waves of sound coming from the electrical signal given off when a belief is initiated and then turn such into a 3-D model and potentially find a certain shape relative to certain geometric principles. We could also take the signature of energy we can see by observing the brain and crunch numbers until we have tangible properties of belief, memory, or thought. In neither of these type of experiments are we interacting on the scale that such is happening, we are never directly observing what is happening, for we are always sustaining our own beliefs along side of that we would be seeking in data.
In my life I have observed how changes in my beliefs have changed how I interact with the world. At some points the shift in beliefs has lead to changes in feeling, thought, or response to what would previously come into and out of existence without notice. Perhaps before a person can be conscious of underlying beliefs there needs to be inner truth established, a system of logic where one can derive understanding from experience without needing any direct influence besides such. In expressing my idea of belief prior to discussing my experience with how truth operates I hope that there is a point of reference for why having inner truth established is so important to perception.
How we see the world around us, what we bring our attention to and how such is taken into account and responded to, or ignored, is an expression of our beliefs. Yet if our beliefs are constantly being changed according to our sensory experience and not our actual conscious acknowledgment, then we aren't always in control of our beliefs. As a result how we act is not always who we are in essence, but what we have experienced. This fits in wonderfully with the idea of belief on the smallest scale of having structure as being a pattern of energy. For we are at all times bombarded with the patterns that exist quietly within all things around us.
The mind observes everything as data, the subject or consciousness observes everything as sensation. To the brain gravity is a constant force that creates a system of belief which allows us to forget that gravity exists most of the time. When taken into a practical consideration we might believe that gravity is so and so percent and there for the terminal velocity of decent for an object is so and so, and so on. Our deductions from observation are on a completely different depth of comprehension then at that which belief is truly operating.
All of the objective world consists of physical energy patterns which have a specific structure that corresponds to the beliefs imprinted on such. At the same time though we have an imprint that effectively set in motion all else to follow. Gravity is a very large pattern of energy that exists equally throughout all of the universe, when we leave the planet we do not leave the energetic pattern of belief that is gravity. In fact we carry around such a perfect picture of how reality operates according to the subtle patterns that no matter where we go we carry around a foundation of belief.
Someone believed that when they hit two rocks together they made sparks, and when sparks touched wood they made fire. Of course observation lead to that belief and very well it should have, for without a complete structure to build our current model of beliefs upon, well who knows what would happen? The inherent patterns of belief are such that they exist before ever having any context, even if such is created by human interaction with our environment. There is nothing that says we cannot somehow change these original fundamentals that initiated our current awareness of being. If belief is energy, and energy is also the substance of matter, working upon forces that are also patterns of energy, then in theory the mind, which has the quality of transmuting energies from one form to another, could potentially alter patterns of belief. This of course is a little off topic, but in describing what belief is, and digging into the depths of how such interacts with everything, letting the proverbial cat out of the bag was just a matter of time.
Getting back on track to the train