Chapter four takes the trust-faith-abundance triad into the strata of belief. Again, this notion of faith is to be viewed in a secular sense.

Chapter 04
Domain One
STORY
This chapter centers on my first job as a teacher of high school students who had almost zero belief in their ability to learn. The educational system, which no longer believed in them, had asked me, a novice teacher, to warehouse them for a number of hours each week...
WISDOM LITERATURE
Aided by insights about the human condition developed by the Buddha, I end this chapter with a strong assertion: faith and belief in both the learning and the healing process are essential to understanding abundance-scarcity.
SUMMARY
  • Learning occurs on the cusp of our ignorance.
  • Discovering new things is a risky business!
  • Wanting more-than-enough increases our sense of scarcity.
  • Collective belief in abundance transports us from a having to a being state.
  • Wisdom appears when superfluous facts fade away.
  • Now is always the perfect moment to learn what we most need to know.
  • Learning is healing, and healing is awash with learning.
  • It takes a leap of faith to give form to the formless.
  • Daily we rely upon the millions of creatures taking up residence in our bodies.
  • Life depends upon a good measure of both abundance and scarcity.
MUSIC
REFLECTIONS
Is it sacrilegious to use the words faith and belief in such a psychosocial manner?

Learning About Learning

To prepare for lifelong learning, it is important to understand the DNA of learning how to learn.

Collective Beliefs & Support Groups

Communal socio-emotional support leads ot a special kind of abundance.

Collective Beliefs and the Cellular Level

Individual functioning, even at the level of cellular biology, might be wed to how a community reasons and to its collective beliefs.

Learning to Believe and Belief in Learning

Chapter 04
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