A2- Sunday, June 20, 1982 - North Shore News

known as faith.

A word as loaded as
“faith” has to be broached
carefully. Its too easy to
confuse with dogma = or
doctrine.

Most of what passes for
faith is nothing much more
than memorization, like
learning your multiplicauon
table so that it clicks to mind
effortlessly for the rest of
your life.

I was raised as a Roman
Catholic and so I tend, as a
lapsed Catholic, to be rather
paranoid about the idea of
faith.

strictly personal

_by Bob Hunter

Have faith -it works

SOMETHING that doesn’t get discussed much
anywhere except in church is the state of mind

Being forced to recite the
questions and answers in the
Catechism unul they were
thoroughly impmnted on my
brain scarcely adds up to
real faith, at least not in my
estimation.

With all due respect for
Catholics, and a bow in the
directon of their mght to
beheve what they want, I
think you do have to dif-
ferentiate between faith and
behef.

Beliefs are passive. I can
beheve the world is round,
when it isn't (it's shghtly egg

shaped), and it doesn’t
change the shape of the
world one iota.

Faith is the opposite. Faith
can move mountains. It’s an
actual force of some kind.

I was told several years
ago by a Tibetan Buddhist
monk that faith by ttself
doesn't work unless you have
confidence.

That's a very big factor.
But’ whatever the exact
psychological mix, the fact
of life that seems to me to be
the most important to learn

1s that you do create the
world around you.
We are not, after all,

“strangers and afraid, in a
world we never made.” We

re-make the world every
day. Each of us. And we do
it down to the most inumate
details.

A Nobel laureate, Eugene
Wigner, put it as well as
anybody when he said: "The
movion of matter is thought
to be not influenced by
consciousness, even though
consciousness is) obviously
influenced by the motion of
matter......

“It seems more hkely,
however, that this view is
incorrect and that living

matter is actually influenced
by what it influences:
consciousness.”

By the word “faith” I mean
the vehicle through which
this basic telepathic
tinkering that we all con-
stantly do with the environ-
ment around us is_ con-
sciously brought to bear.

At a certain level, Norman
Vincent Peale had it mght
when he said that the answer
is positive thinking. And
Hayden Stewart understands
it perfectly when he says: Be
the change you want to see

Last laugh is on W. Van grads

IT MAY all just be done in
moments of exuberance, but
West Vancouver police have
had about enough of the
problems they are having to
deal with arising from
celebrations and pranks by

Last week the police were
again wondering what kind
of weekend was in store for
them and were threatening
to clamp down on grads the

same way as with other
people who get out of hand.

“Grad activities are
keeping us very busy —
minor vandalism, kids racing
around in cars and that sort
of thing,” a spokesman told
the News.

“When there is damage
left behind we are obligated
to follow it up so it’s pretty
hard to look upon it as a
prank.

Tos ere,

“Parties tend to get out of
hand at this time of year
because of uninvited guests.
Neighbors can only tolerate
so much noise and in-
convenience and we have to
take action.”

The spokesman added: “It
may be a great party and a
festive occasion for the

students but unfortunately, if
they are irresponsible we
have to treat it as we would

any other type of crime, as
other people are often af-
fected — neighbors,
property owners and traffic
victims.”

He summed up: “We
appreciate it is grad time but
we have a responsibility to
ensure that peace is kept.”

happen.

Faith, in the sense that I
mean it, is a psychic arm, if
you hike, reaching out and
tampering with events.

Put it this way: I once
remember telling a man that
it was a good thing | hadn't
showed up at a certain place
at a certain ame because
something awful had hap-
pened there that day.

His reply -- this guy was
wise -- was that if I had been
there, it might have been
different. The “bad” thing
might not have happened.

If this sounds like oc-
culnism, | guess in a diluted
sort of way, it is, assuming
that anything not = im-
mediately verifiable through
accepted empirical methods
is “occult.”

One statement

that im-

pressed me many years ago
was to the effect that a little
attention to the occult
produced great karmic
dividends.

Since it is not scientific,
the phenomenon of faith
must surely fall under the
heading of the weird or
mystic -- especially if anyone
makes the claim that it
works.

But to tell you the truth, I
would make just that claim.

Have faith. Be confident.
There's a very good chance
you'll win.

And if you want to verify
this, look at the people who
are at the top of the ladder.
They have faith in them-
selves, if nothing else. What
more do you need? And they
are confident.

It works.

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