School of Convergence: Power of Faith !!!

The Hindus have created a rich, complex mythology which is still very much alive. Hundreds of millions of people continue to believe in the multitudes of gods which inhabit the Hindu pantheon. This tapestry of religion is the result of millennia of integration. The Indian sub-continent has been a crossroad for several cultures, and the Indian people have incorporated numerous ideas from different faiths. - excerpts from "Hindu mythology"by Bernard Doyle

Wikipedia says - Faith can refer to a religion, or to belief in one or more deities. It has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually:

To trust:
- To commit oneself to act based on self experience to warrant belief, but without absolute proof.^[1] Mere belief on the basis of evidence is not faith. To have faith involves an act of will. For example, many people saw Blondin walk across the gorge below Niagara Falls on a tightrope, and believed (on the basis of the evidence of their own eyes) that he was capable of carrying a man on his back safely across. But only his manager Harry Colcord had enough faith to allow himself to be carried.
- Believing a certain variable will act or has the potential to act a specific way despite the potential influence and probability of known or unknown change.
  - To have faith that one's spouse will keep a promise or commitment.
  - To have faith that the world will someday be peaceful.
  - To have faith that a person will pay you back.
  - To have faith that you will be okay despite adversity.
  - To have faith in one's full dependence on the will of supernatural forces or deities.
To believe without reason:
- Believing impulsively, or believing based upon social traditions or personal hopes.
A means to assume belief in something.
- To have faith in a process. (Faith in the Law)
- To have faith in a source or resource. (Faith your pay check or employment)
- To have faith in a method to obtain. (work hard, lie, cheat, buy, trade, be attractive, etc.)
- To have faith in the pathway to a specific desire. (The fastest way to a man's heart is his stomach.)
  - Faith is the development of pathways through doubt. With certain resistances to life, wishing to obtain more life force cause us to develop means and methods to overcome the resistance. For example: With the development of farming and grocery stores the ability to get necessary food has became easier, takes less time and allows for more living. Everyone still has to eat, but the means of obtainment has shifted. Our forefathers used to pray to God for a good crop, as that was part of their faith. Many farmers still do that for us, but now many us pray that the paycheck hits the bank before the cable bill.
  - When something is wanted and there stands doubt between your current condition of need and the thing desired, systems of faith are employed. A person will first work existing pathways already established by faith. If they fail, they will seek to develop other pathways by faith, not knowing for sure if the path they pursue will provide the object they seek.
  - The desire for things dominates the application of faith. Many of those actively applying faith to specific pathways seek less tangible things, such as love, peace, harmony, or even eternal life. Faith is an individual path. Just because it worked for one person, doesn't mean it will work for another. Just because I went to my place of employment and got the paycheck with my name doesn't mean that my brother can do the same. He has to establish his own means to obtain things.

In either case, faith is based upon the interpretation of the intangible (feelings, emotions, etc.) instead of the physically tangible and is primarily associated with religion in modern times.

According to the Bible, "faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Hebrews 11:1, New International Version).