Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00533)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Perry Coles" <perrycoles@y...> 
wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> A quote I find quite interesting in the Mahatma letters is where the
> Mahatma say's 'to doubt is to risk insanity'.
> Beleif always seems to be wound up in insecurity and a desire for
> certainty.
> Faith is another loaded term as well.
> I get the feeling the Mahatma in the above quote may be refering to
> our 'intuitions' or inner glimpses of Unity or Oneness or gnosis or
> whatever term you want to call it, rather than referring to doubting
> in say superstitions or fanciful ideas.

It is possible he could have been referring to "the great religious 
doubt" which is used in Zen to smash through the mind of delusion and 
attain enlightenment. I am not aware of anyone going insane but this 
does test the mind and can cause headaches.

As for doubt of hte more ordinary sort, consider this statement from 
Socrates (quotes by Plato in THE PHAEDRUS):

"The wise are doubtful, and I should not be singular if I, too, 
doubted."