More faith
"Faith is both active and passive. It acts as a stimulant at one time, as a tranquilizer at another. Its action in the body promotes exactly those biological changes necessary to ensure health and vitality so that the pulses may be quickened or slowed, the hormones activated or quieted. Faith elicits the most specific biological responses by inciting a general overall sense of optimism, safety, and freedom. It therefore returns the individual, for whatever time, to that prime condition for growth, curiosity, and adventure in which he was immersed as a child.
"That condition is blessedly free in that it does not acknowledge impediments. Woe to any poor infant freshly thrust into the world who was not equipped with natural faith, for it would instantly be stopped before it began, appalled at the infinite manipulations necessary for its locomotion, dismayed and in despair at its chances of growing to full stature were its own small size and vulnerability not superseded by an inner certainty of triumph and the willingness to accept challenge.
"In faith's eyes, then, impediments vanish, not because a person is suddenly struck by a fool's stupidity that blinds him to them, but because they disappear in the light of his newfound sense of ease, freedom and certainty. He is simply no longer afraid."
The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The Worldview of William James, Jane Roberts
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