Believe Perceive

False source of security

Thomas M. Williams — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:45:00 GMT

A desire that we all have, I believe it can be called a fundamental human desire, is security. We all want to feel secure and safe and to have confidence about the future. To put it another way, to say it more basically perhaps, we want to know that everything is going to be okay. It’s understandable to feel this way of course — who wants to feel unsafe…

An identity question

Thomas M. Williams — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:45:00 GMT

When it comes to the spiritual life help practice, and applying the practice, there are some important questions for us to consider. Here’s one: Is God real? Here’s another: Is God a power among powers, is God part of a hierarchy of powers, or is God the only power? Here’s another important question: Who are we? Let’s take some time to consider that fin…

Power in the world

Thomas M. Williams — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:30:00 GMT

A conviction that humans have, it may not be absolute but it is very common, is that the world has power over us; the world and various worldly forms impose on us in different ways and they can, and do, make us more through their presence and less by their absence. Money is one example of this. If we have money, if we have a sufficiency of money, we are…

Do thoughts create things?

Thomas M. Williams — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:00 GMT

There’s an idea in metaphysical circles that our beliefs are creative, and even more specifically that our beliefs create our worldly circumstances. This notion, sometimes referred to in terms like “thoughts create things”, is why affirmations and visualizations are part of some metaphysical practices. The motivation is to establish beliefs, through men…

Where is the problem?

Thomas M. Williams — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:30:00 GMT

Here’s a fundamental question when it comes to problem solving: Where is the problem? Now this might seem like something so apparent that it’s silly to even consider it. Isn’t it obvious where a problem is taking place? I don’t think so. I believe this is something that people often get wrong, at least when it comes to spiritual problem solving. Here’s …

Thinking about salvation

Thomas M. Williams — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:45:00 GMT

So many of us are seeking for help in some way or another, so many of us are seeking for salvation. Perhaps we are seeking for salvation from money lack. Perhaps we are seeking for salvation from health problems, physical health or mental health (or both). Perhaps we are seeking for salvation from some kind of relationship issue. Perhaps we are seeking …

The one cause

Thomas M. Williams — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:30:00 GMT

In a previous post I wrote about seeking salvation through worldly forms, a tendency that is pretty well hardwired into the human psyche, and discussed some reasons for why seeking salvation through worldly forms is bad strategy. Here’s another reason, a quite important reason, why seeking salvation through worldly forms is bad strategy: worldly forms c…

Spiritual life help podcast

Thomas M. Williams — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:30:00 GMT

I created a podcast called Problems Are Not Real that explores, and explains, my perspective on life help and the life help approach that I advocate — what I refer to as spiritual life help. I created a podcast because I thought it might be a format that some people would prefer to get information through and that it could meet a need: I’m not aware of any podcasts that discuss help from something like the spiritual life help approach, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t any at all because the approach is so unusual. There is now however at least one podcast that does cover the topic: Problems Are Not Real.

So what about that title?

I’ll admit that there is some attention-getting involved in the title: problems are not real is certainly something controversial to say and might generate curiosity, it might generate interest in the podcast subject matter. But there is also a spiritual truth aspect to the title that is based upon a principle of spiritual life help — God as the only power and only good. If that principle is truth, if God is the only power and only good, then problems would have to be something unreal. Why? Because if God is the only power then nothing except for God, as the only power, could create problems. But if God is only good then God would not create problems to begin with and so where would problems come from? They would literally have no source, nothing would have ever made them. Under those circumstances to say that problems are not real would be a truth, though it would require some explaining before the average person understood it… and even if the average person were to understand it they very well may not buy into the reasoning. The Problems Are Not Real podcast explains the reasoning, not from a place of trying to persuade skeptics but to inform those who might have an interest; and then the podcast provides solution suggestions for how to respond to problems and discord.

I don’t necessarily see the podcast going on for an extended period because there is only so much information to be provided, and then it comes time to apply the practice (or reject it if it doesn’t appeal to you). Once a person becomes a practitioner then feedback, or back and forth engagement, is the best means of communication I believe and I don’t think a podcast is the ideal for that. I believe this platform, the Believe Perceive newsletter, is a good choice for feedback and back and forth and for sharing among other practitioners, particularly as membership is applied and serious practitioners or students make the effort to come in. I guess I see a podcast about spiritual life help as a good source for information and a newsletter as a good source for continuing engagement and feedback and education. In any event the Problems Are Not Real podcast is, in my view, a helpful resource and I assume it will remain online into the future and available to whoever might find it, no matter how many episodes there ultimately are.

Access the Problems Are Not Real podcast website at ProblemsAreNotReal.net.

Salvation in the world

Thomas M. Williams — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:30:00 GMT

So many of us are searching for salvation and maybe we don’t refer to it as salvation but as something else — maybe we refer to it as an improved life or a good life or happiness or fulfilment or peace of mind or healing, or we give it another descriptive. I call it salvation because we are, essentially, wanting for what will help us and elevate us. Here’s something that I think is important about salvation: Most of us know what our salvation looks like, we know just what it is that we need for our salvation — it might be money or it might be improved health or it might be a relationship or it might be something else, or it might be a combination of things; but usually we do know what we need, we may not know how to attain it but we know what it is. The form of salvation varies between people but the salvation is almost always some external thing, some external form, some worldly form. Isn’t this so?

Believe Perceive book

Thomas M. Williams — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:30:00 GMT

A writing of mine, Believe Perceive: Why You Are The Problem… And The Solution has been published. I think it’s a valuable work and naturally I would say that, but I mean it genuinely. I was compelled to write Believe Perceive because I wanted to share a life help approach that I believe is useful and that I also believe is based on true spiritual principles. The most significant of these principles, perhaps, is this: God is the only power and only good. This is a questionable perspective for different reasons but certainly one reason is that our experiences don’t align with God as the only power — not a power among other powers but the only power — and only good. If God was the only power and only good then we should be experiencing something like a heaven state. Shouldn’t we? Wouldn’t God, particularly if God is only good, create a heavenly environment? Well for most of us, if not all of us, our life experience is not heaven. In fact life is more like hell than heaven for a lot of people. How then are people expected to believe that God is the only power and only good?

It comes down, significantly, to faith. We do choose what we have faith in and almost everyone has great faith in their perceptions… more faith in their perceptions than they have in a concept of God as the only power and only good. I’m not attempting to criticize this tendency, it’s understandable: perceptions, what we experience and what our thinking mind judgments tell us, are very compelling, they are very believable; and most people wouldn’t think to question perceptions to begin with, it wouldn’t even occur to them. Why would it occur to the average person to question their perceptions? It wouldn’t occur to the average person but it would occur to someone who is exposed to the concept of God as the only power and only good, because this concept is directly contradicted by perceptions. Observe your perceptions, observe your worldly experiences and your thinking mind judgments, and see just how often they contradict the concept of God as the only power and only good. It is not possible to accept perceptions at face value, to accept them as truth, and to also believe in God as the only power and only good; if we are open to the concept of God as the only power and only good then we must begin to question perceptions. Conversely, if we have full faith in our perceptions then we will never genuinely embrace the concept of God as the only power and only good.

Believe Perceive does have faith in the concept of God as the only power and only good and explains why — it’s an explanation, it’s not an attempt to persuade. Then, for those who feel some connection to the explanation provided, it goes on to describe how we can apply God as the only power and only good in a life help approach (what I refer to as spiritual life help). I don’t anticipate that Believe Perceive will reach a wide audience, relatively speaking, because God as the only power and only good is an unusual perspective and questioning perceptions is certainly unusual; and I think most people would reject one or both of those perspectives if they ever became aware of them. But there are some, and perhaps it’s relatively just a few, who would connect with the teaching and would find value in it, and would be helped by it. Maybe they will find this teaching sooner and maybe they’ll find it later but I do believe those who are meant to know this teaching will, eventually, know it.

Believe Perceive: Why You Are The Problem… And The Solution is available worldwide through Amazon.

Believe Perceive: community and a mission

Thomas M. Williams — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve written a book, Believe Perceive: Why You Are The Problem… And The Solution, that describes life help from a metaphysical perspective. Believe Perceive continues the conversation about life help from the same perspective, a perspective that says the best hope for improving our experience is not to look to the unreliable world but to instead look within… Build your house upon rock not sand.

My hope is that Believe Perceive will be an ongoing resource for insight and inspiration, something that people can access on a consistent basis to help in creating a more peaceful life, a happier life, a more prosperous life, a healthier life, a better life. I envision a community moving in the same direction, considering relevant and helpful topics, thinking about them and talking about them, sharing success and also struggles, asking questions and offering answers. Believe Perceive is a collective journey, a movement back into the well-being that belongs to us, to each of us, by divine right.

I anticipate creating one or two new content pieces each month, with an open format for paid subscribers to make comments, ask questions, share insights, or to just say hello. Join in and get to know those of us who are on the same path as you. As I mentioned paid subscribers let me address that further. Most content on Believe Perceive will be for paid subscribers and while I do appreciate that money lack is an issue for some, I attempted to make subscription accessible: $5 per month or $30 for one year of access. (Save an additional 10% on yearly subscriptions for two or more people; choose the “Group” option on the subscription page to get the discount.) It is an investment but I believe most who make it will consider the investment to be a good one. Learn more about membership access on the Believe Perceive About page.

I want Believe Perceive to be about community but more than anything I want it to be a resource for practical, reliable help. This is not about looking up at clouds and pondering the meaning of life this is about genuinely changing life for the good; this is about assistance in difficult, trying times where you might otherwise feel that you’re on your own; this is about noticeable positive change. I consider it to be a serious effort, a serious mission, to make life better. Does that sound like it might be right for you? If it does then I invite you to join us by subscribing below. See you on the inside.

- Thomas M. Williams

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