Opaque Belief

Opaque Belief

Belief may suggest certitude and full trust and confidence in the source, whether supportive evidence exists or not.

Belief in its more accessible state is porous or transparent. This apparent transparency allows information or evidence to build or recede within the belief itself. The reasoning ability of the individual measures or evaluates the accumulating evidence on an ongoing basis and makes reasoned judgments based on the current status of that field of belief.

These transparent belief structures are more prevalent in youth when the thoughts and ideas of the individual are still in a formative state. As a person ages, they tend to shut down the spray of 'possible answers' and limit themselves to the 'most likely' path or chain. This reduction of data flow slowly closes down the beliefs into a more solid or less flexible form. At some point, the individual may select to close off all conflicting information or evidence and see only the information that is supportive of the belief the individual has chosen to personally accept. At that point, the belief becomes opaque and, in many ways, inaccessible to outside influence or intervention without significant intervention processes coming to bear. Once an individual makes a decision to believe in something, they will often continue to believe in it regardless of any contradictory information that is presented to them.

Some submissives demonstrate a unique capacity to 'hear' the presence of a strong Dominant. This capacity appears to simply exist as part of the individual's design. The response of 'hearing' appears to be automatic or not voluntarily controlled or directed by the individual themselves. To some extent, the submissive is 'always listening'. This ability may have emerged as part of the instinctive survival responses of ancient man. Many submissives find themselves responding to 'soft commands', or dropping everything to attend to a seemingly casual question, comment, or desire presented by someone they are in close contact with. The submissive 'hears' not only with their ears but through body language, intonation, inflection, and what some submissives can only describe as pure mental commands. Or, the desire of the source is not articulated into verbal speech. This ability to 'hear' is closely aligned with a companion ability to focus or 'tune in'. This ability to 'tune in' means, in reverse, that the submissive is also 'tuning out' at the same moment.

This screening or filtering process is often based on a 'desire' on the part of the submissive to hear what they have been listening to for their entire life. To some extent, they are 'open' to the constant flow of information toward them, filtering these sounds, images, and feelings using ancient measuring processes not necessarily driven by anything we might consider rational in today's terminology.

All language contains fragments of these hidden sounds, or more accurately, pattern keys. They are recognizable to the individual in the 'feeling' that hearing them conveys on the inside. Something sounds 'right' or triggers a reaction of positive 'feeling'. It is important to note here that the apparent content of the sound is at times immaterial to what the pattern within the words or structures delivers inside the brain, or what it triggers. An example of this can be seen in the blending of musical notes into certain arrangements that pass into the listener to deliver a message. That message may not be articulated in identifiable speech at all, yet its transmission into an understandable form is undeniable to the individual.

Groups or combinations of words also appear to form natural clusters or packages that maintain their integrity even through translation processes from one language to another. Or, the words maintain an element or all of their original power to affect the person who contacts or ingests them through active speech, reading, or viewing in some way. There appears to be an almost species identification of this 'hidden' language or communication.

The submissive appears to be more susceptible to the power of this language, perhaps because of their intent hearing or listening precisely for it. The fragments of this language that flow about us in constant patterns comfort the submissive yet never entirely address their capacious need to hear this language utterly. This language delivers a command. Those commands affect how the individual acts, behaves, and even reasons to some extent.

An example of a hidden command can be found by looking at subliminal advertising, which was popular in American media earlier in this century. The mind of the listener 'heard' the commands to buy a certain product on levels unrecognizable to their normal cognizant awareness. They were often not aware of the command being given but found themselves acting on the hidden 'suggestion' by complying with what they had heard or seen. This example is not the same as the usage of the 'language', although advertising agencies discovered decades ago that advertisements housed in certain patterns or structures would affect the potential customer with a highly enhanced potential for sales success.

Many people have a strong need to have sound flowing around them constantly. They feel 'safer' within the cocoon of the language fragments and need them as the stresses of their lives make them feel increasingly unsafe or insecure. They will move from home, where the television is constantly on as a peripheral companion in the background, into the car to instantly access the radio, and on into their day. They feel a need to have a constant companion. Many also reach into novels, magazines, or newspapers to feel the flow of words across and through them. Being alone or 'silent' makes them uneasy, uncomfortable, and often hollow or bereft. The flow of the 'language' soothes them.

A submissive craves to be taken by the 'voice'. To be held totally within its presence, power, and strength. They look for the 'deliverer' of the voice. The person who can affect them through directed command structures. They feel or believe that, within the presence of the individual who can deliver the voice, they will be totally whole, safe, and at the center of what is 'right'. They carry with them a fundamental belief in the existence of the Deliverer of the Voice. They have heard fragments or whispers that confirm this person's existence from first awareness as a child. This is not a reasoned hunt, but an instinctive hunt.

The capacity of a submissive's ability to believe cannot and should not be underestimated. A submissive can offer or give to or toward an ideal, individual, or source of absolute, inspired, devotional belief. This belief that has only temporal transparency can transition into an opaque conviction without significant supportive evidence. The desire to 'find' and blend with or be part of the Deliverer of the Voice is so strong that a submissive can and may affix their attention or bond with almost any individual who presents any capacity to 'affect' them on this subtle mental level. In addition, the submissive will often block any information or evidence contrary to their desired belief in maintenance of their belief. They will see worth and value in a person or source that is invisible to an outside observer. They will act in absolute defense of the object or source of their belief as well, expressing their belief through selfless actions of devotion and loyalty.

This capacity for almost instantaneous opaque belief makes the submissive uniquely vulnerable to becoming victimized by an abusive person who manifests ANY dominant qualities. Before the submissive can escape the abuser, they often have to escape from their own belief or desire to believe in them, which is, in many ways, contrary to their deepest instincts.

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