Superstition – the Need to Prove Our Own Faith
At the root of every human belief lies not truth, but need.
The need for security. The need for belonging. The need not to fall apart in the chaos of the unknown.
And that need is born out of trauma – faith becomes a defense mechanism, not awareness.
Every belief we hold – religious, spiritual, moral, or even superstitious – arises from the pain of experienced lack. From that primal moment when we felt alone, rejected, frightened, or unseen.
Then our consciousness created beliefs to explain the pain, so it could endure it.
Those beliefs later turned into “truths” we no longer question.
Superstition is an unconscious way of escaping personal responsibility.
It is the moment when our inner voice has already spoken the truth, but the mind refuses to accept it.
So we begin to seek external confirmation – “signs” from the universe, numbers, words, coincidences – anything to justify the decision we have already made but are afraid to acknowledge.
Superstition is the need to validate our belief through signs from higher powers.
If we don’t want to do something, yet lack the courage to own the decision, we seek “signs of destiny.”
We tell ourselves, “I’ll see what the universe shows me.”
But in truth, the choice has already been made – we simply don’t want to admit it.
The fear of responsibility, guilt, or disapproval makes us look for an outside authority to absolve us from choosing.
The real reason lies in our fear of standing by ourselves – of saying clearly, “I don’t want this,” or “I choose this.”
Superstition gives the ego a convenient escape: responsibility is transferred to “fate.”
If something fails, “it was meant to be.”
If it succeeds, “the sign was right.”
In both cases, the person remains dependent, not a creator.
When something shakes us, we don’t seek truth – we seek confirmation.
Proof that we’re not wrong.
And that is the essence of superstition: the need not to see reality, but to make it align with our pain.
Every human being has been wounded and needs to believe that things have meaning.
That’s why we see signs, symbols, and messages – everything that can offer us stability.
That stability keeps us from feeling lost.
But the more we rely on signs, the further we drift from our inner center.
True freedom begins when we stop seeking validation.
When we understand that we don’t need to be right to be whole.
When we allow ourselves to err, to doubt, to hesitate – we begin to see not the signs, but the essence.
Superstition dies where inner maturity is born.
Where we no longer believe – because we know.
Where we no longer look for proof – because we have become the proof itself.
What prevents us from realizing this? Guilt.
The awareness that everything in life comes only from us confronts us with a difficult truth.
Yet once we accept it, we move from blindness and avoidance into creation – into authorship of our own life.
And there lies another unbearable truth: nothing outside of us depends on us, and we cannot control the future.
There we need faith – a faith that something greater can protect us from danger, from the fears born of our wounds.
But every faith, in its deepest essence, is an escape from reality.
With love and presence,
Aleksandar Danailov
Maitreya
Choose the Light 
