I’ll leave a longer comment later, but just a brief comment: I don’t think the facts have to cause your beliefs. Instead I think they have to, in a broad sense, explain your beliefs. They could ground your beliefs without causing them directly, just as the fact that 11 is not divisible by 2 explains, but does not cause, it to be impossible to divide 11 apples into two equal groups.
I think it's simple because I was a disbeliever in spiritual effects until they kept happening to me, and then I finally started to listen and see the unexplainable. I had been practicing Zen meditations to increase my awareness to survive Vietnam. Several times I dodged death because my gut told me to duck or not get on certain trucks. Because the Zen meditations increased my hearing, seeing, etc., I didn't know it also increased my sensing the 6th sense or the spiritual world whereas something there beyond my belief system was operating to save my life multiple times. This idea went against my Physics class teaching in High School, but I kept thinking about it, reading science and physics for about 50 years until articles about the structure of the Universe began to show up. That was it! Now I understood that all the forces in the Universe from quantum physics to gravity operating on planets, stars, and galaxies, all of this is information, information storage, and information operations. Sound like anything you know? Yep, a computer. The Universe could be a computer, and if we listen into it, we will hear answers about questions we have way before we even ask the questions. The reason this link is open to us is that we are physically part of the computer. To access the feed, all you have to do is meditate for long periods or pray for long periods. There are better or faster link-in meditations or prayers, but I should leave it to you now because only you can begin to listen.
I’ll leave a longer comment later, but just a brief comment: I don’t think the facts have to cause your beliefs. Instead I think they have to, in a broad sense, explain your beliefs. They could ground your beliefs without causing them directly, just as the fact that 11 is not divisible by 2 explains, but does not cause, it to be impossible to divide 11 apples into two equal groups.
I think it's simple because I was a disbeliever in spiritual effects until they kept happening to me, and then I finally started to listen and see the unexplainable. I had been practicing Zen meditations to increase my awareness to survive Vietnam. Several times I dodged death because my gut told me to duck or not get on certain trucks. Because the Zen meditations increased my hearing, seeing, etc., I didn't know it also increased my sensing the 6th sense or the spiritual world whereas something there beyond my belief system was operating to save my life multiple times. This idea went against my Physics class teaching in High School, but I kept thinking about it, reading science and physics for about 50 years until articles about the structure of the Universe began to show up. That was it! Now I understood that all the forces in the Universe from quantum physics to gravity operating on planets, stars, and galaxies, all of this is information, information storage, and information operations. Sound like anything you know? Yep, a computer. The Universe could be a computer, and if we listen into it, we will hear answers about questions we have way before we even ask the questions. The reason this link is open to us is that we are physically part of the computer. To access the feed, all you have to do is meditate for long periods or pray for long periods. There are better or faster link-in meditations or prayers, but I should leave it to you now because only you can begin to listen.