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I'd say memory based on direct experience is a kind of "belief" but it is a different thing from what we normally have as "belief." I had an experience of what I'd say is "god," or the source or reservoir of ultimate awareness and intelligence, but this was an experience and limited in what I was exposed to. So I can't really say much about what it was exactly other than an awareness and intelligence that was far above what anyone could ever imagine.
My feeling is anyone that starts experimenting with selflessness will start to have metaphysical experiences that are about one's true nature, and one's true nature is not different from "god" or the collective source of consciousness and awareness, so everyone will eventually know directly, or through experience the nature of themselves and the collective as well. Know or experience the source according to our capacity.
From my experience, I'd say we all have a direct connection to the source or god, but while in this body this connection is blocked in so many ways. So many other energies competing for our attention. A few people manage to get free from such things, be selfless, and then realize that connection and the state of being or experience that comes from it. It's very rare though. The most I think we can have is a few glimpses here and there. It's takes so much energy and focus and concentration to set the ego totally aside. Really it is not the purpose of our life in my opinion. Our tasks here are much less. It's a challenge to set aside simple things, like greed, pride, arrogance, vanity, anger..... if these simple steps are a challenge, imagine how hard it is to set aside all identity except for consciousness awareness itself. Not hard in effort, hard in actualizing, bringing into being.
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