What is faith?

[Diana]

The answer is Self, and yet it is, by definition, difficult to know self in a new level of consciousness.  For me, faith is that innate awareness of self at that new level of consciousness, in all of its mystery and confusion. 

This is really insightful. Add to this that time outside of 3D is not linear, and "faith" is actually "knowingness." But it isn't knowingness for anything specific, rather it's a sense of empowerment, or a sense of possibilities beyond this realm. A sense that we are more than what we seem to be here. A perception of the larger reality.

This goes back to focusing on self, because having faith may entail trying to believe something and that may result in closing the doors to other possibilities (resistance). Evolution of consciousness happens in an organic, dynamic, and natural way. Rather than have the intention to know how things are, in my view it's more efficacious to have the intention to grow and evolve (shift focus to self). That said, there is nothing wrong with curiosity. I have always been curious and wanting to know things, but the key, to me, is not thinking you ever have the "real" answers. As we evolve, we are able to hold more and more consciousness, so there will likely never be a time when we know all. Whatever the source may be of this existence, such as a OIC, it follows that that source is evolving along with individual pieces of it.