Faith is not your view of the world.
It is your form of participation in it.
Without it your mind is disconnected,
and you do not know
your own mission.
Nowadays, modern Man lives in the time of extreme technology and information saturation - and at the same time - in the state of deep internal disorientation. He is surrounded with explanations, but does not understand the point of them; he is able to measure, but is not able to distinguish; he knows how the world works, but has lost the understanding of why he is in this world.
We are used to thinking of faith as a remnant of the past, as an emotion or a social mechanism. But what if this is not so? What if faith is NOT ARCHAIC, but the primary basis of the mind functioning, without which neither thought, nor choice, nor self-awareness are possible? I will say right away that this article is neither about religion nor about beliefs. It is about faith as a cosmophysical process imbedded in the architecture of a human being. 
We will consider it not from the point of view of theology or sociology, but from the point of view of ONTOLOGICAL NECESSITY1: as the basic attunement of consciousness, as the primary program of linking with being, as the source of Comprehension. Let us try to follow the path from the prenatal fullness of faith — that original, still extra-linguistic involvement of the sensible soul to its functional purpose — to the zeroing of this state at the moment of birth, and further — to the SECOND FAITH, acquired by Man through experience, choice, pain, love and inner freedom. The talk is about faith not as a conviction, but as the STRUCTURE OF CONNECTION between Man and the Truth - as the element without which the Brain is no longer the Mind, consciousness is no longer consciousness, and life is no longer the path. In this context, there appears the most global idea of all that has ever arisen in human thought: VICTORY OVER DEATH, in the broadest sense of this, and as one of its derivatives — overcoming aging. - not in a fantastic, but in a philosophical sense — as Man’s return to his own completeness, as the restoration of the connection with being, in which aging and dying are NOT THE NORM, but a failure. Without Comprehension, without Faith, without an internal attunement to the Truth of the Man’s purpose, victory over death is impossible. But with the restoration of this attunement, it is no longer a utopia and BECOMES A TASK.
This text is an attempt to remind us that without faith Man not only loses his spirituality, he loses himself - and thus, he throws away the future in which death can be overcome.
If in the consciousness of a modern Man science and philosophy are perceived as alternative ways of cognition, then Comprehension is their primary source - that from which both of these paths are born and for which they ultimately strive, even WITHOUT RECOGNIZING it. Comprehension is neither a sum of facts, nor a set of logical constructions or a system of views. It is the structure of the ACT OF thinking ITSELF, the deep form, thanks to which knowledge is generally possible. It precedes all particular expressions of reason, as form precedes content. Science and philosophy are only different ways of embodying Comprehension. Science records, breaks up and classifies. 
Philosophy strives for integrity, intuitively or logically absorbing the ultimate questions of being. But both, if they forget about their common foundation, fall into the ILLUSION OF AUTONOMY; lose the living connection with that for which Man thinks at all. When science is no longer an expression of the desire for understanding, it turns into blind technique. When philosophy loses this same desire, it becomes rhetoric or ritual metaphysics. Only when both science and philosophy recognize themselves as paths leading to Comprehension, agreement is possible between them - NOT FORMAL, but internal, organic. All that has been said acquires true meaning only when we remember that the bearer of science, philosophy and comprehension is man. Not an abstract mind, not a supra-personal instance, but a specific human consciousness - always limited, but capable of overcoming its boundaries. Man NOT JUST explores the world - he strives to understand his place in it. And in this striving he creates science - as an attempt to measure, philosophy - as an effort to express, and comprehension - as the ability to relate all this to oneself.
Comprehension is the form in which the mind returns to itself, acquiring not only knowledge, but also meaning. It is the form of responsibility of knowledge before life. It is the boundary beyond which WISDOM BEGINS. This is precisely why Comprehension not just unites science and philosophy - it takes them beyond their own limitations. Science says: "What is it?" Philosophy asks: "Why is it so?" Comprehension asks: "What does all this mean for me as Man?" Only in this question do they find their measure.
Over time, a DUAL DIRECTION of rational activity has taken shape in the history of thought — science and philosophy. They claim the same thing: to be the Exponents of the Truth, the bearers of knowledge, forms of gaining reality. However, between them lies not just a border, but ALL THIS ANTAGONISM. The very existence of this duality is already a symptom. If there is one mind, if the truth is indivisible, why do the fruits of its activity have two different names, and between these names — mistrust, rivalry, alienation? Here we are faced with a paradox that CANNOT be eliminated either by logic or compromise. Each of the parties — philosophy and science — asserts its exclusivity, defends its methods, its understanding of the truth, refusing to acknowledge the other. Their arguments do not convince each other, and their goals do not merge into one line of movement. Instead of a single ascent to the truth, we see two parallel ascents that do not meet and do not support each other. This splitting leads to both philosophy and science LOSING THEIR CREDIBILITY. The Truth cannot be binary; two different and equally valid pictures of the same world cannot exist simultaneously. If they do exist, then it is not the truth that is splitted, but the mind that has LOST THE ABILITY to hold it together.
In such conditions, there arises a feeling of intellectual dead end. If there is no unity either in the goals of knowledge, or in its methods, or in the criteria of the truth, then the very pursuit of knowledge begins to seem meaningless. There appears Skepticism - not the superficial kind that denies everything and everyone, but the expectant, cautious, reserved kind,- skepticism - like a pause before a leap, like silence before a new formulation of the question. But skepticism, if it does not become an end in itself, can prepare the transition to the third position - not to the reconciliation of philosophy and science in the name of compromise, but to the identification of the foundation on which both could find their AUTHENTIC FORM. And this foundation is Comprehension.
Comprehension is not a private method, it is not a substantive truth, and it is not a ready-made system. It is the PRINCIPLE OF ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE. It is something that is not subject to criticism, because it is the very condition of the possibility of criticism. It lies outside the subject content of science and philosophy, but provides the form into which this content can be included - without conflict, without coercion, without violence. Comprehension is NOT a THIRD area next to philosophy and science, but something that embraces them both, revealing the measure, boundaries, and direction of each. It is not their rival, but the criterion for their correspondence to human essence.
In this sense, Comprehension provides:
- an external definition of science, allowing us to distinguish it from other types of human activity and indicate its true boundaries;
- the doctrine of the structure of science, that is, of those internal forms in which science should develop without losing touch with Man;
- the doctrine of the connection between science and human nature, with will, with life - without which any system of knowledge sooner or later becomes
Comprehension is not a substantive doctrine, but a FORMAL PRINCIPLE. It does not give ready-made truths, but indicates where and how they can be sought. It is the discipline of the mind that allows one to distinguish the fruitful from the empty, the living from the dead, the real from the illusory. It is in this form that Comprehension can serve as the basis for the NEW STAGE of human thought - no longer disconnected, not conflicting, not closed in on itself, but holistic, open, rooted in Man himself as a being striving NOT JUST to know, but to live and be understood.
In the true sense of his life, Man not so much chooses a profession as reveals his FUNCTIONAL PURPOSE - that deep form of participation in the universe for which he was embodied. I have returned to this thought more than once: a profession in a narrow social sense is only a particular case, a shadow, a trace of that original task that human consciousness carries within itself. The most tragic result of today is NOT even the LOSS of professions, but the loss of the inner hearing of what and why Man is. People have forgotten that their presence in the world is NOT ACCIDENTAL. They no longer distinguish where their personal path is, and where external compulsion, fashion, imitation of success are. They live without knowing what for they have come - and therefore CANNOT find themselves in any of the paths. The true profession is not something that you were taught or forced to do. It is something that awakens a resonance between Man and the world, fits him right in the rhythm of the Universe, and makes him a participant in its formation. This is such a stay in the world, in which you are NOT ALIEN to what is happening, do not lag behind the flow of events, but enter into the rhythm of the EVOLUTION OF THE WHOLE. Finding such a path cannot be mechanical - it must be meaningful. Someone will discover one’s function through science, which is now finally ceasing to be oppressed. Science today, very slowly, is returning to the bosom of the state as an object of genuine care, as the body of Comprehension - and this marks a new round of development. 
It is again becoming one of the main channels of connection between Man and the cosmos. But one should not think that the path to Comprehension lies only through academic science. It can be opened in any business - if it is permeated with inner attention, striving for perfection and in harmony with everything. The path CAN BE OPENED through craftsmanship, through care, through work - if Man acts not out of necessity, but by an inner call. Here it is important not so much "what you are doing" as the quality of your involvement in what you are doing. If you are a baker - be the one who, transforming bread, transforms the world.
Let the technology change — but you remain the one who feeds others. Let the technical environment become more complex — but the spirit of work must be purified. BE THE BEST — not in the spirit of competition, not in the logic of ratings, but in the sense of selfless devotion, depth of attention, honesty of execution. If you are a steelmaker — become the one whose flame tempers not only the metal, but also his own consciousness. Do not allow the uncertainty of the time to overshadow the clarity of the goal. Be the best — not for others, but for the truth in yourself.
Knowledge is NOT LIMITED by libraries. It comes in the process of inclusion in life, in participation in the general course of things, in cooperation with others and with the being itself. True knowledge is revealed not in quotations, but in participation, not in theory, but in deeply experienced action. Through a profession, if it is connected with a function, Man comes into contact with a holistic Comprehension and thereby re-enters the measure of his being.
The vector of professional orientation of a modern Man CANNOT be comprehended without reference to the growing power of technology. This is especially true for the area conventionally called IT — information technology. However, it is already obvious: we are not talking about just owning devices or interface skills. Being an operator does not mean being part of Comprehension. Comprehension is NOT STARTED with a button. It requires a different level of involvement. Today's illusion of a "quick IT mastery" is just a reflection of the transition phase. People have learned to turn on devices, lay communication channels, program modules — and they think that they have become "specialists." But, in fact, they are only touching the surface. The true point of IT lies not in the digital as such, but in the ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIND, which it must serve. And this understanding is only beginning to come.
We are on the threshold of a FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE in the techno scientific basis. The technologies that seemed finite only yesterday are already becoming passable forms, becoming obsolete as they are used. This is not degradation, but growth: the environment must change so that consciousness can go deep. As a result, Man involved in work of any nature - from industrial to craft - turns into an operator of his own FUNCTIONAL STATE. He is not a professional in the old sense; he is a CARRIER OF CONNECTION with his own purpose through the mediative structure 2of the techno-environment. A baker, a doctor, a docker - their activities are now unthinkable without digital and system support. But technology does not replace Man. It only expands the field in which he can manifest himself - or lose himself. Therefore, the task is not to mechanically "master a profession", but to put the mind into the matter. To be an operator means to embody a function through Comprehension, and not through the repetition of algorithms. For today's young generation, this situation is both a challenge and an opportunity. They found themselves at a key moment: everything is changing, and much of it is WITHOUT SUPPORT from the old. Their confusion is natural. But the path that is opening up before them is incomparable with the previous times. They do not need instructions - they need AWARENESS OF DIRECTION. But a technological breakthrough is impossible without a metaphysical foundation3. Here we come to the next fundamental question: what does Man believe in?
Without faith, a living being cannot develop one’s function. Faith is not a religious institution, not a dogma, not a system of rituals. It is the basic form of the entity’s inclusion in being, the energetic associativity of consciousness with that which exceeds it.
A child is born with an implicit faith4 in meaning, in security, in connection with the world. And if this faith IS BROKEN, the internal structures responsible for the opening of its higher cognitive functions will remain blocked. This is how limited functional endowment arises: not because someone is “less talented”, but because the connection with the foundation is cut off. Faith is that PRIMARY FREQUENCY in which the mind tunes in to an event. And therefore, for the civilized unfolding, for entering a new state of planetary consciousness, faith becomes a NECESSARY CONDITION for the fullness of Comprehension. But in order to talk about faith, we must abandon fanaticism. NEITHER political ideology, NOR revolutionary impulse, NOR artificially created forms of collective religiosity — ARE faith in its true form. Nowadays we do not need slogans; we need a quiet, deep concentration on the essence. We need a new formula — not for controlling the masses, but for the AWAKENING OF PERSONAL THINKING. And therefore the path to Comprehension faith as an internal structure should not be episodic: not as a dogma, but as a multiple approach - through conferences, dialogues, personal contemplation, through many small acts of distinction and recognition. We WILL NOT impose a ready-made definition on faith, derived from religious, philosophical or sociological constructs. Let us ask in a different way: do newborn children believe? And if so — what do they believe in?
At first glance, the question may seem naive, even absurd - but only for someone who looks superficially. In reality, this is one of the MOST FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS that can be raised about human existence. And precisely because it touches on the deep structure of being, modern science is unable to give a full answer to it. Its language does not cover the horizon from which this question grows. From the point of view of the emerging Comprehension, Man is NOT a BIOLOGICAL mass into which consciousness is “poured” over time. This is a COSMOPHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION, being formed as a combination of deep matters, as a node of multidimensional processes fused at one point of embodiment. Already in the seventh month of embryonic development, a structure begins to activate that can be called the basis of the mind - the primary configuration of inclusion in the world. We are not talking about cognitive operations5, but about the method of co-presence: the child does not think about the world, he is ENTRUSTED TO HIM6. And this entrustment is not an instinct, not a reflection, not physiology. This is the FORM OF FAITH, preceding all its concepts. This is trust in the world as such. The Faith, not yet separated from breathing, not divided into cults, dogmas and rituals.
Thus, faith is the original MODALITY OF BEING, manifested in the presence of living matter in an open state, without protection, without control, without knowledge. And if Man subsequently loses this state, he loses not just a sense of security - he loses access to his FUNCTIONAL FULLNESS. Modern science, deprived of the language of deep processes, cannot explain this. It avoids questions to which it cannot give a "verifiable" answer. But the SYSTEM OF COMPREHENSION is obliged to ask such a question, since it points to the very beginning - to the primary source of the internal conjugation of the spirit and the world. It is in this kind of vein that visualization becomes important: if we talk about the physical side of the consciousness formation, then we are dealing with an INTEGRAL ASSEMBLY of fields that can be conditionally imagined as a connection of four dodecahedrons - a metaphor for a multidimensional structure that carries the foundations of perception, orientation, movement and generalization. This is not a technical image, but a form of a symbolic map revealing the unity of the inertial, volitional, sensory and intellectual principles. And therefore, talking about faith, we DO NOT DISCUSS “beliefs”. We are trying to recognize the primary coordinate of the mind, the point from which not only faith is possible, but also knowledge, will and event. And as I have already said, at the moment when the embryonic organism is approximately seven months old, there occurs the BIRTH OF THE MIND CONSTRUCTION as we can call it. This is not a psychological or physiological process in the narrow sense, but an event of the cosmophysical level, an act repeating in its form and content the PRIMARY MOTOR ACTIVITY of the planetary system birth. A human being developing in the womb goes through more than just the path of biological growth. It COLLECTS ITSELF INTO WHOLENESS, absorbing the deep fields of synthesis of energy and matter. The fusion of the masculine principle as a vector of information impulse and the feminine principle as the matrix of retention and expansion creates the basis for the subsequent connection of the ENERGY SUBSTANCE of consciousness. It is in this sacred period - after the completion of the basic biological assembly – there occurs the entry of the spirit, that is, the energy-information core that determines the personal, civilized and ontological trajectory of the future Man. This is not an abstract "implanting of the soul", but the point of the PROGRAM SATURATION: the moment when the future personality connects with the code of its embodiment. Thus, each Man is not just born into the world - he recreates in himself the process of cosmogenesis7 at his level of dimensionality, becoming a LIVING ANALOGUE of the birth of the planet. In this perspective, every human life is incomparable in the meaning, for each offspring carries within itself a RECURRENCE OF THE ACT of the beginning of the world. Neglecting this fact is not just a mistake; it is a renunciation of the being Coprehension. Here one cannot but agree with N. Levashov and A. Khatybov, who in their works deeply revealed all this, and, most importantly - clearly for our understanding of the ongoing.
It is at this point that the state of the TRUE FAITH manifests itself for the first time - not in a religious or conceptual sense, but as a built-in trust in the fullness of being, as the primary activation of the meaning of life. Faith here is not the result of upbringing, but an internal program that starts the trajectory of the individual civilized development. It is not formed from the outside - it is brought in through the energy- informational nature of male and unfolds through the maternal field of retention, as a result of which the INFORMATIONAL TRUTH of his future is formed. This act - the union of the essence and form, the spirit and flesh, movement and peace - is the point of the imposed Awareness, at which a human being enters into his being not just as an organism, but as a functionally directed unit of the mind. It has not yet been born - but it is ALREADY CONNECTED. It has not yet manifested itself - but it is ALREADY INCLUDED in the logic of the whole. From this moment on, its entire path — from the first breaths to maturity — becomes the unfolding of the embedded code, the passage from the potential to the real, from faith as the matrix to knowledge of the fulfilled function. All human development is only a manifestation of what was imbedded at the deep stage of the mind structure formation.
At the moment of the completion of the MIND STRUCTURE formation— that multidimensional field uniting the body, energy, perception and meaning — there occurs a unique event: the imbedding of the Spirit — (in the terminology of N. Levashov) or the Brain — (in the terminology of A. Khatybov), which in my opinion is more to the point, AS the CARRIER of deep information saturation.
On the one hand, at the body level, an adjustment of the basic modules continues — DNA structures, the immune system, the Brain neural networks , performing the tasks of biological and genetic differentiation. But on the other hand, it is at this stage that the ENERGY INSTRUCTION brought by the spirit (Brain) begins to act, which carries with it not only individuality, but also the ENTIRE MASS of potential Comprehension, corresponding to the current level of the evolutionary-program state of humanity. Formally not yet born, but already ILLUMINATED BY THE COMPREHENSION the fetus suddenly acquires the level of knowledge that it will have to achieve throughout its entire biological life. This is the paradox: it does not know anything yet, but it already CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE. It cannot think, but it already contains Comprehension. This is not a consequence of experience - it is a STRUCTURAL INHERITANCE of the meaning, accomplished in an instant. This began to manifest itself clearly in children born after 2016-2017 (especially on the territory of today's Russia). This is the essence of the recreation of a new Man, in contrast to the stopped process of reincarnation of the Brain (Spirit), in accordance with the Brain genotypes, which was imposed by the Old Control system more than 2000 years ago, in line with the tasks of human development at that time. In detail - all this is set out in the works of A. Khatybov, N. Levashov and my books.
This state cannot be compared with anything in postnatal life. It is one whole, UNDIFFERENTIATED, and perfectly pure. It can be called the highest point of primary faith - the faith that does not require proof, does not separate the truth and lie, does not strive, but already knows. The whole system of this faith is in ABSOLUTE INVOLVEMENT with being. Not "what a person believes in" at this moment, but to what extent he is as a believer. Faith here is not a dogma, not an inner conviction, not a religious feeling. It is the form of the very presence in everything, inseparable from the world and therefore - unconditional. Such faith, in today's being CAN BE GAINED only before birth. It is in this sacred state, when the mind is already assembled - the Brain determines what will be Man’s guiding thread throughout his life. 
But then - birth occurs. And with it - "ZEROING" OF the FAITH. Man enters the world. And nowadays with this entering within the framework of the ongoing events— he loses that highest belonging that was given before any experience. He finds himself in the density of matter, in the filters of perception, in the duality of language, in the need to distinguish, choose, and search. From this moment on, faith is no longer the state — and BECOMES A SEARCH. MAN loses what he had and sets out on a journey to find it again. But now it is through work, through doubt, through aspiration, through conscious movement. Faith from this moment on becomes the INTUITION OF MEMORY. It is not taught. It is being recollected. Somewhere in the depths of the soul, Man carries a trace of the state in which he was before the birth — and his whole life becomes a movement toward this lost-inner truth. Whether he will again be able to rise to that height — depends on many factors: environment, culture, will, depth of aspiration. But the possibility of this return is inherent from the beginning. After all, he was there. He is what he was, even if he has temporarily forgotten. Such is the drama and beauty of human destiny: to be once involved in the fullness of the truth - and then to find it again, but through freedom and effort of the spirit.
We come to the inevitable conclusion of today: the prenatal state of Man is the peak of the purity of faith. This is not a religious feeling, not a mental attitude, but an INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE of the Brain (Spirit) about its FUNCTIONAL PURPOSE, acquired in the purity of the not yet born Comprehension, which today is outside the existing Brain genotypes. The fetus, or rather the Brain, dressed in its bodily shirt, being on the eve of birth, already has a COMPLETELY FORMED construction of the mind. It is not yet a personality, but already a center of the directed being; mentally ready to take on the role of the executor of its own destiny, to be a participant in the processes unfolding in the cosmo -planetary environment. It does not "take part" - it is already involved. Its state is an absolute readiness to embody the inherent, a pure realization aspiration. Today - the scale of this Brain is commensurate with the scale of the Universe. Paradoxically, the embryo contains the entire potential of the universe, just as a grain contains the structure of the future tree. The prenatal state is not a small stage, but a MACROPROJECTION OF EVERYTHING that will be, only in a contracted, UNDIFFERENTIATED FORM.
But as we have already learned - as soon as the act of birth occurs, the ZEROING of the STATE of the original faith also occurs. This is not a loss of the meaning, but a loss of its immediate transparency. Now - not faith as knowledge, but faith AS A TASK. From this moment on, the Brain (the spirit) begins to make a comparison: comparing the current exercursion with the potential that was entrusted. At points of special biographical significance, at turning points of the path, the spiritual structure activates a reminder of that PRIMARY FULLNESS - not as a dogma, but as an INTUITIVE CALL. Sometimes this call is so strong that the memory of the preexistent state awakens in Man. And this is not a mystical recollection, but a flash of meaningful resonance: Man feels that once he already knew what to strive for. But this is always a short moment. It must be developed into the life aspiration. Ironically, even the birth process itself is already filled with bodily control from the Brain (fetus). The Brain affects the body of the woman in labor, directing the physiological act of the birth. Even in this last action, prenatal integrity sets the rhythm for the world. The Brain (fetus) DOES NOT THINK about circumstances, about relatives, about earthly chance. It acts as a perfect knot of will - UNTIL the moment when it REALIZES its separation from the whole. Then it CRYS (screams) FOR THE FIRST TIME - not as the reaction to pain, but as the SIGN OF SEPARATION from fullness. And this is the great secret of human embodiment. With the loss of prenatal understanding, the path begins. But what faith Man is to acquire now? Not the one he had before birth. It cannot be returned in that form. Now faith becomes different. It is not the result of imposing, but the fruit of effort, freedom, work, will and consciousness. This is the SECOND FAITH. And it will be different for everyone, depending on how much Man is able to transform his life into the act of realizing the initial plan.
And here, at the entrance to this new zone, TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE is expecting us. Academicism, cultural formula, sociological definitions begin to surround us with terms:
"Faith is a special attitude to an object";
"Faith is the recognition of something as true without evidence"; "Faith is an act of subjective conviction contrary to logic and facts"...
These are all stencils. They describe the shadows of faith, but NOT ITS ESSENCE. They speak of the psychological structure, but not of the metaphysical reality of faith as an act of co-presence. These definitions are good for analyzing behavior, but are not suitable for understanding what faith MUST BECOME if Man decides to find it consciously. Therefore, our next step is to analyze this "other faith"- the one that is born not in the womb, but in struggle, the one that is not given, but created, the one that is not memory, but the transformation of memory into consciousness.
So what does Man believe in? The first thing he identifies with the object of his faith - HIMSELF. This is not egoism, but a profound act: faith is always directed inward, toward its center, toward the core of consciousness. It does not begin with an external object - it begins with the trust in oneself as a being, in one's ability to discern, to feel, to be. And this is precisely why faith is so often devoid of proof. A person believes not because he knows, but because he is internally in line with what he believes. He feels - and that is enough. He is not always able to explain why. He does not always even want to. But this POSITION is FUNDAMENTAL: without it, neither thought, nor action, nor choice are possible. And herein lies the secret: even denial is a form of faith. An atheist who claims to believe in nothing has simply transferred the center of faith to emptiness. His confidence in "nothing" is as dogmatic as the mystic's in "everything." Faith is inevitable. It DOES NOT DISAPPEAR — it CHANGES the FORM. Faith is not an optional feeling, but an ONTOLOGICAL NECESSITY8. 
Without it, neither personal spirituality nor collective culture can exist. A society without faith is dead. But Man who has lost his faith also loses support. It is through faith that the MEANING OF LIFE is given, not external, not imposed, but deep, guiding. Faith is not what you believe in, but what you live for. Modern thought offers dozens of definitions, ranging from theological to rationalistic. We will briefly touch on five of them, in order to move from the surface to the depths then.
- Faith is the embodiment of the
- Faith is a firm belief in the
- Faith is the necessity that overcomes the laws of nature.
- Faith is the recognition of unknowable entities beyond good and evil.
- Faith is an action despite the absence of
Each of these definitions is valuable as a stage. But if we fixate on them, we will fall into a circle - into a stencil. They describe forms, but DO NOT EXPLAIN the sense. They convey the shadow of Understanding, but not the light itself.
To comprehend the globality of the idea – TO CONQUER DEATH, one must move to a DIFFERENT LEVEL of reasoning, to the level where faith is considered not as a psychological function, but as a structural element of consciousness. That is: faith is something that is either developed within Man, or imposed from the outside as an impulse of awakening. In the first case, it is the result of INDEPENDENT SYNTHESIS, when Man observes, reflects, distinguishes – and comes to the conclusion that being has meaning, that the truth exists, that values are not accidental. In the second case, it is an IRRATIONAL EXPERIENCE that arises as a response of the soul to the presence, to the deep call, to the flash of inner recognition. This is not knowledge – but it is no less effective. And here something paradoxical happens. Faith is not an escape from problems, as we are used to think. It is not a form of escape. It is a form of entry into complexity. Man who has found faith becomes vulnerable, but it is through this that he gains the power of distinction. Faith is an incentive to enter the space of difficulties, because only by going through them is it possible to get closer to the truth. However, the problems that faith provokes are most often not cognitive, but everyday. Faith causes tension not because it refutes theories, but because it CHANGES THE VECTOR OF LIFE. It requires action. It requires responsibility. It requires reconsideration of everything.
Relying on a different level of knowledge - beyond empirical schemes and conceptual clichés - it is necessary to reconsider the very essence of the concept of "faith". The goal is not to give yet another definition in a series of others, but to bring its capacity closer, to discover it as a structural principle of the consciousness functioning. Faith, in its true understanding, is NOT CONVICTION in something, and not inner agreement with any content. Faith is the FORM of LINKING of consciousness with being, ensuring the priority of one's own conscious perception of the truth over any transmitted, constructed information from outside. It manifests itself as a preference for the primary, internally found Understanding - that which is born in Man in proportion to his essential connection with the surrounding nature - over the segmented perception brought in from the outside, as a rule - of alien or artificial origin. That is: faith is a WAY of DISTINGUISHING the genuine from the constructed. It keeps the internal focus of the mind from being dissipated in false signal systems.
It is like an antenna set up to the frequency of being, and not to the transmission of the noise from outside. This understanding allows us to see: faith is not a cultural artifact, but a cosmophysical process built into the structure of the human mind, between the energy and information levels of being, without which the Brain itself is NOT FUNCTIONAL. 
Even at a low level of information development, WITHOUT FAITH the Brain loses most of its higher functions. It is capable of performing only a limited spectrum - reflexive, automatic, vital actions: food, breathing, reaction to a threat. Everything that makes Man capable of thinking, distinguishing, empathizing, transforming - is directly related to the action of faith as an internal disposition of mind. It can be argued that faith is the topology of the availability of reason. Where faith is absent, thinking breaks off. Where it is broken or replaced, thinking becomes an instrument of external control. Where it is alive, the Brain becomes an organ of Comprehension, and not just a reaction processor. Without faith, Man is no longer the subject of his being. He becomes a reflexively controlled body, an instrument of someone else's goal, a victim of information modeling. In this sense, the denial of faith is not skepticism, but technological self-limitation. That is why it is impossible to build a NEW SYSTEM of the control or a new cultural model, ignoring the phenomenon of faith. After any change of power, after any crisis - you cannot start "from scratch". Without restoring or rethinking faith, it is impossible to restart the mind. Any power not associated with this understanding will not be a system of meaning, but a system of decay.
Today's brain research at the global level seeks to answer the question: what makes the mind the mind? This is a fashionable direction. But until the parameters of faith as a cosmophysical function are introduced, no theory will be able to explain why some functions of the brain awaken, while others remain asleep. Physics of Energy, physics of Brain, field theory, constructive theory of everything — all these disciplines need a METAPHYSICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE to become truly explanatory, and not just descriptive, which is what I am trying to do in my articles. Yes, interaction with scientific institutions is necessary. But so far this interaction is random, fragmentary and mostly premature. As long as the scientific paradigm refuses to recognize the higher foundations of Mind, it is NOT CAPABLE of generating a holistic picture. Against this background, faith is not a state, not an emotion, not an affiliation. It is an INTERNAL PRINCIPLE of linking of consciousness with the truth, providing the ability of to be, distinguish and act in accordance with one's own destiny. It is not given from the outside — it IS BORN INSIDE, or flashes as the memory of something that was cognized before birth. Man comes into the world already possessing this faith — in the utmost purity and clarity. But birth separates him from the original fullness, and the path begins: life as a return to faith, but through freedom and effort. This is the dramaturgy of being: the path from unconscious complicity to conscious inclusion.
Modern man, surrounded with streams of information, models, belief systems, loses not only his orientation, but also the ability to distinguish the true from the simulated. In this world, faith becomes an act of courage: to trust oneself with one's inner discernment, to resist external noise, to affirm oneself in what was heard in the silence, when there were no words yet. That is why faith is Comprehension in action - not as knowledge, but as an internal measure that connects Man with himself, with others and with the whole. It is the INVISIBLE AXIS of all processes: from personal development to the fate of civilization. Without it, reason is impossible, culture is impossible, control is impossible, the future is impossible. And therefore today, when humanity is AGAIN APPROACHING the edge - technological, civilized, and existential - to embark on the path of returning to Comprehension is possible only through the restoration of essential faith. Not the one that dictates, but the one that awakens. Not the one that programs, but the one that restores the linking.
TO CONQUER DEATH is not a scientific project or a religious utopia. It is the result of inner work unfolding in the trinity of Comprehension, Belief and Action. Comprehension, as we have already considered, is not just knowledge, but an act of awakened consciousness. It is the ability to see reality in its causal fullness, without the distortions of fear and habit. Comprehension reveals the structure of the finite and makes possible the plan to go beyond it. But comprehension alone is not enough. Faith is what connects clear knowledge with the determination to act. Faith is not blind, but directed. It is the bridge between the conscious limit and its overcoming. It is faith that makes Comprehension a Vector directed towards the impossible. And only when Comprehension gains Faith, the Idea is born – to Conquer Death! Not as a fantasy, but as a task. Not as an escape from life, but as its complete revelation. This is not a refusal to accept death - this is a refusal to recognize it as the final instance of being.
To comprehend - in order to believe. To believe - in order to outperform.
To outperform - in order not to disappear.
This is how the path is formed where Man is no longer a hostage of decay - and becomes a bearer of the horizon.
1 Ontological necessity is a characteristic related to the nature of being that indicates the inevitability of maintaining the tension of an object or event, due to its essence or security. It describes what is necessary for the existence of things in the first world, for example, it is ontologically necessary for a person to have two legs
2 The mediation structure is a system of several key elements used in the mediation process to obtain resolutions and reach mutually acceptable solutions.
3 A metaphysical foundation is a basic, invisible, and not always reasonable observation or belief that underlies a belief system, a theory, or even an action. It is something that cannot be found empirically, but still determines our actions
4 implicit belief refers to belief that is not explicitly stated but is assumed or presumed. It may be the result of beliefs, personal exImperiences, social norms, or cultural traditions.decisions.
5 Cognitive operations are the mental processes we use to acquire, process, store, and use information. They are the f To entrust and “to entrust” are verbs that denote the transfer of something for safekeeping, management, or conduct to someone, by virtue of personal trust.undamental processes that allow us to understand and interact with the world.
6 To entrust and “to entrust” are verbs that denote the transfer of something for safekeeping, management, or conduct to someone, by virtue of personal trust.
7Cosmogenesis (Latin: cosmogenic; from space and origin, conditions, origin) is the evolution of space, the universe; the doctrine of the origin, development, destruction and life activity (being) of the world
8 Ontological necessity - for a thing to exist, it must have properties or an essence that is expressed as a definition. For example, it is generally ontologically necessary for a human to have two legs and not have feathers in size