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Question: How do you know something, and know it for sure!?
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There's no need!. Certainty is a phantom, a dream!. (But I'm not certain of that!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

You don't!. You can't because you can never know everything about any system as long as you are a part -of- that system!. (That's just one of the things about Special Relativity that bothers hell out of a lot of people ?)
If you claim that you -do- know something absolutely, then I would submit that it's not 'knowledge' but rather 'belief'!.
(Read up on Karl Popper and try to follow some of the more simplified discussions of Godels Incompleteness Theorem)

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"Letting this Mind abide with you, which was also in Christ Jesus!."

This is Self-evidence!. Plotinus' One Mind Soul-individuation and Husserl's Pure Ego are philosophic examples!.

A typical progession: lower beta wave philosophic analysis; insight meditation to high gamma wave insight; lucidity waking and dreaming; out of body and bilocation experience; Self-realization!.

Matter is geometrized field energy!.
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"The Path of the Higher Self" and "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet, are good re "certitude!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

gut feelings or intuition are true feelings they come from the heart not from the head it's our thoughts that aren't real they judge and doubtWww@QuestionHome@Com

Because you know it without using thought!.Www@QuestionHome@Com