Doubt, Certainty, and Ghosts

To doubt or not to doubt, everyone is asking the question lately. 

First, we must first realize that there is good and proper doubt, and then there is unnecessary and unproductive doubt. (more on that later)

I believe a dose of the proper doubt can actually exist to support our belief. 

We may doubt the existence of ghosts, but if we walk through a dark house we have been told is haunted we are still likely to have our guard up. Our actions suggest we do believe, or we at least have enough self-doubt to consider the possibility that we have it wrong. 

Certainty is present if we can walk through our dark house and act if there is no ghost. In this illustration certainty is actualized through the rejection of the unseen and in faith in one’s own belief system.

However, doubt in one's self is the very thing that upholds the belief in the other.