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In another contrast to religions that are familiar to most of us—religions that are built on “truths” received from special, long-dead “authorities” who supposedly witnessed or participated in miracles—The Way of Yo teaches us that our knowledge, our Truths, must be based on what people everywhere can directly experience for themselves, today. Despite the repeated claims that there is “overwhelming evidence” for this or that traditional belief, the poor, contradictory quality of such evidence was demonstrated over a quarter of a millennium ago by the philosopher, David Hume. This is why traditional religion inevitably resorts to appeals to blind faith, i.e., belief that must be accepted without evidence. Indeed, such faith is often taken to indicate piety. So in a major contrast with the standard religions, the existence of Yo, not only can be proven, it has been proven by modern science!
The “Face of Yo,” so to speak, is our experience of the Infinite Unknowable Essence that is “turned toward us,” that manifests as our experience. Yo “manifests” Yoself to us as the universe and everything within the universe: the trees and bugs and animals, the rocks and rivers, the stars and galaxies. This is similar to some mystical versions of the more traditional religions. Yo, Itself, is the Divine Mystery that lies behind (is the source of, generates, manifests as) the paradoxical, mind-boggling facts of existence.
Many Yoans feel that they can come to know that Yo exists through their feelings, thoughts, and direct experience. For these Yoans, a feeling of reverence toward (or spiritual union with) this Divine Mystery—or an immediate, awe-inspiring awareness of The Infinity that manifests as the Universe—can be a profound source of comfort, strength, and meaning. But what defines Yoism—even for those Yoans who do not “believe” in Yo—is our shared commitment to the 5-10-Open Heaven core of Yoism.
The nature of Yo—or, at least, what we know about Yo—is explained in the next few Yo FAQ’s
Since the practice of Yoism is aimed at enabling each individual
“to enhance our ability to thrive and/or to delight in the miracles of
existence,” in a very real sense, every practicing Yoan is a Yoan Saint.

Saint” Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was a Dominican theologian. After his death, his ideas were declared to be the official philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church. In his main treatise, Summa Theologica, he wrote:
Woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence, such as that of a south wind, which is moist. (I q. 92 a. 1)

Good order would have been wanting in the human family if some were not governed by others wiser than themselves. So by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in man the discretion of reason predominates. (I q.92 a.1 reply 2)

Sobriety is most requisite in the young and in women, because concupiscence of pleasure thrives in the young on account of the heat of youth, while in women there is not sufficient strength of mind to resist concupiscence. (II-II q.149 a.4)

The reliability of a person’s evidence is weakened, sometimes indeed on account of some fault of his . . . sometimes, without any fault on his part, and this owing either to a defect in the reason, as in the case of children, imbeciles and women, or to personal feeling . . . (II-II q.70 a.3)