The first step... Make up your mind

Last week I promised to show you how to manifest things and make the Law of Attraction (LOA) work for you.

A couple of years ago, perople were excited about a book and movie called "The Secret".  This was featured on Oprah Winfrey's tv program and had inputs from a number of the personalities who helped make the book happen.  However there have been a number of poeple who have been disappointed in the process.

When I was with Primerica, the Saffords, namely Bob Sr. introduced us to the work of Napoleon Hill.  This was written up in the book "Think and Grow Rich".  The starting point and perhaps the key was to first establish a strong and burning desire.  You really had to want it bad.  Then next you had to articulate it.   Carefully and precisely describe it.  Write it down.  To have something physical to refer to is most important to what I am going to describe to you.

Now that it is written down... post it somewhere in a prominent place or places.  i.e. your bathroom mirror, the visor of your car etc..  Collect pictures and other reminders of what it is you want... you need to keep your vision alive.  Athletes do this all the time...visualization.  Create a mantrum.  This is the subliminal power of advertising jingles.  It remains in your sub-consciousness and this is the goal for the LOA.  Create the reality as you see it in your sub-consciousness. Did you ever get a tune in your head that kept coming back time after time?

The sub-consciousness will continue to work 24/7 as it connects with the super-consciousness and about that we will talk further next week...  Let me have your coments... let me have your questions.

I Think Therefore It Happens

Last week, Peg left the following comment  on some things I said about our senses etc..

"Regarding last week's post about our senses, what interests me is covered in The Secret and what some call The Law of Attraction: that thoughts have a frequency and Like Attracts Like. The Concieve-Believe-Achieve theory, The Power of your Subconscious Mind. I think we are able to do a lot more than we realize we can do, if we make use of all our facilities."

There is no question that we are able to do a lot more than we think we can do.  We limit ourselves by negative thoughts and visions of impossibility.    Now some things are impossible under the circumstances such as neither I nor Peg will dunk a basketball unless the baskets come down from their present height of ten feet or we get a ladder or something.  But when it comes to manifesting things that we want in life then that is a different story.

In the early 1900's Napoleon Hill interviewed Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie took him on as friend and confidante.  In 1939 Hill published a book based on the success stories of Carnegie as well as other wealthy men of that era.  That book was Think and Grow Rich. And the time was right in America for men and perhaps women as well to develop an idea and accumulate wealth as a result.  This had its parallel in Genesis when God took unformed substance and gave it activity to form the earth and the stars as well.  Hill discusses in his book the secrets and practices of these wealthy men which allowed them to think and dream and visualize how to manifest those into material wealth and abundance.

Eric Amidi, also known as "Dr. E", gave the best description of the process in his book titled The Secret Behind the Secret.   He described the process as from the consciousness to the sub-consciousness to what may be called a super-consciousness.  This super-consciousness is sometimes described as a pool of consciousness or other repository where everything is stored that ever has been, is now and ever will be.  So the thought goes from the consciousness to the sub-consciousness to the super-consciousness from where it is manifested into material things.  So thoughts go from the consciousness to the sub-consciousness to super-consciousness for manifestation.  And this is reminiscent of some of the ideas coming out of quantum physics today.

Next week I will discuss how this is made to happen.  In the meantime let us have your comments since they do stimulate ideas and discussion.

A change of pace...

I decided to take a week off from thinking about the cosmos, black holes, alternate universes and whatever.  So my thoughts dwelt on Mother's Day.  Even though it takes a father to make a mother, to the temporary tenant it is the Mother who has cradled it for nine months about and then introduced it to the fantastic reality that is this world.  Nothing can replace that experience.

I loved my mother and if she were alive she would be 95 today.  And we would be celebrating both her birthday and tomorrow Mother's day as well.

So to all those mothers who ever were, who are now and who will be in the future..  i say to you  Happy Mother's Day.

Where do we go from here?

On Apr. 25, 2010 Margery wrote a comment to the post of Mar. 25, 2010 entitled "Will the real world please stand up"

"I have often thought there are more than five senses. One simple one is sense of time. For example I can plan to nap for 15 minutes, and will wake after exactly 15 minutes with no clock within sight, and pleasant dreams that do not involve counting. We understand time is easily denoted by past, present, and future but I believe there is more than that basic concept. Perhaps some quantum universes exist in a variation of time, rather than space, and perhaps time is what absorbs the energy from our dead bodies. ??"

Some people do have a sense of time duration and probably do not need an alarm clock  or rooster to signal an event.   And there are many indications of extra-sensory perception.  But time itself along with the three dimensions of space make up the basic reality of our present conscious existence.  The physicists recognize an infinite number of dimemsions of which our fourth dimension along with the elevnth and the twenty sixth appear to be the ones of particular interest to them.   The others appear to be rolled up into very small dimensions that make it hard to visualize.  The relative sizes of these dimensions make it difficult to see how matter itself can make the journey and therefore the body must stay behind in this dimension.  Of course the soul or consciousness or whatever  being of the nature of energy can travel literally to whatever destination and thereby make the trip to other dimensions, other worlds ... other universes.

These are just my thoughts and do not represent the conclusions of any other.  I list them here for the opportunity to generate discussion from others on where they think that the process of death leads to.....  Let us hear from you.

Some more connectedness

As it happens so many times, while writing on connectedness in last weeks' post, my attention came to an old books-on-tape edition of "Stranger in a strange land" by Robert Heinlein.  In this book the hero is a young lad who was conceived during a space travel between earth and mars.  The crew were selected couples so the opportunity for something like that was very large.  The space ship lost contact and was never heard from again.  Years later another mission was launched to mars and it found a young man, an earthling, who was raised by the martians.

The young man, Michael Valentine Smith, was brought back to earth and literally fought over by the politicians, scientists and the like.  Meanwhile he is brought under the protection of a small group of people who help him assimilate into the earth culture.  At the same time the influence of the martian culture began to rub off Smith onto the earthlings who formed that protective group.

This allowed Heinlein to present terms such as 'grok' or grokking', water-sharing, and a totally 'new' concept of love perhaps in a universal sense.

To grok was to know with a perfect understanding of all aspects of the concept or object in question.. with people it was a mutually merging rapport.  The water sharing was a ritual which symbolized the bond between humans.  And since martians did not recognize the difference between sexes it was a universal sharing that made all being 'water brothers' both men and women.  Love is the unconditional love that is talked about between some animals and humans and only rarely between humans themselves.   This is an emotional bond so complete that it transcends all the petty needs of personal ego. 

I could go on and write a complete book repoort but then that might spoil it for those who are interested and ready to think about those terms.  There are flashes of science fiction about the story but the underlying philosophy is appealing to those who can see beyond the everyday greed and jockeying for position in our culture today.  And it is this connectedness that is perhaps the salvation of our human race as we careen toward the future.




 

Connectedness

What is this thing called Connectedness?  Is it a sympathy that strikes a cord when we see others in difficulty?  Not really.  Perhaps because to walk a mile in another person's shoes is not to experience the bad times, the sad times but to experience the happy times, the exalting times as well.

Look at the little people.  Look at the children.  They seem to sense the moods and emotions of other children and adults as well.  When they are in nurseries or other groups, perhaps even when only two or more are together, they not only sense but respond to the moods and emotions of those around them.  This is not sympathy but perhaps is better described as empathy.  It is as if one gives off vibrations of a frequency that the other  can resonate to.  And the response is instantaneous and complete.

A great teacher once said, "only as ye be as children can you enter the kingdom of Heaven".  Are the children showing us what we have lost in our sophistication as adults?  Do we have to re-capture the empathy, the connectedness in order to travel to other dimensions?  Can we find a way such as time travel or is energy the key as in some Star Trek transporter?

Spirituality - the synthesis of Science and Religion

We live in a Religious world. A world depending on ritual and things taken on faith or hearsay. Regardless of Monotheism or Paganism there is always a hierarchy of entities or a "we-they" approach to everything. Things and events are pre-determined in some universal script or plot.

We live in a Scientific world where things are determined with great precision. A world where everything is related to everything else. A world where technology has given us the privilege of practically instantaneous communication. And a curiousity to poke our nose into anything that we have a mind to. But are we truly "our brother's keeper"?

That comes in the synthesis of Science and Religion. That comes with Spirituality. Spirituality is Religion without the need for blind faith and public ritual. Spirituality is Science without the need for predictability or a cause for every effect. Is it necessary to bring everything into the laboratory to accept it's existence? Perhaps as the world grows more spiritually and we become more conscious of the connectedness of all things then the synthesis will become complete and we can benefit from all three parts of the trichotomy.

What is this connectedness that is a result of our acceptance of Spirituality? This I shall describe in next week's post as I tell you the story of little people helping little people.