Reality Creation

[YinYang]

And one can act "lovingly" without feeling it (many people do it all the time in our society because they have been taught by society that is how they are supposed to act), but it is kind of like a robot without a soul -- what's the point?

From my own journey end experiences, I resonate very strongly with this. Depending on which continent you were born, you were either told to imitate Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, etc. There is no spiritual evolution in imitation and acting lovingly when its inauthentic. Inauthenticity keeps you from connecting with someone on a deep level, and being vulnerable. People respond to authenticity, and then they become authentic in return. Its quite a rare commodity in our society, as far as I'm concerned. Imitation is also suppression.

So how did I go about opening my heart more regularly on a planet with a mixed harvest? And how did I inch closer and closer to creating a reality more to my liking. I believe in "thought currents" as explained by Prentice Mulford in his book Thoughts are Things. I used to follow the news on a regular basis, and I was always vibrating in fear, and as you know fear closes the heart. It was around the time when we had the xenophobic violence here in South Africa, and all the newspapers published graphic images of it, that I started deciding enough is quite enough. A picture of a man who was set alight was more or less the last straw for me.

Thoughts are Things

WE need to be careful of what we think and talk. Because thought runs in currents as real as those of air and water. Of what we think and talk we attract to us a like current of thought. This acts on mind or body for good or ill.

If thought was visible to the physical eye we should see its currents flowing to and from people. We should see that persons similar in temperament, character and motive are in the same literal current of thought. We should see that the person in a despondent and angry mood was in the same current with others despondent or angry, and that each one in such moods serves as an additional battery or generator of such thought and is strengthening that particular current. We should see these forces working in similar manner and connecting the hopeful, courageous and cheerful, with all others hopeful, courageous and cheerful.

When you are in low spirits or “blue” you have acting on you the thought current coming from all others in low spirits. You are in oneness with the despondent order of thought. The mind is then sick. It can be cured, but a permanent cure cannot always come immediately when one has long been in the habit of opening the mind to this current of thought.

In attracting to us the current of any kind of evil, we become for a time one with evil. In the thought current of the Supreme Power for good we may become more and more as one with that power, or in Biblical phrase “One with God.” That is the desirable thought current for us to attract.

If a group of people talk of any form of disease or suffering, of death-bed scenes and dying agonies, if they cultivate this morbid taste for the unhealthy and ghastly, and it forms their staple topics of conversation, they bring in themselves a like current of thought full of images of sickness, suffering and things revolting to a healthy mind. This current will act on them, and eventually bring them disease and suffering in some form.

It has been many years now that I stopped following the horror show that the news media prepare for us daily, and the change in me has been gradual, but very pleasant and peaceful. I mostly notice how much I have changed when I end up in company where people who regularly follow the news speak of our bleak future, and I can sense how fearful they are.

I also think this horror show is orchestrated, because the negatives know that when we vibrate in fear, precious little spiritual evolution is possible.

And since then I could start taking little steps towards imagining Oneness and unity. These last couple of months I really started feeling very optimistic, which is a result of cultivating my mind and my thoughts over a long period of time. Long standing habits are hard to break. I never linger for long amongst people who have negative thought currents, the two energies just don't mix.

So this has been one aspect of me creating a new reality for myself, because I have the power to choose what I expose myself to. The change happened from within, and little by little the anger and animosity started to dissipate. I stay true to my spontaneous reactions to things, whether its the desired ones or the undesired ones, and believe that the longer I cultivate love within myself, the more it will flow out into the world...no imitation and suppression.