Progress
Everyday, something new.
New technology, new music, new tv shows, new cars, new video games.
Everything is being improved daily, who knows what the future holds for us. We're seeing things manifesting that were science fiction 100, 50, even 10 years ago. People are working to increase longevity, engineer food and crop, understand physics, create personal flying vehicles, create the next _________. Elon Musk is trying to colonize mars!
We are literally trying to improve everything we can think of, advance in every direction, but we're forgetting one little thing:
Us
I'm not talking about medical advancements or augmenting the body or taking the next new nootropic. I'm talking about consciousness.
Underneath all the razzle dazzle of cool new tech and reality tv there is a subtle spiritual awakening happening. Consciousness appears to be waking up.
Now on the surface that might seem boring, especially to those of you who haven't really experienced anything truly mystical or spiritual. Even if you have, you might not think it could change the world as drastically as technology is. Sure, the way you perceive the world might change, you might be viewing life in a way that is beautiful and magical, but what about affecting change in others?
Could consciousness play a bigger role?
Dreaming the World
Perhaps we are all creating the world, maybe the physical world is derived from spirit. Maybe we're all our here creating the world with consciousness, but we're out of control because we're in the dream state, we haven't awakened or become enlightened yet, we don't know how to consciously create, only how to unconsciously create.
My girlfriend got me this wall quote from Guatama Buddha:
Let's dig into these words a little bit...
What you think, you become
Our thoughts are objects in this world, though they are far more subtle than physical objects. They are also quite powerful...
Thought has tremendous power. Thought can heal diseases. Thought can transform the mentality of persons. Thought can do anything. It can work wonders. The velocity of thought is unimaginable.
Thought is a dynamic force. It is caused by the vibrations of psychic Prana or Sukshma Prana on the mental substance.
-Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
So why can't we perform miracles through thought? Why can't we use our thoughts to affect change in our world? Could it be that we don't know how to direct or properly use thought? I know for most my life I never really observed my thoughts, I just took them for granted. I'm pretty sure most people in our society don't, our thoughts run rampant.
But what if every thought we sent out had an effect, would we watch them more closely? Would we start to learn to use and guide thought to help the world?
What you feel, you attract
In this world, like attracts like. Whatever we feel ourselves to be will draw the corresponding environment and opportunities to us. At least that's what Neville Goddard wrote about:
Every feeling makes a subconscious impression, and, unless counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature, must be expressed.
What you feel you are always dominates what you would feel you would like to be.
Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles.
Most of Goddard's teaching revolves around feeling yourself into the state you wish to be in, and I tend to believe it to be possible. If we truly are Consciousness, the Consciousness that is creating the world, that is everything, the One, then what wouldn't we be capable of? Maybe what we feel has the capability to shape the world around us, not the other way around.
What you imagine, you create
The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified. Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world. So it is to consciousness that we must turn if we would discover the secret of creation.
-Neville Goddard
Finally we get to creation.
We can already see imagination's role in creating. Ideas are what we turn into new creations. Every physical item we've created was an idea first, someone imagined it before they set out to build it. Every single one, and not only physical items, but mental objects too. Ideas, stories, music, all of these are created using imagination. The imaginative faculty is the only place where new things come from.
Goddard has some potentially controversial ideas about imagination:
Your human imagination is God and is that which sustains the Universe.
The thing about this statement is that it kind of makes sense. If God created the world, and whatever we imagine we create, then potentially imagination is that same creative force, the creative power of God. I realize this goes against most everything I've been told, but what about what other people have told us about God can be proven?
If this is so, are we paying enough attention to our imaginations? Have you ever let your imagination run wild? I know I have, sometimes I end up imagining things I wouldn't want to happen.
I was just using my imagination
-Conor Mcgregor
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Sometimes I use imagination in selfish ways, daydreaming. Really I'd guess most people have poor control over their imagination, we just take it for granted as some plaything to generate ideas, create worlds in our minds, and run through potential happenings. Do we ever think those things might come true? Rarely, and maybe that's a good thing in the case of bad imaginings.
Other times we might be making dreams come true...
Maybe it's time we started using these faculties in a conscious way. What if we all started sending out kind thoughts. What if we all started to feel the way we wanted to feel, overcoming whatever situation we find ourselves in and feeling however we want to feel. What if we all started imagining great things for eachother, and ourselves. Imagining success, love, and health for our friends and family.
What if we started dreaming big dreams, and doing everything in our power to actively make them happen. Surely this line of thinking would require great faith. Absolute faith. And courage too, to even try, to even give it a real shot. The problem with testing this type of thing is that there is absolutely no room for doubt. The great part is there is no harm that can come from thinking good thoughts, feeling like you already are the person you want to be, or imagining great things for yourself and others.
Try it out, the best time is before you go to bed. If you're going to give this a shot, give it a real shot, do your homework. Check out Neville Goddard and other similar thinkers. I never see anyone talking about Goddard or mentioning him and I feel he has a really unique approach to the bible and to human psychology. A lot of his books are free online as pdf's, otherwise they're dirt cheap on kindle.
If Goddard's ideas prove true they could provide empowerment to every individual, no matter class, rank, education, or whatever. Every person has the ability to think, feel, and imagine.
I hope you guys enjoyed the write-up, I know this content isn't as standard as other spiritual writings, but I thought that it would be something cool to share and experiment with. It definitely pushes the envelope and kind of reminds me of "The Secret" and other new agey stuff. But if it's true, it can change the world.
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