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Pam Grout
Most of the thoughts we assume are our own are really the invisible and largely unquestioned beliefs we downloaded from others.
Those thoughts were exact clones of comments my mother often made when I was growing up. And even though there was no evidence to support those fears in my own life, I had downloaded them straight into my consciousness without even being aware of it.
Neuroscientists tell us that 95 percent of our thoughts are controlled by our preprogrammed subconscious mind. Instead of actually thinking, you’re looking at a “movie” of the past.
To effectively work these spiritual laws, you have to “get it” deep down in your bones that the universe is bountiful and that, at all times, it has your back.
life. I do know it had become increasingly clear to me that all the spiritual theories and books and classes that I was so fascinated with were basically worthless without my full participation.
What I know for sure is that the best way to understand a spiritual principle, maybe the only way, is not to read
about it in a book or to hear a speaker explain it from a podium, but to put it into a framework that demonstrates how it works. Seeing it in action, as you will in these experiments, leads to complete and certain conviction. And that’s the only thing that will radically release you from “old-school” mental architecture.
And that’s what happens when you begin to think about something—you draw it into your life.
This principle simply says, “Whatever you focus on expands,” and in the experiment you’ll learn that there’s no such thing as an idle thought and that all of us are way too cavalier and tolerant of our minds’ wandering.
“Your thoughts and consciousness provide the scaffolding for your physical body” by infusing your food with love.
“The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.” It will also prove that your fears are pointless and that maybe it’s okay to take a big, deep breath.
That’s what we’ve done—diverted all our attention to the physical world. These sensory “bluffs” have caused us to miss the fact that what is invisible, what we can’t see with our eyes, is actually more fundamental to life than what
we do see.
reality. Indeed, we now know that the universe is made of nothing but waves and particles of energy that conform to our expectations, judgments, and beliefs.
Subtle energies, thoughts, emotions, and consciousness play the starring roles in our life experiences, but because they’re invisible, we haven’t attempted to understand them or use them in our favor. To change the world is a simple matter of changing these expectations and beliefs. It’s truly that easy. To bring something into the physical world requires focusing not on what we see, but on what we want to see.
The subatomic realm so defies all reason and logic that most scientists, scared to endanger their academic credentials, have more or less ignored the fact that life is nothing like what we pretend it is.
A Course in Miracles, a self-study program in spiritual psychology that I’ve been practicing and teaching for 25 years, has always advocated the idea that consciousness creates the material world. It says we humans decide in advance how we’re going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see.
If you ask me, learning how to transform energy is so important it should be taught along with reading, writing, and arithmetic.
The minute you make an intention, you create it. It’s instantaneous. It exists as an actual thing.
That’s why it’s really important to stay on the channel you want. Don’t give any airtime to the reality from which you’re trying to escape. Tune in only to your intent.
To be in the kingdom, as A Course in Miracles puts it, is to merely focus your full attention on it. You have to be willing to perceive nothing else.
forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of the spiritual forces. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has in the past four.
1. What exactly is science? According to Webster’s, science is “knowledge attained through study or practice.” It usually starts with a theory.
invent gravity when he dropped the wooden ball off the leaning tower of Pisa. He just demonstrated it. Likewise, Jesus demonstrated spiritual principles that he wants us to use and develop. We’ve wasted 2,000 years worshipping this idol of him instead of using the principles he taught us.
