Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Imagination: The Most Powerful Force

Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: 'greatest creative force'. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth's), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley's), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.
Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.

Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief.

Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth.

Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on.

And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world's greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination. The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.

The Bible says 'As a man thinketh, so shall he become'. It also says 'Without vision we perish'.
Your mind's images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different 'limits'?

Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality. To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world. You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not.

That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow. This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.

Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.

Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.
As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.

Many things influence your imagination - past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals - any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success.

David Cameron

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Only the Good is Real

We have progressed to the point in our human evolution where we can begin to see that all is good. We do make mistakes, but these mistakes are just lessons about our futile search for happiness in an ignorant manner.

Therefore we can make four denials: 1.There is no evil, only error or undeveloped good 2. There is no such thing as dead matter, all is alive 3. Pain, sickness, poverty, deformity and death cannot master me, because I have grown out of the belief in them and made them into steps of growth for me 4. There is nothing in all the universe to make me afraid. Only Good exists anywhere, unless I am like a blindfolded child crying that there is no light.

In denying the power of fear, I assert my power over everything. When you grasp this power, you may experience chemicalization and feel sick briefly because you have stirred up the dregs of old beliefs with new living light. Truth disturbs error. Even Christ said I come not to bring peace but a sword. I stand resolutely in the conviction that nothing can discourage me. I am standing on the ground of the eternal good. I am becoming a tower of strength and a center of attraction. I am an uplifting silent influence.

Your child may disobey you but do not punish him, just lay your hand of confidence in the good upon his forehead and say silently “There is no evil.” There are no sinners or failures, just misguided searchers for happiness.

“I am not so negative as to be angry.” I fight nothing. My neighbor’s anger or unjust acts are just a temporary mistake. I dwell upon the idea that only the good is real.

Not an atom in my body was there 3 months ago.
I replace all of the old worn out atoms in my body with new atoms bearing the stamp of immortality. Every new vital truth that I envision changes my body into immortality. My thoughts weaken or strengthen my body. Disease and old age are the result of sick thoughts.

There is no evil. There is no matter to drag me down. All is spirit, all is light, all is infinitely good. There is nowhere guilt can grasp my mind to pull me down. I desire the good, I see the good, I am one with the good.

I recognize and let go of all limiting beliefs. Health is mine, there is no disease. I am free from pain, poverty and fear. My life is boundless. I am health. I am strength. I am intelligent. I am great. I am beautiful. I am prosperous. I have the power of infinite understanding. I am now that which I desire to be. My soul is growing ever more aware of my godlike nature.

When I believe in evil, my growth is retarded. With intelligent awareness, infinite happiness is possible. All is good, I am not afraid. In essence I am already that which I desire to be. I re-educate myself every day with new vitality and new understanding and new atoms.

Not one in a hundred people know that they can think or that their thoughts control their lives. You can turn your back on all of the false beliefs you have ever learned. There is a well-spring of original thought within you. Within the acorn there is an oak tree. Within the cocoon there is a butterfly. Within you there is the unlimited good of God.

Your desires are good, even though at times they are focused poorly. Desires are the voice of God within you, calling you to greater awareness. Imagination is the mother of desire. Doubt can strangle imagination. You have the right to question everything. You have the right to doubt and to question. You have the right to know the truth and to be set free from the false.

It is not our desires that have to be overcome, but our false beliefs about them. We must follow our desires until they lead us past our false beliefs in limitation to our divinity. Desire for more is the spirit of growth in man.

We have believed more in our fears than in our desires. God gave us desires, we gave ourselves fears. Intelligence destroys fears when it follows desires. Intelligence desires health, freedom, love, beauty and the infinite good. False beliefs (ignorance) deny the power of desire and remain stuck in fears and doubts.

There is a fountain of intuitional knowing within you. Ask yourself a question, turn within and listen. There is a strange living substance within you that knows no disease, no sin, no poverty, no death, that knows nothing but prosperity, health, strength and vitality. We have an inner mind that knows all things and an outer surface mind that keeps us focused outwardly. This inner mind does not desire or remember sickness and death. Tap into this inner mind. It is the source of all power and knowledge.

Helen Wilmans

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Most Dangerous Time to Be Alive

We live in the most exciting, the most revolutionary, the most creative, the most challenging, and the most dangerous time the world has ever seen. Scientific genius combined with the arcane implications of mystical revelation has brought us to a crisis of perception, a decisive turning point where old structures must terminate or change.

It is not my intention to either perpetuate or debunk traditional religions – Christianity, Buddhism, Hebraism, Islam, metaphysical or existential philosophies – but rather to explore and help initiate a new, non-sectarian “global myth” that will define the future.

If we are to prosper we have to perceive something that has never been seen before. We must literally close the gap between our divinity and our humanity, between the visible and the invisible. and between consciousness and form.”

At this point, we, and the world in general, are in a state of free fall. Objectively there isn’t anything permanent for us to hang onto of a material or intellectual nature. We cannot find security in our bank accounts, our physical health, our mental storehouses, our governments, the teachings of the past, or anything else external to ourselves. If we curl up out of fear in free fall, we will spin helplessly out of control. On the other hand, if we do not panic, but instead stretch out our arms and trust that which we have within ourselves to protect us, we will not only glide down with a modicum of control, but we might enjoy the ride as well.

Walter Starcke

Saturday, January 06, 2007

History Starts Now

Got a package full of Wishes
A Time machine, a Magic Wand
A Globe made out of Gold

What kind of world do you want
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

John Andrasik