So, the Church of Religious Science, not to be confused with Christian Science or Scientology. This church is fond of a saying supposedly spoken by some guy a couple thousand years ago, “It shall be done unto you as you believe.” That’s pretty much the one tenant of this church. Reconfigured for a more modern time reads, “You think it, you got it.”
Okay, that is a little over simplistic. Obviously closing your eyes and thinking real hard “there is a hot fudge Sunday in front of me” probably isn’t going to make a hut fudge Sunday materialize in front of you out of thin air. And if it does, invite me over, I’ll pay good money for what you can do, and I’d like to beat the crowds . . .
But then, sometimes, or at least this has been my experience, you think to yourself, I sure could use an extra ten bucks to get through till payday, and then you find a ten spot on the ground where you’re walking five minutes later. At least that’s been my experience.
In other words, matter apparently doesn’t just materialize out of thin air, at least not often these days, but raw desire alone, or more accurately, apparently, a heartfelt desire alone can be enough to move a few negligible things around to assist a being having what they feel is for their best possible good.
On the other hand, if you believe you’re probably going to be shat on, that seems just as easy for the universe to produce. Again with the heart level, but if what you believe is that something is going to go wrong, odds are it will.
Have you ever noticed that if you’re walking in a straight line, and then you start looking at something else, something to the side, your feet will start naturally turning you in that direction. Same basic concept. Where you put your focus is where your energy will most naturally start taking you. If your focus is clear enough, and you can put the energy behind getting from point A to point B, you’ll wind up there eventually, it’s the law. So where does God come into this?
Have you ever wanted something but not known exactly how to go about doing it? Step one is to start walking in the direction of your best possible guess of where it might be. Then, you’ll see things, meet people, have opportunities to learn which way is the best way to go from wherever you find yourself. And the more you ask for the universe’s help, the more it will help you. And here I can’t help but notice I seem to be using “Universe” and “God” interchangeably.
I believe it was Jay Sankey I first heard referenced as saying, “The universe loves commitment.” And that’s pretty much it. On the mundane level, usually you don’t need God’s help to get something done, or rather, at most all you have to do is to ask people a bunch, the physical manifestations of God walking amongst ourselves, until one points you in a helpful direction, and then you just keep going until you need help again. Or a variation on what one knows or what one sees will spark an idea. Getting what one wants out of life usually isn’t all that mystical, it just takes the work necessary to get it done combined with genuine intention.
We make manifest what we don’t want usually because we’re so used to living as it that it’s hard to really focus on what we do want. That’s it. You don’t need to open a book for a prophecy when one can be self-fulfilled so much easier. When it comes to the larger God we work amongst and with every day, the community of man kind, it becomes a matter of what are people believing en mass. For example, some people believe that a book tells them the world will come to an end in an epic display of fire and demons, even though that book was made originally as a reference to things that were happening during the time it was actually written (it was written that way so that the people they were writing about, who were oppressing them, wouldn’t kill them). As a result, some people might become so enamored with an easy way out of what is sometimes not an easy life that they actually try as a group to make it come to pass. When this happens, people who want life to continue then have to contend with the burden of those who apparently don’t because they think a book “told them to,” and those who want life to continue have to strengthen their focus even more than they probably would have had to otherwise to keep themselves naturally pointed in the direction of those things that will help people equally as time goes by. It can look a lot like a Zoroastrian epic struggle between light and darkness when one views it at a glance . . .
So, the point is, think strongly about what you want, and then see if you’re willing to put the energy in to really make it manifest in our commonly shared reality, rather than the one in which it was originally created, your individuated mind. “As the heart finds the good thing the feeling is multiplied. Add the will to the strength and it equals conviction. As we economize efficiency is multiplied to the extent I am determined the result is the good thing.”
TTFN
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