The Thing I Greatly Feared…
December 7, 2007
In the Old Testament is a story of a man called Job. In this story, his thinking – which had in the past brought him great prosperity – turned negative; and as a result, he lost a great deal of what he had accumulated. His friends came and cheered him up, telling him that he knew better than to think negatively; “That’s the kind of thinking which causes these kinds of things in the first place,” they reminded him. Job realized that it was those things which he greatly feared which had come upon him. One can not greatly fear a thing if they do not greatly think of that thing.
Much later, a man called Jesus would come along telling people to “Fear not,” in order to help themselves and others heal; and that “As a man thinketh, so it is done unto him.” Many people believe this was a teaching of Jesus, but Job’s friends knew of this teaching years before Jesus came along; this same teaching is in the book of Proverbs, and can be found in every religion on this planet. It seems people who take time to think for themselves always come to the same conclusions.
Later still, a man named Albert Einstein stated how matter and energy were one and the same – differentiated only by the speed at which their constituent parts vibrated. In other words, everything we are and everything we aren’t is the same at a certain level. Einstein also said that, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Knowledge is simply an archive of past occurrences; it is our imagination (the new things we think about) which creates the lives we live – and the world we live in.
Today, Quantum Physicists building on the work of Einstein, and others, have found many links between consciousness and physical reality. Basically, as the philosopher Ernest Holmes wrote, “Thoughts are things;” or they become things through a process which is now easily observed by science and medicine. E=mc² is simply one more way of saying that thoughts are things; thoughts can now be measured as forms of energy which stimulate, or create, denser forms of energy when the thought energy arrives in the brain. The denser energies include meridian and nervous system energy, which in turn stimulate the production and release of chemical energy – all of which changes our physical structure and our feelings, moods, activity or appearance. Thought energy gives rise to all we see and all we are.
With this new awareness, which is really old awareness spoken in a new language, why would people flock to fill their heads with images of natural disasters, tragedies, terror, and other horrible sights and experiences they really do not want in their lives? “If you build it, they will come.” If you build images in your head; they will come into your existence in one way or another. This is the law; and history is testament to this truth. Live and learn; or die and learn. The choice is yours. This is free will. Discipline is a mental skill. Remember: It’s the thought that counts. What are you thinking about?
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