All thinking is creative. If you have read the parent page,
Energetic Beings in the Spirit World… then you know that we exist in a domain
within a domain within a domain and so forth until we reach the domain of
Spirit. So all beings reside in
Spirit. Furthermore, we are all in the Zero
Point Field, a universal field of energy that links us to all that is and
reacts to every change in the field including each
thought or feeling we have.
Ernest Holmes summed it up nicely by saying, “We are individual points of
consciousness in Universal Mind.” That means we think with the same mind and
into the same Mind that we reside within. Perhaps Mind is another name for the
Field.
As we discussed previously, everything in our world is made
of energy including our own bodies. Energy is composed of waves and particles.
The waves are the communicating information storing part of energy, and the
particles at first appear solid, though they are in fact just possibilities. A
particle may be here or it may be there. It may appear as a wave if you are
looking for a wave but also may appear as a particle if it is a particle you
seek. In short it is a possibility waiting for you to tell it with your
intentions what and where you wish it to be.
How powerful are intentions and do they really effect our
environment? To answer that question I suggest you read “
The Hidden Messages in
Water”, by Dr. Masaru Emoto and “Conscious Acts of Creation” by Tiller,
Dibble, and Kohane. Furthermore, you might want to read about the work of the
French Scientist BenVeniste. Quite by accident his work revealed that the
intentions of lab workers can effect the outcome of experiments.
Then there are “virtual” particles that appear from nowhere
and collide with other particles, exchanging information with them in the
process and then disappearing. Their appearance is rapid, even in sub atomic
terms and their disappearance is as mysterious as their appearance. They just
happen. Sort of like when you walk away from your desk for a moment and then
when you return there is a sticky note there telling you the boss wants to see
you right away.
So each individual is a cloud of possibilities held together
by energy that is also a cloud of possibilities. A possibility is held in a
thought. So in the end we are each a collection of thoughts in Universal Mind.
We are a manifestation of a thought. We think the same kinds of thoughts into
the same Mind that created us. But, why then, when I think of a
pink elephant,
doesn’t a pink elephant instantly appear?
To answer that question I think we have to back up a moment
and answer the question, who or what thought of you and brought you into
existence? Mind will fill the form. It is a sea of potential just waiting to
fill a form but the form must come from somewhere. Mind is only creative in
that it will follow a form, it doesn’t create the form. Perhaps the somewhere
that the form comes from is the domain of Spirit. Remember Spirit? It is the
repository of all that is, and all that is is Spirit. Mind exists in Spirit and
we in turn exist in Mind. Everything that exists in Mind must exist as a
thought. The creative principle in Mind is the great unseen, but Mind itself is
manifesting all around us and through us. Everything you see is a thought. That
certainly gives new meaning to “I think, therefore I am.”
We can make changes that appear in the crystals of frozen
water and in other minute and subtle ways, but Spirit can manifest thoughts on
a much grander scale. The other thing to remember is that all thoughts
are creative, the ones we mean to be creative and the ones we don’t wish to be
creative. Perhaps our emotions and belief have an intensifying effect on some
thoughts, but all thoughts will be felt in the field and Mind will react to all
thoughts. And that is why no pink elephant has appeared in my tiny office.
Because as well as thinking the thought of a pink elephant I am also thinking
that I really don’t want that elephant here as well as also thinking I really
can’t make an elephant appear out of thin air.
But in subtler ways we do create in our lives those things
we desire. I was reminded of this while having lunch with my mother just months
before she passed away. She had been talking about a book she had been working
on that she wanted to finish before her life was over. I was half listening to
her but also thinking about a lot of other things I had to do and take care of
that day and that week, all wrapped up in my own responsibilities and things to
do. But she brought me out of my own little world and made me think when she
looked up at me and asked, “And how is your writing going?”
I had been so busy with so many things, raising a family and
running a small business and all those things that seem to take up our time
that I had lost touch with the fact that as a young man I had a burning desire
to be a writer. Maybe I had forgotten that but my mother never had forgotten
it. I thought back to that time when I spent days, weeks, months huddled over
my old electric typewriter. Having plenty of ego I thought it would be
wonderful to have people think that whatever I had to say would be worth paying
money to read. How wonderful to be so bright and captivating that people would
shell out money to have me reveal my thoughts. I’d written novels and movie
scripts and short stories that never did make it past the editor’s desks.
Gradually I had gotten caught up in my family and career and the dream of
writing was pushed aside.
But I had used my writing talents in a more practical way
and due to necessity had written instructions and how-to manuals for people who
actually bought them. Every month I make money from people who think that what
I have to say is worth money to read. It isn’t fiction and not scintillatingly
brilliant, but it helps them. I’m not famous and no one asks for my autograph,
but writing does help to pay the bills. I realized when she asked me that
question that my intention to be a published writer had come true, but not
exactly the way I’d pictured it. Then again, I was always a shy man and tried
to help people and cared about other people so maybe, my sub-conscious mind had
modified that intention to make it work for the man I truly am. But the bottom
line is that I am a writer. I can say that without hesitation or reservation. I
had put the thought into Mind and in its own way it had filled the form.
So the answer to the question, where is the pink elephant?
Is that the pink elephant does exist as one possibility, but a lot of other
thoughts are controlling it so that elephant doesn’t manifest because I believe
those thoughts more than I believe the thought that I can create a pink
elephant. Just think of all the thoughts you have ever had and multiply that
times the number of people there are on Earth. Then remember that everything
around you is a thought and you have an idea of the immensity of thoughts
surrounding us. So each thought is effected by the thoughts surrounding it and
that is why it is so hard to think things into existence. On the other hand it
is why when we think something and it becomes an embodied or embedded belief,
like my desire to be a writer, it does eventually manifest itself, albeit a bit
modified by that sea of thought it had to work its way through.
That is where faith comes into play. We have to have faith
that our desires will eventually come to fruition for good or bad but also
realize that they may be altered by our own consciousness and perhaps the
consciousness of the people around us, known as “race consciousness”. If there
is a pool of consciousness that we all contribute to and we are each effected
by, then it is this race consciousness that contains many ideas and beliefs
that we inherit and may not be aware of. If there is something you truly
desire, hold onto your idea and embody it and let it live within you. Hold on
to your dreams and have faith that someday they will come true. Also take care
that any foolish ideas provided by race consciousness don’t alter your dreams
or get in the way. While some things in race consciousness may be helpful, many
are destructive and it is this that we must overcome.
If we are a collection of thoughts then add good thoughts to
your collection and weed out those destructive ones. In time your creative
thinking will pay off.
