IDENTITY AND KNOWING 2

p. 181-184

I was in “story telling” mode during this session, and I hope that was not too distracting. I just kept thinking of some personal situations that seemed to be appropriate examples of the material. 

The key element here is something that has been touched upon quite often in these books by Paul and the guides, ACIM, etc. and that is our thoughts create our reality—but nobody ever told us how that happens. 
I am borrowing a piece of imagery from the old Greek philosophers.* Imagine there is a substance, like soft clay. It has no form of its own, it is just this shapeless blob. But then someone comes along and decides to make a pot out of some of that clay, and puts the clay on a potter's wheel and shapes and molds it. 
What has happened here is that I have “informed” the clay with a thought, with a shape and function.
Now suppose that there is an unlimited supply of spiritual clay or potential energy, that has no form of its own, but it is just this shapeless mass  of energy waiting to be formed into something.
Metaphorically, our thoughts grab a piece of this formless spiritual clay and mold it accordingly. Now this could happen on an emotional level: thoughts of negativity, separateness, fear are going to mold or create the energy of separateness and fear; thoughts of Oneness, love, Unity are going to create those energies. We do that every Sunday morning. (I've noticed upstairs when a service just really pulls together--the sermon, the music, the meditation all just click together that no one really wants to leave the sanctuary. Everybody just stand around talking, sharing etc. I do not think people re conscious of this phenomenon, but there it is.) 
If I concentrate on sickness for very long, I can very easily create imbalance in the body. If I concentrate on wellness, wholeness, I create balance and well-being. (I just realized the physical image of balance, eg. Balancing of scales, breaks down here.--Just know that balance, wellness, are our natural state. The more thoughts I plug into wholeness/wellness, etc. then the more I create.

What is suggested here is that most of us are "molded" by family, society,  but rules and laws that have nothing to do with the truth of who we are. IT IS TIME TO BREAK THE MOLD.

I recently read this passage in Ernest Holmes’  The Creative Mind Trilogy. It is probably the most concise picturing of this process i have come across.

“Again we must reiterate the principle of all life. We are surrounded by a thinking medium from which all things come. We think into it; it does the rest. Since we are thinking beings and cannot stop thinking, and since Creative Mind receives our thought and cannot stop creating, it must always be making something for us. What it will make depends absolutely and only upon what we are thinking, and what we will attract will depend entirely upon our holding thought to the complete exclusion of all that would contradict it. It is not enough that we should sit down and say, 'I am one with Infinite Life." This must mean more than mere words; it must be felt, it must become an embodiment of a positive mental attitude. It is not claiming something to be true which is going to happen; it is not sending out an aspiration, or a desire, or a supplication, or a prayer; it must be the embodiment of that which knows that now it is. This is more than holding a thought. Our ability to attract will depend upon the largeness of our thought as we feel that it flows out into a great Universal Creative Power. We are dealing with the form in thought, and not with the form in matter. We have learned that when we get the true form in thought and permeate it with the spirit of belief we will see the thought made flesh without any further effort on our part. Thought can attract to us only that which we first mentally embody. We cannot attract to ourselves that which we are not. We can attract in the outer only that which we have first completely mentally embodied within, that which has become a part of our mental make-up, a part of our inner understanding.”

HOLMES, ERNEST (2014-08-09). CREATIVE MIND TRILOGY.





*Some early Greek philosophers imagined a substance called "urstuff." It was a the stuff that everything was made of. In the language of this book, it was essence without form. It could be "molded" into anything. 

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