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July 20, 2004 10:24 PM

Thoughts create reality. This is not some wishful New Age mantra . . . it is an inescapable fact of reality for anyone who is paying attention.

I’ve known it all my life, personally. I first remember experiencing it through books. Even before I could read, my mother’s bedtime stories showed me how the thoughts of an author could transport me to Dr. Doolittle’s workshop, the Lorax’s forest, Winnie-the Pooh’s tree-house. Then, in subsequent years, I ran away and joined the circus with Toby Tyler, solved mysteries with Encyclopedia Brown, climbed up the side of Mount Doom with Frodo, flew to the stars with any number of Heinlein juvenile heroes, and visited Narnia repeatedly. I even went to Hawaii with Donnie and Marie.

(This last adventure sticks out in my mind because the novelization of the Osmond movie “Goin’ Coconuts” was the first “big person” book I ever read. I saw it in the Walgreens at our local mall, thought it looked cool, and asked my mom to buy it for me. She said something like, “You can’t read that. The print is too small.” I persisted, because, god help me, I guess I really wanted to visit that world.)

Each adventure was relatively brief . . . once the book was done, I was forced to return to my own world rather quickly. But each time I came back, I felt a little different. The thoughts of the author, and my thoughts about the author, had changed me, changed my reality.

Later, watching Shirley MacLaine on TV in the 80’s and purifying my quartz crystals with salt-water between Tarot readings and channeling sessions, it was easy for me to take the power of thought on faith. In the early 90’s, when I went to Mass every day and prayed the rosary compulsively, I became further convinced of the creative power of a strong mental intention.

Working through college, reading every major philosophical work of the Western Tradition, I learned that this phenomenon was not unique to my experience, nor even a twentieth-century innovation. Every major thinker of the last two-thousand years has ultimately come to the conclusion that it is not the thing “out there” which is real (if, in fact, such a thing even exists), but the thing “in here” . . . the thought. Thoughts are the hard, fixed tools that we use to create reality out of the malleable mass of fantasy stuff surrounding us.

Four years in psychic school fleshed out my theoretical understanding of this principle with many, many successful experiments in creating reality out of thoughts. And to cap it all off, my recent adventures in the world of cognative-behavioral psychotherapy have enlightened me to the fact that the medical/scientific world has now come around to the same conclusion that artists, mystics, philosophers and religious devotees have always known . . . THOUGHTS CREATE REALITY.

Even the physicists have been forced to admit, though they are still struggling to explain it, that “impartial scientific observers” affect the movements of quantum particles by the very power of their mental attention.

So if thoughts create reality, as all the smart people seem to agree, why do we still fear the world around us? Why do we still act as if some President, some terrorist, some multi-national corporation controls our fate?

What are we waiting for?

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	July 20, 2004 10:24 PM Thoughts create reality. This is not some wishful New Age mantra . . . it is an inescapable fact of reality for anyone who is paying attention. I’ve known it all my life, personally. I first remember experiencing it through books. Even before I could read, my mother’s bedtime stories showed me how the thoughts of an author could transport me to Dr. Doolittle’s workshop, the Lorax’s forest, Winnie-the Pooh’s tree-house. Then, in subsequent years, I ran away and joined the circus with Toby Tyler, solved mysteries with Encyclopedia Brown, climbed up the side of Mount Doom with Frodo, flew to the stars with any number of Heinlein juvenile heroes, and visited Narnia repeatedly. I even went to Hawaii with Donnie and Marie. (This last adventure sticks out in my mind because the novelization of the Osmond movie “Goin’ Coconuts” was the first “big person” book I ever read. I saw it in the Walgreens at our local mall, thought it looked cool, and asked my mom to buy it for me. She said something like, “You can’t read that. The print is too small.” I persisted, because, god help me, I guess I really wanted to visit that world.) Each adventure was relatively brief . . . once the book was done, I was forced to return to my own world rather quickly. But each time I came back, I felt a little different. The thoughts of the author, and my thoughts about the author, had changed me, changed my reality. Later, watching Shirley MacLaine on TV in the 80’s and purifying my quartz crystals with salt-water between Tarot readings and channeling sessions, it was easy for me to take the power of thought on faith. In the early 90’s, when I went to Mass every day and prayed the rosary compulsively, I became further convinced of the creative power of a strong mental intention. Working through college, reading every major philosophical work of the Western Tradition, I learned that this phenomenon was not unique to my experience, nor even a twentieth-century innovation. Every major thinker of the last two-thousand years has ultimately come to the conclusion that it is not the thing “out there” which is real (if, in fact, such a thing even exists), but the thing “in here” . . . the thought. Thoughts are the hard, fixed tools that we use to create reality out of the malleable mass of fantasy stuff surrounding us. Four years in psychic school fleshed out my theoretical understanding of this principle with many, many successful experiments in creating reality out of thoughts. And to cap it all off, my recent adventures in the world of cognative-behavioral psychotherapy have enlightened me to the fact that the medical/scientific world has now come around to the same conclusion that artists, mystics, philosophers and religious devotees have always known . . . THOUGHTS CREATE REALITY. Even the physicists have been forced to admit, though they are still struggling to explain it, that “impartial scientific observers” affect the movements of quantum particles by the very power of their mental attention. So if thoughts create reality, as all the smart people seem to agree, why do we still fear the world around us? Why do we still act as if some President, some terrorist, some multi-national corporation controls our fate? What are we waiting for? TRACKBACK (0)		Your Words