Being halfway through our class and in the throes of a lot of reading and written homework, it is reasonable that my mind is going full-throttle in the perspective of all of this stuff we're studying. It's all about how we are made in the image of God, and since God is all good and God can and has already conceived of everything (everything we can imagine already exists), then when we pray "correctly", or put ourselves into the "right" frame of mind - fully conscious of our Divine connection and the Divine Power within us - then we can cause anything we want to be manifested.
This has really brought up a lot of interesting and self-sabotaging things I've been telling myself for years, and I'm changing them - things around health, relationships, and what I think is possible in general, how much difference I think I can make in my own life.
I've known from Landmark Education, the Option Institute, cognitive psychology and years of spiritual study that we do indeed create our reality, but this has been more in terms of psychology, how we do that in our immediate perception of the physical world, and less in metaphysical terms. For example, one of my wasbunds was pretty suspicious of people, and saw the world as a place where you had to always be on your guard, because he believed people would take advantage of you at every opportunity. Even if someone were objectively doing something incredibly kind, he would see that act according to his expectations and world view, always assuming that the person had some malicious ulterior motive. Since he believed that everything that the voice in his head said was true, and since it always spoke to him from this perspective, this was his unshakeable reality: it was just the Truth for him, and anyone who saw it differently (i.e. me) was just naive or downright stupid.
My experience of the world is quite different, because my world view is different. I believe that most people are going to behave in ways that I would call "good", and I am aware enough to acknowledge that my not believing it about certain other types of people doesn't make it objectively true; that doesn't say anything about them, only about me.
We are supposed to choose three quotes that jump out at us from our reading assignment each week, and the "problem" I've been having is just limiting myself to only three. Each week I have at least twice that many that really light me up, for example:
"God's Will most certainly is toward Abundance. If we enjoy life, God is that much more completely expressed; the world is to that extent a happier place in which to live. There is no God who tries men's souls or beats them over the head with a cosmic club, seeing how much they can stand. There is no sin but a mistake, and no punishment but a consequence. [...] Every man must reap as he sows." (italics mine.) Ernest Holmes, Living the Science of Mind, p 138-139.
My wasbund reaped a world where he had to constantly be on guard and protect himself against other people's bad intentions. I reap a world where most people are safe to interact with and will be kind to me.
What are you sowing? If you aren't sure, just take a good look at what you're reaping.
