Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

9: Cause & Effect
C
entral to the idea that we create our own reality
is the Law of Cause and Effect. This states that
ev-ery action has an equal reaction. Therefore,
every cause must have an effect, and every effect must
have a cause. Since thoughts are causal in nature, every
thought has an effect in the world. In other words, we
— unconsciously for the most part — create our world,
the world of humanity, with our thoughts.
When we vibrate at a high frequency, such as when we
pray, meditate, or contemplate, we can create con-
sciously and intentionally through thought. Most of the
time, however, we do so quite unconsciously. Individual
random thoughts do not carry a lot of energy, so they
create a relatively small effect. However, thoughts ac-
companied by larger amounts of energy, especially
emotional or creative energy, have a much larger ef-
fect in the world. Thus, they play a larger hand in creat-
ing our reality.
When a thought gathers sufficient energy to become a
belief, it has an even greater effect in the world. It be-
comes an operating principle in our lives, and we then
create effects — circumstances, situations, even physi-
cal events that hold true to that belief. What we believe
about the world is how it will always be for us.
Acceptance of the principle that thought is creative is
fundamental to an understanding of Radical Forgive-
ness, for it allows us to see that what turns up in our
lives represents what we have created with our thoughts
and our beliefs. It allows us to see that we simply are
projecting all our thoughts and beliefs about 
the way
things are
onto the world.
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Projecting the Illusion
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