PUTTING THESE IDEAS INTO PRACTICE
Activities to practice this week:
Take a walk in nature and practice walking slowly. Feel each footfall.
Walk or stand barefoot on sand or wet grass for a few minutes each day.
During your EcoMeditation practice morning and evening, consciously tune
your local self to nonlocal mind.
One day, after meditating, in your journal, draw an illustration of your local
self and nonlocal reality. You don’t have to be a great artist—just a simple
line drawing is fine.
Ask nonlocal mind,
What is your highest vision for me?
and write whatever
pops into your head down in your journal.
The Extended Play version of this chapter includes:
Video of fields of the human heart
Instruction for how to ground and center yourself in Earth’s fields
Researcher Stephan Schwartz on anomalous experiences and quantum
consciousness
To access the Extended Play version, visit:
MindToMatter.club/Chapter7
AFTERWORD
Where Mind Takes Us Next
I’m privileged to live among awesome creators. You and I are creating the
world around us by our thoughts in this very moment. And in every moment.
We are members of a community of artists, painting our world into existence
moment by moment. The visions we see in our mind’s eye translate themselves,
thought by thought, into the concrete reality of material form all around us. As
we choose our thoughts, we are in fact choosing our material reality, whether we
are consciously aware of it or not.
What sort of world will we create in the coming moments, days, months,
years, and decades?
I’m convinced it will be a world of peace, of compassion, of beauty, of
opportunity, of wisdom. In the past centuries, we’ve practiced creating survival,
fear, anger, war, resentment, competition, shame, guilt, rivalry, and other forms
of strife. As a species, we’ve had thousands of generations to experience the
material circumstances that result from that type of thinking.
We have seen the suffering it produces. Now, I believe, we are ready for a
new experience. We are ready to paint a new world. As we realize our ability to
choose that world, we begin to select thoughts, feelings, experiences, and beliefs
that facilitate its creation.
When we first make the discovery that we create with our minds, we produce
our first small deliberate creations. Like a baby taking its first steps, we’re
tentative and uncertain.
But if you’ve ever watched a child learn to walk, you know that this hesitancy
quickly gives way to exuberant confidence. Now free to explore the world, the
child strides about enthusiastically. She goes places she has never been able to
go before. Her circle of influence expands ever wider, as she ventures farther
and farther from her point of origin. She quickly adjusts her mind to the new
reality and assumes a degree of mobility and freedom she never knew before she
reality and assumes a degree of mobility and freedom she never knew before she
took the first step.
That’s us today. As a species, we have just begun to scratch the surface of our
power. We have no idea yet what we are capable of. We’ve hardly taken even
our very first step. We are only just beginning to realize what we might
accomplish.
While the future is unknown, shrouded in mystery, we can look back and see
clearly what has happened in the past. We see the two world wars of the 20th
century, and the even bloodier conflicts of the 19th century and earlier times. We
see the ignorance, poverty, starvation, injustice, and cruelty in which our species
has been bred for millennia. While a millennium of progress in science and
philosophy has given us the first glimmers of enlightenment, human existence
has been driven by the stark requirements of survival for most of our history.
As a species, we’ve been there, done that, and bought the T-shirt. Now it’s
time for more. When we didn’t know that our thoughts created our reality, we
assumed that all the suffering in which we lived was a fixed and objective
reality.
Now we know better. We have begun to understand the immense potential of
our minds to create reality. We understand the leverage we possess over both the
microscopic and the macroscopic levels of form. On the microscopic scale, we
understand that our thoughts are shaping the anatomy and physiology of our
cells at every moment, calling molecules into and out of existence, like a
medieval alchemist’s fantasy.
On the macroscopic level, our thoughts combine with those of the rest of our
species to create the broad sweep of history. The history we create once we
understand our power is very different from the history we created when we
labored blindly under the illusion that reality was composed of random events
that simply happened to us.
As conscious creators, we choose differently. When our survival needs push
us to think angry and bitter thoughts, born out of the illusion of scarcity and
competition, we choose not to think them. Not thinking them, we join with the
millions of other people making similar choices. We find ourselves drawn into
the reality fields of that new community. Multiplying the resonance of those
shared fields, we shift the direction of society.
When you choose not to think that negative thought, and you replace it with a
positive one instead, you aren’t just shifting your own reality. You’re shifting
reality for the whole human species. You’re adding to the sum of kindness and
compassion in the world. You’re reinforcing that new reality field. You’re one of
millions of people adding their positive energy to the new reality. You’re
helping transform it into an irresistible force that turns the tide of history.
helping transform it into an irresistible force that turns the tide of history.
While the forces of misery—people driven by survival and ignorant of the fact
that they were creating the same dark world that they feared—may have been
running the show for millennia, today is different. We understand our power. We
make different choices. We use our power to shape first our own personal reality
and then, collectively, the reality of the planet.
Having experimented with fearful thinking and its consequences, I believe
that we have now embarked on a new experiment. Like that toddler taking her
first steps, we are shining light into the darkness of our old conditioned thinking.
That first beam of light, like that first step, gleams hesitantly. Yet the light feels
good. The molecules we create in our bodies when we lighten our thinking feel
good. The circumstances we create in the world around us when we enlighten
our minds are infinitely more enjoyable. In a positive feedback loop, this
reinforces our desire for more of the same.
Growing increasingly confident in our newfound power to create a positive
world, we begin to think boldly. We imagine what a world without war, hunger,
or poverty might look like. That subjective immaterial vision is the embryo of
objective material reality.
This is the work we now do together. Joining with the millions of other people
all over the world who have made the commitment to a positive future for
themselves and humankind, we produce an irresistible field of love. The field of
love we create opposes no one. We don’t judge, condemn, or complain. We
simply love.
As the field of love grows stronger, it bathes everything within its
circumference. Out of this shared reality field of love, a new material reality is
born. The material reality reflects the energy of the vibrational reality. In the new
material reality, people act instinctively with kindness and compassion. Respect
and altruism are the new normal in human relationships.
From the moment they are conceived, the children of the future grow up with
these assumptions. Bathed in love from conception onward, children experience
nothing else. They become vibrant creators, with their play, social interactions,
and life expectations saturated with the certainty of love. Growing up in a world
of love, they create love in their careers and families. The world changes to
reflect their expectations.
I have no idea what our children, or our children’s children, might create. I am
certain that the types of creations produced by human beings saturated with love
will be the products of happiness. I believe that their fresh creations will take
science, technology, education, art, music, philosophy, religion, architecture, the
environment, civilization, and society to places far beyond what our generation
can conceive of.
can conceive of.
That’s the world I plan to live in for the rest of my life. That’s the world I
choose to create with my personal thoughts from the moment I open my eyes at
the start of each new day. That’s the world I invite you to join me in creating
with your personal thoughts moment by moment. There is no better place to live.
Thank you for partnering with me in this journey of exploration. We have
seen how the proposition that mind creates matter is not mere metaphysical
speculation, but scientific fact. We have discovered that our minds create reality
and become aware of the potential each of us has to create a benevolent reality
using the astonishing power of thought. As we play together from this point on, I
look forward to co-creating this delicious world of love and joy with you.
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