Einstein....and You!

Albert Einstein, creator of the Theory of Relativity and e=mc^2, had major problems with the discoveries of quantum physics. He even called non-locality (the property of particles to behave as if they were still together even after being separated)as "Spooky action at a distance." Even the brilliant Einstein wanted things to be found to be the way they had always been assumed to be. He never reconciled this split with his contemporaries.

Wallace D. Wattles, a pioneering thinker of the early 20th century and author of "The Science of Getting Rich," also recognized this "spooky" action, but he merely called it "Thinking Stuff" that "fills every part of the universe."

I hereby propose that we can reconcile all this weird particle behavior and freakiness that even freaked out Einstein with the simple premise put forth in A Course in Miracles: that "all our time is spent in dreaming." That our waking mind is merely asleep on another level, and the real "us" is safe at home all the while we experience this dream/nightmare/trip.

"Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists." -A Course in Miracles

Giving thanks, and Short Term vs Long Term

Upon this day of Thanks, I would like to give thanks to everyone I have met and everyone I will meet. Without each other, how would we ever practice forgiveness?

Speaking of forgiveness, I consider that the "Long Term" exercise we are working on, and it is not as immediate or "Short Term" as the clearing we should do all day long. Memories, or stuck shared programs from the past that drag us all around the "River Wild" known as life never take a vacation! Why should our clearing ever stop? Miracles big and small are occuring every day for those of us who remember when the battle is raging to pause and observe our thoughts, occupy the present moment, and repeat all day long "I Love You" to the same source within us all. Do this all day long, and I challenge you to NOT see miracles occur on the screen in front of you all day long!

Perfection all around us

The way you react to the world on the screen "out there" directly affects how you feel, and how much peace is in your mind. How would you react to anything if you believed it was perfect? Wallace D Wattles in The Science of Being Great profers the thought that "the world and everything and everyone in it is perfect, just incomplete."
Each time you see another today, one whom we learned a while back after all was invited into your world by you, think of that person (or situation or event) as perfect though incomplete. Remember our "modified Golden Rule" states that how you treat others you treat yourself. Now following that thought process, we will be concluding today that we are perfect, though incomplete.
Try this thinking today, and see if it doesn't make you feel lighter and closer to the source.

Level Confusion and Skepticism

Spirit, the Source, whatever we decide to call divinity, does not act in this world. A common mistake is to believe that the spirit works in the world, giving us parking spaces when we need them on Christmas Eve and things like that. Comforting to remember though is that everything we experience in the world is a direct reflection of our mind. When we start to let spirit rule our thoughts rather than the ego, our base ideas at the core of our mind begin to loosen up. This in turn, like the analogy of the projector, causes our "world" view and all the people and things in it to "act" in a kinder, friendlier, wealthier way so to speak.

You do not have to believe this to practice it, to experience miracles. Doubt and skepticism are normal, we all have this resistance. Simply practice the four fundamental exercises we have learned, and see what happens. The doubt you need to remember is any small doubt you may have by now that the world DOES NOT work the way you always thought it did. Just this little doubt in that direction will pry open the door of the dark room and allow the light to begin to shine.

Big little tip for an easy day!

I run into a basic problem every day and I would wager you do too. The problem that overrides everything is the tendency to forget that the inner world and the outer world are one. The outer world that we see, hear, taste, smell and touch is a projection of our mind. Want to know a quick little way to fix the misperception all day long? Remember to be extra kind to EVERYONE you see or come into contact with, because, and this is the tidbit that puts it all into place, YOU INVITED THEM! Just remember all day today that you invited that person to call, stop by, honk at you, flip you off, etc. They are all YOUR guests in YOUR world. Try this and see if it doesn't make for one heck of an easy day! (Adapted from A Course in Miracles)

A Quick way to Nothing

Try this the next time the world weighs on you. Sit quietly and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought will be." The time before the thought arrives is a time of quietness, and your mind is at inner peace, in other words a time without thought. When a thought comes, you have just lowered your level of consciousness and are back in your normal unconscious state.

Adapted from "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle

I have been working too much!

Work has taken over lately, but I look forward to my trips back to the source all day long! It revives me when I can connect in the silence for a few minutes. "Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists."