I wrote about this once, a long time ago.  Back when I had an intellect and ability that time seems to have destroyed.  Or at the very least hidden somewhere in the depths of my soul.  I believe it was a page on Winds of Change entitled Astral Knights.  Or perhaps it was the Astral Plane page.  Yah, back then…as a teenager…I was terribly interested in astral projection for some reason.  My screen-name back then may have even been AstralPhat, or something decidedly ridiculous like that. At any rate, I had this one page where I discussed various topics that intrigued me in some manner.  One of these discussions was about the power of our thoughts.  I’m fairly certain that, for all my petty philosophical ruminations, I missed the point back then.  Chalk that up to being a kid, but at least I was on the right track. 

Yes, your thoughts have power, but they can’t create your reality the way I believed back in the day.    And yet, they DO have the ability to shift your perspective, to change ones consciousness, and thus affect the material plane in ways that are both profound and subtle.  The affect that your thoughts have on your experience is truly astounding, and yet we’re seldom aware of this correlation.  Whether by design or default, we encumber ourselves with distractions, so much so that we constantly overlook the obvious; that our thoughts have a direct impact on our experience of ourselves and of the world that we live in. And really, who knows how far-reaching the implications are for the way that we think?  Perhaps one person’s day-dreaming caused a butterfly effect of thoughts which eventually lead to the creation of the microchip.  What if a monk, meditating on a mountain somewhere in Tibet, caused a tidal wave of positive energy with his thinking, envigorating the suffering masses in ways we can't understand?  Maybe J.K. Rowling, who envisioned a world so full of magic and wonder, didn’t just write about a fictional universe, but CREATED a world through her stories.  Even barring that possibility, her particular brand of fiction will live on throughout perpetuity long after we're gone, and so her inventing Harry Potter and his universe has a far greater lasting impact on history than most people.  And maybe, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away someone fantasized about the creation of a our earth, with all its inhabitants, and this individuals’ thoughts were so powerful, so refined, and so detailed that it took him six days to design the entirety of our world in all its glorious splendour. 

You see where I’m going?  Maybe the only difference between humanity and Supreme Beings or Gods is that WE ARE UNAWARE OF OUR POTENTIAL.  Maybe we too have the ability to create and destroy on an infinite scale, just like the Gods, demons, and angels of our mythology.  Perhaps there are thoughts that we could think that would heal all of our pain and weakness INSTANTLY.  It’s possible that there’s a single thought which is capable of destroying the entire world.  Who's to say?  We can imagine so much.  We are capable of such incredible fantasies.  Our fiction is living proof of our ability for greatness.  Our art, our architecture, and our music reflect the awe-inspiring magnificence of the human spirit.  So why then do we ignore how transforming and powerful our consciousness is, if …when focused, and used constructively…it can create the most beautiful things on earth?  It comes down to three things, all of which point to the first.  Fear, laziness, and boredom.  We are bored because we are constantly distracted.  Give us too many options and we choose nothing.  Give us too much power, and we decide to forget we have any so that we can enjoy being helpless again.  We are lazy because our infinite distractions and choices overwhelm us, so much that we’re exhausted with all the decisions that we never make.  We stick to boring routine then, because it’s safe and comfortable.  Which brings me to the main reason for our seeming insignificance; fear.  But more on that later.

 
I believe whole heartedly in our unique ability to create fantastical worlds beyond imagination by merely dreaming them up.  I’m not entirely sure of how LITERAL I mean this, except to say who knows what we’re truly capable of if we relinquish our fears and doubts, and actively make a concerted effort to create by thinking things into existence. Picture an older you standing behind you with a gun and pulling the trigger with the barrel of his pistol behind your head, killing you instantly.  Why the hell did you just think that?  Or, should I say, what compelled me to HAVE you think that?  Simply this.  You’ve never thought that particular thought before.  And, on some level, it intrigued you.  Admit it.  Not the horribleness of it, but rather the craziness of it.  It was a new, strange thought….and you entertained my request simply because it was something you’ve never thought of before.

Now, go a step further.  See the world with new eyes.  Put on your favorite song.  Take a walk outside with your headphones.  Let in the beauty of nature, take in the energy of this world, and see things anew.  Allow the music to reflect what’s going on in the world.  Everything in accordance with the music, as if life is but a show…and the music you’re listening to is the soundtrack.  Like there’s a perfectly harmonious dance being carefully choreographed by some unseen intelligence that is playing with It’s creation.  Don’t just envision it, don’t just notice it, FEEL it.  Let it wash over you, like a cool breeze on a warm summer’s day.  Be still, and know that your observation is at once a reflection and a creation of your present, exhilarating experience. Your thoughts have an energy to them.  If you couple them with feeling, whether deliberately or unconsciously, you will increase the vibration of that thought and hasten it's manifestation in your experience.  And I'm not just saying that if you want a Porsche and you think about it and convince yourself that you're already the owner of a Porsche, that you'll somehow create a car outta thin air.  I'm not alluding to the pseudo-spiritual pap in outrageously popular book, "The Secret".  No, what I'm saying is that your experience of a being in or around a Porsche will increase tenfold should you think and feel it's presence into your life.  On SOME LEVEL you will make it so that you will be driving a Porsche sometime soon, whether by working your ass off to buy one, renting one from a company, borrowing one from a friend, etc.  If your mind is set on a particular desire, and you're PASSIONATE about attaining it, there's nothing that can stop you.

I often find myself feeling helpless, powerless…and at the whim of pomp and circumstance.  And too seldom do I notice that my weakness stems from negative patterns of thinking which have ingrained themselves into my subconscious.  I can literally envision ANYTHING I want.  I have an amazingly complex organic quantum computer in my HEAD that doesn’t just analyze and process information, but which can create it whenever I wish, at any level of detail and intricacy that I am willing to focus my attention on.  Truly, this power is beyond my wildest dreams, and yet I almost never take advantage of its enormous potential.  It’s like having a decked out Macbook Pro, only to simply use it for playing Solitaire or occasionally writing something in wordpad.  What a waste of resources!!  What a shameless, unapologetic display of wilful ignorance and stubborn petulance.  It’s as if God gave us the most amazing Christmas gift in EXISTENCE, and yet we never even open the box because we’re too busy playing with the frivolous knick-knacks we got in our stocking.

I think it’s a bit like that Michael Crichton novel “Sphere”, which was a much more intelligent metaphor than the film adaptation let on.  In it, marine-biologists discovered a spaceship with a huge sphere under the ocean.  This sphere created their fears and manifested untold dangers in the depths of the sea as they researched it’s mysterious origins and designs in their underwater lab.  In actuality, the sphere was an extraterrestrial mechanism from the future which would create a persons thoughts/fears/and desires….and since human beings are prone to suffering, these scientists inadvertently brought upon themselves a whole slew of unfortunate circumstances, as opposed to creating amazing events and manifesting their innermost desires.  Recognizing that they were too ignorant to harness the power of the Sphere for their own good, they instead chose to forget about the power they had been instilled with….so that they would no longer be ABLE to manifest their fears and thus spiral down towards self-destruction.  Of course, they could have used that potential to create amazing, miraculous, and beautiful things….but they still chose to enter a state of amnesia because they simply lacked self-control over this unlimited power.

To me, this speaks volumes about the power of the Mind, of how we have all chosen to forget who we are and what we can do for one reason or another.  Perhaps it was a punishment due to our fall from the Garden of Eden.  Maybe we WANTED to forget our power, because remembering it through our own experience is so much FUN.   In any event, I know in my heart that we can do incredible things by using our thoughts, by applying them both practically and fantastically, in every manner of being that we can comprehend, and even ways that we can’t.  We only use 10% of our brain power.  Where does the other 90% go to?  Is it there, waiting to be accessed, hoping for us to awaken to its function and apply it in our lives for self-improvement and the betterment of all mankind?  I think it is, and I think the only way for us to open that door into infinite possibility is by choosing to.  But we must start by WAKING UP.  By lifting the fog of fear which is keeping us in a perpetual state of slumber.  And the only way to remove fear is to face it, to acknowledge its presence and stand strong, remembering YOUR innate power so as to dispel the strength and authority that your fear has over your life. Regardless of whether or not we’re the victors over our fears, we must try.  We must fight and persevere, until the battle becomes a lark, until the struggle becomes an effortless triumph, until we can rest comfortably in the knowledge of our divinity and the vastness of our power.