Though the leaders have failed you, do not fail yourself. Though the leaders have had their time to prove their worthiness, do not give up on yourself. You have everything you need inside of you to manifest what you desire. Hold your precious desires in a safe place, whether they be personal or universal, for you or for someone you love, for your own fulfillment or for that of the greater whole. In safe containment they will continue to gain power, and you, in keeping them safe, will also know and experience your own power to create something special, something unique and one-of-a-kind. Keep your dreams alive through thick and thin, knowing that one day soon they will come to life.
Start the day with a big sigh of relief and gratitude. Count your blessings with words of thanks and hold yourself accountable throughout the day ahead to remain positive and hopeful, helpful and kind. Keep the good alive and well through your own positivity and your own positive thoughts. You have no idea how powerful thought alone is.
The conscious mind is the active male principle, or energetic yang element of our being, identified physically with the brain.
The subconscious mind is the receptive feminine principle, or energetic yin element of our being, identified physically with the heart.
The thoughts and beliefs of the conscious mind move the heart of the subconscious mind to bring to physical life the object of its desire. To obtain this influence, the conscious mind must successfully woo the subconscious mind to receive its suggestions. To woo is to impress, to connect, to fertilize.
The subconscious mind has no interest in logical certainty, though it might be impressed by the passion imbued with a conscious intention. Attraction is an energetic affair, hardly a mental discourse.
The conscious mind is charged with the task of assuring that its intentions are grounded in its highest ideal of self, as the price of selfish intent must be paid eventually. The subconscious mind will not discriminate the moral appropriateness of a suggestion; its magical power is to create life, not to judge it.
However, it behooves the one who woos to be in alignment with truth, as the heart will ultimately not be attracted to an empty energetic charade.
Once the conscious mind identifies its desire and determines its rightness, it is ready to initiate wooing, opening the heart of the subconscious mind toward energetic conception.
Fertilization of the egg of the subconscious mind happens within a closed system. The sperm of conscious intention requires a potency of purpose to successfully fertilize the egg of creation.
To achieve this intensity of purpose, the conscious mind does well to seal itself off from all outside influences. It is best to not share with others one’s intention. To do so is to invite the doubts and jealousies of others to influence the subconscious, weakening the potency of one’s own suggestions.
Even within the closed system of the brain lie many doubting thoughts or oppositions to one’s intent. Similarly to outside influences, one does well to seal oneself off from negative thoughts within.
This is achieved by not feeding negative thoughts, by not continuing to think them when they appear. Giving them no attention, by shifting one’s attention to one’s positive intent, drives them into an inert state. Do not engage or argue with a negative thought, as to do so is to feed it and deplete your own energetic potency.
Within the womb of one’s own intention the imagination is exclusively engaged in fully living the materialization and emotional excitement of one’s dream. There is no holding back of emotional investment due to “fear of it not happening”.
There is no knocking on wood to appease any jealous gods either. Take the full imaginal and emotional leap into living the physical certainty of the realized dream, with total abandon. Imagination is the cause; physical expression is the effect.
Conception of all new life begins at the subtle level of energetic interaction. If the subconscious is not receptive to a suggestion, no amount of conscious willfulness will make it physically happen.
Once the subconscious receives its sperm of intent, a subtle process of energetic creation is initiated as it begins its unique journey toward physical manifestation. How it unfolds is a total mystery. No control is possible as to time and space of manifestation.
The conscious mind completely lets go of expectation and basks in the joy and gratitude of the magic of creation.
Total confidence.
Total letting go.
Total continued living in the subtle plane of imagination of life manifested, as truly desired.
Advancements occur when you are ready for them, but they also occur when you may feel that you are least ready for them, but that’s a false sense of self telling you that you are weak and unable, that you are incapable of something and that you will fail. That is a negative mindset that spells only trouble, while a positive mindset spells only YES! Try saying YES today and see what happens.
I mentioned to Jan that I was reading Castaneda again, a man whose works have had a profound impact upon me.
She handed me a book. “You should read this,” she said.
The book surprised me. It was a book I’d avoided reading for years: A Magical Journey With Carlos Castaneda by Margaret Runyan Castaneda, once Carlos’ wife.
Carlos and Margaret got together in the mid 1950’s, married on January 27, 1960 and divorced in 1973. In all actuality, they lived together for less than a year, as Carlos was quite preoccupied with visits to Mexico and his apprenticeship with don Juan Matus. I add here the trickster caveat that, as with all things Castaneda, there is no real documentation of anything.
Most striking to me in Margaret’s book was the discovery that Margaret’s guru was Neville Goddard, a prominent New Thought teacher, whom though aware of, I had never immersed myself in.
Particularly striking to me was the discovery that both Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy were prominent students of a learned man, named Abdullah, a black rabbi in New York City, originally from Ethiopia.
There are several unknowns about the true origin of Abdullah, a bit of a mysterious character it seems, much like Carlos Castaneda and don Juan Matus, but he had a profound impact on both Murphy and Goddard.
I have extolled the virtues of Joseph Murphy’s The Power Of The Subconscious Mind in numerous blogs, and am now exploring the work of Neville Goddard.
What I never knew was that Carlos Castaneda was directly exposed to the New Thought lineage through Margaret, as she frequently spoke to him about the impact Goddard’s teachings had upon her, and she personally brought him to a Neville Goddard lecture.
For me, this unexpected knowledge brings the teachings of the shamans of ancient Mexico, in accessing the divine power of the subconscious mind, full circle into alignment with the New Thought lineage.
Rather than expound more upon the curious interconnectedness of what has preoccupied me most of my spiritual life, I share the following inks:
