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.
All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
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:
A magical Neville Goddard lecture
And a written interview with Joseph Murphy
For all who are interested, I invite you to have your own direct experience. In the final analysis, it’s all about INTENT.
See what happens!
Chuck
Focus is the key to everything; keeping your focus on what you want, keeping your focus on the right thoughts, the right words and the right attitude. When you are in alignment and focused on your goal, no matter what it is, it will manifest all that much faster. Especially if you are totally focused on it in everything you do and think and speak. Those who get what they want know this secret, that to manifest their dream they must be obsessed with it in the best way possible, by believing it’s possible, by trusting that it is coming to them, and by emotionally being fully present to it, in both its formation and its outcome. Get focused, and get fully involved in manifesting your dream. From a heart-centered place, of course!
All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
The conscious mind is the father. Thoughts that the mind entertains are like sperm cells. The subconscious mind is the mother whose eggs become fertilized by these thoughts in the form of the suggestions she is attracted to, and, hence, opens to conceive.
This resulting pregnancy in the subconscious mind is the creative process of transforming thought into material reality. As matter is gathered and ordered according to the thought blueprint, an idea is born into a physical life. Thus a child of the mind is born.
This might involve the arrangement of events or encounters in the flow of everyday life that fulfill the requirements to materialize one’s intent. Here, you see the law of attraction operating upon physical reality to create, in the flesh, the original thought, belief, suggestion or intention of the conscious mind. This is a step-by-step process, often with many building blocks assembling over time.
Children of the mind can assume many forms. The child of a gratitude practice is the inner experience of a lightness of being and joy of being. As we express gratitude from the conscious mind, the subconscious mind receives this compassionate intent and instructs the body to release deeply calming hormones that bathe the body and mind in utter tranquility.
Should the conscious mind harbor negative thoughts, the subconscious mind will dutifully produce children of distress, as the physical body will be taxed with having to house the energy of negativity. This might result in an inner hormonally produced bad mood, low level depression, or a state of anxiety.
Sometimes people experience a pervasive state of anxiety seemingly not attached to thought. Often this is connected to trauma, where life was frozen in the thought of the constant need for defense, unable to resolve in the delivery of processing its experience.
This frozen state of vigilance becomes a forestalled birthing process, housed in the body, that awaits the conscious mind, in the form of a midwife, to be present to its experience and help deliver it to resolved new life.
Often, outside thoughts enter the conscious mind seeking to influence our beliefs and behaviors. These might result in illegitimate pregnancies, especially if we attach to these thoughts without soulful vetting.
Cautionary guidance here is to remain in a passive mode when excited by a passion-induced thought. This passive state is actually a receptive state where one allows oneself greater access to the broader picture, which might expose the one-sidedness of the outside influence.
Additionally, when we are in the receptive state, we are opened to the greater wisdom of our interconnected reality. Synchronicities come that punctuate and affirm thoughts that present.
In this process, ego, or conscious self, receives the guidance of higher wisdom, which points the way to appropriate action for the greater good of self. With this clarity, passivity gives way to activity, as vetted suggestion is presented to the subconscious mind.
All people are parents and children of their own minds. Claim ownership of these creative possibilities and lead life into greater fulfillment for self and all.
With conscious intention and subconscious joy,
Chuck
Determine how you would like your life to unfold and then get onboard with it, in every way possible. It does no good if you have a wish that you then are not prepared to plush out, the same way you would plush out, or furnish, a new home. Start with a wish or desire but don’t stop there! Participate fully in your wish by getting into positive alignment with it. If you do that, if you furnish it with all that you desire, then you have already created it. But the main key is to remain fully present to the process, with positive knowing that it will happen, that it is happening, that it has happened.
All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne