The Amber of a Moment

Many invest in the belief that the world around us imprints on our mind and our thoughts. Cause and effect actually happen entirely the other way around. We create our lives with every thought we think, every minute, of every day. Like the rising sun, awareness of this process explains how our perceptions of our experiences of the event(s) are present in our lives.

Consider the following for a moment: What if “perception (yours and mine) equals projection (yours and mine)”? What would happen to your thinking in your world if you knew factually that what you see outside you is a reflection of an inner condition of your thinking? The maxim “thoughts are things” offers to us that what we think and focus on manifests in our lives. It’s the Universal Law of Attraction at work, specifically, we’ve invited the experience, although subconsciously, to see, receive and experience.

Amid the clamor and confusion of living, we have an infinite number of choices upon which we make all of our decisions. Humankind shares a mystifying feeling that many moments of our lives are scooped up by a hurricane of our thoughts and flung far and wide for the world to see. In truth they are... Individual and group consciousness or minds are the effect of thought, more precisely an evolution of thinking and not the world condition. Religions, politics, wars and yes even peace and harmony embrace like thought.

Our thoughts are like clouds and appear in many shapes and sizes. Pleasant thoughts drift lazily by like fair-weather cumulus. Sullen thoughts threaten, rumbling with thunder, and obscure opportunities and the possibilities for right or truthful thinking in the deluge of our negative downpour. Both are there one moment and gone the next, though the darker clouds often seem to persist longer. A Course in Miracles offers, “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (T21-1:7)” These words counsel that our mind and cloud-like thought forms, are primary to each of us and are very different. In truth, the world, and what we choose to see in it, are the effect(s) of our thinking. If you believe that something outside of you causes what you think; ask who or what outside of you causes you to think? Who and where is the thinker if it’s not within you?

We all have fleeting glimpses of our journey where, if given the chance, we’d pluck that instant from the winds of time and hide them away forever. Consider that at the causal level, we’ve invited the experience to ourselves. Some are attached to a specific space in time and we can step through ‘Alice’s Looking Glass’ to visit them again and then they’re gone. Some are anchored with music, a person, a restaurant or a scene in nature. Our reality is, we see what we choose to see, through our physical eyes because of our related thoughts around them. If we chose to see the truth about the circumstance, most likely, we wouldn’t see what it is that we see.

Being open to this one uncomplicated truth would do more to change the dynamics of our world and humanity than everything else we can do. It contains the seeds for experiencing the peace, relaxation and freedom from worry that we all are tying to attain. The keys to less stress in our lives, forgiving ourselves and others also lie within the same idea.

How so? Consider the worlds around you if caused by your (our) thoughts, are also similar thoughts that are the source of blame and judgment we assign to it. This is like examining the mosquito trapped in amber of John Hammond’s (Richard Attenborough) cane from Jurassic Park, one need only change one thought in the “amber of the moment” about an event and take that one crucial step away from the cycle of blame and judgment. Why is that? If what I see outside of me is being caused by my own thoughts, then there is nothing to "blame" in the outside world; all that is needed is to correct my thinking to ‘right’ thinking. See the difference?

Opening the mind to ‘I can choose to forgive what I see because it is meaningless or having no purpose changes everything. The choice to condemn, judge or blame stems from thinking we see something that means something other than what we think. Most often it’s a thought disconnect and specifically, is totally meaningless and without any basis for condemnation. If our mind is the cause of what we see, how is it possible then to judge something? We’re left only with recognizing and accepting the truth, ‘I alone am responsible for what I see’ and then choose again.

Namaste

Jim