| In the Old Testament is a story of a man called Job. | | | | lives we live - and the world we live in. |
| In this story, his thinking - which had in the past | | | | Today, Quantum Physicists building on the work of |
| brought him great prosperity - turned negative; and | | | | Einstein, and others, have found many links between |
| as a result, he lost a great deal of what he had | | | | consciousness and physical reality. Basically, as the |
| accumulated. His friends came and cheered him up, | | | | philosopher Ernest Holmes wrote, "Thoughts are |
| telling him that he knew better than to think | | | | things;" or they become things through a process |
| negatively; "That's the kind of thinking which causes | | | | which is now easily observed by science and |
| these kinds of things in the first place," they | | | | medicine. E=mc² is simply one more way of |
| reminded him. Job realized that it was those things | | | | saying that thoughts are things; thoughts can now be |
| which he greatly feared which had come upon him. | | | | measured as forms of energy which stimulate, or |
| One can not greatly fear a thing if they do not | | | | create, denser forms of energy when the thought |
| greatly think of that thing. | | | | energy arrives in the brain. The denser energies |
| Much later, a man called Jesus would come along | | | | include meridian and nervous system energy, which in |
| telling people to "Fear not," in order to help | | | | turn stimulate the production and release of chemical |
| themselves and others heal; and that "As a man | | | | energy - all of which changes our physical structure |
| thinketh, so it is done unto him." Many people believe | | | | and our feelings, moods, activity or appearance. |
| this was a teaching of Jesus, but Job's friends knew | | | | Thought energy gives rise to all we see and all we |
| of this teaching years before Jesus came along; this | | | | are. |
| same teaching is in the book of Proverbs, and can be | | | | With this new awareness, which is really old |
| found in every religion on this planet. It seems people | | | | awareness spoken in a new language, why would |
| who take time to think for themselves always come | | | | people flock to fill their heads with images of natural |
| to the same conclusions. | | | | disasters, tragedies, terror, and other horrible sights |
| Later still, a man named Albert Einstein stated how | | | | and experiences they really do not want in their |
| matter and energy were one and the same - | | | | lives? "If you build it, they will come." If you build |
| differentiated only by the speed at which their | | | | images in your head; they will come into your |
| constituent parts vibrated. In other words, everything | | | | existence in one way or another. This is the law; and |
| we are and everything we aren't is the same at a | | | | history is testament to this truth. Live and learn; or |
| certain level. Einstein also said that, "Imagination is | | | | die and learn. The choice is yours. This is free will. |
| more important than knowledge." Knowledge is simply | | | | Discipline is a mental skill. Remember: It's the thought |
| an archive of past occurrences; it is our imagination | | | | that counts. What are you thinking about? |
| (the new things we think about) which creates the | | | | |