The Thinking Stuff
A friend of mine asked me about this quote from Wallace Wattles: “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”
He wanted to know what the "thinking stuff" is. I thought you guys might like what I wrote.
Get some popcorn. It's a long one again!
Do you know that old joke: Two young fish were swimming upstream and met an older fish swimming downstream. The older fish said, "How's the water today, boys?" and kept swimming. The younger fish looked at each other and said, "What's water?"
The "Thinking stuff" he's talking about is sort of like that, and we're sort of like the fish. We're so completely surrounded and saturated by it, that we don't really even know it exists.
Think about it like this: let's say you have an idea for a new coffee table for your living room. And let's imagine that you're a carpenter. You first visualize what you want, imagine how you'll build it, go through the steps in your mind, then you'll go and get the materials, and you'll build it. A few days after you had the image of a coffee table in your mind, you have a coffee table in your living room - if you're skilled at woodworking. For me, I'm a hobbyist, and the coffee table I imagine is rarely what materializes. But with practice, I can get better, and the more I practice, the closer the thing I create comes to my vision.
I know that doesn't seem related, but stick with me.
The "thinking stuff" Wattles is talking about is the same thing that creates a tomato plant, for example. We tend to think it comes from a seed, and it sort of does. It's more accurate to say it comes "through" the seed.
If you plant a tomato seed in good soil, give it plenty of sunlight, and the right amount of water, and leave it along for a while, it's sprouts. A little, baby tomato plant pops up it's two little leaves, and we know that baby roots are pushing down into the soil. With proper care, it will turn into a plant and grow tomatoes, those tomatoes will have seeds, and the process will start all over again.
Too easy, right?
Well, what Wattles is saying is that the "idea" or the "thought" about the tomato plant exists in sort of a dream space. Scientists call it the quantum field. Christians call it the Kingdom of Heaven. I call it the unreal or the unmanifest. But in that space, we'll call it the unreal, there are infinite things. There are tomatoes, cars, people, buildings, trees, ants, novels, rocket ships, roads, and all the infinite things we see around us and so many more things we haven't seen yet. The idea is that the THOUGHT is as real as the THING, even though it isn't tangible YET.
Some people compare it to a television signal. Remember back in the bad old days when we had the rabbit ear antenna and the circle antenna? On the TV we could turn the dial to the VHF stations, or switch to UHF and get a bunch more stations. That antenna and the dials helped us pick which station we wanted, right? Catch a game, Wheel of Fortune, Tom Brokaw...whatever. When we turned the TV off, the signals didn't go away. Or have we switched from Brokaw to the Yankees, Brokaw didn't go away, we just tuned in to something different.
"Thinking stuff" is like those TV signals. It's very real. There's actual information there, and it's everywhere within broadcast range of the broadcast tower. All it needs is a TV set tuned correctly to the right channel so that it can show the picture and sound.
Now, go back to the coffee table example:
Your brain is like a frequency scanner - you know, like the old police scanners. It's constantly looking for signals coming from the "thinking stuff". Just like we could move the antenna and turn the dial on a TV, we can also train our brains to pick up on certain frequencies, or "thinking stuff". Think about it, you had to train your brain to read, drive a car, be a father, get a job skill, balance a checkbook - all those things you learned were you training your brain. Well, if you're a carpenter, or you're interested in woodwork, or building stuff, then you're tuned in to ideas or "thinking stuff" about woodworking and carpentry. One day you're sitting on the couch and notice your coffee table looks like crap - maybe you bought it in the 90s and it's beat up and ugly. Or maybe you'd like a different color, or maybe there isn't one there at all. Your brain starts scanning for ideas out in the "thinking stuff" about coffee tables. You'll get different images - this material, or that? this size or that? glass top, wood top, storage space? It runs through all these images and you land on one and think, yup, that's the one I want. Once you have the idea, you set about getting it - do you have the funds, where to get the materials, is it better to buy it on Amazon and all that stuff? But not long after you had the thought, "I need a coffee table," there's a coffee table.
So, now, take all those ideas...and now think about your life. If you're like me, maybe you're a working guy and have been all your life, but you want something different. Maybe you see some wealthy folks and you realize they aren't smarter than you, or better than you, or harder working than you, but for some reason, they're driving a Land Rover, and you're driving a Buick. Does that seem about right?
The thing we're doing in Reality Creator Academy is retraining our brains - we're changing the channel on our TV sets. But sometimes that's not enough. Like, back in the day, maybe we had an antenna on the roof, but a mouse chewed the cable and the signal wasn't good. Or maybe there were some trees in the way. Or maybe the thing got covered with snow. Or maybe the signal was weak and we needed to wrap tin foil around the antenna so it could receive the signal better. All those things that block the signal coming in are what we call our limiting beliefs. You can tune in to the right channel and try to watch the Yankees game, but if you've got a bad signal, it'll be a shitty picture. Just like, you can envision the life of your dreams, but if you have limiting beliefs, nothing will really change.
Limiting beliefs can be things like, "I've always been working class, my father was, my grandfather was, my kids are...it's just who we are." Or mine, "I'm too old and no one wants to pay attention to a middle-aged White guy from New Jersey." Or how about, "I'm really comfortable in this life, and if I mix things up too much, maybe my wife will leave, or my friends will mock me, or the dog will turn gay, or whatever-the-fuck."
The meditation exercises are there to help us find those limiting beliefs and clear them out. And the more time we spend thinking about how to clear them, the more time we spend with people who have already cleared them, then the more we can really change our lives and actually become creators of our reality.
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