The Magic of the Thinking
Process
By William H. Duby
 I do
a lot of spiritual counseling. People come to me with their
complaints, usually after the fact, and seldom beforehand to ward off
adversity. I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say, "I thought," after what they did backfired in their face.
In this article I intend to give a short synopsis explaining the
fundamental difficulty people have in doing their thinking that
bewilders them after they fail themselves miserably. So please bear
with me as I do my utmost to share with all who have been empowered
within themselves to relate to what I am saying.
It appears, more often than not, that the same people who say they
are asking for help are the first to complain about the help they
asked for. Unless you humor them, because they lack amusement within
themselves, go along with their idiocy and agree that someone else is
to blame, they get uncomfortable. They even get angry because you
told them the truth that they inwardly suspected but didn't want to
face and intentionally tried to escape by seeking the kind of therapy
that would help them remain hiding in self denial in spite of the
fact they are in agonizing pain.
When you counsel as many people, as often as I do, you cannot help
but begin to see the rudimentary patterns which are the underlying
cause of their confusion. Those people who keep saying, "I thought"
are secretly admitting their problem but seldom do they recognize it
until I point it out to them. I will say, "Your problem is in your
thinking." Would you believe that at least seven out of ten people
instantly become irritated at me?
It became very obvious to me early in my career that one must have
great amusement to do this work. Human nature doesn't change in spite
of the fact that the professional community would love to delude
themselves into believing otherwise. If this weren't the truth, there
wouldn't be such concepts as the "human condition" and "man's
inhumanity unto man."
Psychological maturity cannot appear until an individual has
gained the mental ability to successfully think "thoughts" for the
well being of prosperity on all levels&emdash;financial, mental,
spiritual and physical. Until they learn to do so they will remain in
a quandary, saying they want to run their own life, but forever
searching outside themselves for someone of their choice to do their
thinking for them. And, of course, they will think they love that
individual, even say it and swear it, when in fact they are only
doing that because their spouse, friend, guru, doctor, pastor,
teacher or associate is unaware of their ulterior motive. It is just
a "head game."
It isn't a secret that we live upon a three dimensional planet
that has been called a "world of duality." The way in which we think
determines whether our life stream will flow upward or downward;
upward leading in the direction of prosperity on all levels, and
downward leading in the direction of impoverishment on all levels. If
we think well, all will be well. If we think unwell, all will be
unwell.
Seldom do people, save a few engaged in the healing arts,
recognize that the same power making people sick is the same power
that makes them well. Power, by the way, is ability, strength,
authority. The synonyms for power are skill, capability, endowment,
capacity, competence.
The Declaration of Independence declares that man was endowed by
his Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. That may be true but man may not be aware of it and it
is the responsibility of a civilized society to educate him into
realizing it for the well being of his prosperity. In other words, he
must first learn how to think for himself so that he remains well in
his thinking process of forming into thought the mental image
pictures that are later stored in his subconscious. And, in this
light of the truth, he keeps his neighbor safe from the insidious
thinking that he is absolute ruler. At least in America, no one has
died and left anyone king. All men are brothers under the color of
the flag. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights is the King or law
for every citizen in the Land.
Racism cannot stop in America until every citizen arises in
consciousness and sees himself in a different light. In the light of
the truth, to be exact. The whole idea of establishing an American
Republic was for the people to set themselves into the freedom of
separating from the ancestral heritage of the past, beginning anew,
setting up a country where all men were equal under the tenets of the
"common law" of the land. And, of course, we could argue that the men
of 1776 were discriminating in many ways. I would agree and submit
that the same thing exists two hundred and nineteen years later. The
past has nothing over the present.
Bigotry is present in every walk of life. It isn't confined to one
particular race or color. Ignorance is color blind and finds itself
welcome in every race. It is unawareness in devotion to stupidity.
The Deity, however, is not color blind. The human race is a humanity
of every color. Light includes every color and the rainbow is living
proof. There is a requirement for all men should they choose to
become members of the human race. They must drop the act of
pretending that they are better or worse than others of a different
race or color. It is a humbling experience to let go of the
traditional beliefs of the ancestry. When that is done then every man
will have accepted the truth that his roots are firmly established in
the same Light that Jesus recognized was the brotherhood of man, and
the philosophy of love will finally become understood upon this
planet.
No one has the God given right of infringement upon the life,
liberty or happiness of another human being, not mentally or
physically. Therefore, in order that we might form a more perfect
Union, as a Country and as an American People, we as individuals who
represent the Land of the Free in the Republic of America must set
ourselves into the freedom where we refuse to think exclusively of
ourselves at the expense of others, as did the despot "King George"
of England. We must dictate this fact to our faculties of mind with
all our heart, soul and strength if we are to delight in the
enlightenment of self realization.
We need to awaken from the state of being spellbound in the human
condition for renewal, regeneration and restoration of sanity. If you
are a citizen of this country, then you are an American and your
"roots" are in heaven and not the earth.
You are embodied upon the earth and the "being" of the human. The
humanoid may have its "roots" in Africa, Asia, Europe, South or North
America. You are in the world but not of it. That is to say, unless
you are trying to prove otherwise and are determined to remain earth
bound in the astral planes of the hereafter. At death the body
returns to the earth and the spirit back to God who gave it His life.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..."
Jesus is reported to have said that "Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God", that supposedly is inside man, at
the subconscious level, and not outside at the conscious level, in
the external world. The obvious question is, "What is this rebirth?"
Man must arise in consciousness and see the reality of the earthly
sphere of life, rather than how his fantasy desires for him to see
it. First things first! He needs to look at the big picture, the
overall scope of things, before egotism hardens his heart,
crystallizes his consciousness, and he enters into the doom of self
denial that he is not an egomaniac and remains earth bound in the
hereafter.
Man must begin with his own body, mind and soul complex, long
before he foolishly thinks that he's going to leave home and conquer
the world at large, much less the earthly mother who has a history
replete with a hellish memory of those who dared mistake her kindness
for weakness. After all, she has two natures, one you can live with
and one you cannot.
No one man will rule the world but all men can rule themselves. In
fact, man must die when trying not to do that very thing. Man must
become grounded in his certainty that he knows how his faculties of
body and mind work for safe keeping when he decides to begin the
thinking process. And, when he does, as Socrates realized, he is then
and only then true to himself. If he's not doing his own thinking in
such a spiritual manner that he is assured he's done well for
himself, first in relationship to his own well being and secondly in
relationship to the well being of others, he's not true to himself.
Ignorance might think otherwise but that's why ignorance is ignorance
and isn't considered wisdom. A wise man will refuse to argue without
the sure foundation of spiritual principles to guide his
conversation, while the ignorant man will foolishly wage war with his
mouth to prove the disrespectful viewpoint that his untamed tongue
reveals the unprincipled mind of a savage and a heart of a beast.
It has been said that "You are what you think." It is also true
that you became what you thought long before you decided to think.
What the thinking process does is form thought intentionally or
unintentionally designed to be projected into the psychical
atmosphere of people, places and things to do the bidding of their
human creator. In other words, "thought forms" are made by man.
Man forms thought when he decides to engage in the thinking
process. Thought formed in the negative polarity is malevolent
thought designed to slay in the spirit whomever is seen as an enemy.
The negative thought formed with great emotional intensity such as
hatred is, at the psychic level, secretly projected into the mental
atmosphere of the chosen enemy, the same way a missile is projected
into the atmosphere of the sky and directed at a particular country.
And, of course, man under siege begins to hate in return without
knowing why he is reacting and behaving in this manner; that is to
say unless he is aware of how thought is formed and projected into
the mental atmosphere of another.
If he is aware of how thought is formed, then he is aware that he
is under psychic attack and goes on red alert. Instantly he exercises
his wisdom and corrects the thought projected upon him, and when that
corrected thought returns to His maker, it seizes the opportunity to
do unto its maker what was done unto the thought, namely, painfully
correct him. In fact, it haunts him until he corrects his thinking
process.
There is more benevolent power in the "thought corrector" than
there is malevolent power in the "thought creator" and this is why
"silence is golden."
The unprincipled man doesn't care about himself well enough to
prevent the onslaught of inherited ignorance, perpetuated through him
by the family upbringing of prejudicial programming. He just goes
along with the negative attitudes of his family members, friends and
associates who help cause him to succumb to peer pressure and adopt
the same attitude until self hatred guises itself in human love for
the preservation of a particular race, color, philosophical creed,
national origin, sexual gender or sexual persuasion. And, we wonder
why Jesus mentioned that people make the word of God void through
their traditions.
Negative thought is prejudicial for it is contrary, denying,
disallowing, not affirmative, opposing, disapproving, dissenting,
contradictory, rejecting, invalidating, detrimental and intolerant.
Its design is to slay in the spirit and cloud the mind with the
intent to harm another individual by blocking them from shining like
a light into darkness.
Those who refuse to grow up and psychologically mature are
participating in the black magic of the negative thinking process
just as much as those black magicians who, for a price, will cast a
spell or put a curse upon some one. It is a cruel thing to do and
repudiates the philosophy of the brotherhood of man that the Deity
intended for the entire human race. In short, it is "thought
pollution." It causes the atmosphere to be just as black as the smoke
stacks bellowing in the city darkening an already overcast sky that
seemingly everyone believes they must live with. In other words, it
is taken as normal. It is amazing how people are worried about dying
of second hand smoke but do little, if nothing at all, to get up in
arms about the pollution in the city or the "thought pollution" that
contaminates the mental environment of the humanity.
The unprincipled man is playing god based upon the negative
attitude that he would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
According to the Lord's Prayer, he is trespassing when projecting
negative thought into the psychic space of another human being who
has been empowered by his Creator with the inalienable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It was Democritus, the Greek philosopher, who said, "The first
principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else
is merely thought to exist." His statement isn't different than
Einstein who realized that all is light. Jesus is reported to have
said that He was the Light. In other words, the Superconscious-ness
of Light spoke through Him and revealed Itself as the Father of
Creative Intelligence that is the Universal Logos (Christos).
Jesus Himself said, "The words that I speak unto you, I speak not
of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works."
It was His faith that He didn't have a life separate from the Father
and that He only did what He saw, clairvoyantly, the Father doing.
What was it that Jesus saw? He saw that the Father was All Good,
Brilliant, Elegant and Benevolent Light, because the Father projected
into the atmosphere the positive thought forms that were designed to
influence, on the psychic level, the earth and its people to think
well of themselves and each other. The quality of thought that was
formed by Jesus was good and excellent in every way. It was Divine in
Providence because it was designed to influence the people to begin
thinking anew, as He did, that they were not separated from the
Father of the Creative Intelligence and that it would intuitively
guide them into all good things. In other words, they would become
happy, healthy, wealthy and whole in body, mind and soul. In fact, He
went as far as to say that if they did not think like He did, "they
would die in their sins,"&emdash;err in thinking. It was, and
remains, the correct way to think and form thought for safe keeping
and the well being of prosperity.
Jesus is reported to have said that, "Ye shall know that I am in
My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." Again, the Light of
Superconscious Reality was revealing Itself. Of course, as usually
happens when speaking to the ignorant, many only saw a physical body
and didn't realize a metaphysical body of Superconsciousness was
speaking its mind by exercising the brain of an extraordinary genius;
in fact, a Divine Genius, who was/is Ingenious to be exact. It is
apparent that many "throw the baby out with the bath water," a common
character flaw with those who "miss the mission because of a man's
personality expression."
When you judge the behavior of a Savior, you go insane, form a
"perfect picture," and expect Him to be what you would never be
yourself if you were in your right mind. Jesus had to be like all
men, otherwise all men couldn't accept Him as a brother and join the
human race of the brotherhood of man, much less the Father Light, the
Superconsciousness speaking through Him as the God of their heart or
of the subconscious.
Whatever is, the Father of All is the Almighty and the Supreme
Being. It is the Core Reality. The Superconscious Light of Creative
Intelligence is the One composition of Eternal Substance that is the
True Identity of every person, place and thing upon the planet and
throughout the galaxy. It is the One God, The Father, Creator and All
Pervading, Omniscient and Omnipotent Power that is the Giver of Life
Force. It is the Body, Mind and Soul Memory of the True Humanity,
Incarnate, Disincarnate and Reincarnate.
Jesus was/is the Human Vessel and Human Channel for the Infinite
Spirit of the Indwelling Light of Superconsciousness. At first He is
called the "Son of Man" because He had to be raised up, trained to
apply in the practical world, the Superconsciousness of His eternal
foreknowledge. Later, after the working of His Faith by thinking
correctly and projecting the positive thought forms that He realized
would glorify the Father upon earth, as well as in the heavens, He is
called the "Son of God." In other words, He was/is the blessed
container of the Holy Spirit, the Breath of Life for the Indwelling
Light of Superconsciousness.
The Mind of Jesus was brilliant beyond belief. "I am come that
they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
He honestly believed that if people would think correctly, as He
thought, they would not only awaken from the stupor of a spiritual
amnesia laid upon them by their ancestry, family upbringing and/or
cultural programming of traditional race beliefs, but they would set
themselves into the freedom of enlightenment and begin enjoying the
abundant universe and the earth upon which they lived, dwelled and
exercised their human being. All they had to do was apply faith in
His way of thinking about themselves and each other, and all would
become the well being of prosperity.
Two thousand years have passed since that Divine Man is reported
to have walked this earth. Billions have been born and billions have
died in their sins and/or err in thinking without ever enjoying the
enlightenment of becoming kindred in spirit, with His Spirit, that He
believed was within them, like it was within the Father of Creative
Intelligence. Each generation, however, produces a few great souls
who begin to remember by self realization that what He reportedly
said is the way all men should think for the well being of
prosperity. He who awakens from the stupor of the human condition and
begins to correctly think thought, as Jesus and others like Him do,
is considered a "hundredth monkey."
When we open our eyes, we see the visible. We can't help but see a
vision of a physical object whether it be inanimate or animated. The
same thing is true when we open our mind. We realize that we began
the thought process of thinking and our thinking gave rise to an idea
to form a thought in mind that becomes part of our mentality about a
person, place or thing upon the planet. In other words, we took
thought and decided to think in a positive or negative manner.
We begin the thinking process by seeing to it that we cast a first
impression, the thought is formed into a mental image picture we hold
in mind and take to heart. We believe it because we picture and feel
it, whether it is true or not. However, first impressions can be
deceiving. People aren't what they seem to be. A bum could be a saint
but the first impression about the behavior of the bum might fool
you. If Jesus or any of the Prophets were walking the earth today,
our first impressions would fool us. We might find ourselves saying
that they are bums, drunks or devils. This is to say, unless we use
"second sight" to correct "first impressions." The first impression
is with our physical eyes and the second sight is with our mind, to
decide how we are going to think about what we saw. Will it be
positive or negative? Those who don't reflect before or after they
delight in their thinking will, more often than not, fail themselves
miserably. These are the people who come to me crying and saying, "I
thought."
Remember! When you intend to hurt another in your thinking, you
first hurt yourself, but are often too dense to feel it. You are in
hell. You put yourself into a mental prison by foolishly thinking it
is heaven to cast a thought upon another that you know damn well you
wouldn't want them to cast upon you. Now I must admit that we have
all done that sort of thing until we knew better. And, since pain is
considered a good teacher, how long will we take to realize that real
pleasure begins with the first positive thought formed and directed
into the atmosphere of the humanity for the well being of prosperity?
I was privileged to learn, "Everything you say is a prayer for or
against yourself." Therefore, reflect before you begin the thinking
process of thought taking and you will save yourself a lot of misery.
This is an orderly universe of elemental forces, dynamic atomic light
particles, that obey the laws of their being. The question is, will
we do the same with our own?
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
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