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Thoughts worth Thinking

            What came first, the thought or the person? On the surface this seems fairly simple: the person was first because he or she generated the thought. Yet upon further contemplation, the outlook is that the person was thought of before he or she was born. Some others believe that a deity thought of the human race before fashioning it. Moreover, there is a view that we live in a hologram of higher light vibrations which include the person and the thought!

 So, to accurately understand people’s relationships with their thoughts, we must embed in our subconscious programming that, “Your thoughts do not think you, you think your thoughts” (Danes). This appears self-evident; even so, hasn’t the majority said or heard someone say, “I can’t stop thinking about it!”? Ralph Waldo Emerson had an opinion on the matter: “Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission” (Hicks).  Humans can control what they think, and-in turn- utilize the power of thought. The masses believe that everything external is reality and they are just living in it. Contrary to the accepted beliefs of the majority, thoughts are able to affect reality and may be exceptionally beneficial to one’s physical and spiritual health if utilized; this is profoundly supported by numerous religions and scientific experiments.

Concrete evidence verifying thoughts have power is in the realm of quantum physics, the study of the relationship between energy quanta and matter. It claims the universe is interconnected with faster-than-light transfers of information because of the discovery of electrons and nuclei “popping in and out of existence” (What). This means the make-up of our world is identical to millions of thoughts. Electrons and nuclei have the ability to transcend dimensions because dimensions are not fixed according to numerous experiments. Subatomic particles’ ability to not be fixed in dimensions allows them to act as waves of possibilities. In What the #$*! Do We Know?, Dr. Amit Goswami stated, “When you are looking, it’s a particle; and when you are not, it’s a wave of possibilities.” Humans can influence which of those possibilities the particles collapse on by being an observer; however, the observer already has preconceptions of what reality is. Anais Nin wisely said, “We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are” (Hicks). Preconceptions limit our ability to manipulate those possibilities.

One example of preconceptions in action was a staged mock stabbing by Mrs. Lee, a psychology teacher at Cape Fear Community College The next day when the two students involved in the stabbing were in class unharmed, questions were burning. Mrs. Lee queried what the knife looked like; there were many differing descriptions. “I swear I saw a black-handled switchblade knife,” claimed Jake Kenneke, a freshman at CFCC. In truth, the culprit pulled out a banana that would release the fake-blood inside the victim’s shirt. Trying to explain the incident, Jake stated, “since the banana confused my brain, for lack of a better word, it tried to protect me by replacing the banana with something that made sense” (Kenneke).

In order to comprehend what happened, the class reviewed excerpts and interpretations of On Quantum Theories of the Mind by Henry Strapp. The following interpretation was the most lucid and helpful:

Strapp’s central thesis is that the synapses in your brain are so small that quantum effects are significant. This means that there is quantum uncertainty about whether a neuron will fire or not- and this degree of freedom that nature has allows for the interaction of mind on matter (Higo).

This means the capability to see what was happening, erroneously or not, depended solely on the brain’s unpredictable reaction; our subconscious minds are left to analyze and file information like the banana. In order to get a hold of the power that our local conscious and subconscious have, we must first surpass the conditioned awareness that permits preconceptions.  One way humans may do this is through remote viewing, which has been taught to classes in California and Europe; it has also been monitored in controlled experiments for decades.

            Remote viewing experiments provide repeatable statistics that we can tap into nonlocal (nonlocality is if particles communicate faster than light) knowledge blocked from ordinary perception by “habit, conditioning, and cultural trance” (Targ). In a remote viewing session, a receiver attempts to obtain information about a foreign object or image by solely using mental capabilities. Remote viewing does not provide a scientific explanation of this physic ability, but the controlled experiments make the outcome undeniable. One skeptical CIA agent who was considering funding renewal applications for the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) wanted personal experience to support SRI’s remote viewing data.

 The agent went to their location and did numerous general remote viewing sessions; however, to really prove that remote viewing was a completely natural capability, she demanded to do a session unaided. She was taped alone in a controlled laboratory with a tape recorder, paper, and pencil. The SRI team went to a location chosen randomly by an electronic random-number generator: the merry-go-round at Riconada Park. The agent was supposed to describe the location of the team. After thirty minutes, they returned to find “the door was still taped shut and Dr. P was hunched over in the corner of the room” (Targ). Her hands were over her ears in case of subliminal clues coming from any hidden speakers. In Figure 1 are images of the actual location and Dr. P’s drawings.

Fig. 1. In Limitless Mind, the drawings of the agent vs. pictures of the SRI team.

Remote viewing sessions like this provide credible experiences that allow us to believe we have a mental capabilities taken for granted. What allows for those capabilities is the coexistence of a consciousness and unconsciousness made of “higher light vibration that holds all knowledge and information” (Targ).

            Numerous religions support an idea of something omniscient: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Judaism. Each uses words like God or Braham in place of a universal unconsciousness in order to relate to the masses. Even so, they offer ways by thought to reunite the soul and deity. In Buddhism, the unity of the personal consciousness and universal unconsciousness is referred to as Dzogchen, or the “Great Perfection” (Khenpo). When Buddhists surrender to naked awareness and thereby surpass the collective unconsciousness coined by Carl Jung, they ultimately acknowledge Dzogchen. That is enlightenment. Buddhism teaches its followers to utilize the power of thought in meditation, yoga, and fasting.

            Likewise, Hinduism teaches the dual conception of Brahman and Atman. Brahman is the universal unconsciousness which sprouts Atman- individual consciousness- in humans. Practices that aid Hindus to their spiritual goals are similar to Buddhists’: reciting scriptures, meditating, chanting mantras, and singing hymns. Furthermore, Christianity teaches that we are a part of a greater entity: “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you” (Holy Bible, Luke 17:21). Preachers ask their churches to pray daily, commune, give back to the community, and never sin; this, they say, will bring them back to God. Could God be a higher level of loving awareness?

            In addition, Christianity also teaches the importance of believing- which applies thought power- before anything in reality may manifest. Jesus Christ even said, “Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them” (Holy Bible, Mark 11:24). In other words, believe it and you will see it. Believing first is applicable to every aspect of life even if you are not religious.

           An example of believing firmly- too firmly- is hypochondria when people perpetually believe they are sick and are showing symptoms of serious illness despite reassurance from numerous doctors (Rathus). Each year billions of dollars go to unnecessary medical tests and treatments to try to ease the worries of hypochondriacs. Likewise, specific and social phobias interfere with daily lives by going beyond a patient’s control causing job loss, stress, weakened immune systems, and depression. The point is that these anxieties spring from nothing logical or tangible; only their thoughts and beliefs create their circumstance.

            Negatively and positively, mentally and physically, the power of thought affects reality even if you are not aware. Two illustrations of thoughts affecting reality are pessimism and optimism. Pessimism is the tendency to emphasize adverse conditions or to expect the worse-case scenario. Negative subconscious programming, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease are long term effects of pessimism proved by studies on Minnesotans; low self esteem, sleep loss, stress, weakened immune systems, and increased blood pressure are short term troubles that plague the health of a pessimist.  On the other hand, optimism correlates with strong self esteem and an all around better health that increases the longevity of life (Scott). This was proven in an experiment done on ninety-nine Harvard students at the ripe age of twenty-five. The ones who were optimistic when they were younger ended up being “significantly healthier at ages 45 and 60 than those who were pessimists” (Scott). 

            In comparison to thoughts disturbing or benefiting your health, Masura Emoto has successfully monitored the mind’s direct affect on water particles. Remembering what Henry Strapp said about the ability for mind to influence matter, note that we are seventy-percent water (Strong). Emoto applies only one stimulus to water molecules like prayers, music, or just pieces of tape with excerpts on them. After applying the stimulus in a controlled lab he freezes the water to catch what the molecules look like. “Good” stimuli, like a blessing or Mozart’s Symphony No. 9, make the water crystal form a quasi-snowflake, extremely intricate and gorgeous. Stimulus such as, “You make me sick, I want to kill you,” make the water molecules form the shape of a human body and scattered droplets. It makes you wonder: “If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what we can do to ourselves” (What). 

            Trustworthy evidence spells out thoughts have power, taken for granted; we can use the power of thought to benefit ourselves and many others. Being aware and in control of your thoughts allows for a sense of intuition that Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers possessed. They first believed in a possibility to perfect an unprecedented invention. These thoughts planted a seed for a physical action that has changed our lives today. Another way to help ourselves with thought is by focusing on a goal. Affirmations are a daily inter-dialogue of your goals repeated over and over. It helps manifest in reality your desires by helping you focus and hardwire actions to your subconscious. 

             Moreover, there are ways to use the power of thought in a psychic way to aid yourself and humanity. Locating missing persons or simply car keys is an extremely beneficial talent if you render it. Pat Price was a man with such talent who worked for the FBI in California. His most publicized save was of  Patricia Hearst: he was given her case file and asked, “where is she?” Pat sat down thinking for a minute and then provided the exact description of the culprit’s house that kidnapped her (Targ). Not everyone can do this talent under pressure confidently; nevertheless, locating psychically is a useful talent.   Furthermore, patients who are skeptical of the medicine world are turning to psychics for diagnosis. Some even ask their doctors to contact the physics for them. Even baffled doctors call credible psychics – which are no more than people who tap into the universal unconscious- and ask over the phone to diagnose patients with a sixty three percent success rate (Targ).  

             In essence, thoughts affect reality although the majority of people believe otherwise. Quantum Physics, remote viewing, and Masura Emoto’s studies provide scientific evidence that proves thought can influence matter and natural psychic capabilities exist. Religions have been teaching this for decades and have been coining the separate consciousnesses different terms, but no matter what it is called, local consciousness and universal unconsciousness provide nonlocal information! The natural power of thought seems unrealistic to a degree, but think of it this way, “it is the ‘instinct’ in humanity that creates the ability that we call telepathy, clairvoyance, psychic abilities, etc. We have forgotten how to rely on our basic instincts, which is intuition, because of our reliance on ego-consciousness” (Targ).