Excerpt from The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot: ------------------------------ "As with so many of the "discoveries we have looked at, the idea that some deeply unconscious and even spiritual part of us can reach across the boundaries of time and is responsible for our destiny can also be found in many shamanic traditions and other sources...
The kahunas [Hawaiian shamans] call this invisible aspect the aumakua, or 'high self'...It is...the part of us that is responsible for creating our destiny, but it is not alone in this process. Like many of the researchers mentioned in this book, the kahunas believed that thoughts are things and are composed of a subtle energetic substance...
Most people are not in charge of their own thoughts, said the kahunas and constantly bombard their high self with an uncontrolled and contradictory mixture of plans, wishes and fears. This confuses the high self and is why most people's lives appear to be equally haphazard and uncontrolled. Powerful kahunas who were in open communication with their high selves were said to be able to help a person remake his or her future. Similarly, it was considered extremely important that people take time out at frequent intervals to think about their lives and visualize in concrete terms what they wished to happen to themselves. By doing this the kahunas asserted that people can more consciouly control the events that befall them and make their own future...
The tantric mystics of Tibet referred to the 'stuff ' of thoughts as tsal and held that every mental action produced waves of this mysterious energy. They believed the entire universe is a product of the mind and is created and animated by the collective tsal of all beings...Only great yogis skilled at contacting the deeper levels of the mind were said to be able consciously to utilize such forces and one of the things they did to achieve this goal was to visualize REPEATEDLY (caps mine) the desired creation...
The twelve-century Persian Sufis also stressed the importance of visualization in altering and reshaping one's destiny, and called the subtle matter of thought alam almithal...They...held that reality is divided into a series of ...planes of being...and that the plane of being directly adjacent to this one was a kind fo template reality in which the alam almithal of one's thoughts formed into idea-images, which in turn eventually determined the course of one's life...
Edgar Cayce also spoke of thoughts as tangible things, a finer form of matter and, when he was in trance, repeatedly told his clients that their thoughts created their destiny and that 'thought is the builder'. In his view, the thinking process is like a spider constantly spinning, constantly adding to its web. Every moment of our lives we are creating the images and patterns that give our future energy and shape, said Cayce.
Paramahans Yogananda advised poeple to visualize the future they desired for themselves and charge it with the 'energy of concentration'. As he put it, 'Proper visualization by the exercise of contentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or vsions in the mental realm, but also experiences in the material realm.
Indeed, such ideas can be found in a wide range of disparate sources. 'We are what we think', said the Buddha. 'All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.' 'As a man acts, so does he become. As a man's desire is, so is his destiny', states the Hindu pre-Christian Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. 'All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own', said the fourth- century Greek philosopher Iamblichus. 'Ask and it will be given you...If you have faith, nothing shall be impossible unto you', states the Bible."
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