The Energy of Miracles

Creating miracles in our lives is no more complicated than understanding the metaphysics of the Universal Law. And because that law is indestructible and therefore infinite, we know that the power used by miracle makers in the past is still available today. Yet, in our modern society, we're brought up to believe only in those things we can logically understand. Neither are we taught that the Universal Law has limitless potential or that this power is at our disposal and can be used to work miracles in our own lives.

Understanding the Universal Law

To understand miracles, we have to look at two aspects of the Universal Law. First, there lies deep within all humankind an immense power; and second, the power is impartial and unemotional. Call it the Universal Mind, Christ Consciousness, Conscious Energy, or what you will, but it is this power that allows human beings a recognition of the universal life force that we call "God".

 The life force is eternal, and, because of its limitless capacity, it is a part of all things. Moreover, it's a major part of each of us. Consequently, we all have within us an unlimited power. Creating miracles in our own lives becomes a matter of identifying with the power, understanding its characteristics, and learning to use it effectively. This identification is achieved by knowing that the power is within us and acknowledging that fact by saying, "I am eternal, immortal, universal and infinite and therefore I am beautiful." By doing this, and believing it, we lock into the power source and are poised for the next step, which involves looking at its characteristics.

The Universal Law is impartial and unemotional. It has no way of knowing what you want, nor does it discriminate between your hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes - it is pure energy. It accepts whatever thoughts, feelings, and actions you project and reflects them back to you unemotionally in the form of events that you experience day to day.

In much much the same wayas electricity illuminates both a brothel and your grandmother's tea party, The Universal Law doesn't differentiate between different types of energy in your life. It will give you anything you believe in - no more and no less. Therefore, the key to understanding miracles is to examine closely the beliefs you express as thoughts and feelings. 

Photo: Rachel Hulan "Fying Baby"

When you were born, your thoughts and feelings are limitless because your mind is a clean slate. What a small child projects to the Universal Law is a natural purity unbounded by the constraints of beliefs. Children often attempt the seemingly impossible: they drive off in the family car or walk on a high ledge. It's only later, through education, that they learn the confines of human expectancy.

But these confines or boundaries are illusions. They're formed by belief patterns - most of them born of ignorance - handed down from generation to generation. This pool of belief patterns, or the "collective unconscious," as Carl Jung called it gains validity as it moves through time, and eventually the concepts that later generations experience as physical reality become rigid and domineering. It's as if the billions of people who preceded you have determined what you're going to experience on this Earth plane, and that's all there is to it.

This rigidity doesn't allow for genius or for the understanding that we're now in an era of rapid unfoldment. Fundamental structures are being swept away in an avalanche of awareness, and we're no longer prepared just to read about great miracle makers; we want to have the same experience. For most people, this isn't possible because they're locked within the limitations of the body and mind; their upbringing is so dominant that it encases their entire evolution, and they experience little spiritual growth.

Understanding Life's Mission 

We are not our bodies or our emotions or our minds or any of the structures and restrictions we experience around us. We are an infinite part of the God-Force, using the physical form to experience spiritual development through a special teaching called "daily life."

When you entered the Earth plane or dimension, the energy that is the real you left isa abode in the higher dimensions of pure light, and entered, by choice, the body you're now in. You chose the circumstances of this life because it was the next step in your infinite evolution, and because this life would allow you to expand what you are spiritually so that you could become an even greater expression of the infinite life force or Living Spirit.

Now you may say: "That's nuts! Why would I choose these circumstances of my life - this family, this society, and this neighborhood? Why didn't I choose a more affluent environment or a prettier body or more intellectual capacity?" The answer lies in a dimension beyond the physical plane. As you entered this dimension through birth, you has within your consciousness a heroic mission - a goal. The nature of that goal is firmly written in the very deepest recesses of the inner you; and what you are today, no matter what you feel about yourself, is actually a part of that goal in various stages of completion.

Your mind began recording events, thoughts, and feelings only at birth. It doesn't know of your heroic mission nor does it understand the Universal Law that interacts with your limitless potential. Why? Two reasons: First, if your mind, feelings and emotions knew the nature of your heroic mission in life, there would be no challenge or quest, and your evolution would suffer. Second, most understanding of metaphysics is based on tribal or religious beliefs that do not totally reflect an accurate perception of the delicacy of energy and the way its ebb and flow affects daily life; no real understanding of the Universal Law has ever been incorporated into the various belief patterns of the world's collective unconscious. 

For example, let's say your heroic mission in life is to learn to love yourself and to accept full cosmic responsibility for what you are. And, let's say, you have had a number of previous experiences on the Earth plane in which you were weak and indulged yourself metaphysically by leaning on others rather than contributing to your own energy or support. If you knew this in advance, you'd begin to favour one course of action over another, You'd intellectualize yourself into positions or feelings that you wanted to achieve, and your mind would dominate your every move.

Evolution doesn't work that way. You can't overcome weakness by fighting it or thinking your way out of it. You overcome weakness by leaving it behind you. This means that you become aware of the inner tendencies that bring you down, that don't support a belief in self, and that don't endorse a love of self, and you say, "I don't want to be that anymore." You then move yourself out of the slovenly ways of the collective unconscious, into a discipline of power. From time to time, you may drift back, but once you decide on the side of strength, the power of the Universal Law will always be with you to varying degrees.

It may be a battle at first because your mind doesn't understand these laws or the nature of your mission on Earth, nor does it understand the laws that govern your potential. It will have a tendency to "advise" you logically from its own experience, and logic is death to that part of you that is the miracle maker.

Understanding the Nature of Beliefs

The next step in creating your own miracles is to look at the nature of beliefs. By reviewing beliefs and feelings, you begin to understand how to use the Universal Law effectively. It's natural to yearn for the impossible, and in so doing, you establish strong beliefs about what can be done and what cannot. You can jump a certain height and no higher, run at a certain speed and no faster, accept a certain position and no better.

Because most commercial aircraft fly at about 600 miles an hour, the shortest time in which you can get from New York to Paris is about six hours. Those are facts in the collective unconscious. But what if we told you of a man who could move his body many thousands of miles in just a few seconds? Your mind would scan its memory banks and draw a blank, whereupon you might think impossible! Then perhaps you might review all the scientific data available and conclude that this feat is unachievable. All scientific knowledge and current thinking are products of the same collective unconscious, and just the fact that a billion people have no concept of a man moving 3,000 miles in a few seconds makes it seem impossible. But the billions of people are wrong.

There is a dimension, right here on the Earth plane, in which such a feat is possible, and there are a few people alive today who know of this dimension and use it. It's a matter of perception and belief. Your ability to work miracles is predicated entirely on how easily and quickly you can give the collective unconscious the slip. It's your attachment to the collective unconscious, or world belief patterns, that holds you back.
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Conscious Energy 031 - The Energy of Self-Forgiveness

In our Western culture, we learn it is a virtue to 'forgive others for their trespasses' and 'to error is human, to forgive, divine'. And while these concepts are helpful, they leave out the most important person who needs forgiving. Your 'Self.' According to many religions, the only person who can ultimately forgive you is God, or your priest, minister, rabbi or imam acting on God's behalf. If you transgress the rules of being 'good' and do something bad to another person, you eventually get forgiven if you ask for it sincerely. Or, you go to hell. In either scenario you have little control over the outcome. That is left to forces outside of you. the ones who make the rules.

The difficulty is that most established rules are wrong! They do not take into account the mindfulness of the individual in contributing to his or her own personal freedom and self-awareness, but instead prey upon fear and insecurity of the collective unconscious to maintain control in a misguided attempt to avoid civil unrest or outright anarchy. 

To live a more enlightened life, we have to first accept responsibility for our own thoughts and actions which includes the need to heal ourselves from the negative self-judgments we have unconsciously made in our past that we so innocently and so perpetually allow to influence our lives. One way to do this is by forgiving your Self for the erroneous self-judgments you have made in the past.

All your experiences in this life are based on how you feel from moment to moment and the energy you share with the world around you as you go about your life. And how you feel is a direct result of how and what you think. But what happens when you process your feelings incorrectly through no real fault of your own because of flawed thinking? What if you were simply too young, too upset, or too angry to really get it right?

When I was a little boy in Kindergarten, I had a vivid imagination which probably came from the fact that I enjoyed hours and hours of playing alone. I never seemed to need many playmates, and instead enjoyed my own company and the imaginary experiences I created to entertain myself. So it was not surprising that one day after school (in the days when children walked to and from school twice a day) I decided to take a detour through my favorite park on the way home. To me, as a five-year-old imaginative kid, the tall grass, forested boundary, and pathways were a magical place where I could fantasize and have a fun after-school adventure. When the sun began to set, and I realized that I was getting hungry, I meandered slowly home from the park to find my mother outside our house, very upset and talking with two tall police officers. As it turned out, much to my surprise, it was me they were waiting to greet. Apparently, I had been AWOL for about six hours. I was sent to my room, where I could hear the continued upset below my bedroom window.

As a little boy who was simply having a fun time playing after school, I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. What I did understand was that my Mother was very upset, and that I must be bad, because the police were called. From the moment on, I judged myself as a lot of things, including 'bad', 'forgetful', 'stupid', and 'undeserving'. Although at the time, I probably summed it up in my five-year-old mind as just plain 'naughty'. My response toward my family and friends after that event was to be somewhat timid and unsure of myself. After all, if I was stupid, forgetful and naughty, I was not as good as anyone else. In fact, I had better do everything I could to make people like me. When people approved of me, nobody was upset, the police were not called and I felt safer and accepted by everyone. So, I began to seek approval, acknowledgment and praise from my parents and brothers, friends and teachers by trying hard to make them laugh or feel good. A nice painting, giving away my lunch, doing somebody's homework, etc. Later in life, I began to work so hard at accomplishing my desired result (acceptance and approval) that areas of my life began to suffer. In the words of an old friend, I was not giving until it felt good, I was giving until it hurt.

If things are going wrong in parts of your life, and you feel a drain of energy - a disruption of any kind that causes you to feel sad, angry, depressed or any other low vibratory feeling, it is most likely that you need to forgive yourself for some circumstance in which you judged yourself falsely. Some common self-judgments that can cause major energy disruption in your life are; I am not worthy, I am not pretty,  am stupid, I am foolish, I am naive, I am ineffectual, I am uneducated, I am no good, I am lazy, I am not sexy, I am not good enough ... and so on.

Chances are good, that when you made these erroneous self-judgments, you were incapable or unaware of understanding that they were false, and by treating them as true, your were unknowingly creating a belief system that actually changed your brain's wiring. You were unconsciously planting impulses that would grow into patterns or programs (neuro-programming) that would begin to run over and over in your mind, forming your 'reality' about who you are - your self-image and your concept of Self.

To heal yourself from these false self-judgments, you must first fully realize and believe a few simple truths. They are; You are good. Your natural state of being is happy. You are God in human form and you are essentially therefore perfect. Yes, it is okay to think of yourself in these terms. Contrary to what society says, it is not conceit or an ego-driven superiority complex to believe in yourself as being divine. (Please refer to Conscious Energy 028 to understand this clearly.) Remember, the more universal or cosmic your sense of self, the bigger will be your world! -Deepak Chopra

Exercise: If you have a photograph of yourself as a child, find the photograph and sit down with yourself as the little boy or girl in the photo. Have a conversation with your child-self as you would with any young child. Notice the natural innocence, love and care-free nature of your child-self. Do you see how loving and beautiful your child-self is? It's helpful when dealing with self-judgment and forgiveness to realize that you are the same being as the child in the photograph. You are the same soul in a larger body. That's all!

So, if you are good, perfect and divine, how can you be any of the negative judgments you make about yourself ? You have to believe one or the other. The trick is to cause your energy to vibrate in the higher frequencies of contentment, happiness and bliss instead of anger, sadness and resentment. And there are some very effective ways you can forgive yourself for judging yourself as this or that in the past.

In the next post "The Energy of Self-Forgiveness II" I will describe an exercise you can do to forgive yourself of  the false self-judgments you have made, clear up your energy, heal yourself and get on with living your life in a more effective, rewarding and contented way....The life you are here to live!

The park where I spent too much time is the same park where I met my friend Manfred in a spiritual dimension while meditating one morning in 1993. He is a guardian spirit being or angel. I am sure he was with me that day after school !