Thoughts are powerful. An idea can change everything. While materialism tells us that thoughts are only electro-chemical signals in an organic mass of tissue, those who have them know differently. I don’t know you, kind readers, well enough to share the full truth of the matter, but I am more and more convinced that materialism is woefully overconfident in its ability to explain everything. As a friend once told me, science accomplishes a lot and it clearly works, but it also sweeps anomalies off the table as statistically insignificant. So when we read accounts of educated, rational individuals describing the impossible we laugh it off. We shouldn’t. Science and spirit working together is a powerful combination. Getting the mix right is part of the process.
Our thoughts affect the world around us. This can be as simple as deciding to mow the lawn. By doing so, based on a thought, you physically altered the environment in some small way. Isn’t it merely a matter of degree to let the thought do more of the work? We’re a long way from mowing the lawn by mind power alone, but we’re at the point where belief (and I’m not talking facile follow-the-leader kinds of belief) should be allowed to grow a little bit. There’s a lot more to the world than we’re often told there is. What’s happened to our curiosity that we don’t explore it? I have some theories regarding why we’ve cut ourselves off from potentially world-changing thoughts—thoughts that really could make the world a better place for all. We’re tied to old paradigms.
We tend to be too busy to put large amounts of time into thinking. As a society we undervalue that, in any case, until we need a professor in a specific specialization. Thinking can lead to action. We still can’t explain, scientifically, how the thought that I should mow the lawn translates to me standing from my chair, grabbing my hat and gloves, and a battery-pack, going to the garage, and hauling out the mower. We do know that a thought starts a chain of events, but how does that thought move arms, legs, hands, and feet? “For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, ‘Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea,’ and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.” Or so the perhaps most influential sage in history once said.