Basic Guiding Principles of Reality

Thank you, Tim, for your hon­est response and ques­tion. It is a good one.

I think of the world in terms of energy. I watch and study how energy moves in nature and apply those same prin­ci­ples to the human psy­che, since we are also part of nature. One of the ancient obser­va­tions of cer­tain guid­ing prin­ci­ples about Real­ity
is that the inner/upper world reflects the outer/lower world. “As above, so below… (this prin­ci­ple dates back to Her­mes Emer­ald Tablet). This then shows us that life is designed to oper­ate in spe­cific, orga­nized pat­terns; even chaos has Implicit Order … which to me indi­cates the Pres­ence of a Liv­ing Intel­li­gence or Source of some kind.

Refer­ring back, again, to the ancient wis­dom, we find a descrip­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Intel­li­gence, that I call “Source,” as the One Mind within which every­thing else hap­pens. (All 400 Bil­lion galax­ies are all hap­pen­ing in that One Mind!) That makes each one of us a ‘thought pro­jec­tion,” of the One Mind. (Again, it’s a very ener­getic under­stand­ing, this, about how thoughts are pro­jected into form life.) We are also told by ancient wisdom-seekers that we are “made in the image of,” we are ‘co-creators’ with the One Mind, which means, that we, too, man­i­fest worlds through our thought pro­jec­tions! These things I have ver­i­fied for myself.

We do, in fact, man­i­fest what we believe. We often grow up assum­ing that our beliefs come from our life expe­ri­ences, but through this ener­getic under­stand­ing of the Uni­verse, we come to see that it is actu­ally the exact oppo­site: We expe­ri­ence what we believe life to be. The belief pre­cedes the expe­ri­ence. Don’t take my word for these things, exper­i­ment for yourself.

There­fore to find evi­dence for some­thing we must first believe it’s pos­si­ble. Oth­er­wise we will only man­i­fest what we expect to see, rather than what we want to see.

For me, decid­ing whether or not to believe in Source started out as an exper­i­ment. Real­iz­ing the above prin­ci­ples, I real­ized the only way I would ever expe­ri­ence Source, if in fact, there was One, was to choose, first, to believe It was pos­si­ble. This is why the Bible calls for “an act of faith.”

It was clear to me that to choose to believe that I was in rela­tion­ship with a Liv­ing, Lov­ing Source cre­ated high-frequency feel­ings. And it became equally clear to me that to believe the world is an unpre­dictable, chaotic, and mind­less, fear-inducing place to live, left me feel­ing over­whelmed and at the mercy of hap­pen­stance and total ran­dom events, i.e. that belief, for me, led to very low-frequency feel­ings. It made the choice an easy one for me. I chose to act as if it were true.

Once I decided to believe that there is a Uni­ver­sal Source, I then began to act “as if” it were true. (The prin­ci­ple that applies is, “When we believe a thought, we feel and act as if it is true …”)

In Eso­ter­ics, the process of con­sciously choos­ing to live as if the prin­ci­ples of Real­ity are true is called “walk­ing the path of ver­i­fi­ca­tion.” On the path of ver­i­fi­ca­tion we become observers who con­sciously wit­ness the results of our beliefs. We observe the har­vest that comes from believ­ing a par­tic­u­lar consciously-chosen thought and notice if it is of high or low fre­quency. (In this case, the thought being, “There is a Liv­ing Source of Intel­li­gence that can ‘dia­log’ with us.”)

Here’s the thing … because the world is a mir­ror (another ancient prin­ci­ple based on the above prin­ci­ple, “As within, so with­out”), we will auto­mat­i­cally man­i­fest the results that match what we believe, regard­less of what that belief is. We find evi­dence of that which we seek! That means if we choose not to believe, we will find plenty of evi­dence to sup­port that belief too.

So then, you may ask, how do we decide what belief to choose? …

There is one major cri­te­ria that I use for choos­ing what to believe, and it can be summed up in this ques­tion: “When I believe that thought, does it bring me peace, or misery?”

This is what is meant when it is said, again in the Bible (another ancient source of wis­dom), “… by their fruits you shall know them.”

We begin to con­sciously rec­og­nize what beliefs brings us peace and what beliefs bring us suf­fer­ing — and we opt for those that bring us peace.

There is another prin­ci­ple that applies here, the har­vest of lies and deceit is pain and mis­ery, while the har­vest of Real­ity is peace of mind.

I trust where your path. I trust where you are in your jour­ney and where it is lead­ing you. I hear you will­ing and able to be hon­est, and I have come to value those qual­i­ties as being all we need to pur­sue Reality.

I offer these words with gen­er­ous intent, and along with them, I extend an invi­ta­tion to you to set up a rad­i­cal exper­i­ment in your own life, as I did in mine, by apply­ing prin­ci­ples such as this kids ver­sion of guid­ing prin­ci­ples, to your own daily life and let me know what hap­pens.

Bless­ings,