THINK YOUR DESTINY

“We are what we think. All we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world” --Gautama Buddha

“Proper visualisation by the exercise of concentration and will power enables us to materialise thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experience in the material realm.”

--Paramahansa Yogananda

“Thought is the builder which creates your destiny. Thinking is like a spider 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.”

--Edgar Cayce

The 12th century Persian Sufis stressed the importance of visualisation in altering and reshaping one’s destiny. They taught that one’s thoughts form into idea-images, which in turn eventually determine the course of one’s life. The Sufis felt that the Heart Centre was the agent responsible for this process, and that control of the Heart Centre was therefore a prerequisite for controlling one’s destiny.

--Henry Corbin “Creative Imagination in Sufism”

Many of the more advanced contemporary consciousness-researchers believe that we indeed create our own realities, not only individually, but also collectively.

Psychologists Helen Wambach and Chet Snow organised a study of 2,500 people in the U.S. and France who were hypnotised and progressed into the future. When the reports of all 2,500 were tallied, the respondents divided up neatly into four categories:

One group described a joyless and sterile future in which most people lived in space stations, wore silvery suits, and ate synthetic food.

Another, the “new agers” reported living happier and more natural lives in natural settings, in harmony with one another, and in dedication to learning and spiritual development.

Type 3, the “high-tech urbanites,” described a bleak mechanical future in which people lived in underground cities enclosed in domes and bubbles.

Type 4 described themselves as post-disaster survivors living in a world that had been ravaged by some global, possible nuclear, disaster.

The researchers concluded that, according to their findings, several potential futures are forming in the gathering mists of fate, according to their belief that we create our own reality.

Thus the four scenarios are considered an actual glimpse into the various potential futures the human race is now creating for itself through its present-time collective thinking.

The conclusive recommendations resulting from the study are that, instead of building bomb shelters or moving to areas that won’t be destroyed by the “coming earth changes” predicted by some psychics, we should spend more time believing in and visualising a positive future.

Chet Snow sums up: “If we are continually shaping our future physical reality by today’s collective thoughts and actions, then the time to wake up to the alternatives we have created is now . The choices between the kind of Earth represented by each of the Types are clear. Which do we want for our grandchildren? Which do we want to perhaps return to ourselves someday?

--Chet B. Snow and Helen Wambach “Mass Dreams of the Future”