If we can sense things that have not yet happened, certainly we can also manifest events with focused intention. I’ve often thought about the “push/pull” relationship our minds have with the fabric of space and time.

For instance, when we intuitively sense a future event and then it comes to pass, what really happens? Are we just sensitive to the impending event, or did our focused thinking manifest it?

Or is life really the dance of both possibilities? I believe it is.

I love philosophy with a passion and while I’m not a student of science and mathematics I also love hearing about discoveries made on those frontiers. But the fact is our grasp of reality is very tiny and most definitely incomplete (to say the least).

It makes perfect sense to me that our consciousness can effect the stuff of Universal potential because I believe our minds are one with the creative source. We are a part of divinity, and thus we share in the creative process.

I’m not suggesting that the ego mind is able to create all things at will. I think the higher part of us is the creative center. But I do believe the ego self has the power to manifest.

In other words we really can create the life events and circumstances we desire. We can manifest reality with our thoughts.

We can heal ourselves, draw to us the perfect mate and live in constant inspiration and creativity.

Current trends in the self development industry are calling this wisdom the law of attraction. That exact term was coined in the English languae (as far as I know) by William Walker Atkinson in 1906, when he wrote his book Thought Vibration.

Many authors since then, including the well-known Norman Vincent Peale (Power Of Positive Thinking) have also used the term. But even prior to the emergence of the phrase law of attraction we have been aware of our innate ability to manifest.

I believe the concept is a natural one. And I believe it is only through intentional oppression, such as that seen in the Dark Ages, the Roman Empire, and the empires of Egypt and Sumer, that humanity has become ignorant of our ability to create reality.

I also think the current movement, worldwide, toward books and films like The Secret is extremely important. This is a time in human evolution where we seem to be moving toward (returning to?) our empowered nature.

If you haven’t given real consideration to the idea that you are co-creator of your life, I urge you to do so now. The whole world changes when you become a deliberate creator of your life, and you are able to help shape the entire human journey for the good of all.

The truth is you’re already creating reality, but this is happening at an unconscious level. Ideally, you’ll embrace your role as creator and begin to intentionally manifest the events, circumstances, and people in your life.

I sometimes wonder where and when it all went wrong. That is to say…

At what time did humanity lose sight of our greatness and begin to buy into the idea that we are born “sinful”? When did people begin to believe that we are a race of wicked war-mongers bent on the destruction of ourselves, each other, and the world around us? And when did we accept the notion that physical existence is mechanistic and bland, offering no gateway to the spiritual greatness that truly surrounds all that is?

People still pay lip service to the idea that anything is possible and I honestly believe human consciousness is on the rise worldwide. But I still wonder where we got sidetracked in the first place.

Historically speaking it looks as if Egypt and Sumer were the beginning of the “we’re all scum please god forgive us movement”. It seems clear the shift of power into the hands of the priesthood was a big part of these eras.

But at what point did people become convinced there is no spirit world, nothing in the dark but shadows, and absolutely nothing real about anything in a child’s imagination? When did homo sapiens make the backslide into obtusity?

How is it possible that grown, intelligent men and women can seriously believe life exists only on planet Earth, nothing significant happens when the body dies, and everything wonderful is just a matter of fate and chance?

To be honest these rhetorical questions could be categorized. Am I on about organized religion or materialism, you might ask.

Frankly I see both polarities as cogs in the same broken wheel.

But on the positive side of things minds are opening once again worldwide. I suspect within the next 50 years acupuncture and crystal therapy will be accepted by mainstream medicine and presidential elections will be legitimate (as in ono-staged) events.

Our minds continue to evolve and the darkness of ignorance is being burned away by the rising dawn. Perhaps in time the memory of such follies as the dark ages and mechanistic science will be totally forgotten in the face of global (interstellar?) peace, prosperity, and enlightenment.

One doesn’t even need to buy deeply into the idea of psychic ability to grasp the raw power of thought. And it doesn’t matter if we look at the issue from a mystical point of view or through mathematic algorithms, the end result is the same.

Unless you’re just trying hard to be obtuse, it must be clear that our thoughts have a direct impact on the world around us. In fact this statement is a bit silly…

It’s more accurate to say the world around us is our thoughts.

How we did we become so dense that we even question this fact? Why is it that people need to be helped back to the obvious?

Just mention anything expansive in the company of people who want to hide from the truth and watch them exchange “knowing” looks and eye rolls. It’s as if they’re saying “Well that’s not on the evening news, nor did we learn of it in grade school, so….”

The funny thing is skeptics have alarmingly little - if any - evidence to support a mechanistic world where our thoughts have no impact. And there’s a mountain of data, not to mention the intuitive experience of everyone who breathes, to support the clear fact that what we think becomes real in one form or another.

I’ve never met a person who hasn’t dreamed something and seen it come true at least once. And I don’t know anyone who can’t relate to the experience of being in a public place, thinking of someone they haven’t seen in a while, and then turning the corner and running into this individual.

We are our thoughts and our thoughts are us. I can’t think of a more simple way of stating it.