Thoughts Become Reality

Imagine lying in bed, staring at the light switch on the wall. The lights are on, but your desire is for them to be out. Can you turn the lights out - using just your mind?

The sane reader is thinking, "of course not!" but hang on a minute...

If I'm lying in bed, get up, and push the switch, then get back into bed... now with the lights out. My Will has thus created a new reality.

"No fair" comes the rebuttal, "you used more than your mind!" Well, my MIND wanted the lights out AND my body in the bed, and after physically turning off the switch, and getting back into bed, reality exactly matched what the mind wanted... just because I was aware of the PROCESS my mind used to alter reality doesn't mean I didn't do with just my mind.

Philosophically speaking, Q.E.D., but I can tell you're not convinced.

"So can you do it keeping your body in bed?"

Sure, I yell, "BRADLY!!! CAN YOU COME HERE A MINUTE???"

"Haha, very funny, what if you're alone?"

I can always call a friend and have them come over and press the switch, or even the electrical company and have the cut off service, or even stay in bed until they shut off the power from non-payment, but do you mean can I turn out the lights all by myself, without getting out of bed RIGHT NOW?

"No," you might say, "flipping a switch requires overcoming inertia and friction. Inertia is the tendency of resisting change, and friction is the tendency of encouraging stasis. (Entropy, by the way, is the tendency of encouraging change and gravity is the tendency of resisting stasis.)"

"You're brilliant," I say, "I've never heard such a lucid definition of those terms before!"

You go on to say that it takes a force to overcome these forces, and mind waves seem to be weaker forces, if you want to just blink your eyes and flip the switch, it can't be done!

Well my enlightened friend, again, the answer might amaze you! We can turn on/off the lights simply by thinking about it! However, the solution requires a bit more effort upfront in exchange for never having to get out of bed. Let's solve it in stages... the first step involves moving my body all the way down to the hardware store and installing the 'clapper.' Once installed, forever can I turn the lights on and off by lying in bed! Clap on, clap off!

Now, I am not using my body to turn off the lights, but rather, sound waves. Oh yeah, I'm using my body to generate sound waves, but is that any different than using my body to generate mind waves to press the switch? No, I say, but you can disagree; after all, you were unsatisfied with my mind using my vocal chords to get other people to do the work! But that's okay... this is only step 1... step 2 uses the mind and only the mind!)

Consider with the 'clapper,' I'm turning the lights on and off by a device which detects changes in air pressure. We call them sound waves; most call them sounds or noises. This device then converts the energy in the sound waves into electricity which is then used to trigger another device - itself powered by electricity - to turn off the lights. It's just like having a friend do it, but instead of your roomie, it's a tiny silicon friend!

Now then, let's replace this air-pressure (sound wave) sensing device with one that detects changes in brainwave patterns (mind waves). We'll have to power it with electricity because we don't know how to get much electricity from thought-waves yet, but that's okay since the light is itself powered by electricity.

Such devices don't exist, you say? Sure they do!

So with a little forethought, we can flip a light switch using just our mind. And a night-cap connected to a computer... but that's only because we don't yet have sensitive enough detectors to do the job with remote sensors instead of ones placed directly on the scalp. Like I said, we don't yet know how to harness the energy from thought-waves, but we will soon enough.

However, let us not miss the miracle here. The Mind, aware of the Will, is capable of changing the environment to suit the Will. So what if we are mindful of the process, of our bodies, or of our words, or of the people we manage to do the job, the net effect is that of the mind creating reality based on the desires of the Will. You, in effect, are just a process.

Whether it's turning off the lights or winning the WSOP, where there's a will, there's a way, and there's no denying that thoughts create reality. If there were never the thought of changing reality, the reality would never change.

How will your thoughts become reality today?