“Understanding the Significance of Thoughts and Words”

“I am writing an article that will be helpful to a lot of people”.

Sounds pretty presumptuous huh? It’s only meant to emphasize the “Talking To The Universe system”. To start I’d like for to look at the word “Metaphysical”. Is it at all confusing? Is the exact definition clear? Lets say that it is – the scientific study of the universe as a system. We can look at it this way so it’s easier for the brain to understand. If we were to read all this from Wikipedia we’d not only get tired (Or at least I would) but we’d more than likely gain little that we could put into practice to our advantage. I like to study something somewhat scientifically and look at the result. My study is the study of the “Universal System”.  I’m only interested in how to best operate within it. Finding out about any laws, confines, parameters and possibilities may exist.

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Metaphysics investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world. Someone who studies metaphysics would be called either a “metaphysician” or a “metaphysicist”.

The word derives from the Greek words ???? (metá) (meaning “beyond” or “after”) and ?????? (physiká) (meaning “physical”), “physical” referring to those works on matter by Aristotle in antiquity. The prefix meta- (“beyond”) was attached to the chapters in Aristotle’s work that physically followed after the chapters on “physics”, in posthumously edited collections. Aristotle himself did not call these works Metaphysics. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there “first philosophy”.

A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.

Before the development of modern science, scientific questions were addressed as a part of metaphysics known as “natural philosophy“; the term “science” itself meant “knowledge” of epistemological origin. The scientific method, however, made natural philosophy an empirical and experimental activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century it had begun to be called “science” in order to distinguish it from philosophy. Thereafter, metaphysics became the philosophical enquiry of a non-empirical character into the nature of existence.

We exist within this universe, so we must operate within this system. We can not separate ourselves from the universe or get outside the system. Like a planet within a solar system, operating within the laws of the solar system, we too are beholden to the system. The totality of everything anyone has ever discovered about the system, could be, included under the heading of metaphysics.  So how does this system work?  What does it mean to me?

I started a long time ago trying to get to the bottom of the “What’s it all about” question.  One of the authors that I came across was Emmett Fox.  I read most of Emmett’s stuff and a good portion of it stuck in my brain.  I don’t know how much good it did me but I’m glad it’s there.  What I’d Like to talk about today is the way the universe hears us.  If, like all the metaphysical teachers say, the universe is just giving us what we “expect” why all the suffering and insanity.  I’m convinced the answer is – we suffer from a species identity crisis.  I’d like to introduce another idea here so it will be with you while you’re reading.  The subconscious mind, or the part of the brain that is associated with the subconscious, is like the universe.  The conscious mind, or that part of the brain that bugs the hell out of us, is the egoic, dualistic,  disconnected thought structure.  Out of this conscious part we have come to see ourselves as a separated entity.  The personality or “me”.  The me and the universe are no more separate than the chatter box brain and the subconscious brain.  If we find this hard to grasp it is due in a large part to our having told ourselves otherwise.  That is what I’ll address and make clear.

I write at length about the brain and data. Data being everything that gets in the brain from any and all sources.  One of these sources, one that we have absolute dominion over, is us.  If you read the metaphysical teachings they state that, in essence, the universe is ready to bring into form all that we desire, ask, want and so on, this is where it gets confusing and most people drift away.  They drift away because they don’t agree.  It’s not what they’ve seen.  They’re right.  Anyone who has spent a few years on earth can tell you that most people live there entire lives and never find what they want.  Why?  Is it all a bunch of hog wash?  Are people just spouting this stuff  to sell books or pass the collection plate.  Plenty are.  They are feeding on peoples desire to find peace of mind, understanding and happiness.  It is a vast, seemingly unquenchable and endless marketplace.  Folks have made tons of cash from it.  There is no denying that this desire to be happy is there.  If that’s what everyone want’s, if that’s what we’re looking for, why does it seem so illusive?  The answer lies in the way the universe and it’s connection to the subconscious, operate.  It’s in the way they hear us.

It will do us a world of good to stop thinking that the universe speaks our written language, or our native tongue, or deals in words at all.  It doesn’t know Pepsi from Coke. What the universe hears, when we say “we want”, is “I lack”.  What the subconscious, which doesn’t communicate in words either, hears is, “I don’t have”. This idea stands up to a simple logical test.  What do you have that you are in need of? It never comes to mind that we need a new car if we have a new car.  If you’re thinking about all the people who aren’t ever satisfied with what they have and are always wanting more, it still doesn’t blow the theory.  In fact it supports it.  What did we just say?  We said people – want – more.  So what does this translate into?  I don’t “have” enough.  It’s always like this.  If you want something it should never come out of your mouth that way.  Or be thought of that way.  Simply because it doesn’t work.  I shouldn’t say doesn’t work.  It works really well.  Perfectly.  It is our not understanding the system that is causing all the frustration confusion.  Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see…”.  People who don’t understand the metaphysical system will say, “Yes, first I need to be different…I need to change if I want the world to change…”.  In light of our new approach we can see how this is sort of a do nothing routine?  First of all the only thing we, who do this, are being is needy and incomplete.  That’s what the subconscious part of the brain hears.  That is the data we just fed it. “God grant me serenity” – Translation: I am not serene,  I am in need of serenity, I need…I don’t have.  If we “want” a different job, how would we approach it?

We know now that we don’t want to say, “I don’t have the job I want”.  So what would send the right message?  We want to get a message to the part of us that creates. That being our universal connection or our subconscious brain.  How about, “I am getting a different job”?  I am creating a great job?  That’s still a reference to some future event, isn’t it?  How about something like, “I am that which creates great jobs for myself and all people”.  It’s not possible to run out of great ways of stating things.  It’s fun.  “I will have fun communicating perfectly with the totality of being”. Yes, we can just made it up.  I liked that one,  it kind of made me feel good.

Do I feel I’m communicating perfectly with the totality of being? I’m not saying…anything.  I’ll promise you one thing.  You will have a better time when you replace “I want” with “I am”. It will happen instantaneously. You will have a better experience replacing “I need” thoughts with “I am” thoughts.  I am certain of this.

Am I good at this?  I don’t feel as though I am – my brain is  filled with a lot of subconscious garbage. Man … you wouldn’t believe the amount of ridiculous stuff that got jammed in there.  I do practice thinking and saying things differently and things are happening.  The worst result we can get is – doing it is a lot more fun.

I was thinking about a way to better look at the universe. First I think of the universe as “everything that is”. Secondly I look at it as the whole mind. Not brain mind – more of an intelligent energy. I might think of myself as a node of that intelligence that shares in the game of creation. That works for now.

There is a lot of good audio here. People like AlanWatts Shaila Catherine, Pema Chodron and others….