Mike Dooley, a popular author who writes about manifestation, has a catchphrase, “Thoughts are things.” I realize that the meaning he is trying to proclaim is that thoughts can “harden” into things; however, I believe he has mischaracterized the very nature of thought and how it pertains to creating physical reality:
Thought is not a “thing” – it is an “action.”
In fact, thought is an active force – far greater than what we have considered before. Unfortunately, due to our predilection with trying to make the camouflage environment of time and space the primary place of causation, we’ve completely missed it.
You see, thought is not bound to the exterior world. Thoughts in and of themselves transcend time and space. We know this quite factually through experiments in quantum mechanics – though I’m not going to spend time here reciting specific examples to prove it (I think it’s already well documented so that anyone with sufficient interest should have no problem in uncovering the material). Correspondingly, within the landscape of conscious intention, all anyone has to do is recall times when they’ve deliberately set an intention and then it magically showed up – whether it be “divine parking,” getting a new job, or suddenly getting just that right amount of money to purchase that item you’ve had your heart set upon. What all this points to is that the field of time and space is not the cause, but only the mirror upon which thoughts find their reflection, starting from the micro going all the way to the macro.
That is, the power of thought is an active agent of force. What we must realize is this: the work of materialization is only a reflection - the actual creative “action” is done within the very unlimited boundaries of thought itself and how it is “working behind-the-scenes” in nonlinear time and non-local space. We don’t perceive this action because it is not within the design framework of the physical brain, nerve structure of the body, or the ego (that part of you that you designate as “I”). For the nervous system and the brain, we can easily understand why: those are meant for “out there” external physical interaction. But the ego? Ultimately, for the same reason. Your sense of individuality (ego) is a psychological “angle of perception” primarily geared for “exterior” perception and interaction. Though you can (and do) receive intuitive impressions that can transcend time and space (remote viewing, psychic predictions, clearly-knowing-exactly-what-your-kid-is-doing-though-they-are-not-in-the-room), the ego is not really submersed in the nonlocal and nonlinear aspects of reality, but rather “sits atop” it and generalizes its focus in accord with the brilliant impulses coming in through the physical senses. The ego is that part of you that is meant to bring that “separation” – the sense of “I” apart from everything else – so that you may view the reflections you are creating “out there.”
But I digress … for it is the thoughts within that are the real creative force for what your ego will encounter. Those “coincidences” and random “happenstances” only appear that way because of how they are “painted onto” the canvas of time and space from a reality domain that is independent of such linear and dimensional perspectives. They come perfectly “into view” precisely because the force of thought behind them is not bound to such limitations. To put it another way: the thought itself is not in time and space – rather it impacts time and space within the aspects of creation … It creates all coincidences and happenstances. Your thoughts and the intensity behind them ripples and transcends linear time, including how they occur in physical reality.
Since physical appearance is at the tail-end of manifestation, we must admit that the real ACTION itself of creativity stems with the thoughts (Mind) behind the physical camouflage in and of themselves. In that sense, thought is not a “thing” like a noun, it is a verb. And the action such thought takes “behind the scenes” – meaning outside the focus of the ego and the physical brain – is a transformative action. That is, the action of a thought transforms unseen probabilities from one state of actuality into another. You could legitimately say, “Thought is an activator.” This, of course, is happening in nonlinear time and nonlocal space – the very “field area” where the ego and conscious mind do not have their domains.
Nevertheless, through thought’s intensity, that level of “oomph” is transforming nonlocal and nonlinear probable states into actualities, so that they become expressed in a certain way within the physical-ized Now moment. This means that the physical universe is an after-effect; it’s a manifestation of the thoughts behind it.
What we must come to understand is that we cannot successfully achieve any long-lasting success or change without the conducive magnitude of thought behind it. The actual painting of the reality – the coming together of the colors, the design, all of it, is done behind the scenes … outside the frequency domains of the physical brain, nerve structure of the body, and the focusing of the ego.
So again, I just want to emphasize that when it comes to the nature of creating physical reality, it is a mistake to think that the first order of action must begin “out there” with the physical world. The fact of the matter (pun intended) is: you must first work in nonlinear time and non-local space, because that is what “informs” and influences “out there” physical effects – and the only way to do that is with the primacy of nonlinear and non-local thought itself. If there is to be any physical bodily movement, or exterior physical environmental participation, it all comes from what has given rise “beneath” – the mental energetic intensity of Mind.
This forces us to reconsider the notion of “faith” – “faith” being that conception of “beliefs in things not seen.” From a religious perspective, it is applied to the idea of an external invisible deity god-force having his invisible hands in everything and executing some kind of “divine plan” and holding your faith in Him. In the case of conscious creation, it is faith in the unseen motive force behind your own thoughts having constructive creativity in a dimension equally unseen by the physical senses – places where we have some experiments that show we do make deterministic creation.
So it’s a shame that we dismiss thoughts so easily. This is most likely why many often do not find their thoughts materializing to the degree they would like. They don’t believe in their thought’s power once it has left “sight” of their physical brains. Because of that, they instantly “short-circuit” and “stub the toe” of the thought-to-materialization process. This is why a re-evaluation of “faith” is so necessary. If you don’t believe in the powerful creative nature of your non-physical mind, you will not encounter it fully in your physical experience, simply because you do not expect to (and it’s that expectation that kills it).
Most in society declare that thoughts have absolutely no power at all – they’re just thoughts! To think they have any motive force beyond the physical brain is seen as purely ridiculous nonsense. “Blasphemy!” they cry -- while ignoring the fact that their thoughts give rise to creating the physical brain in the first place (the wiring of its neural networks, the nature of behavior, the filling in of perception from a field we are only really witnessing 1% of, among other things).
So know that your thoughts are not simply “things” – they are an active force. They act upon the real unseen dimensions of nonlinear time and non-local space, which are then reflected “out there” as happenings with duration and taking up mass – those things solely created within the auspices of the sensory cortex area of the physical brain and experienced with the nerve structure of the body.
But which first had to be created within – and then orchestrated to perfection “out there” from behind-the-scenes.