The answers you get depend on the questions you ask

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This is an old, old way of looking at things.

I never understood the Huna method of teaching - that the kahuna wouldn't tell the student an answer until they asked a question. Now, the kahuna might put the student into a learning situation or offer them a gift which could prompt questions - but that's a little different.

Not much, though.

In all cases, it was the student's responsibility to originate and pose the question based on their own background and understanding.

This is the way life itself works - how the Universe that surrounds us responds. 

If you are constantly seeking to learn, to find out - then all sorts of answers are available to you. And on many, many levels.

The story of Dr. Gates, which Napoleon Hill mentions in his Think and Grow Rich, is classic:

Dr. Gates had a room which could be made totally dark, with no external distractions. In that room he would sit with a pad of paper and his hand on the light switch, concentrating on the details of the Problem he was working to solve. He would sit there and concentrate until inspiration would hit - and then write down everything he was getting as fast as he could. 

This technique often brought about new approaches to working in materials and in theories of application - so much so that he was known for his body of patents. Needless to say, he was in great demand as a consultant.

Your own life goes this route, doesn't it? When you devote your energies to finding out something, only then do you get your answer. Sure, sometimes you have to relax and take your mind "off" of something in order to suddenly get an inspiration - and perhaps this is because you aren't living a relaxed life all the time...

But try this. Figure out what you really want and study all the details that you know about that thing or job or person you want to bring into your life. Really concentrate on every facet of that. Do it in a relazed frame of mind - like an easy chair in a room where you can be undisturbed - or at your desk with the phone on mute and the computer screen turned off.

See what comes into your mind as you do. Write all this down when you get that hint, that flash - and see what you have when you finish writing everything out.

Could be we just opened a door to your own fortunes, the ones that have been eluding you for some time...

Good Hunting! 

Thanks for letting me know. I'll do what I can to help you with that...

There's a point which people mostly don't get, although Quantum Physicists are recently starting to find out: It's an always on, always interconnected universe.

Gregg Braden told of experiements they did with tissue, flying it hundreds and thousands of miles away from it's owner - and finding that it would react to any influence as if it were still physically connected.

It really stems from the point made clear by our planet's most ancient surviving philosophy as represented by Huna in the Polynesian islands, "There are no limits." Just to take this to its fullest phrasing - (the mind as NLP tells us, sees no "no") - we are all connected to everyone and everything around us.

And you should play with this idea to develop your skills in this. Because when you are thinking of someone, they can feel it - and are probably thinking of you. Same for pets, plants, and so on.

Sure, it's a weird idea. We've been carefully trained to ignore those influences all our Western lives. And this is what gives us politics, the CIA, Weapons of Mass Destruction, North Korea, etc. You name any ill we have in our societies and you can trace it back to closed minds.

The idea of scarcity goes this way. While the Universe operates in abundance, humans manage to set themselves up to starve right in the middle of it. Buckminster Fuller proved that we have had the capacity to feed, clothe, and house every single person on this planet since at least World War II, if not before. And that is actually the mechanical definition of it.

On a spiritual plane, this datum both explains and explores fascinating new realms. Here is all they psychic stuff of intuition, remote sensing. And actually then brings a practical hard-wired explanation to the Golden Rule and even Druidic concepts that what you give out comes back to you several times more.

Criminals (and politicians) are often on the dirty end of this stick. Because they think they can act (and think and feel) with impunity. But any downfall of the "rich and famous" can be traced back to how they treated people.

Here's the actual point - it's an always-on Universe. Your dreams, your random thoughts, your hopes and fears - these are all thoughts which you are sharing with those around you.

2nd point - you can control your thoughts by self-discipline. (And perhaps you've noticed the calm that seems to exude from some people when they enter a room...)

And so we have the power of prayer. How to pray, the most effective way I've found, is to simply get into the feeling you want to have in your life or toward someone else or on their behalf. If you want healing, you get the feeling of how a perfectly healed body. If you want rain, get the idea of happy children playing in that rain, of people's relief, even of the plant's reduced stress.

Words, of course, help you get into that feeling and maintain it. So we have the chants of Amerindians and ancient tribal societies, the mantra's of Eastern religions, the Latin prayers in the Catholic rituals.

Oldest has been simply entering "the Silence", as found in our New Thought books and our oldest traditions. Arm wrestling champions in Japan, some of them in their 80's and 90's were beating challengers a quarter their age and their secret: think of nothing.

A last point before I go this morning: This universe we live in actually stores all thought. Like a massive battery. Anyone potentially has access to any information they need to improve their life. And they can get this simply by being still, relaxed in body and mind, and get the idea that they have the solution to whatever problem is in front of them. Then inspiration will come in a flash.

So put good thoughts out, OK? Live a happy life.

Because what you think affects everyone and everything around you. There are no limits.

Pass it on.

;)

How the Universe Works - and How to Get the Universe to Work for You (and why both candidates and all news sucks)

The Universe-as-Play-Doh theory expounded.

TRUE or FALSE: Anyone can have, achieve, acquire, become anything they really want in life - anything at all.

This statement is both true and false at the same time. It has nothing to do with heredity, or how much money your parents had, or what church you participate in, or the politics you follow - and at the same time is completely dependent on them.

Life is both what you make it - a blissful joy and inspired, glorious series of leaps of faith - and an onerous burden which makes you weep in every spare moment you aren't slaving away for someone else's benefit.

This is why politics sucks and both U.S. candidates are full of it - and why the press (and Congress) can never get anything right.

It's how can this universe deal out both torture and bliss in equal measure - and to two people who've grown up within blocks of each other and whose parents have similar income, similar upbringing, similar genetic background?

Because it's the way this universe works.

The Formula for this Universe:

Anything || Anything

What does this mean? (or "huh?")

Everything is related to everything. Those "||" symbols are whatever you want them to be. They may mean equals (=) or greater than (>) or less than (<) or can even mean doesn't equal or has no relation at all. (HUH?)

Ok, let's back up. If you study philosophy - both Eastern and Western - you'll see some key points coming up repeatedly. But only if you compare the two against each other. This is what Quantum Physics has been coming up with - age-old data which are just now proving what a handful of popular authors and "quack" theorists have known for a long time. The Universe is a bunch of Silly Putty or Play-Doh and you can make anything you want out of it.

However, at the same time, you are composed of the same things this universe is made up of, so you are also made of Silly Putty or Play-Doh and so can be pushed, and pulled, and punched, rolled, or bounced around. (Which is why you can feel very tired at the end of a day...)

It is both true and false that you can make anything out of your life - and that you can also be the total effect of everything around you. And those statements are both true and false at the very same time.

How is it that some people can make something of their lives and others can wreck theirs?

Look - in this week we have both the incredible personal triumphs of people who individually are breaking world sports performance records right and left - and meanwhile have the continuing tortures of Darfur and political bullying of Russia into Georgia. Millions are free to protest in the U.S. of whether it was right to go into Iraq and give them the same freedoms. We have seemingly insane people in control of incredible amounts of weapons and power which have been paid for by mineral reserves in their countries (oil and other fuels). At the same time, we have very brilliant people in some Academic settings (and in Hollywood) coming out with some very stupid pronouncements which show them to be very foolish when those statements become widely known.

How could all these facts be both true and false at the same time?

It's just the way this Universe is set up.

And you can do something about it. Or let it slide. Your choice.

And you have always had this choice. Always.

Let's seem to diverge here and cover another couple of points which will give us more understanding of the above.

Good vs. Evil

There is extreme good in this world and also extreme evil. Evil, however, is not a potent force. It is really just a lack of good. Evil exists where good isn't. Like turning on a light in a dark room. Or "watching the sun come up". You can't go into a room and shovel out the dark. The dark doesn't come cloying up to you and envelop you in its overwhelming grasp (regardless of Hollywood special effects) . Just turn on a light - or light a candle - or wait for the daylight to break.

Evil isn't anything but a poorly directed force for good. When you take that same amount of force and put it to a different, positive use, then good results.

You may have seen footage of soldiers rolling through villages on tanks and other armored carriers. Now you take that same amount of fuel and those same engines and take the amount of steel in those tanks and turn them into trucks. Now that same weight of materials can be bringing medical and building supplies to those same villages. And the people in those tanks can be trained in construction or as healers and be bringing new life to those they visit.

It's what they are used for. What's their purpose? What's their intent?

Free Will vs. the Universe (aka God)

(Here's where I may lose a lot of you as readers - and this really just proves the point of everything I've said above if you do drop off at this point.)

Taking up God at all shows me both to be daring and a menace at the same time. God is personal to everyone, even atheists.

Some have defined God as the Universe - and can make some pretty good arguments down this line. I bring this up only as a point of illustration. Because we need to talk about Free Will, which is usually put into the same line of country as God.

OK - let's just say that Free Will and the Universe are working together and at odds at the same time. (This way more of you will hopefully continue to follow the logic of this article.)

Universe and Free Will. People have Free Will. People can decide to do whatever they want. Even slaves can decide to do things. That's one of the reason people make poor slaves. And why animals (particularly pets) respond better to affection and love than any amount of harsh treatment. Animals have choices to make, every second of their own existence - just like us humans. (But we'll stop there for now, drawing the lines at animate entities...)

Those Quantum Physicists above tell us that because this Free Will (also called Mind) exists at the lowest levels of particles, it also exists at the greatest parts. One statement down this line: you find whatever it is you are looking for.

This is true in all their experiments. It seems that they couldn't turn around without finding their own footprint in the same sand they were studying - that whatever they intended to study was affected by what they were thinking. Which tended to mess up their ideas of being able to do any scientific experiments at all - which were supposed to be "double-blind" studies and so on. And this also explains the recent review of scientific literature which found that on a rough average, 50% of all scientific studies contradicted the other 50%.

Because, regardless of their attempts to exclude personal bias and attitude - whatever the scientists were thinking affected the outcome of their experiments.

What does this have to do with us?

Whatever you think or consider affects the world around you. In fact, it's been said that you create your world - the experiences you go through daily are affected by your attitudes and considerations about how things "ought" to be. Whatever your world-view is - creates that world which you view.

But wait - there's more...

Now, the universe is apparently unlimited in scope. And actually, there is no limit to anything. There are no shortages, except those humankind have created. As a species, we've been able to feed, clothe, and house all of us - every single individual - since sometime between the first and second World Wars. Fact. For all the limited energy sources around, there are literally tons of energy sources which haven't been tapped. The U.S. Patent Office is filled with tons of these. (Study Tesla if you want to see some fascinating examples of free, untapped energy sources.) And there are more oil resources under the forests in Canada than Saudi Arabia has left. As well, the minerals frozen under Siberian soil make the mines we have other places look like we were digging in the garden with a spade to find interesting rocks.

Universe unlimited in scope and resources - what do we do with that? Answer: anything we want.

But those around you - and this is historically proven - who try to "motivate" you deal mostly in the false concept that there is a limit to things. They push the idea that there is only so much to go around. Politicians are great at this. "Redistribute the wealth from the rich to the poor." "Tax the rich more - because there is only so much to go around." (Tell that to these same politicians who approve the Federal Reserve to print as much paper currency as they want - the real source of inflation...)

Others like to tie up oil and natural gas deposits so that we can go to war over them. Jokes on them - we just invent more when we get close to running out. (Invent - isn't that some sort of mental process? Hmm...)

Free Will and the Universe work hand-in-hand to create this world around us. (And some have even said that this world we see is really just a necessary illusion, but save that for another day...)

The Universe has all the raw materials to do anything you want with - anything any of us wants. And Free Will is the molder. We just have a few billion souls capable of independent thought and action. Which is what makes this world of ours so interesting... And gives politicians and theologians their jobs (not to mention Academic types), because they are all trying to mold thought and thinking around them into what they consider better form.

What they consider is the key part of that sentence. They are neither more right or more wrong than anyone else. And the amount of followers or weapons they can muster proves them neither more right or more wrong.

So any problems we've had - any lack or limitations - has been us and our attitudes toward what we confront (or let slide). What we've been fighting all along is our own ideas. Really nothing more than that. And practically - this is all that's ever held us back...

Ancient Philosophers have already been there - done that.

(I've used that word again - philosophy. Almost as bad as bringing "God" into this...)

The oldest philosophy on this planet (which has traditions of helping the Egyptians build their culture, among many) has some interesting insights into this. It's called Huna Kahuna (or secret of secrets) among other things.

Anyway, what has survived from their long oral tradition is a set of seven principles, two of which are interesting to us. The first, "The world is what you think it is." We've covered that above. It's just taken Western Science a long time to get back to what was known before we ever started having scientists.

If you drill down below this, a later principle from this ancient philosophy, "Effectiveness is the measure of truth." This is why we have Ethics. What is good for the goose isn't always good for the gander. And the farmer who raises geese has a different purpose which may affect the lifestyle (and life-length) of those geese.

For people to roll tanks into a neighboring country makes sense to them, but little sense to those they roll over, or people watching this from a distance. When governments harass opposition in their own country and drive the place to wreck and ruin - that somehow makes sense to them, but little sense to others.

So you have to consider your own thoughts and see if your exercise of Free Will is the best you can do - and is the best for the world around you.

You see, the Universe works on a big Harmony point. Billions (and soon Trillons) of people on this planet, all capable of affecting others around them. Consider every person a single voice in a chorus. Whether that chorus sings in harmony or cacophony is up to that chorus. The choir leader can't make them sing better - it's their individual choice. He can help them, cajole them, give them special instructions, but the singing itself (or silence) is the decision of that individual in the chorus.

That's Free Will and this Universe. How they interact and how they work together.

How to Make the Universe Work for You

OK, we've covered a lot of ground here. Now lets see how you can improve that life you're living.

You can see above that all self-help and personal development, as well as all the -ism's in the world are all tied into this formula I laid out at the beginning. All religion and all politics, all economics - everything is tied into this.

If you want to improve something, you have to change your thoughts about it. How you consider something is will make and has made it so. If you don't like the way something is in your life, then you only have to decide better.

Now, there's some help for you. You may be thinking that some things are too big for you to handle. Well, yes and no.

Single people can start trends. People can work in their own neighborhoods to create change which helps people around them. People can blog and post comments and influence other people. If you stick at something for long enough, it can result in tremendous good in the world. Look at what Mother Theresa accomplished with her single life. Or Thomas Edison, or any writer you admire.

And you can get help in whatever you want to do or change or improve.

Remember that Universe above? Well, it wants to give you anything you want to improve or change. You can get an unlimited amount of help from the Universe - it's got unlimited resources, after all.

Hopefully by now, you don't think I've gone off the deep end. You've followed the logic up to this point, right?

Intuition and Bright Ideas come from the Universe - because you've imposed your Free Will on it with a situation to solve. Try this some night: just before you go to sleep, ask that question which you haven't been able to find an answer to. Pay attention to your dreams and what you're thinking about just when you wake up. Just lay there awhile when you wake and listen to yourself think - what was rolling through your mind? Probably a hint of what you need to do. If not, then if you pay attention to what happens in your life through that next day, you'll probably get something a little odd happening. Someone will say something, or you'll hear something or see something and AHA! you have a solution to that question - or at least a new way of looking at the problem.

Because Anything (Everything) || Anything (Everything). The universe is giving you all the help you need - you just have to ask...

I don't need to beat you to death with more examples here.

If you keep at this point of asking the Universe for inspiration, you'll always get it back. Just the way things work. When you study any amount of philosophy or religion, you'll keep seeing these same points come up, over and over.

Because it simply is the way things work.

And spread the word. Discuss this idea with your friends. See if they can get it to work for them. See if this is workable for you. How effective is this truth?

You can have, do, or be - achieve, acquire, accomplish - anything, ANYTHING you want in your life. It's all in what you think about yourself and your life - and it shows up in that world around you.

Now you know exactly why Olympic athletes excel, why politicians make stupid decisions, and why main-scream media (and Congress) gets it wrong more often than not.

Have fun with this.

After all, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain - right?