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Return of the Steady State

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Astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was a proponent of a theory of creation known as the “steady-state model”. It is interesting that he favored this theory over the “big bang”, though he was actually responsible for naming it. In a BBC radio interview, his use of the phrase, however, was intended as ridicule.

It has suddenly dawned on me that we can combine these two ideas, as they both represent principles that can help us understand the metaphysics of prayer and the manifestation process in general.

In his parable of the house built on rock and one built on sand, Jesus referred to mental conditions; one steady as a rock, the other shifting and as unstable as sand. The soul is the steady, unchanging rock. Our reaction to life’s events can quickly turn into an emotional roller coaster as shifting and as unsteady as sand. Let’s think of our soul as in a perpetual steady state of power and peace. Our perceptual response to negative people and conditions is like a big bang of emotion that explodes into the kinds of experiences that keep us awake at night.

Last week I talked about vaporizing the people and conditions that disturb us. Of course, this refers to a mental/emotional exercise. We hold a picture of the disturbing person or circumstance and we imagine love dissolving it. Traditionally this is called denial or release, but vaporizing the person or condition may be a bit more gratifying. On the screen of our imagination, we see the image of the problem area dissolve into nothingness. Through the power of unconditional love, we allow ourselves to feel the mental and emotional freedom and satisfaction of releasing the negative imagery into the nothingness from which it came.

We then forgive ourselves for going down that path in the first place. We also remind ourselves that we will not confront the person or condition unless and until we are given clear guidance to do so. The toothpaste is out of the tube, and we’re not going to try to put it back in. We’re going to vaporize it. We know we are successful when we can hold the situation in our mind and feel good that the proper resolution is forthcoming. When we attain this stabilizing condition of mind, we have returned to the steady state.  

The Attracting and Dissolving Action of Love

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“Love draws to us that which is for our highest good and dissolves that which is not.”

J Douglas Bottorff

Week two in our Advent series addresses the spiritual resource of love. When we think of the attractive and dissolving action of love, it is good to put this idea into a specific perspective. Let’s think of love as we would think of the phenomenon known as sympathetic resonance. Let’s say we have a guitar sitting passively on a stand. On our synthesizer keyboard, we hold a sustaining A note. Soon the A string on the guitar will begin to vibrate. The notes above and below will remain passive.

When we make this statement, we are not really drawing or dissolving anything. All strings are still on the guitar. What we are affirming is a frequency, a level of expectation that enables us to see and experience the truth of our statement, and to tune in to the evidence that this is truly happening. If we say to this mountain, be cast into the sea, and do not doubt in our heart that this is so, we are establishing a specific frequency that prompts us to see the outworking in our life. This outworking may look different than we expect, which is why it is important to think of it as love in action. We are striking the A note, and we are setting the A string in motion.

Let’s change the metaphor a bit. You have a circumstance in your life that seems discordant. All the strings vibrate at once, a situation like that of an orchestra tuning before the performance. Affirming that love draws to you that which is for your highest good and dissolves that which is not is a way of silencing the chaos and beginning the performance.

We’re not rubbing a magic lamp. We are focusing on the truth of how love operates. We are becoming conscious that the greater good is now unfolding, while that which may be blocking this greater good (most likely some attitude) is now dissolving.