Everything is energy. The difference between a beautiful fruit salad and an atomic bomb is not one of substance; the only substance is energy. The difference is merely one of quantity and vibratory nature. The fruit salad is much less energy, and vibrating much differently, than the atomic bomb. The amount of energy and the vibratory pattern are what give each its characteristic form.

The Universe is very good at transforming energy from one thing to another, and very good at creating new variations, new forms. What most of us don't realize -- have forgotten or choose not to believe -- is that, to a great extent at least, the Universe takes its direction from us. If one of us thinks long enough (and in the proper way) about a fruit salad -- guess what! -- the Universe will deliver one. A whole series of intricate, precisely interwoven events will conspire to bring the person and the fruit salad together.

On a larger scale, if enough of us think long enough about atomic bombs dropping -- yes, we'll get atomic bombs dropping.

You see, it doesn't matter whether it's something we want or something we don't want; if we think intently enough or long enough or often enough about it, with the expectation of getting it, it's pretty much a done deal. That's the way the Universe operates. It's totally interactive, and each of us has enormous power in the deliberate creation of every experience we ever have.

But you say there are plenty of things you've wanted and thought about and visualized and even prayed for, and didn't get! So what's the deal?

The key is thinking about them in the proper way. There are 2 ways that work very well, in fact. One involves gratitude, the other involves fear.

If you say to the Universe, "I really would love a fruit salad!" -- and you picture it and smell it and feel yourself touching it, feel the taste of it on your tongue, the satisfaction of it in your stomach -- and then if you pretend you've already received it (feeling your imagination of it as absolutely real and tangible in your body), and you feel the greatest, most passionate thankfulness you can muster -- well, you've just triggered the power of the Universe for the deliberate creation of your fruit salad!

Remember the story of Jesus telling people to pray with absolute confidence, as if their prayer had already been affirmatively answered? This is exactly what he was talking about. Remember the childhood stories of magic genies, who always said, "Your wish is my command!"? Well, whoever made the Universe, made it sort of like that; if we wish for something in the proper way, the Universe takes it as a command. And the Universe has a whole lot of power available for manifesting things.

That's the Gratitude way of doing it. The other way is Fear. Have you ever said, "Oh, I'm so afraid I'm going to get sick!"? "I'm so afraid someone is going to scratch my new car!"? "I'm so afraid blah-blah-blah....!"? And it happened almost every time, didn't it? Fear works GREAT, because it's so genuine and visceral! That's exactly why, and how, most of us go through life attracting gobs of undesirable stuff. Because humanity has been motivated by fear for so outrageously long!

We've been taught to think that way from the moment we could think at all. "The world is a dangerous place!" "All sorts of bad things are likely to happen!" Etcetera, etcetera. We send out those kinds of vibrations, and those are the kinds we get back. Is this too complicated for anyone?

Of course not, it's just a matter of becoming aware that this is how the Universe works. The fear-peddlers will not tell us this; they can't, because they don't know it themselves. They are stuck in the same trap they're selling to others; they're busily manifesting their own fears, reinforcing their illusion that the world is a nasty, dangerous place (and making it exactly that).

It's time for us to wake up and wise up! Time to end the Age of Fear. Time to realize that Love is stronger than Fear, and that the world can be whatever we make it. And the way we make it anything is through our vibrations, our energy. Through our thoughts and feelings and beliefs. Not so much the ones that quickly come and go, but the long-time, habitual ones: the ones we think and feel over and over and over, and the ones that are buried so deep inside us that we're not even conscious of them.

It's time to become more conscious. Each of us is contributing, every moment, with whatever kind of energy we are vibrating, to the creation of the world; so let's use Deliberate Creation instead of the unconscious variety. This website is devoted to empowering ourselves and each other -- and consciousness is empowerment. So is Love and Peace and Joy and Gratitude. Those are the kinds of things we'll be promoting here.

It seems to me, true empowerment comes the more we release our grip on our individual, personal agendas and learn to align ourselves with the Universe. I have some experience with 3 particular ways of doing that -- Reiki, Macrobiotics and Johrei -- and will be presenting my view of those. I have less experience with the Science of Deliberate Creation, as it's called by Esther Hicks. Esther has been receiving and relaying, since the 1980s, information on the vibratory nature of our Universe, from a group of spirit beings. You can visit her website at abraham-hicks.com.

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