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"As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is."

The above quote has been cited as the source for the New Thought movement, the concepts of Positive Thinking and The Secret (The Law of Attraction) (just to name a few titles). The concepts made popular today are basically stating that we attract to ourselves those results which most closely align with the nature of our attitudes about life in general (and specifics as well).

By taking this belief system to heart, we would assume that a person who is having difficulties earning enough money to pay bills hasn't learned to attract positive results with positive beliefs. There may be some truth to this - although, of course, we all know that belief alone isn't the trick. I would say rather, as a man thinketh, so he will behave - and as he behaves, so he will receive results.

In another place, in another forum, I've read as the writers have been complaining that they haven't been able to make as much money this month as they are normally capable of making. The person who started that topic was someone who's results I decided to investigate. And as it turns out, it does appear that her volume of work has declined - and quite interestingly, judging by the feedback (testimonials) left by her clients - so has her quality.

She wants to blame the market for her results this month and not in one way look within herself to see where the cause of her issues might be.

If you feel like it, take a close look at all my marketing efforts for Thelemic Waves Tarot Reading Services. Or just take my word for it based on the evidence you already have. I market my services as a method of placing the burden of responsibility in your own hands. As a means of acquiring the results of your desires by finding the method most likely to generate your happiness. Or, at times, as an opportunity to learn and accept the truth that you are chasing your tail and would be wiser to give up the ghost on this one. Never will I say that your destiny entitles you to anything.

I've encountered people with a lot of different belief structures and some of them just baffle me in their contradictory nature. No offense to any who believe this or that, but quite plainly I wish to state a few things I do and don't believe in myself.

I believe in the law of cause and effect. In fact, it is hard for me to categorize this as a belief due to the truth of it being more than just evident. It appears to me as undeniable fact, not belief. All things that I can make myself aware of exist as a result of some previous cause. I fell down because of gravity. Or, we could analyze further and say my shoes weren't appropriate for the weather and I slipped on the ice. Or maybe with another examination, I wasn't being cautious enough at the time. Even though I could blame Ronald McDonald for not having cleared the sidewalk - we can probably all agree that I knew I was taking a calculated risk and would be a much happier person in life if I started my response to having fallen with that premise.

I believe in Karma. This is an esoteric notion of the law of cause and effect. It takes the physically evident laws of motion and applies them to the mental/spiritual/social spheres of life. It states that if I cause harm, I'm likely to receive harm as a result. Some of this seems self-evident and most people would probably call it common sense. But some people take umbrage with this notion because it would also imply that if I cause good, then I am to receive good results - and many people have some very specific, almost entitled, notions of what the good results they receive aught to be. And then, well, they start believe that the notion of karma is a lot of hokum. But you know what? I'm satisfied when the good results I receive are simply a smile on my face and a release of endocrines into my blood stream.

I believe that thinking leads to feeling, feeling leads to acting, and acting leads to receiving (and then we start thinking about what we've received). At the core of this (not yet mentioned) is believing. We form our thought patterns based on the nature of our belief systems. But beliefs are actually harder to change than you might imagine. Whereas we can say that thinking is habitual, believing is almost natural. We've been believing most of what what we believe from day one. That's why many professionals would agree that it is hard to rehabilitate a life long racist - especially one who's father inducted him into the Ku Klux Klan in the first place. Such an individual would have a great system of Core Beliefs that might never be capable of being changed. So that's why I like to start with thinking. We can, through great practice, learn to change our thinking patterns by starting first with awareness and then moving on to various methods of controlling.

I do not believe that thoughts arrive in us out of the cold blue air from seemingly nowhere. They come from other thoughts, built up over time in support of some known or unknown belief system. This the proverb's author would probably call "the heart." With this knowledge, we can begin to work on ourselves and improve the results of our efforts in life. This I firmly believe.

I believe that my beliefs are based on evidence. Some of the evidence may be self-manifested, but I'm okay with that. I'm working from a core system that states that my life should be self-manifested. It is true to me that my beliefs lend me the grist for my thinking, that my thinking gives me the inspirations for my behaving, and my behaving generates the results I receive, which then, based on my thinking, supports what I believe.

A perfectly round world in my opinion is one I definitely can tolerate!

I don't believe in ghosts! I believe in "an after life" but not in the sense of Heaven and Hell for all eternity, it is more like a rest-stop (a truck stop probably, or the Restaurant at the End of the Universe). I believe in re-incarnation - which I find hard to harmonize with the notion of ghosts. I don't believe in talking with the dead for this reason also - although I do believe that there is a residual element left over by the dead which we can get information from, and it probably sure looks and feels like talking with the dead. But the dead should move on, or else my whole notion of re-incarnation falls flat.

I believe that I can choose my thinking patterns and influence my belief system this way. I also agree that these things take a lot of time and effort.

I also believe that I learned all these things with the aid of the system known as Tarot - where the Major Arcana represent the Soul (symbolised as Zero/Cipher/Fool) and its relationship with the Universe, the minors represent Belief, Thought, Emotion, Physical manifestation (most systems seem to want to order the minors as Belief/Emotion/Thought/Manifestation but I believe that's another one of those ancient blinds so many authors state exists).

I believe we get what we deserve and the Universe is unduly fair, even if we don't know how to agree with Her results.