Recovering From Linear Thinking
Unfortunately, this perspective has been hammered into us since grade school and for most of us, the belief and all its corollary ideas are well wired into our thought processes.
In actuality, we are living in a dynamic, intelligent Field capable of instantaneous response to each one of us. (It may help to read that statement again.) Instead of living in a gigantic machine in which we are only a tiny cog, we have the opportunit to recognize and identify ourselves as something much more significant – something that the awesome and intelligent creative force that has created the plant kingdom, weather, human beings, this planet, and galaxies beyond, responds to.
Coming from, what for many in Western culture is a radically different perspective, our lives and the world we live in take on a much different tone. Sometimes we see scientists engaging in an unhealthy obsession with the Newtonian world view. We see this unhealthy obsession manifesting in ideas like genetic modification and lab meat for example. Here again, the thinking: if we can understand the parts, then we can control them (and perhaps even make a lot of money by owning them!)
A deeper understanding reveals that we live in an interconnected web. In this web, we recognize that our intentions are incredibly significant.
Making the Shift
So how does one practically function in the world if we are not inside a giant machine?
Since the dynamic Field which we live in and are a part of responds intelligently and instantaneously to us, how do we “speak” to it? The answer is with our intention. An intention is something that lies underneath our thoughts and feelings. It is more solid than either and feels as though it comes from a place that is close to the core of who we are. And perhaps easiest to discern is the fact that positive intentions feel good.
Now, here’s the tricky part. If I set an intention to say, have more trust in my life, the dynamically responding Field is going to instantaneously respond by creating circumstances to help me face and release vibrations within my body (which itself is wholly constructed from vibrations) which are not in alignment with my intention to trust. The same goes for any intention you might set. The less resistance you have, the faster it enters your reality.
It’s tricky because I might say, “wait a minute, I set an intention to trust and now these things are happening and I’m not feeling like I can trust anything”. This is where linear thinking and the Newtonian world view can cost one a lot of confusion and unnecessary suffering. The linear mind will say “this is bullshit, I’m not getting what I want.” However, despite the thoughts and feelings that are coming up, at the deeper level my intention is starting to manifest. As I am able to feel these painful emotions related to not trusting in this case, I am releasing them and changing my vibration to match my intention. And once my intention is able to resonate freely and powerfully throughout my being, whatever I have intended manifests abundantly in my life.
As we all know, living from the heart can be messy. It is also where the beauty of life is and will always be. The Newtonian world view offers the illusion of safety through a rationally understood and controllable existence. And this view is constantly being offered to you in the form of mobile phones, antibiotics, genetically modified food, nuclear power, military domination, and the other fantasies that science and the marketing industry (I include government here) offers to the world. They are doing their best to sell you a sense of safety and control. What's interesting to me is how often images of nature are used to sell us these fantasies.
Beyond the thin veil of fear, lies everything you have ever dreamt of. By setting your intention and compassionately holding space for what arises as a result, you are free to harness the most powerful creative force in existence (which is existence itself) and to play with it. That being the case, what is your heart’s desire today?
