Gullibility is Our Genius
Our genius is in devising and telling ourselves such compelling and plausible stories about life that we start believing them.
[Never mind Pollyanna, we’re all Alfred E. Neuman!]
That’s it really, but when you combine this idea with the
understanding that what we believe has the ‘ear’ of our reality
creation mechanisms, you realize that the stories we tell ourselves
will eventually become our outward reality. So by believing our own
stories, we manipulate our concentration within consciousness in such a
way that we literally construct our own potential futures. [Such is our power.]
I say ‘potential' futures because no matter what story we have been
telling ourselves, in any moment we are free to choose something else.
We have the power to deviate from our plot at any moment, in any way we
might wish, but few of us ever do this. [I prefer to think of this
as the result of good choices about beliefs, rather than faintness of
heart about changing them later.]
Kris
said recently that we are what we believe ourselves to be. This
seemingly straightforward comment started to burrow into my mind. If
this turns out to be true, what we believe about ourselves becomes
really, really important!
When you think about it, this means we're all pretty good story
tellers, right? But you have to admit, we’ve all told ourselves some
whoppers too. Beliefs we bought into that ended up being just silly. [How
can you tell the difference? Going in actually you can’t, because
of free will, but coming out of an experience you often get another,
perhaps wider perspective on the beliefs involved. That’s actually why
we materialize beliefs as experiences, to get a real good look at them,
so we know what adjustments we might want to make.]
So anyway, keeping in mind all this stuff, I’ve been busily making friends with my most gullible and believing aspects.
In general, I have put out the call for any aspect that is
cheerful about accepting new ideas, especially about who we are and how
the world works. [The attitude we're looking for here? The
snuffling enthusiasm of hungry puppies does not overstate the level of
acceptance we’re going for.]