8. Thoughts

Thought is the roof of the building — and the pinnacle of the Architecture — of our Consciousness as such. By thought we can realize within ourselves the Cause of everything occurring in our reality, turning for help in realization to our higher, Divine aspects, analyze and if necessary correct, reflect upon and amplify feeling, launch the flow of Love and create the inner state of the Kingdom of God which is “within us”, turn to the Living Truth and be Her grateful channel and co-creator, experiencing the Supreme Delight of manifesting the Living Word into the world. By thought we can launch a chain of small transformations and minor events that will ultimately fundamentally change our beliefs and convictions, our pattern of perception, and our entire life. By thought we can identify and bring into harmony our contradictory desires — making peace among all the swans, pikes, and crawfish. With the help of thought we make fateful decisions, choosing the vector of our development. By thought we master our emotions and our experiences, our states and our outer reality, turning the course of events in the direction we need. With the help of thought we seek and unveil our talents, reclaim, realize, and present our Divine gifts to the world, organize our communication and enter into interaction with other co-creators, creating ourselves as a masterpiece, helping them come into being, and jointly creating our shared collective reality, our shared Paradise.

But all this is only if we realize ourselves as creators, and not as fighters against “objective reality” (read: victims of it). Otherwise, our thoughts turn (and by default return) into an unconscious “thought-churner”, sustaining fears, doubts, disbelief in Oneself, thought-forms of the struggle for survival and barren competition. Realize, we are not speaking here of “thought is material” and therefore “think positive”. Your thoughts, Your pattern of thinking — are the consequence of the work of the lower floors: Faith, desires, and habitual feelings. Therefore, if You wish to change Your pattern of thinking — You will first have to deal with the lower floors of Your consciousness, starting from the foundation of Faith.

“Positive thinking works only for those who have positive thinking. It cannot be changed without dealing with one's subconscious (unconscious) beliefs, convictions, desires, and feeling patterns.”

Therefore, it is precisely awareness, that is, the critical comprehension of the inner contents of one’s consciousness (beliefs, desires, feelings) through the mirror of one’s material reality and the reflection (reverberation in consciousness) of one’s states and their true causes — it is precisely awareness, recognizing and seeking the cause of everything occurring within oneself, in one’s consciousness, that is capable of changing the nature of our thinking and

confirming our status as a Rational Human and the Crown of Creation.

The transition to conscious thinking, to the discipline of the mind that constantly returns the focus of our attention to what is essential, aiming the mind at realizing the inner truth — the truth of one's states, feelings at every moment of time, addictions and inner lack of freedom, lack of self-mastery, susceptibility to instincts and fears and subconscious destructive desires — a truth that is not very pleasant, yet the only one capable of launching the process of deep changes within us — with the repentance naturally arising from this truth and the birth of new, already conscious desires — and the conscious choice of Faith that just as naturally follows from all this, and further — the development of a constantly expanding arsenal of skills and tools of Creator Consciousness and the Technology of Love: reconciling inner contradictions, restructuring feeling patterns, hygiene of consciousness, conscious choice of viewpoint, declaring the will of the Creator, creating a state with the word, inner dialogue with Higher forms of consciousness: the Spirit, Elder mentors, Christ Consciousness, God the Father and the Mother of God; realizing the true causes of particular circumstances, making conscious governing decisions, analyzing feedback from reality, adjusting the will, healing and correcting subconscious, including ancestral, programs, re-creating reality, inviting co-creators and forming creative unions and associations with other

creators on the basis of shared values, choosing and activating one’s Divine Game, involvement in the Great Game of the One God, and so forth — this is what opens us to our Highest Potential — the True deification of man, the becoming of the Human-Creator.

Before reading further, take a pause — analyze: what is the nature of Your thinking? How conscious is it, and how much is it subject to the unconscious “thought-churner”, the “mind's chatterbox”?

Well? Have You felt the desire to reclaim power over Your mind? Declare Your will for this. And begin to practice — holding the focus of Your attention on feelings, the conscious choice of Faith, hygiene of consciousness, reclaiming the Responsibility of the Creator, conscious creation of a state through the word, sincere prayer, and inner dialogue with God (You will find examples of applying these tools at the end of this Guide).

And so, when You attain the discipline of the mind, learn to keep the focus of attention on feelings (for how else will You know Love, Happiness, Truth — that this is truly Love, Happiness, and Truth?!), when You discover the truth, the unpleasant truth, that You are deaf to feelings, that You know neither Love, nor Joy, let alone God’s Grace, but on the contrary, are full of programmed reactions — fears, guilt, resentments, doubts, and struggle — then a desire arises within You to be liberated from this old man within Yourself,

the human-victim inside You and his petty passions and earthly lusts, and to know True Delight — the Delight of Unconditional Love, Truth, and Divine Grace, unfolding in Your true talent, in the Gift of God, which will begin to pour forth through You as Love, Wisdom, and Wealth upon those around You, upon those near and far.

And in numerous fruitless attempts to free Yourself from this inner darkness in order to become light, You will finally want God to be.

You will want God to be. Not because He objectively is. No. God is also a product of Faith and desire, like everything else, but You will want God to be, and You will want this so intensely, because You will feel so wretched from this truth about Yourself, about Your insignificance, about Your lack of self-mastery… You will want this Grace, this Supreme Truth, this Verity, this Love, Which is God, to reveal Itself in You, and to shine within You with True Light, “The Light that shone in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not”.

You will want the Truth, and the Truth will open (within) You. You will pray (not knowing to whom, into the void) — but for the first time sincerely, fervently, with an open heart and a focused mind: