{"id":5,"date":"2008-05-28T04:42:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livinglasvegas.us\/?p=1"},"modified":"2008-05-28T04:42:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:42:34","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingprinciples.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 2:00 a.m. when John hit <\/span><\/span>\u201csend\u201d on his computer. An image of his e-mail flying out into cyberspace came up in his mind, evoking a small grin. His mind kept looking at this image, noticing what thoughts accompanied it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Cyberspace looks the same in my mind as the idea that there is only \u201cOne Mind,\u201d he noticed. \u2018My e-mail is like my voice in the \u201cOne Mind\u201d \u2013 what I am thinking or saying resonating not only with those I happen to include in the address line of the e-mail, but also with all \u201cparts\u201d of the collective consciousness. It is as though what I say and do and think becomes part of the \u201call of it.\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The next image that arose was of the Earth, turning slowly, and his e-mailed thoughts spreading out across the space around the Earth \u2013 the Earth turning towards his thoughts, absorbing them into the collective, and making them accessible to anyone who happened to be on the same wavelength. \u2018It is already 5:00 a.m. on the East Coast,\u2019 he continued the line of thought, \u2018and people are waking up and maybe reading their e-mails\u2019 Another image, a morphing of the previous one, looked like lights coming on as the Earth turned \u2013 first on the East Coast, and then following the great revolution of the planet, lights blinking on in the Midwest, and then the Plains, the Mountains, and finally the West Coast, where John sat in Las Vegas, in what seemed to be a particular time and place. \u2018Yet somehow what I am thinking and saying and doing is spreading out across the entire consciousness \u2013 and not just in the United States, either.\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Again, the image in John\u2019s mind morphed \u2013 becoming an image of the Earth with lines of light connecting dots of lights \u2013 each point of light (\u201cA thousand points of light\u201d \u2013 smile) representing a mind, an awareness. The lines of light looked like an airline route map, but with many more destinations. \u201cFiber optic communication lines\u201d came as a thought in John\u2019s awareness. \u2018The lines of light are connecting all thoughts, everywhere. All communication is simultaneous. That is why someone in Timbuktu can have the same idea that I am having at the same time in a different place. It is all just thought in the One Mind!\u2019 Even in his mind, this thought carried an exclamation point. It was like a revelation \u2013 a light coming on in his mind. This thought, too, evoked a smile in John\u2019s mind, even though the smile wasn\u2019t actually on his face. \u2018As I light up in my mind, I become part of the light of the planet, the \u201cLight of the World!\u201d\u2019 Again, a smile. \u2018My thoughts, my words, my voice \u2013 where I hold my attention or awareness \u2013 may just be affecting the One Awareness of the planet. In effect, my story becomes part of \u201cThe Story\u201d \u2013 lighting up some part of the One Mind, carrying a vibration of thought and light with it, spreading out across the Mind as the world turns in its sleep \u2013 ever turning towards the Light.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The smile was evident on his face now, as John rolled these thoughts in his mind, continuing to look at them in his mind\u2019s eye, watching the lines of light coursing with energy and vibration as they carried awareness to awareness, as ideas went from one bright city to another. \u2018What message is being sent from the light of Las Vegas?\u2019 This thought took the smile from John\u2019s face, as he realized that in some way he represented the light of Las Vegas. It was sobering to think that his own thoughts could have an effect on thoughts everywhere \u2013 that what he looked at \u2013 what he gave attention and awareness to was somehow reflected in all awareness. \u2018Too much responsibility, there.\u2019 John tried to blank his mind, to find a peaceful place in it, a place of quiet and solitude. There was some small peace to be found in the stillness of his mind, but the idea of \u201csolitude\u201d wouldn\u2019t take hold \u2013 immediately he saw the stillness in his mind radiating out across the planet. Then he noticed that the feeling of \u201csmileness\u201d had returned of its own accord, connected somehow with the idea of \u201cstillness\u201d of the mind. \u2018I am at choice in what I look at, but not necessarily at choice in the effects of any thought I hold.\u2019 The stillness in John\u2019s mind was being disturbed by new thoughts, like pebbles being dropped into still water, the ripples radiating out from the source of thought. \u2018My purpose in this life is to radiate peace and joy and love.\u2019 This was a large pebble, but it didn\u2019t splash into the surface of his mind so much as it seemed to come up from the depths of the pool, breaking to the surface of awareness like a bubble, then \u201cpopping\u201d to release its energy, the energy of an idea riding out across the ripples of thought in John\u2019s mind, in the One Mind. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Smiling, John turned to look once again at the keyboard of the laptop computer on the table. \u2018Every letter is just a symbol of an idea in my mind, rising to the surface to be shaped, type-cast, imagined \u2013 an image of thought rising like feeling from some unknown source. \u2018I am a conduit,\u2019 John thought, \u2018a channel of awareness, allowing the Source of What IS to flow through me, shaping it as it flows, making \u201csense\u201d of it \u2013 energy becoming sensation \u2013 sensation becoming thought \u2013 thought becoming word, \u2018and the Word was made flesh.\u2019 \u201cSmileness\u201d was rising again. The idea of \u201cresponsibility\u201d for his choice of thought brought not retraction this time but instead a sense of expansion, of desiring to join with the \u201cAll of it\u201d \u2013 to acknowledge being part of the One, giving \u201csmileness\u201d by his very noticing of the idea \u2013 spreading the idea by his expression of it in his experience. \u2018And it IS good!\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Peace of mind returned unannounced. John sat quietly in the dark, unaware of the time, no longer concerned with that concept, unaware even of the turning of the Earth. He was at peace in the world. His hand reached up and pulled the laptop screen down, closing the computer. He didn\u2019t need it at this moment \u2013 he was communicating his message without using words. \u2018I am the message,\u2019 John smiled, \u2018and I am the messenger. The message and the messenger are One.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He rose from the table, then, and walked to his bed, knowing that he would dream, and that his dream would connect him to every dream being dreamed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ~William Jennings Bryan<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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