Many people agree that God works in the lives of human beings. But the question is: How? Through unasked-for intercession? Through begged-for miracles? Through answered prayers?
And how about the problems of the world? Does God work with the world itself to solve those dilemmas? And again, if so…how? And what role, if any, does a mere human being have in all this?
We spoke in this space on Tuesday about some of these ideas, about the nature of Life itself, and about how human beings can work to solve the problems of our world. I ended that column with the statement…
THE ENERGY THAT CREATES THE SOLUTION MUST BE EQUAL
TO THE ENERGY THAT CREATES THE PROBLEM.
Moving on from there, I notice that Albert Einstein once observed that you cannot solve a problem using the same energy that created it. That is true. It must be a different kind of energy, but it must be of the same intensity.
Whether you call the tools that you use to create this energy intensity prayer, meditation, positive thinking, Personal Creation, the Mechanism of Manifestation, the “formula,” the “mystery,” or the “secret,” they are all the same thing. They are all part of a process than can bring us to greater happiness. They are all a functioning of, a putting to intentional use of, the process of life itself, the way of the universe.
This is God’s process. This is the way God moves. Émile Coué called this process “optimistic autosuggestion.” The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better” (Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux) is the best known example of what is often called Couéism or the Coué method, according to the writers of Wikipedia, who also tell us:
It was in 1913 that Coué founded the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. His book Self-mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion caused a sensation on its publication in England in 1920 and in the United States two years later.
Such “revelations” have always caused a sensation—just as the revealing of “the secret” is causing today. Yet always the sensation tends to die down, and the world returns to its Old Ways.
Historically humanity has sparked itself with a glimmer of hope, then returned to its sadness and its anguish, its turmoil and its conflict, its pain and its suffering. For the forces mounted against New Revelations have throughout the ages (and yes, even in this “enlightened” time) beaten back the message of inner personal empowerment in favor of an edict of continuing reliance on sources exterior—namely, religion, government, and Those In Charge.
That’s been the history, but all that can change if we will but place ourselves in the category of Those in Charge.
Will humanity do it?
I believe the answer is yes, and that it will happen when People Power and God Power are reconciled; when one is not made to devalue or dishonor the other.
And we’ll talk more about this tomorrow.