Probable Realities - III
According to the theory of probable realities, every single desire and memory that we have or have ever had creates unto itself an entire probable reality. Every feeling is an entire universe. Everything we desire creates an entire world in which that desire is realized – i.e., every desire creates its own future. We don’t desire something for the future, or in the future; but rather the future only exists as there is a desire reaching out to it and creating it. And our minds choose which possible future to go with, out of all the possible futures.
Similarly with memories. Every memory is a thought form record5 of an entire universe (a decision we have made). We believe that we have had a linear personal history – a series of events which began at birth and led up to where we are right now – and from here we will have a linear future. And there is one “me” who has had this personal history and who is going to have this personal future.
In fact, there are infinite number of “me’s” who had an infinite number of probable pasts, and there are an infinite number of “me’s” who will have an infinite number of possible futures. The action of mind is to select a path going backward and forward: it selects one particular set of memories going back, and one particular set of desires going forward, out of the culture and Zeitgeist (i.e., thought forms) it finds at hand.
All of the thought form material that’s left over – all of the “could have beens” and “might have beens” and “should have beens” – are the probable realities for a given lifetime (and are in fact consciously accessible via a technique similar to past life regressions).6 Probable realities are parallel lifetimes which branch off from this one at each point where a decision, large or small, is made. That is why we must stand by our decisions; otherwise we are draining the energy we need in this lifetime to realize our true desires off into other probable realities. Probable realities are no more nor less real than this lifetime. There are always probable realities in which we get (or got) what we want (or wanted). Mind picks which probable reality to go with from the smorgasbord of possibilities.
For example, consider a person diagnosed as having some fatal disease (e.g. AIDS). The person chooses a moment in which a doctor says to him, “You have AIDS; you’re going to die”, and he makes that thought form of fear into an overwhelming belief when he could as easily – after the initial fear – just laugh it off and refuse in his heart to believe it. But instead, he makes the thought form into an overwhelming belief by assigning tremendous importance to it, and he then carries that belief through the rest of that probable reality.
At the moment the doctor said, “You have AIDS”, another probable reality branched off in which the doctor said, “You don’t have AIDS”. These two probable realities interact on each other: in the AIDS branch, there is a wistful longing for the non-AIDS branch; and in the non-AIDS branch, a constant fear of the AIDS branch. The wistfulness of the AIDS branch may send messages to the non-AIDS branch like: “Enjoy your health! Appreciate what you have!” And the non-AIDS branch may send messages to the AIDS branch saying, “Cheer up! Life has its bright side too!”
If at any moment the AIDS patient realized that the AIDS is just a belief he could change – only a reality that he is creating by believing it every moment – then at that instant it would collapse and the person would be cured. But this becomes harder and harder to do as the person becomes “sicker and sicker”; i.e. believes more and more in his sickness, thus making it into an overwhelming reality (of course, this is a greatly oversimplified example; what is really going on out there in the universe is far more complex and infinitely ramified than anything the human mind could ever conceive of).
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5 “Thought forms” can be defined as monads or homunculi of awareness; momentary observer / observed dualities. There are two kinds of thought forms: “sensory thought forms” which consist of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings; and “conceptual thought forms” which consist of thoughts. We are born with sensory thought forms (we are born knowing how to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel); conceptual thought forms are everything we have learned since birth from our parents and society. Conceptual thought forms are similar to what some cognitive theorists have termed “memes” (cf. Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, Oxford NYC 1976 p 192 ff, and Daniel Dennet’s Consciousness Explained, Penguin London 1991 p 200 ff); and other theorists have termed “schema control units” (cf. Michael Gazzaniga-Richard Ivry-George Mangun, Cognitive Neuroscience, Norton NYC 1998 p 458 ff).
6 The past life regression entry technique given on www.dearbrutus.com => Past Life Regressions can be adapted to viewing probable realities as well. When you are “up in the sky”, intend (ask) to come back down into whatever probable reality you wish to examine. This technique can also be run off into the future, to view the probable result of making a decision. For example, to see what it would be like if you married a certain person, use the past life entry technique to access the probable reality in which you are married to this person. This technique is really, really easy to do.