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Spiritual Truth–Thoughts Create Only Some of Your Reality

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You’ve probably heard of the idea that thoughts create your reality. By reality, what motivational speakers and best-selling New Age authors refer to is the events and circumstances of your life, not just your state of mind.

In the real world, you’ll find it’s not so simple.

While we are strong proponents of positive thinking and we believe you can make the most of your life by changing what you can and how you view that which you can’t change, conscious thought is only part of what influences your life.

It sounds easy, doesn’t it? Just think positive thoughts.

One major problem with it is your subconscious mind. We’ve learned a tremendous amount over the years about how the subconscious mind works through our study of handwriting analysis, hypnosis, subliminal audios, and past life regression. Your subconscious mind will generate thoughts all on its own through the ever present, hidden fears, defenses, and biases. You can detach from those thoughts through meditation, and work with them through hypnosis, subliminal audios, and past life regression, but since the subconscious mind is incredibly powerful, it’s not always possible to rise above them.

The process of thinking positive thoughts also competes with what your heart, intuition, or higher-self actually believes or knows to be true.

For example, if you’re intuiting that there’s no way you’re going to change your boss’s mind, and that’s how it turned out in the end, thinking positive thoughts is futile, unless the positive thoughts are for accepting what you can’t change and working instead on what you can change.

Below we ask seven questions that indicate thinking positive thoughts only creates some of your reality.

1. Did children in the hospital (or their parents) battling terminal diseases create that reality through their thinking?

2. Did Syrian war refugees create their current reality through their thinking?

3. Did rape victims think about rape too much, thus manifest it?

4. Will preaching mind over matter to a paranoid schizophrenic cure her of her mental disease?

5. Did generations of poor people in developing nations think their way into poverty?

6. Did a lack of happy thoughts create a record high murder rate in the summer of 2015 in the city of Chicago?

7. Are plane crashes the result of too many passengers not thinking positive thoughts about arriving safely at their destination?

Our long-term findings show that positive thinking, although important, takes a back seat to the unforeseen and predestined (positive and negative) events and circumstances in your life. No matter what you think, you can work with fate, but you can’t cheat it.

We’re asked sometimes why we focus on fate to the extent that we do. We want you to avoid being unexpectedly disappointed or hurt by the sometimes vicious hand of fate, and we frown on New Age opportunists selling escapist myths packaged as truth.

It may seem depressing at first, but in order to make the most of your life, you need to first do four things:

1. Avoid the “anything is possible, you can do anything” mind-set, beyond the occasional daydreaming or “dream-castling” about your aspirations and goals. Why? Because when you are at least moderately realistic about your goals, you’ll avoid wasting time and setting yourself up for major disappointment, or worse.

2. Accept that there are many things in your life that you can’t change, such as how others think and act. Whatever it is you want to manifest through conscious creation and, or the law of attraction, if your goal depends on the behavior of others, think again. You may be able to persuade a million people to buy your new software app if that type of success is part of your predestination, but if not, it won’t happen (or if it does you’ll eventually experience a reversal of fortune), and there’s nothing spiritual about attempting to control and manipulate others.

3. Get to know yourself. Self-knowledge, including your subconscious strengths, fears, and defenses (which are outlined superbly by handwriting analysis), along with your timing (which is outlined terrifically by comprehensive astrology and numerology), allows you to prepare for life’s inevitable challenges and get the most out of the rewarding phases in your life.

4. Make an effort to react to people and events as positively (or neutrally) as you can whenever possible. Strive to remain detached and compassionate. This will help to stop creating any additional difficult karma for the future.

The notion that thoughts create 100% of your reality is deceptively comforting. Like all delusions, you’ll find that it eventually crashes against the rocks of reality. Children like to believe that Santa can leave whatever they want under the tree, but eventually they grow out of that fantasy.

Alas, you can prepare for life’s challenges and make the most of your fate, and it’s up to you how you view that which you can’t change.

Our Direct Your Destiny e-package helps you increase your self-knowledge and make the most of your fate  https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/directyourdestiny/

Copyright © 2016 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Free Will, Karma, and Fate – Self-Mastery Won’t Allow Your Future to be Less Fixed

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We find the level of ease in predicting life circumstances and events for those who are less self-aware is the same as it is for those who are more self-actualized.

If someone is fated to experience specific life situations, they will experience them regardless of what choices they make. From a spiritual viewpoint, there is less freedom in decision-making than most people seem to want to believe. Based on our empirical research, a lot more in life is destined than people may want to accept.

Are we saying that since so much is fated in life that it’s a waste of time to explore metaphysical concepts, or for that matter, to set and strive toward personal goals and make an effort to get as much as possible out of life? Absolutely not.

We never advocate a passive, unproductive approach to life, other than letting go of trying to change what you can’t change. First, one must “know thyself.” Then a person can work toward his or her goals that are within their personal karmic plan.

Someone might ask, “If everything was mapped out for us, wouldn’t we just be robots following orders placed by our higher selves? We do have some sort of freedom, don’t we?”

In large part, if you want to view it that way, yes, each of us are simply following through within our own unique karmic directives, putting one foot in front of the other to manifest fate.

Look at it this way: each of us incarnates to learn specific spiritual lessons. If we had as much free will as we have before we incarnate as we do while we are incarnated, how many people do you think would actually chose to experience the tough lessons, or any lessons at all aside from absolute ego-self gratification?

As we’ve said before, we have found that everyone has some freedom to “create” within karmic boundaries while on this earth, but not nearly as much as most people seem to want to believe. If people could become “anything” they want to become, nobody would remain what they are.

The charts show that there is no escape from what could be termed as soul responsibilities: necessary personal experiences while incarnated on Earth. The good news is that there is relief through acceptance, detachment, and unconditional love.

Copyright © 2006 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

New Age Spirituality: Idealism vs. Realism

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We certainly appreciate the value of inspirational messages that are rooted in truth. However, at the present time, an over-abundance of spiritual misinformation is flooding the metaphysical market by those whom we call the New Age Cheerleaders.

They’re usually well-meaning, but denying the reality that adversity is an unavoidable part of everyone’s life, that it has a divine purpose, and instead  promoting false promises is a disservice to consumers. Ultimately, a lot of the excitement and hype only serves to increase book sales and seminar profits and can do more damage than good.

Throughout the past 20 plus years of being involved in the self-help, New Age, and metaphysical industry, we’ve seen it time and time again: participants of inspirational seminars and devotees of rosy passages in best-selling “spiritual” books grab hold of the false claims that the “experts” offer (“the perfect relationship and infinite abundance are right around the corner for you—it’s your birthright!”) and end up being disappointed after all the hype has faded. Too many “experts” claim, “…you can ‘create’ whatever you want and be whatever you want.” Based on our extensive research, we’ve found this to be false.

Further popular myths in the New Age movement include the following: “The era we are in is more ‘potent’ than ever. Therefore, we are more able, than ever before, to create what we want–we can have it all;” “We are moving from a time of ‘cause and effect’ to a time of ‘resonant causation,’ which means that we can now create whatever we want through the power of intent;” “It’s possible to dodge the karma you don’t feel like dealing with through the power of forgiveness;” “Astrology and numerology aren’t applicable to those who have increased their vibration through love and wisdom.”

Many of the Cheerleaders claim that fate doesn’t exist or that it is only applicable for select parts of life. In our opinion, they lack the right to deny the theory of destined life conditions until they first disprove the predictive sciences of numerology and astrology.

Hypothesis or theory can’t be proven, it can only be invalidated. Numerology and astrology have yet to be shown scientifically invalid. In order to accomplish this, two things are necessary: long-term, objective observation of the circumstances in the lives of many people and extensive personality and predictive work involving these ancient sciences.

Until then, the Cheerleaders are denying a more than 2000 year esoteric tradition (which has been wrongfully dishonored by the world’s organized religions–one of the greatest spiritual injustices in recorded history–and greatly distorted by the 17th/18th century Age of Reason/Rationalism) involving the prediction of life circumstances through numerology and astrology. In doing so and promoting their baseless promises of the power to “create” anything anyone wants and erase life challenges, they lead astray those seeking wisdom.

However trendy it is these days to reject the idea of predestination (events that are unavoidable), our research shows that fated circumstances (rewarding and challenging) are part of everyone’s life. Since 1992 we’ve scrutinized the numerology and astrology charts, and observed the representative circumstances (past and present) of thousands of people. Furthermore, whether a person believes in karma and fate or not, they are still bound by it, as we constantly witness.

Once you see, as we have, the constant repetition of numerological and astrological patterns entirely corresponding to circumstances in peoples’ lives, it is easy to stop rejecting the concept of fate.

Furthermore, though we are grateful for our guides and angels in spirit form and regularly work with Archangels, just because certain information feels good, is quoted by someone famous, or is “channeled” doesn’t mean it’s true for this dimension.

Additionally, the so-called divine messages of many popular metaphysical teachings too often get distorted through the human filters called the ego-self and conscious mind. The “I made millions/cured my disease/met the perfect mate; you can do it too!” messages beg for provisions such as, “…however, it may not be your karma and fate to accomplish what I did, so I can’t guarantee the same success I’ve had…”

We respectfully and compassionately would like to remind New Age inspirational authors and speakers that fate, dharma, and karma must be included in New Age communications (even if they are just indirectly alluded to). Otherwise, as we’ve seen, fictional inspirational communications can unfortunately send people down the primrose path of illusion and leave them utterly disappointed, not to mention further discredit the New Age movement.

Instead of misleading people into thinking they can erase their tough karma and create anything they want, we feel more emphasis should be placed on the following philosophy: much of life is karmic and fated, the “good” and the “bad,” there’s no avoiding what is meant to be, but there’s good news: you have free will to react the way you choose to your life’s predestined events and make the most of your time here on earth.

What exactly is the benefit of working with predictive numerology, astrology, and past life regression aside from constantly seeing fate in action? The benefits include self-knowledge, spiritual growth through awareness, wisdom, the ability to plan for the future, the understanding that order exists in the universe and that there are no victims, that life is void of randomness, and that there is meaning to everyone’s life.

In doing so, you’ll also find that the ancient mystics and Gnostics were right: Fate cannot be cheated, but it can be viewed in a way that makes life a heck of a lot easier.

Why do we repeat what we do about destiny and free will over and over? We feel these ideas are very valuable and that it’s our duty to share this sacred information and to expose New Age myths and misleading practices.

We want to share what we and multitudes of mystics throughout history have found as truth because with awareness comes clarity, and with clarity comes a more rewarding life.

Copyright © 2005 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Fate and Free Will: Wisdom Only Deletes Some Karma

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A book’s messages don’t have to be metaphysically valid for the book to be on best-seller lists. Some modern best-selling metaphysical books are filled
with spiritual truth and some are virtually void of it.

Today’s popular New Age communications commonly contain heaps of pure inspiration with very low doses of ancient wisdom, perhaps due to our society’s penchant for seeking quick-fixes.

Let’s face it, “consciously create what you want, the life of your dreams, now!” inspires a lot more book sales than, “you can only consciously create that which is aligned with your higher-self’s earthly plan.”

Many New Age authors and publishers realize that including the cold, hard realities of life on Earth (karma, dharma, challenging fate, etc.) will hinder book sales.

Therefore, the current trend is to market books full of motivational messages such as “you can do it!” “abundance is your birthright,” and “rid yourself of your disease easily!” while excluding the spiritual facts of life.

Yes, wisdom can allow you to avoid some karma, but to say that you can erase any type of karma your heart desires is like saying you can turn winter into spring. Spring will arrive whether you “consciously create” it or not.

However, if an undesirable circumstance or event is part of fate, no amount of wisdom will blank it out. You can’t change the dead of winter into summer no matter how much you pay your guru.

Nonetheless, if you’re in a position to avoid exercising your free will in a particular way, wisdom can erase limited amounts of karma.

For instance, a parent exerts her free will to hug her children instead of mentally abusing them, which feels more natural for that parent to do. In this case, that parent has just taken the high road and told the universe that she desires to avoid that particular karmic arrangement (that her kids have most likely
agreed to before incarnating).

A mystic may say that even the effort by the parent to be more loving instead of abusive is the karma of all involved in the situation. Dharma is played out, karma is balanced, and everyone benefits (spiritually speaking).

More importantly, souls who choose (before incarnating) to be on the receiving end of abuse are going to experience it whether a parent dishes it out or not. A relative, sibling, friend of the family, neighborhood bully, classmate, or some other person will do his part to help fulfill fate.

Again, all the wisdom in the world won’t negate the major karmic dates with destiny that our souls choose before incarnating. A key objective of incarnating is spiritual growth and in order to do that, there must be challenge. Challenge is also necessary so that the more enjoyable life circumstances can be recognized and appreciated.

We like the phrase “wisdom deletes karma,” but we think it’s more accurately said this way: “Wisdom deletes some karma and direct life experience wipes out and balances the majority of karma.”

Fate is fate and you can’t dodge it just because you find select circumstances distasteful.

On the brighter side, you have free will to react to karma and make the most of your life within the bounds of your fate.

Copyright © 2005 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo