TheFoggBlogg: Thought By Thoughts About Thought

My first encounter with Lynn Grabhorn was reading her book, Excuse Me! Your Life Is Waiting (1999). That read turned me on to the Law of Attraction and Abraham-Hicks. That was a long time before the DVD phenom The Secret became rich & famous.

I learned about Lyn's earlier book, Beyond the Twelve Steps: Roadmap to a New Life, a few days ago from Mary K., a dear friend who knew about my recovery efforts and sharred my regard for Lynn's writing. She told me Lynn had been in the same 12-Step program I'm involved with and thought I'd enjoy the book. I am. And I'll share some of it, and my thoughts (and you'll soon learn why that's in italics) with you here.

Here's a clip from Chapter Three: The Subconscioous: Master Controller

That hunger whirling around inside us wants to take hold and blast us off to somewhere. It wants to transform us from insecure to secure, from lonely to content, from bored to fulfilled, and from numb to alive. It’s beckoning, pressing, pushing. And we say, “Hey, fine, I’m ready to go. But where? And how?”

Granted, we’re open to the possibility that the something more we seek may be a stronger “conscious contact with God as we understood Him,”? but what does this really mean? And where do we start?

The magic key that swings wide the doors to a life of all we’ve ever dreamed is thought, the very stuff of which we’re made.

Most of us, at one time or another, have studied something about thought. We learned, for instance, we operate with a conscious and a subconscious mind. We have presumed, and been taught, that thought emanates from the brain. We’ve been taught what we think about is important and could possibly make a difference in our lives. But the idea that “thought” and God are one gets a bit far-out, and has probably not been a major factor in our learning or seeking. Now, however, thought is going to play the starring role.

The journey into thought is the journey into Self; the journey into Self is the journey into God. The journey into God is the journey into Mind; the journey into Mind, the Supreme Intelligence, the Creator and supportive element of all life, is the remembrance of what we are. So we’re going to do some serious thinking about thought, for it’s the stuff from which everything is created and without which nothing would exist, including us.

Thought is the Life Force, the Isness of the omniverse which loves all that it is, and through that wondrous love allows all life to be. And it is also the most remarkably misunderstood, misdirected, misjudged, misused, abused, and ignored power in our world...

(Grabhorn, Lynn (2001-05-01). Beyond the Twelve Steps: Roadmap to a New Life (p. 32). Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.. Kindle Edition.)

Lynn's journey into thought took her through to feeling. She'd concluded thought ain't it, and packed up and moved on to Abraham-Hicks "feeling awareness" and the Law of Attraction as the key to the Kingdom.

Lynn's not reachable on this plane of existance now, so I can't speak with her (as I twice did) about that. For me for now, I'm taking Beyond the 12-Steps as MORE about the 12-Steps, and will content myself to be thought by Lynn's thoughts about thought.

Trust that makes sense. If not... or not all that clear... well, think about it <smile> I am.

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