Before you scoff at this, ask yourself this question, “How many times in the Christian ‘world’ do we talk about how the Spirit led us to pray for someone, perhaps someone we haven’t talked to recently.” Only later do we find out that they were going through some sort of crisis or emergency. Or, how often have you and someone you know suddenly changed mental ‘gears” and brought up a subject completely foreign to whatever conversation you had be having? Yet it was exactly the thought going through you mind. Coincidence?
If you, or a tree, or the chair you are sitting on are merely energy slowed down, what is thought? What is an idea? Where did the idea come from? When we realize that everything is make up of energy, then the boundaries between our so called “physical world” and our thoughts disappears. In fact, where did the design (or pattern), for you, or the tree, or the chair originate?
Many people use the argument that before anything can physically exist, it has to be thought of. An intelligent design requires an Intelligent Designer. Great starting point for a discussion of God, but we aren’t going there.
Let’s work instead with two points:
1. We know that thoughts exist within our mind,
and
2. Science and our own experiences teach us that thoughts exist outside our minds (Baxter’s experiments, shared ideas without ‘lead in’ from other conversation, Spiritual discernment of other’s needs, etc.)
Let’s continue by looking at the thoughts within our mind. How did they get there? See part 4.
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