The culture we grew up in immerses us so much that we are never going to escape its influence.

If you were born in America, you will never really understand Chinese culture. Your brain is just not wired to do so.

The problem comes when we believe our culture is better than another culture—or our culture is the correct way of doing things, and others are wrong.

We should only look at our way as different. The difference is necessary for this world to thrive. The uniqueness of each culture makes our world a diverse and incredible place to live.

In no area do we see more struggle and conflict because of the differences in culture play out than through religion.

It is the pattern (and there are exceptions) to believe the religion of your culture to be correct.

No one is correct, and everyone is correct. It’s a paradox. Sometimes something can be both true and false. We will discuss that more when we learn about quantum physics.

It is easy to see why many become lost in believing their religion is “the one and only truth.”

Religion immerses them even deeper into their culture.

Consider a church service.

You may go to an incredible structure dedicated to your religion. The building is truly impressive. The intricate architectural design of the building, the stained-glass windows, the whole atmosphere can be awe-inspiring. Surely this is real.

There is artwork in the building—art created by men and women who threw unbridled passion, commitment, and feeling into their work. You see skilled masterpieces created by men and women with incredible talents, and perhaps they know more than you about what your religion means to the world and how to express that meaning. Surely this is real.

You sing hymns that stir your heart to feelings of indescribable bliss. Those who wrote the lyrics that speak to your heart and bring about those euphoric melodies had to be inspired by something outside themselves. Surely this is real.

You listen to a person speak with passion and power about your religion. You see real emotion. You sometimes experience joy. You sometimes experience sadness. You see the laughter and the tears. Surely this is real.

You are surrounded by a group that believes what you do. You can see you are all feeling the emotion. You are sharing in other’s joy. You are sharing in other’s sadness. Surely this is real.

It is real.

It is very real.

But it is also real for other cultures experiencing the same thing but in a different way.

Yours is not “the truth.” Yours is one of many truths.

We all have access to our higher selves, and we all have the right to interpret our higher selves in any way we want. Just like I have my unique personality compared to you. My personality reflects my Higher Self.

We feel and experience our Higher Self every day, but we limit our Higher Self when we think this experience can only come through our world view. We see our Higher Self as separate and not a part of us and as something which chooses one individual over another. But that is impossible. As we will see later in this book, we are all connected. We are all one.

It is a hard concept for many to understand. But when you finally grasp it, your world truly does become unlimited.

Think about this for a minute. When surrounded by those of like faith, such as in a church service, this is when your faith is the strongest. Your faith is reinforced by being around many who’s beliefs “seem” to match yours. When you are no longer around many, who share your beliefs, such as when you are at work, your faith is not as strong. If you believe it is, you are fooling yourself. There is strength in numbers.

Now let’s go from your work to the mall. Look at all the people with different beliefs than you. No one there believes exactly as you do.

Next, we go to a big sporting event with thousands and thousands of people. Most don’t believe what you believe. Most will think what you believe is wrong because it contradicts what they believe, and of course, we all believe we are correct.

After the game, we fly to a foreign country where a completely different religion than yours dominates the culture. Most don’t know what you believe because they haven’t taken the time to learn about any other religions besides their own. Because of the culture they grew up in, your beliefs are very strange to them. Because of the language barrier, they really can’t even understand you and your beliefs. You are now a far cry away from the group of like individuals you meet within your small space on planet Earth.

But let’s not stop at planet Earth. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has over a billion suns with planets orbiting them. To say that life could not exist on another one of those billions of planets is very closed-minded. Especially when you go out farther into the universe and realize there are billions of galaxies with billions of planets.

We can even go farther. There may also be billions of universes, with billions of galaxies, with billions of planets.

Let’s not stop there. There may even be infinite realities that our brains are not aware of on each of the billions of universes with billions of galaxies with billions of planets. Our finite minds can’t grasp the concept of infinity.

Does it make sense that an infinite creator would choose one small planet, and on that planet, pick one small nation and say, “These are my chosen people”?

Doesn’t it make more sense you are reading the interpretation of Infinite Intelligence by an ancient race that existed thousands of years ago?

To me, these are humbling thoughts. Please just give that some thought.

When you hold to your truth as the only truth, you are limiting yourself, creating substantial blind spots in your ability to perceive. You are keeping yourself from experiencing so many wonders this world offers. Imagine putting yourself in a little box and only allowing yourself to experience the box. You may not be limiting yourself to that degree, but compared to the infinite universe, you are close. You are living in a black and white universe and have no idea what a rainbow is.

We want to discuss more about truth and how your brain was wired and how that affects what you see as truth, but first, you need to read the lesson on the history of motion.

Most of the time we limit ourselves.

We limit ourselves to our five senses.

We have a higher self that can see infinitely beyond what we see with our five senses.  Many like to call it our soul.  Actually our higher self is just a part of our soul as we are just a part of our higher self.

Our higher self is not bound by the rules of this world we live in.  Our higher self can work miracles.  Constantly tell yourself the world may do it a certain way but you have access to a higher self that can break all the rules.

Who cares about the likely chance of something happening.  Who cares about odds and percentages.  Your higher self doesn’t recognize odds.  Your higher self can make anything happen (or not happen) that you want.

The cool thing is your higher self is you.  So therefore your higher self wants everything you want just as much as you do.  There is nothing more loving and caring than your higher self (soul).

But you have the choice.  It is up to you.

You can limit yourself to just your five senses and not access the help from your higher self.  And you may still accomplish your goals.  It will just be a lot harder and take a lot longer.

You also have the choice to communicate with your higher self.  The closer you become with your higher self the more access you have to an infinite amount of possibilities that were not present before.  In fact you will open yourself to a whole new world that was not present before.  You leave behind the world limited to your five senses.

Things will change.  What was once a struggle will become an exciting adventure.  You will see the world from a completely different view that most don’t.  You will then want to show others.  You will show want to show them how they are limiting themselves and it does not have to be a hard struggle.

The help you want is here right now, right this very second, just begging for you to use it.

Your brain fills in the missing pieces.

For this example we will use sound.

We can encounter many situations that distort the sounds we are listening too. Probably one of the most common is when having a conversation. Yet we can still perfectly understand what the person is saying. It is not that we are hearing them perfectly but our brain is substituting in the pieces we are missing. This is known as Phonemic Restoration. We think we are hearing their speech clearly but our brain is actually compensating for what we are not hearing. The brain does however need another sound to convert.

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Now listen to the recording again after it has been chopped up.

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It becomes a lot harder to understand.

Now listen one more time after white noise has been added to the chopped up audio in place of the silence.

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You now hear every word again. It is important to understand the only thing that has been added to the recording is white noise. The originial audio is still chopped up and missing pieces. But your brain is filling in the missing pieces. You are hearing what is not there.

We can even take this a step farther. We can chop the video up into 25 millisecond pieces and then reverse the play of each chopped piece. But your brain will compensate and still let you hear it as it was suppose to be said.

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A similar brain phenomenon is sinewave speech. Your brain can extract meaning from nothing but distorted sounds. You brain has circuits that respond to speech but doesn’t turn them on until it recognizes spoken language.

When you first listen to sinewave speech you can barely understand it. You may occassionaly make out a word or two. But when you hear the sinewave speech spoken normally and then go back and listen to the sinewave speech again, it sounds as clear as day to you. You wonder why you couldn’t hear it before and you can no longer hear it as the complete jumbled mess of sounds you heard earlier.

Listen to the samples below. First listen to the sinewave speech then after listening to the actual words go back and listen to the sinewave speech again.

SINEWAVE 1 ACTUAL 1

SINEWAVE 2 ACTUAL 2

SINEWAVE 3 ACTUAL 3

SINEWAVE 4 ACTUAL 4

SINEWAVE 5 ACTUAL 5

Your life is one big habit you are not aware of.

You have over 60,000 thoughts a day.

Ninety percent of those thoughts are the same as you had the day before, and the day before and the day before.

Consider that you have the same routine when you get up in the morning, the same routine getting ready to go to a job you probably don’t like. The same routine at the job you now know you definitely don’t like. The same routine in the evening and the same routine before you go to bed.

Then you wake up the next day to do it all over again.

Just think back at how long have you been repeating this life style you don’t like. Or the even bigger question is…

How long are you going to keep repeating it?

As Dr. Joe Dispenza put it…

You are repeating the same thoughts, the same choices, the same actions and behaviors, the same experiences and the same feelings. These are all keeping you in the same reality. Your yesterday becomes your tomorrow so in truth, your past is your future.

This causes your biology to stay the same. Your brain and body don’t change because you are creating the same brain chemistry which activates the same brain circuits keeping you in a reality you do not want to be in. You have literally created a neural network that is working automatically, without you knowing it, to keep you in this unwanted reality.

I can relate. I was stuck in the same routine. I was living the same life every day over and over again. And it was not fun. I wanted to change. But every time I saw something that might help I would avoid it or reason I would do it later. A strong feeling would well up inside of me and keep me from doing the thing I knew I needed to do. I knew I needed to do it. I even wanted to do it. But I just couldn’t make myself do it.

What was actually happening is change can cause your body to go into a state of chemical imbalance. This can actually be very uncomfortable. By going back to my original routine I was putting my body back into balance and back into comfort. I was unable to handle the temporary discomfort for the long term benefit. I was trapped.

Or at least I thought I was until I learned that there are some very simple things that you can do to un-trap yourself. Everyone holds the key. Most just don’t know it or don’t believe the key will work.

You must observe and pay attention to those emotions that you’ve memorized and that you live by on a daily basis and decide if living by those emotions over and over again is loving to you. Most people try to create a new personal reality as the same old personality and it doesn’t work. In order to change your life, you have to literally become someone else. – Dr. Dispenza

SIMPLE CHANGE: Think one thing that you usually do the same every day and today do it differently.  Or don’t do it at all.  Consider how much of your past life you can barely remember.  Try to revive an old memory.  Try and think of something you have forgotten about.

IT IS only by a change of consciousness, by actually changing your concept of yourself, that you can “build more stately mansions” – the manifestations of higher and higher concepts.

(By manifesting is meant experiencing the results of these concepts in your world.)

It is of vital importance to understand clearly just what consciousness is.

The reason lies in the fact that consciousness is the one and only reality, it is the first and only cause-substance of the phenomena of life.

Nothing has existence for man save through the consciousness he has of it.

Therefore, it is to consciousness you must turn, for it is the only foundation on which the phenomena of life can be explained.

If we accept the idea of a first cause, it would follow that the evolution of that cause could never result in anything foreign to itself. That is, if the first cause-substance is light, all its evolutions, fruits and manifestations would remain light.

The first cause-substance being consciousness, all its evolutions, fruits and phenomena must remain consciousness.

All that could be observed would be a higher or lower form or variation of the same thing. In other words, if your consciousness is the only reality, it must also be the only substance.

Consequently, what appears to you as circumstances, conditions and even material objects is really only the product of your own consciousness.

Nature, then, as a thing or a complex of things external to your mind, must be rejected.

You and your environment cannot be regarded as existing separately. You and your world are one.

Therefore, you must turn from the objective appearance of things to the subjective center of things, your consciousness, if you truly desire to know the cause of the phenomena of life, and how to use this knowledge to realize your fondest dreams.

In the midst of the apparent contradictions, antagonisms and contrasts of your life, there is only one principle at work, only your consciousness operating.

Difference does not consist in variety of substance, but in variety of arrangement of the same cause-substance, your consciousness.

The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant that it has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting your concept, the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true.

The rich man, poor man, beggar man or thief are not different minds, but different arrangements of the same mind, in the same sense that a piece of steel, when magnetized, differs not in substance from its demagnetized state, but in the arrangement and order of its molecules. A single electron revolving in a specified orbit constitutes the unit of magnetism. When a piece of steel or anything else is demagnetized, the revolving electrons have not stopped. Therefore, the magnetism has not gone out of existence. There is only a rearrangement of the particles, so that they produce no outside or perceptible effect. When particles are arranged at random, mixed up in all directions, the substance is said to be demagnetized; but when particles are marshaled in ranks so that a number of them face in one direction, the substance is a magnet. Magnetism is not generated; it is displayed.

Health, wealth, beauty and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind, that is, by your concept of yourself [and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically determines how you live here in the outer visible world].

The importance of this in your daily life should be immediately apparent.

The basic nature of the primal cause is consciousness.

Therefore, the ultimate substance of all things is consciousness.

– Neville Goddard