CHAPTER 1 "SUSTAINED THOUGHT"

It is hard for us to sustain a thought in a conscious level for only a few seconds without other thoughts clouding out our original thought.  We hang notes, quotes, on the refrigerator, bathroom mirror or car dash in an effort to remember.  We tie a string on our finger only to forget why we tied it there.  But then again, without any conscious effort we seem to be able to remember things without conscious efforts...why?

This article will at least get us to understand why this is.  It is not intended to assist us in improving our ability to remember or retain thought.  But then again, it just might “unawares”.  As I have said, we know that it has occurred unawares, yet when conscious effort is applied, it fails us.  There is information to assist in our conscious efforts that I’d like to share.  Briefly, we must see that there are areas of the mind that have pacific responsibilities.  Not knowing this is the cause of our lack of sustained thought. 

Know this first - the conscious mind is not the area or responsibility of sustained thought.  Let me avoid “high-tec” wording and simply say, the conscious (left side of the brain) initiates thought, the mid-brain stores or rejects these thoughts.  If received, the frontal lobe of the brain “SUSTAINS”  it...and its power to do so comes from the right side of the brain (also called unconscious or subconscious mind)...it’s the POWER HOUSE to the mind, the servant of THE WILL of what we call “EGO” or OUR SELF.

With this in mind, you can see why EGO has to be dethroned in order to initiate real change.  Over the years Ego had willed habits, empowered by this power house of the subconscious mind.

Though we speak here of areas or divisions of the mind, it is one mind.  When dealing with the mind it must be dealt with as one.  Leaving any aspect out will produce failure.

Note!  The frontal part of the mind sustains and keeps your focus “YET UNCONSCIOUSLY”.  So, you can on a conscious level go about doing what is needed to be done moment by moment.  If what is sustained and focused on unconsciously, if this needs any attention, the subconscious mind will make you aware.  This gives you an idea of the human mind.  Remember, we were made in His image.  Can you image His MIND in comparison to our mind?  We will take a look at the mind of God as to its function in comparison to our mind.  Think on this matter of SUSTAINER.  It is said that God Created, Sustains His creation, and one day will consummate this material creation to a greater end or as I’ve used in my video series on Youtube, “The Ultimate Intention of God.”

It also says, “Through Him all things (material) hold together and consist.”   Also it is written, “Through Him, we live, move and have our very being.”  How does He hold all things together?  By the same means that He created it....THOUGHT; sustained thought.  Once again, image the sustaining power of such a mind.

I have said all this to get to this point that gives highlights of a later chapter I call, “It’s all about Energy.”   I had mentioned “The Spaces.” (The illustration used on the cover of this book).  Understand what I mean by this.  The SUSTAINER is the occupant of these spaces.  The spaces are perceived by us to be invisible, empty.  We call the seeable material world as reality, and the spaces as the Unreality.  Of course it is expected of beings like us to say this, being so long in this material reality. To claim anything else we would be considered crazy, beside ourselves, OUT OF OUR MINDS, spaced out, and a number of other remarks to give the idea that you have lost it.

To follow what I and others like myself are advocating you will have to get out of your mind and enter into these spaces.  “Where are they?” you might ask.  It is written,”it is in you.”  You have these spaces in your own mind.  The brain is filled with spaces. 

In the next chapter I will go off subject to give you the reader some clarity of what I mean by “Spaces” of the mind.  It is in these spaces that the TRUE POWER of God is expressed.  We are reaching for this power, not the human brain of conscious and unconscious abilities.  This is only a highlight of what is brought out more in my book, “In the Shadow of His Power.”

So, this brief chapter leads into the next, “Power in the Spaces.”