Heavenletters

Jochen, I find your sentence incredibly rich and stimulating: “And when I'm sure about something, it's only natural that thoughts suggesting something else won't make it through the filter of my certainty.” It is a powerful self-observation that applies to us all. As this sentence implies, the thoughts that we have accepted as true and our resulting beliefs are not a loose, chaotic jumble in our minds. They are highly organized, layered and mutually self-supporting. They form a belief system, of course, that guides our view of the world.

This system is alive and constantly being at least slightly re-formed with each new experience and as we consider each new idea. But, as your sentence observes, we do not accept new ideas or even new information if it does not fit well with the vast edifice that already exists in our mind. What doesn’t fit we hold temporarily, and try to make it fit, or we reject it

Heavenletters are revolutionary to our native thought system. They resonate within us in profound and undeniable ways while they also conflict with what we have always believed and what the world accepts. Having said these things, which I feel very confidant of, I am not as sure about what comes next. It seems like the reading of Heavenletters and the commenting about them and meditating about them and trying to apply them in our lives slowly builds this resonance into a totally reformed thought structure and belief system. I think this is why there is such an emphasis on ignoring the past. The past is embodied in our current belief system, which we are invited to reform. We must build anew and think in new ways and give up what we have relied on all our lives.

I always enjoy your comments, Jochen, you have a very penetrating way of looking at these things………….Chuck