Re-Visioning by Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D.
Radical Consciousness is the means by which we can re-invent
the past and dream the future into a new reality.
Radical Consciousness is not stuck in any concepts from the past
or future. What happened in the past is an appearance only. You
can re-live the story, and bring about a new ending. You wrote
the script the first time; you can re- write it.
There are as many histories as there are viewers of history.
That's why it is so hard for juries to decide who is innocent
and who is guilty. The important point here is to realize that
you are not stuck in time. Radical Consciousness is not confined
to any time or place. Consciousness is Eternal in time, and
Consciousness is the Fourth Dimension in Space. The Fourth
Dimension is not something added to the first three dimensions.
The Fourth Dimension includes, encompasses and interpenetrates
the first three.
Memory is just a recording of what appeared to have happened.
You put your own spin on it, and your neighbor, although present
for the same event, was in a totally different world with its
own spin. You can re-write the script and the future changes as
does the script.
The Time Machine movies are true. You can re-visit the past and
change the present. Or you can visit the future and change the
present. Crank up the Time Machine of your Imagination and
revise your past and future. Scientists may argue whether space
is a function of time or time a function of space, but in
radical consciousness we realize that both are functions of the
imagination. History is His-story and thus it is My-story and
Your-story and Our- story. History is open to re-vision. For
example, forgiveness re-writes the past, the present and the
future. Do not let past hurts define you. Tell yourself a
different story this time with a preferred outcome. Write it
down. Make up a play and act it out on the stage of your
imagination. Create your own theater and cast of stars. Don't
write it like you don't want it, or you will continue to have
what you have now. History is very fluid. You dreamed up your
interpretation of the events in your history and so you can
re-dream it. You can get angry and curse at the guy who cut out
in front of you, but you could also choose to be thankful that
he missed you. You can hate your ex for all of his foolishness
or you can imagine him waking up from it and thus you release
yourself from all of the foolishness he saw in you.
What you release on earth is released in your heavenly mind and
what you bind on earth is bound in your imagination. So
re-script every awful and painful thing that ever happened to
you and don't re-live it any more. It is said that those who do
not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Those who would re-write history can do so. Just re-vision it
the way you now want it to be, and it will be so. You have a
second chance, it has been given to you already. Radical
Consciousness is that chance. Take it. History was written
through imagination and can be changed through imagination.
Past, present or future. The past is not, as psychoanalysis has
believed, determinative, unless you keep on remembering it and
re-empowering it. You dreamed a bad dream; re-dream the incident
as it could be or should have been. You thought carelessly;
re-think it constructively. You acted foolishly; re-enact it
wisely. You felt painfully; re-feel it harmoniously. You wrote
amiss; re-write with accuracy. An "accident" happened; re-
construct it into a blessing. A "trauma" happened; un-
traumatize it. You "lost" something or someone; you can find it.
You are in a bad mood; upgrade it. Radical Consciousness is in
the business of re-visioning history. Nothing is impossible.
Through your imagination, the world of possibilities just keeps
on expanding. You are a possibility person if and when you can
focus continually on the possibility you want. Every night
before you fall asleep, review your day. If you did anything
today that you regret or if anyone else did anything that
bothers you, go back and change the story, change the outcome.
In this manner you do not carry any burden from today into
tomorrow. With regular practice, you will lighten your load. You
will also realize the power of your thoughts and intentions in a
new and profound way. Nothing is set in stone. Memory can be
changed. "Behold, I make all things new."
History was just an interpretation anyway, a very distorted
perception and memory. It was all a soap opera. Forgiveness can
be just as real as the offense. As you change the outcome to
what you want, you will be able next time to do it right the
first time. How you take things is how you experience them. You
always have a choice about how you are going to take anything.
Re-visioning means that you still have a choice. There are no
victims, even in your past. The Infinite Good extends
indefinitely into the past and into the future. Re-visioning is
a new word for forgiveness. Re-visioning means that we let go of
a judgment or an opinion. Letting go of judgments is a path of
renewal because all such opinions of what is going on are ego
assessments. All judgments, which leave out the Infinite Good,
are false.
The ego is incapable of true awareness. Forgive the false
judgments of others and you are forgiven yours. You don't have
to wait until the end of the day to re-vision. The sooner the
better. If you practice immediate re-visioning, it won't be long
before you catch yourself in the act and revise it before the
mistake is even made. We are programmed by our ego. "There is no
inevitable permanence in anything. Both past and present
continue to exist only because they are sustained by Imagination
on some level or other; and a radical transformation of life is
always possible by man revising the undesirable part of it."
Neville
About the author:
Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D. is a professional counselor, spiritual
psychotherapist, and researcher in the field of transpersonal
psychology,as well as author of several books. He can be reached
at: http://myspiritualpsychotherapy.com
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