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Mental Technology
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What Is Mental Technology
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The great revolution of today is the dawn of what I call Mental Technology. Mental technology is going to change our world. Right now, Mental technology is changing our world and here, at the start of the New Millennium, mental technology is going to be our most important tool.
This book is a brief introduction to mental technology. What it is and how you can use it to change your own life—and how we together can use mental technology to change the collective life of humanity on Planet Earth.
Mental Technology
Law is unchanging principle
In other words, a law is an impersonal sequence of events that is not dependent on the person or people involved in that sequence of events. Here are some examples of physical laws:
The law of gravity: The law of gravity is an impersonal law and is always operating. According to this law, if a person jumps off a 10-story building, he or she will immediately fall to the ground. There are no exceptions to this law or principle. It doesn't matter if you are the President of the United States, a cashier at the local grocery store, a famous pop star or you. It doesn't matter if you are having a good or a bad day. It doesn't matter if it's day or night or what the weather is. The law doesn't stop working just because it's Christmas or your birthday. The law is impersonal and operates regardless of the situation, time of year, or the people involved. This means the law doesn't stop working and say, "Oh I think I'll make an exception here because little Mary has been such a good girl this week. I don't think she deserves to hit the ground and break her neck." Since laws are impersonal, the issue of deserving doesn't enter into the equation.
Another important thing about a law is that it is in operation whether you know about it or not. In other words, if you jump off a 10-story building, you are going to fall and hit the ground whether you know about the law of gravity or not. So again, you can't say after you jumped that you didn't realize you would fall and hit the ground if you jumped. The law doesn't take your personal level of awareness or preferences into consideration. It just operates, a blind force of nature.
The law of sowing and reaping: The law of cultivation, of planting seeds and harvesting a crop, is another good example of a physical law. Every farmer knows that if he plants potatoes, he's not going to get a crop of strawberries. He knows that the type of seed he plants determines the type of harvest he can expect. He knows if he plants cabbages, he won't get roses. And he doesn't expect otherwise. He doesn't take this fact personally because he knows it's an impersonal law.
The other important thing a farmer knows is that in order to harvest a crop, he must plant something first. In other words, he can't harvest something from nothing. He must plant seeds first. Which leads us to another law.
The law of cause and effect: Just as a farmer knows he must plant a seed in order to harvest something, he also knows that nothing comes from nothing. In other words, a farmer doesn't expect to get something out of nothing. There has to be something to produce something. There must be a seed before a plant can grow. This means that in order to have something, something must cause it to happen. We call this the law of cause and effect. The law of cause and effect says you cannot have an effect without a cause. If you want to harvest radishes, you must plant radish seeds first. You cannot harvest radishes from thin air. There must be a cause to have an effect.
Another important aspect of this law is that the effect always has the characteristics of the cause. In other words, the effect is the result of the cause. So a farmer knows that if he harvests radishes, he must have planted radishes. A farmer doesn't go around saying, "...the reason I am harvesting radishes is because I planted strawberries." In other words, we can determine the nature of the cause by examining the effect, because we know that they must have the same characteristics.
Another good example of a basic law or principle that most people are familiar with is:
The law of color: Everyone who has been to Art School knows that there is a law that governs colors. When, for example, you mix blue and yellow, you always get green. Again it doesn't matter who you are or whether you're having a good or a bad day, when you mix blue and yellow, the result is green. You are not going to get red, no matter who you are or what you do. Again, this is because the law governing the color spectrum is an impersonal physical phenomenon. It is something that is always true and was always true. It's not something that just suddenly went into operation because you started going to Art School.
Which brings us to another important point.
Laws have always existed Physical laws, such as those described above, have always existed. They didn't just suddenly happen or begin operating because someone discovered them. The people who lived in ancient Babylonia 4500 years ago (2800-1750 BC) could have had cell phones and computers at that time because the physical laws upon which our modern technology is based were in existence then too. The only difference between today and the time of Babylonians is that apparently the people who lived then did not know about these laws. Because if they did, they would have had computers and cell phones, too. But just because they were unaware of the laws governing physical phenomena, this doesn't mean that these laws didn't exist at that time.
Let's take another example: the phenomenon we call electricity. According to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, electricity is "... the fundamental physical agency caused by the presence and motion of electrons, protons and other charged particles manifesting itself as attraction, repulsion, luminous and heating effects, and the like..." This physical phenomenon has always existed. But since the Babylonians didn't have electric light, we can also presume they were unaware of the phenomenon even though it was there. And since they were unaware of it, they could not harness it and direct it to their advantage. We had to have great geniuses like Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and Thomas Edison (1847-1931) who could first describe the phenomenon and then explain how to utilize it before mankind could begin to direct this force of nature for everyone's benefit.
The same is true of mental laws.
Mental laws Just as there are physical laws that describe and govern the behavior of physical phenomena, so there are mental laws that describe and govern the behavior of mental phenomena.
Simply because most human beings are not yet aware of these mental laws and how they operate, it does not mean that they do not exist. Mental laws do exist. And since they exist, they must be existing and operating right here and right now, whether we are aware of them or not. And not only that, since they are laws, they must have always existed.
Throughout history, there have been people who have known about these mental laws. In fact, the study of metaphysics as well as much philosophy and religion is an attempt to explore and describe these mental laws.
One thing, however, is quite certain: The study of mental laws is not yet taught in our schools anywhere in the world. But it soon will be. And when this happens, the study of mental laws will dramatically change life on Planet Earth.
Using mental laws The other thing about the discovery of mental laws is that once we recognize their existence, we can start using them. The laws governing electricity had to be discovered before this power could be directed for the benefit of mankind. The same goes for mental laws. These laws must be recognized and understood before we can harness this power for the benefit of all mankind. Once we do understand these laws, we will have access to what I call Mental Technology.
Software for your hardware The application of mental laws is what I call Mental Technology.
You can compare understanding and applying mental laws to having the right software for your hardware. As you know, it doesn't do you much good to just buy a fancy computer and put it on your desk. To make this high-tech piece of equipment work for you, you must have the right software.
In other words, hardware without software is pretty useless.
If we apply this analogy to you, we could say your hardware is your mind. Now everyone has a mind, but before you or anyone else can use your mind effectively and harness its power for your own and other people's benefit, you must have the right software. Understanding mental laws is this software. With this knowledge in hand, you will be able to run your mind. In other words, you will be in charge and you will be able to direct the power of your mind in any way you want.
At present, not many people have the necessary software, i.e., the understanding of mental laws, which is required to make their hardware (their minds) work for them.
So let's take a look at these mental laws so we can learn how to make them work for us. |
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