Consider the End at the Start

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.
— Alfred Adler in Quantum Leap Thinking by James J. Mapes, p. 17.

     Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
     All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred. A whole system of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
     Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— Wolfgang von Göethe in Ibid., p. 162.

     We have always thought of the Bible as a book. We know that was only its first incarnation. It is also a computer program. Not merely a book that Rips typed into a computer, but something that its original author actually designed to be interactive and ever-changing.
     The Bible code may be a timed series of revelations, each designed for the technology of its age.
     It may be some form of information we cannot yet fully imagine, something that would be as strange to us now as a computer would have been to desert nomads 3000 years ago.
     “It is almost certainly many levels deep, but we do not yet have a powerful enough mathematical model to reach it,” says Rips. “It is probably less like a crossword puzzle, and more like a hologram. We are only looking at two-dimensional arrays, and we probably should be looking in at least three dimensions, but we don’t know how to.”
     And no one can explain how the code was created.
— Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code, pp. 45-46.

     Suddenly a voice called out to him from nowhere: “Moses, come up to the top of the mountain.”
     It was 1200 BC. According to the Bible, on top of Mount Sinai Moses heard the voice we call “God.” And that voice gave him the ten laws that defined Western civilization, the Ten Commandments, and it dictated to him the book that we call the Bible.
     But when God says, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will work miracles,” the code says “computer.”
     The word “computer” appears six times in the plain text of the Bible, hidden within the Hebrew word for “thought.” Four of the six anachronistic appearances of “computer” are in the verses of Exodus that describe the building of the Ark of the Covenant, the famous “lost Ark” that carried the Ten Commandments.
     The code suggests that even the writing of the laws on the two stone tablets may have been computer-generated. “And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets,” states Exodus 32:16. But encoded in that same verse is a hidden message: “it was made by computer.”
     The code must be describing a device far beyond any we have developed. The New York Times recently reported that mankind may be ready to take the next leap, to harness the world inside the atoms and create “an information-processing method so powerful that it would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to fire.” [quantum computing]
— Michael Drosnin, Ibid., p. 95.

     The anxiety of early abuse creates a severe need in children to take control of life. They fashion dramas, sometimes severe and self-destructive ones, in order to give themselves a sense of meaning and hence reduce their anxiety. Breaking the pattern of these dramas can be extremely difficult, but therapists have found success by facilitating the perception of peak moments of success with athletics, group interactions, meditation, and other activities. These activities are designed to promote the experience of a higher self to replace the old identity and its attendant reaction pattern.
     To some extent, each of us is hit one way or another with the same kind of anxiety abused children experience. In most cases, thankfully, this anxiety is of a lesser degree, and our reaction patterns are not as extreme, but the process, the growth step involved, is exactly the same. This realization, as I watched it play out in my work, clarified in my mind what the whole culture seemed to be going through. We knew that life-as-usual seemed to be missing something that could be attained through an inner transformative experience, a real change in how we perceive ourselves and life that produces a higher, more spiritual personal identity. The effort to describe this psychological journey became the basis of The Celestine Prophecy.
— James Redfield, The Celestine Vision, pp. 7-8.

     This scenario can be played out, as well, by the white-collar criminal whose delusions finally catch up with him or anyone whose use of drugs, working, shopping, eating, watching sports, or pursuing sex gets out of control. Whatever the crutch or obsessive behavior, it never addresses the root cause and is doomed to break down; the angst creeps back in and we are driven onward in our never-ending flight from disconnection. This is the nature of hell on earth — and according to much of the information coming in from near-death and out-of-body researchers, it is the nature of hell in the Afterlife as well.
     Robert Monroe reported that during his travels in the Afterlife dimension he regularly saw hellishly delusional constructions devised by groups of souls who obsessively pursued sex as a defensive illusion against their lostness. In Ruth Montgomery’s automatic writing of Arthur Ford’s descriptions of the Afterlife, she noted that certain souls could not wake up in heaven after death, caught up, no doubt, in the same illusions they devised in life.
     Such accounts suggest there is also great effort on the part of other beings in the Afterlife dimension to intervene with these deluded souls. They probably do so using the same process of uplifting that we already know about: the process of focusing on the soul’s higher self and projecting energy until the soul wakes up, cuts through the obsessive activity, and begins to open up to the divine inside — which is the only real cure for any obsessive activity….
— James Redfield, Ibid., p. 195.

     As both science and mysticism demonstrate, humans are in essence a field of energy. Yet the East maintains that our normal energy levels are weak and flat until we open up to the absolute energies available in the universe. When this opening occurs, our ch’i — or perhaps we should call it our level of quantum energy — is raised to a height that resolves our existential insecurity. But until then we move around seeking additional energy from other people.
— James Redfield, Ibid., p. 71.