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How Does Holmes Create A Sense Of Consciousness

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Holmes first asserts that: “clear thinking, health, happiness, friendships, and prosperity” are necessary steps toward the attainment of spiritual realization; then he states that they are also the consequence of such a realization. However, given that we are used to thinking of cause and effect as sequential, one may well wonder how the qualities of a consciousness of well-being are supposed to be a cause, as well as an effect, of a spiritual realization. It seems as though Holmes wishes to have it both ways; and it seems that way because it is so. Consciousness is both a cause and an effect, in the sense that, it is the cause of our experience, and it is the effect of our thinking. We find a similar point of view in the writings of an earlier …show more content…

What may not be so apparent is the purpose, or reason for the creative process: we plant seeds to get more seeds. In the process of accomplishing that purpose, we get plants, flowers, fruits and all of the products that make for an enjoyable life; even so, if the process of sowing seeds does not beget more seeds, it is not fulfilled, or fulfilling. This simple fact of nature provides an analogy for the creativity of the mind; and if thinking good thoughts does not beget more good thoughts, then we have not fulfilled the process. Simply put, the reason to think in a loving way is to be able to express and experience more loving thoughts. Certainly, in the process, there will be a growth in the number of one's friends, and an increase in the opportunity to enjoy being a lovely person; however, if loving thoughts do not result in a more loving consciousness, then one will be unfulfilled. We do not love others in order to gather more friends and loved ones, but to be more loving. Being loving is both the means and the end, the cause and the effect, of a loving consciousness, because one's consciousness is not only the cause, but also the effect, one has in

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