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. What is a Context? Why Are They Important? How do I Create One?
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. Webster’s Dictionary defines a context as, "The whole situation, the background or the environment relevant to a particular event, personality, creation, etc." A context is the environment in which something is or occurs. Contexts are vitally important because they control/influence/affect everything within them.Everything occurs within a context. Each context is unique. A context dominates its content. In accomplishing any and all goals, understanding the three elements of a context are critical: a) What is a context? b) Why are contexts important? and c) How do I intentionally create a context? Before we get into our discussion, let me share a personal experience that may assist you to see more clearly what contexts are and how they interrelate with each other. |
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. One evening just as I had settled into my easy chair and my pet cat, Tiger, had taken up his position as exclusive resident on my lap, I noticed a spider crawling along the wall. Being both tired and contentedly relaxed, I sat, unmoving, watching its progress. I thought, "Where is it going? What is it doing? Is it blindly roaming, or is there a plan in its mind?" I thought of the relationship between that spider and myself. It was doing its thing completely oblivious of the context it was in and the control that I had over its environment, its future, and even its life. Had my wife, sitting nearby, seen our fellow resident, she would have requested that I capture it and evict it from the only home it has ever been in. I, on the other hand, simply sat and watched. The Hermetic Principle known as Correspondence came to mind -- As above so below; as within so without. ' It occurred to me that in the larger context that we call God, I, in all probability, hold a position similar to that which the spider held in my home. The spider was unaware that it was, at the moment, being watched, that its home, its livelihood, and its very survival were completely in my control. It was also unaware that with nothing more than a pre-programmed, mechanical reaction I, or any nearby human who saw it, could easily have turned it into mush with its only lingering influence being that of a slight stain on the living room wall.I shifted my thought to God and asked, what is my relationship to whatever it is the we call God? Am I being observed? Does God care where I crawl or what I do? Is He/She/It even aware of my existence? Could it be that I am merely something that simply happened along God's way to a "somewhere" or a "something" that I know nothing about? I looked at the spider and thought: I neither need, desire nor expect it to kneel and pray to me. I don't need a special, spider building dedicated to worshipping me. I don't need any virgin spider sacrificed, nor do I want any burnt offerings. I really don't care what the spider does or doesn't do. And I'm definitely not interested in its sexual habits. It occurred to me that what I know about God is about as much as the spider knows about me. It also occurred to me that in one context I am God and in the other I am the human equivalent of the spider on my wall. I continued to sit quietly. Soon becoming bored contemplating the spider's life, I reached for the TV remote control and clicked the "on" button. The spider continued its journey, unnoticed, to who-knows-where. |
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. Universal Context: The largest context, the ultimate context is the sum total of all creation. What the Universal Context is -- where it came from -- what its true nature is -- how it functions -- and numerous other questions -- are all, from our present, human perspective, unknown and unknowable. Christian theology refers to the universe as the product of a superhuman being sitting on a throne in some place above the clouds called heaven. Although science gives us evidence regarding how the universe functions, it offers no answer to the question of the nature of who or what created the sum total of all that is. There is no scientific evidence to support the contention that the above-mentioned, Christian perspective of God is correct. There is significant evidence pointing to the conclusion that the source of the universe is vastly different from the Christian perspective. In relation to the entirety of Creation, scientists see Earth as an infinitely small speck of dust. While confined in a human body, we can approach the nature of this context from guess work, from conjecture, from speculation, and/or from belief in fairytale stories made up by our distant ancestors, or we can create a hypothesis about how The Source most likely functions and test it against our experiences. The Bottom line is that humans have no control over this context. The best thing we can do is understand that this context is at the core of who and what we are. It's at the core of how we live our lives on earth. This context has certain rules that function with the precision, the consistency, and the tenacity of the law of gravity. What we believe about this context
is the biggest and most important factor in the live of every human being on
the planet. Human life on Earth: The next largest context is human life on Earth. It is both content within and controlled by the larger, above-mentioned, Universal Context. Still, in human terms, life on Earth a grand and all-inclusive context. It's who and what we are as human beings. Everything we do is done within th is framework.Humans have developed religions which attempt to answer the un answerable questions about this context -- questions such as: "What is life?" "Where does it come from?" "What is the nature of its creator?" They are able to offer only faith-based answers. ' Science offers theories using logic, reason, experiment, and experience. Humans have no control over this context.External Environmental Context: The next largest context is the external, human-created environment. It exists within and is controlled by the two larger contexts mentioned above. It is made up of the social, political, technological, religious, and physical environment that we as humans, have collectively created. It's what we see when we look outside of ourselves. As human beings, we each influence this context, we each play a small role in creating it, but we, as individuals, do not control it. Internal, Personal Context: Fourth, is our internal, invisible, personal context. It exists within each one of us. It is content within and controlled by the three larger contexts mentioned above. We cannot control the grandest context we call God. We cannot control the Earthly context -- the fact that we live in human bodies on Earth. Although we influence them, we cannot control the environmental context -- the technology, politics, or social structures in which we live. The only place were we have any real potential for control is in our personal contexts. For each of us, our personal context consists of the belief system within which we live our lives. It's how we mentally hold and view things. It's our ground of being, our mental condition, our mind pattern, our mode of functionality. It's our way of being who and what we believe ourselves to be. It's the mental creation, a mental box, (a belief box)° within which we create our own experiences. Although at times, it may seem impossible, we can control our personal lives. If we so choose to actively participate in directing our lives, we must do so within the three, grander contexts mentioned above, To do so, we must not only understand the contexts within which we create these experiences, we must also understand how we create our personal experiences.Because they control our personal contexts, we will offer what the evidence tells us are some of the most probable characteristics of the two grandest contexts° mentioned above. We will refer to our answers as "the most probably reality." We'll also offer what the evidence tells us is the most likely way that we create our personal reality.° Another Possibility: When you examine the latest findings of Sub-atomic Physics and Quantum Mechanics, such as those expressed in the film, What the Bleep Do We Know,° you find that the three grander contexts mentioned above may not be as immutable as we have been led to believe. The evidence is pointing to the conclusions that they, too, are a product of our mental creation; that rather than a single external, physical universe that we come along and experience, there are multiple universes; that we are all part of the grand creation we call God; that everything is energy; that everything we see in the external world is a probability and not static physical objects, that physical matter is not real; that consciousness is all there is; that consciousness controls everything; that what each of us refers to as "me" is nowhere in the physical body, etc. The possibilities are simply mind-boggling..
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. Distinguishing Between Theta Healing and Theta Transformation Theta Healing is almost the same as Theta Transformation. The difference is that Theta Transformation is a broader term than Theta healing. Both Theta Healing and Theta Transformation are inside of God Spirituality. They acknowledge a direct, personal connection to Creator/God. .
. Applying Theta Healing and Theta Transformation: Below you'll find a list of areas where Theta Healing and Theta Transformation can be applied to a person's life: .
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