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I've been reading a book I picked up recently titled The Secret. You may or may not have heard about this book, which is also a movie, but apparently it's swept across the world leaving all sorts of life-changing miracles in its wake. Well the curious person I am, I decided to buy this book on my last trip to the bookstore. I've been reading it for the last couple of nights, before going to bed, and the concept of it is rather interesting.
According to this book, thought controls the Universe, more importantly our thoughts control our universe. Quantum Physics has taught us that basically all of existance was created by thought. It's a little weird, and kind of hard to understand. But like all things involving Creation, we aren't really meant to understand it. Anyway, the idea of this book is about thoughts, the thoughts we have and the effects those thoughts cause in our world.
You're wondering what is the "secret"? Well it's basically the law of attraction. Our mind is like a radio, we can send out and receive signals with it. Our thoughts are those signals, and when we think, we're sending out signals to the Universe, and then whatever we're thinking about the Universe sends back. So for example, if you've been thinking about that nice new car you're saving up to buy, the more you think about how much you want that car, the Universe will give it to you. Why? Because you're sending out signals saying that this is what you want, and so the Universe will give it to you. Don't ask how, but it does...lol The same goes for bad things though too. If you've been worrying about having too much homework, and how hard life is, you're sending out a signal to the Universe that says, "Hey give me more homework to worry about, and make life hard!". So the Universe gives it to you.
So now you're thinking I must be joking, there's no way life could be that simple. How could I just think about something and then have it given to me? I don't really understand it myself, but I believe it works. The mind is a very powerful thing, perhaps this is why it was forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, you gain the ability to think then you can control what happens in your life.
I'm always telling my friends and family to think positively, it's a really hard thing to do, I know. I'm not always a positive thinker myself, but you'll be amazed how positive thinking affects your life. If you think positively and feel good all the time, just imagine the things you could accomplish. Of course it's hard to be positive all the time, but here's something to remember. Positive thoughts are 10 times stronger than negative thoughts, that means as soon as you start thinking negatively change the channel in your brain to something positive and the positive thoughts will cancel out the negative.
Also don't focus on what you don't want. Don't think about all the stuff you don't want, because you'll end up getting it. Try to only think about the things you do want, and when you think about them believe you already have them. The more you believe, the better your chances are of getting what you want.
The funny part about this is that before you actually become aware of this "secret", when things just pop up in front of you that you had been thinking about, you say: "That was weird." You don't even realize that you attracted it to you. It's like when you've been thinking about a friend you haven't spoken to in a while and then suddenly they just call you out of the blue. Or when you're thinking of your favorite song and you wish the radio station you're listening to would play it and then they do. It occurs a lot, I've had it happen to me many times.
It happened a lot when I was writing my first book, The Final Crusade of the Holy Grail - the first volume to my Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider fan fic series, Tales of Prophecy. A lot of things that happened those last two years of writing it before I finally finished it in November of 2005, were filled with earth trembling revelations. At the time I attributed most of the events to the supernatural and divine intervention, which a lot of it was. 2003 was a pivotal year for spiritual awareness, and a lot of people will confirm that. Even the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce said that in the new millennia there would be a polar shift, of course he was speaking metaphorically.
Anyway, as I read this book, I began to realize that perhaps some of the things that happened while writing The Final Crusade, I had actually attracted to myself, because I was so involved in it mentally and emotionally. All of the books I read just came to me. Everything I needed just appeared. And then, after I had completed this labor of love, I stumbled upon evidence, which I previously had not read as research, that some of the things in my book were in fact true. Things meant to be pure fiction, things I thought up in my head, were a reality. And it just gave me this outstanding feeling, I was both freaked out by this occurence and awed by it. So now as I sit here pondering these things and the idea of The Secret, I wonder that if I had not written The Final Crusade, if those things would've been discovered as truth. I mean honestly think about it. I read probably over 40 books about the Holy Grail and everything in relation to it, and not one of them mentioned a catacombs beneath the church in Rennes-le-Chateau, not one of them mentioned the possiblity of the Grail being hidden in a cave by the Dead Sea by the Templar Knights or by the Essenes of Qum'ran. I didn't find this out until several months after The Final Crusade had been published, when I watched an episode of Digging for the Truth. Supposedly they were suppose to be investigating the truths in The DaVinci Code, but as I watched the more I felt they were investigating my book, because half of the things they presented in that show had nothing to do with what happened in The DaVinci Code, it had to do with what happened in my book. There's just something about that show sometimes, I don't know what it is.
Well now that Book I is complete, I've begun working on Book II, and so begins a new phase of revelations. Already I'm receiving everything I need. When I was writing Book I, the History Channel always played stuff about the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar. Well now they've been playing tons of shows about Hitler and the Nazis, the Bermuda Triangle, Secret Societies (particularly the Illuminati, the Skull & Bones, and the Freemasons), Atlantis, and the Spear of Destiny. They've been playing shows following these themes going on almost a year now. Just today I watched an episode of Decoding the Past, which was covering the history of the Spear of Destiny. I found out something I didn't know about this artifact, there are a total of four known spearheads that are all considered to be the true Spear. The one in Vienna, Austria is the most well known. But there is also one in Krakow in Poland, Armenia, and in the Vatican (which isn't all that surprising). Supposedly there was another spearhead found in Antioch in 1097 AD during the First Crusade. Theorists suggest that the spear found in Antioch is the same spear that resides in Armenia. In 1492 another spear claiming to be the true Spear was brought to light, challenging the authenticity of the spearhead residing within the Vatican. This spearhead was found in 600 AD by a group of Muslims. The Vatican took possession of this spearhead hiding it away. No one has ever seen this spearhead, the Vatican has kept it under lock and key, allowing no one to photograph it or do any tests in regards to how old it may be. The only evidence of what this spear looks like is a sketch done by a French man.
What's interesting about all this is that I had wanted to include Poland into my story, but I couldn't figure out what significance it would old. Turns out Poland has some significance after all. The spearhead in Krakow was given to the King of Poland in the early 10th century by Otto the Third of Germany. Otto had defeated the Polish and gave them the spear in exchange for their alligence. The Krakow spear is almost identical to the Vienna spear, minus a few finer details. Perhaps instead of giving the real spear, which would've been the Vienna spear, to the Pols, Otto created a replica.
Also an interesting show I watched this past weekend was the new episode of Digging for the Truth. The most interesting part in the whole show was towards the last half hour where they were trying to scan the sea floor in the Eastern Mediterranian. Well just a matter of minutes after they lowered the "fish" into the water they ran into a problem, for some reason the "fish" stopped communicating with their computers, it just suddenly stopped sending them information. So they had to reel the thing back in and as they started to reel it in something weird came out of the water. The wire attached to the "fish" had been tied into a mess of a knot. What's weird about this is that no one knew how this happened. The men who have worked with this type of wire has never seen anything like that happen before. They had absolutely no idea what happened.
They finally managed to untangle the wire and get the "fish" back into the water. Things were going smoothly and they were just about to get their first glimpse of what was at the bottom of the sea when all of a sudden their computers just turn off. For absolutely no reason, they just turned themselves off. To quote Josh Bernstein (the host of Digging for the Truth), "it's almost as if someone or something doesn't want us to see what's down there." Of course at the last minute they finally gained the data they needed, which will go under a lot of scrutiny as far as whether it's man-made, or merely a natural anamoly. Anyway I thought that was pretty funny.
Another chapter in the life of L.E. Croft.
