Manifest your Destiny

Rev. Douglas Thomas, PhD

Lecture Group
New York City 2008
sribe2@aol.com

How to Manifest your destiny

Manifest your destiny—placed within all human kind is the seed that has the potential to blossom into whatever we desire and need to carry out our life's mission. Inside
of you and me is the key that many helplessly seek outside of
ourselves only to find more questions and deeper confusion.

Inside of you and me—yes, you and me, resides the power, wisdom and direction that you need to live a joyous and abundant life; one full of joy and free from pain and
regret. We look in vain to find answers to life's perplexing problems
outside of ourselves. (One asked Jesus where is the kingdom of
God? Jesus responded, The kingdom of God is in you) The inward
journey is key to finding and unlocking the mysterious to your life's
purpose. We look in vain by limiting our searching to sacred books to
find such answers when we, you and me, are ourselves a sacred slate,
upon which we write on the scroll of life that determines how our
lives will unfold.

To seek the sacred exclusively outside of oneself, is the most common error made by many. Most organized religions teach that the divine is not to be found within us, but
outside of us in something other than ourselves. This idea is
antithetical to what Jesus taught. To embrace ones authentic nature
requires courage to trust that we are indeed divine. “I have
said that ye are gods.” (Psalms 82:6) We are spirit beings who
temporally possess a physical body which is used to carry out the
mission assigned to each of us before our physical birth. Each of us
decided before taking physical form to complete a particular mission
not unlike the functions of stars, rivers, volcanos and other
entities that we incorrectly believe we are not intimately connected
to. We are all one. This is particularly true when we realize that
there is only one force on earth—energy. This is what unites all
things. Men, animals, rivers and trees are all united by this vital
force.

We have not been able to adequately understand the unfolding of evolution because most studies of such have been confined to only the physical disclosing of evolution. In
the western world, evolution is premised upon a hierarchal scale that
places the beginning of human development starting with a single-cell
and evolving into the complex creatures called human beings. “We
were taught that evolution means the progressive development of
organizational complexity,”but it is much more.

This theory of evolution based upon levels of human complexity is at the foundation of all theories of domination and racial superiority. Such as the survival of the
fittest. “The organism most able to ensure its own survival is the
most evolved.” Thesis: “We have long known that this definition
of evolution is inadequate but we have not know why.” Part of this
article will show why we need to develop a new definition of
evolution; one that is not only based on the physical development of
human species but also the spiritual and astrological factors that
shed light on human development.

This new way of thinking about human evolution goes well beyond organizational complexity. The new definition of evolution is tied to acts of love—ones deeds. Jesus
said, “You will know a tree by the fruit it bears.” In other
words, its not how articulate one may be that determines their level
of human development, but human worth is based upon ones acts of
kindness—a love that has no ulterior motive. We cannot judge the
actions of others because we do not know ones motives for what they
do.

Awareness // Consciousness // Evolved people have the following characteristics.

Love of others more than self.
Going beyond the five senses to know or learn beyond the concrete.
Revere all life forms as sacred.
Open oneself to see the world beyond our limited purview which is based on the outdated and simplistic definition of evolution. This narrow view of the world is
egocentric—concerned primarily with ones own welfare/well being.
“I got mine-get your own.” I am only thinking about myself
mind-set is destroying the world. This is a sign that a nation or
individual has a long way to go towards evolving into the wholistic
human being that will create the new world based on love.
Moving beyond fear and control: trusting the universe to work on your behalf. Rejecting the ideas that you must dominate others and the environment in order to be
happy must be rejected.”Any thing we fear to lose—a home, a car,
an attractive body, an agile mind, a deep belief-is a symbol of
external power. What we fear is an increase in our vulnerability.
This results from seeing power as external.”
Power: the organizational complexity of species and how they evolve into more and more complex forms ending with human beings, is the old way of understanding
evolution. This theory is based upon hiarches of power. There is a
better way to think about power free from such competitive hirchaes
of us against them. The new way of understanding power is based on a
“power that loves life in every from that is appears, a power that
does not judge that it encounters, a power that perceives
meaningfulness and purpose in the smallest details upon the earth.
This is authentic power when we align ours thoughts, emotions and
actions with the highest par of our nature; we are then filled with
enthusiasm purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no
thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously
and intimately engaged with each other and our world. This is
experience of authentic power.