EVERYDAY
EXPERIENCES
F. W. Sears, M. P.
1916
When
change our inner state of consciousness
through changing our attitude towards a thing and make it our "blessed privilege"
instead of our "duty" to do it, then the whole thing
changes and what had been before drudgery and difficult to do, becomes in fact
a joy and pleasure. A BLESSED PRIVILEGE
We should
learn then to do our work of "developing a consciousness" without
worry, anxiety, strain, effort,
tenseness, friction, for all these thoughts and emotions create inharmony. We should learn not to fight for
anything but to build and "develop a
consciousness" of our oneness with it, creating it in this manner
in our thought world first, recognizing that it is ours NOW (no matter how far away
its materialization may seem to be from us) and then do on the objective plane
whatever we think is necessary or advisable to aid us in its materialization,
but do this quietly, calmly, and with a power which KNOWS it will succeed. Do it
because we love to do it, because it is a "blessed privilege" for us to do it. We
should never do anything with a consciousness that it is work or drudgery, for
that kind of a consciousness makes the doing of that particular thing a work or drudgery to us.
To "develop a consciousness" of anything is to have
knowledge of it; to understand it; to KNOW it,
and to KNOW that one KNOWS it; to make union with it ; to recognize our oneness with it ; to
know that we and the thing desired are a part of each other. DEVELOPING A CONSCIOUSNESS
The world
you think of is your ideal.
The world
about you will never hurt or hinder you! ECH
"How To Attract Success" By F. W. Sears, M. P.
The Psychology of Use
OR
The Extravagance of Economy
by
F. W. SEARS, M.P.
1931
The Sears
Philosophy is based on an unlimited fundamental principle: — the manipulation
of universal Energy, the power that creates all form and gives life to it.
All other
teachings, scientific, philosophical and religious, are based upon a limited
fundamental : — the manipulation of form after it has been created.
Methods, which are the
manner, system, creed, dogma, rules, regulations, technique, by which all form
is manipulated, are the all important thing with all scientific,
philosophical and religious teachings.
The consciousness
and thought habit with which all methods are used is the all important
thing in the Sears Philosophy teaching.
This is why we
teach those who want to learn, to receive and use the Sears Philosophy to
whatever extent they are able to do so, accepting only as much of it as becomes
a truth to them, for it is only that much one can use constructively.
We can prove the
truth of whatever we really want to prove.
When we are
satisfied to prove only a limited interpretation of life then it is worse than
useless for anyone to attempt to make, force or compel us to prove a larger
interpretation.
Ex-President Wilson
once said: "War is worth the cost can the Nation be taught to save."
This was the
biggest truth he knew at that time.
Is it the biggest
truth you know, or want to know?
Is it the biggest
vision possible for anyone to obtain?
When we examine the
history of Nations we find that the more freely their wealth has been
circulated the more prosperous have they been.
Never in the
history of the world have the masses had so much wealth, and never has the
world generally prospered so much as during the last half century, barring the
period of the World War.
The prosperity of
Nations began to decline only as wealth became centralized in the hands of the
few and its free circulation was curtailed.
This also holds
true in the case of the individual.
The United States
is the most prosperous Nation in the world's history.
Its people,
individually, are the most prosperous of any Nation in the world's history.
Its people are the
most intelligent and enlightened, taken as a whole, of any Nation in the world's
history.
Its people have
always been the most extravagant and wasteful of any Nation in the world's
history.
They have never
saved their wealth by denying themselves what they wanted, as have the people
of other Nations.
Their savings, as a
people, have been their surplus over and above what they wanted to expend for
their comfort, education, pleasure and upliftment, instead of being made at the
expense of these things.
They have always
spent their money with a prodigality which caused the people of other Nations
to gasp in astonishment and believe we were all millionaires.
It is not what man
either spends or retains which counts, but it is the consciousness with which
he does either one.
As the result of
our Government's call for the people to economize, their imagination became
filled with the fear that unless they scrimped and saved down to the very last
crust the war might be lost.
Probably no one
went hungry, naked or shelterless in order to effect a greater saving. In fact
the "saving" was undoubtedly made up from what had heretofore been
wasted rather than from any real savings made because of selfdenial.
Such
"savings" were, therefore, really a surplus which had never been used
before, rather than the effect of any real economy.
Had the
"saving" been made with the consciousness of its being a surplus over
and above what we needed or could constructively use ourselves it would have
been alright, for the image such a conscionsness stamps on the imagination is
one of an abundance and our oneness with it.
But when such
"saving" is made with the consciousness of its being necessary to
economize then it is most destructive for it stamps an image of lack on the
imagination and creates a consciousness of our separation from the abundance of
the supply.
The objective
effect of filling the imagination of the people with the thought of economizing
did not begin to wear off until the extravagant expenditures of the Government
began to show forth in its conduct of the war.
Under the stimulus
of the Government large buildings were erected almost overnight.
Cities doubled
their population in a few weeks time. Entire new towns sprang up with all
modern improvements in a few months.
All kinds of labor,
both skilled and unskilled, was in great demand, receiving as much for a day's
pay in many cases as it had received for a week or more before.
Women were used in
all kinds of work, receiving as much in their weekly pay envelope as they had
earned in a month or more before.
With all these
conditions existing it is no wonder that hundreds of men became millionaires in
a few months time.
The huge war
expenditures of our Government and the readiness with which billions of dollars
were raised to pay the bills soon filled the imagination of the people with the
image of an abundance and gave them a most opulent vision of the immensity of
the supply, coupled with one of extravagance and profligacy.
Business began to
pick up again all over the country; prices commenced to soar; profiteers
started to make their plans for cornering the supply of necessities, with the
result that by the close of the war all kinds of labor had doubled and tripled
its wage, shortened its hours of work, and was living better than a king did a
hundred years ago; while the luxuries at the command of the wealthy were beyond
the wildest dreams of even a generation ago and made the stories of the
"Arabian Nights" seem common-place and ordinary.
The new image of
opulence and the vision of the abundance of the supply of everything which was
unconsciously held before the people of the United States by the immense war
expenditures and the supplies gathered for war purposes; the immense sums of
money obtained from the people through taxation and war loans, gave them such
an inspiration of abundance and lifted them so high up in the opulent currents
that there would have been no stopping of their business success, trade
expansion, and the gathering in of the wealth of the world, had they remained
in and related to these currents of opulence and abundance.
But this was not
possible with the consciousness and thought habit of inharmony which prevailed
among them and laid back of all their words and actions, and the consciousness
of the Law of Force which had been used by both capital and labor in obtaining
their temporary prosperity.
Shortly after the
armistice was signed Government officials again began to send out warnings for
the people to begin to economize so the immense war debt could be taken care of
and the Nations of Europe aided in their work of reconstruction.
The so-called labor
class was not yet ready to give up its image of opulence and abundance and
return to its old economical ways of living.
The abundance of
the supply in which the people had reveled was like a glimpse of heaven and
they were loth to give it up.
They had never been
taught how to acquire a consciousness and thought habit of the abundance of the
supply and their oneness with it under the Law of Harmony.
They only knew the
Law of Force and its use and so they took the only means, used the only
methods, adopted the only systems with which they were familiar, in order to
retain their condition of abundance.
This was the use of
force, either physical or mental, by which they could make or compel others to
do their bidding. The result was that strikes, shut-downs and lock-outs became
the order of the day.
No line of business
and no community of people anywhere in the country were free from the effects
of this condition.
Strikes to force
increased pay and shorter hours are simply one of the methods the Universal Law
uses to bring man back to a limited environment when he has used force, either
physical or mental, to take him beyond the kind of an environment his
consciousness and thought habits have grown for him.
When man succeeds in
obtaining improved conditions and increased pay as the result of his forcing,
making or compelling it to come to him through striking, profiteering,
sweating, bribing, or in any other forceful way, no matter how legitimate it
may be considered under the law of the land, he always uses such improved
conditions and wealth so obtained, in an inharmonious and destructive way which
reacts upon him in due process of time.
We need only to
study Germany's wonderful history of industrial growth since 1870 and prior to
the war to fully appreciate this truth.
There never is any
real injustice in the world; it only seems such to our human consciousness
because we do not look deeply enough into the universal law of cause and effect
or action and reaction.
Man is always
entitled to everything he gets, no matter how he gets it, for he can never get
anything, good or bad, which he has not built for himself in some way through
the character of the thoughts he has allowed to persist in his thought world.
When he gets what he
does not want there is no one upon whom he can justly place the responsibility
but himself.
That he does his
work ignorantly, unknowingly and unconsciously makes no difference to the
Universal Law for it is always at work, but it does make the biggest kind of a
difference in the effects which man receives.
The universal law
under which we obtain a thing, whether it be the Law of Force or the Law of
Harmony, determines our use of that thing be it money, health, love, courage,
strength, friends, or anything else.
That man has
obtained almost everything he has ever had through using the Law of Force does
not prevent him from obtaining still more for a while, but it does affect his
use of it and his ability to retain it.
The time comes when
he finds his ability to obtain what he wants grows less and less the longer and
more powerfully he uses the Law of Force.
The people of the
United States as a whole have had less of this consciousness and thought habit
of force than have those of oliier Nations.
This is one reason
why their souls have been born into physical bodies which had their birth in
this country, or else why they have emigrated here after they were born.
It has been
possible for one to relate with and produce the materialized abundance here in
the United States much easier than in anv other country. The result has been to
create a consciousness among its people of there always being "plenty more
where that came from."
It has been with
this kind of a consciousness its people have always spent their money,
and so there always has been "plenty more" for them as a Nation.
So extravagant and
prodigal (unconsciously so perhaps) are we in the expenditure of our national
wealth that we pay out over a billion dollars yearly to foreigners for the
carrying of our exports to foreign countries instead of having our own shipping
with which to do this work and so retain that vast amount of wealth in our own
country besides giving us an ample merchant marine in case of any emergency.
The history of the
United States and its people is all against the practice of economy. It
verifies and upholds the teaching of the Sears Philosophy in this
respect.
Great wealth in the
banking and commercial worlds has only been possible through the free and
lavish expenditure of money.
Vast sums have been
made in business through the most extravagant expenditure of money in
advertising some simple thing and so creating a Nation wide demand for it.
This does not mean
that all money prodigally, lavishly or extravagantly expended will bring
abundant returns or is constructively expended.
We can always do
everything in two ways, constructively or destructively under the Law of Harmony
or the Law of Force.
The consciousness
with which we do things; the consciousness with which we expend or use
our money, curtail our expenses, or "save" our money, determines
whether the effect will be constructive or destructive.
This is a wonderful
truth which cannot be brought to your attention too often, nor made too strong,
nor emphasized too much.
This does not mean,
either, that man having already grown a consciousness of economy should
at once begin to express extravagance before he has even began to grow a
consciousness of abundance and his
harmonious oneness with it.
That would be
almost as destructive as to continue to grow a consciousness of economy.
It does mean we
should first begin to grow a consciousness which will enable us to spend
what money we do use with a consciousness of freedom from all
fear of lack or the need to ever economize at any time.
Each day we should express
as much of this new consciousness in our expenditures as we can without
fear or the possibility of regretting our action. LESSON TWO Interesting commentary on that era.
Changes in habits of
thought and the consciousness created thereby, are not made in a day, nor by making an affirmation a
few times.
A consciousness of
abundance and our harmonious oneness with it can only be grown when we have
begun to plant the harmonious thought seeds and continue our cultivation of
them. LESSON THREE
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