The Luminous Vantage Projector

 

As I consider the way in which I believe this natural world occurs, I find it easier and easier to achieve desired results. It is not really something one can ever stop nurturing. If I relax, even for a day, I slip back into believing that things happen to me and not as a result of me. But when I give these ideas more thought, I see how involved I must be.

I am all I imagine myself to be as a result of that same imagination. Simply put: if I imagine myself to be a failure, I will not disappoint myself. So is this simply confidence? To some degree, confidence must be involved, but it is more about the direction of all thought.

Thought behaves like a flashlight in a terribly dark world. You are in control of where this light is pointing.

Let’s think of a label for this flashlight and use that label for an essay. LVP. Luminous Vantage Projector.

You are the cause of your future situations in most cases. I will discuss the stubbornness of hidden factors later. But in most cases, you are using a human-superpower whether you know it or not. This superpower is your own LVP. Wherever you point your LVP, whatever your light hits will begin to grow. It has almost nothing to do with what you desire. You can point your LVP, unwittingly, to something you absolutely do not want in your life. However, holding your LVP on that dormant situation has the effect of enlarging it and increasing its threat to your joy and peace.

The human, individual, luminous vantage projector can change the world. If you shine your personal, LVP into a darker part of the world’s potentially dangerous future, you will see it begin to stir. If you call attention to that darkness, more players will point their LVP’s in that same area and the situation can quickly grow out of control. The news sometimes has this effect. What begins as a few people, focused on one small problem, grows quickly into more people, focused on a growing, bigger problem. The greater the degree of attention given to a situation, the greater the situation becomes.

Whether it is something we desire or not, focusing on any situation will give more sustenance to that situation.

This is easier to spot in others than it is in oneself. If you will allow yourself to consider someone less fortunate than yourself, you should be able to locate the ray of their luminous vantage projector and see how they are participating in the development of the very situations holding them back.

If you are brave enough and close enough to this actor, you could ask them to tell you why they are having so much trouble getting ahead and they will instantly volunteer the details of their focus. “I can’t _________.” Or “I don’t have _____________.” Or “I _________.”

There it is.

With this Luminous Vantage Projector in mind, turn your attention to a seemingly successful actor in your circle and ask the same questions if possible.

“I can ________________.” Or “I have ____________.” Or “I __________.”

And if you’ve given an honest interview to the two honest actors, the answers will be different, based only on where they choose to point the beam of their private, Luminous Vantage Projector.

In fact, this shall be my PhD. I shall make this my study. I will ask the questions of the wealthy and the well-off, and then ask the same questions to the poor and destitute.

When you meet someone who has just been promoted, ask the questions. When you meet someone who has just suffered a setback, ask questions. I do believe we will see a pattern.

In my experience, I have witnessed the nature of this field enough to believe in its attraction and repulsion.

 

But we must address the stubbornness of some situations. There are hidden factors we do not seem to control with any of our thoughts. Health concerns, economic realities and even aging are among that group of entropic qualities we can scarcely affect. And rather than getting into a debate about health and/or economic realities, let’s just take a look at the elephant in that room of concrete scenarios; aging.

Millions of people have put a lot of effort into the slowing or reversing of aging. There have been some results which seem to suggest some effect, but in the end, there is always an end to every actor’s particular part. While aging has never really been a bother to me, I would not mind being able to milk 150 years out of this role. However, I am nearly certain I won’t be able to get there in this particular body. Degrees of wellness seem to be somewhat reasonably flexible, but there are stubborn situations where bodies seem determined not to recover.

In these situations, I do not believe anyone’s Luminous Vantage Projector will have the desired effects. Why?

As uncomfortable as this may make us feel, The Labyrinth of Life is fixed with walls made up of impenetrable realities. We are going to make it through, in the way it has been designed, but we cannot get through any fixed patterns. Aging is one of the fixed walls of reality. We are not designed to break down the wall of entropy, but we are designed to find our paths, regardless of how long the paths are. A person who lives to be 100 would seem to have a much longer path than someone who dies at 20. However, each path is fixed as far as length goes. This does not mean that change does not occur as a result of a shorter path. Anne Frank died at 16, but made the entire world a better place by keeping a loving record of her brief journey.

The stubborn realities are the fixed patterns of the labyrinth you have entered. Everything else is waiting for your light.

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