Dawson Church - Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality

Im privileged to live among awesome creators. You and I are creating the world around us by our thoughts in this very moment. And in every moment.

We are members of a community of artists, painting our world into existence moment by moment. The visions we see in our minds eye translate themselves, thought by thought, into the concrete reality of material form all around us. As we choose our thoughts, we are in fact choosing our material reality, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.

What sort of world will we create in the coming moments, days, months, years, and decades?

Im convinced it will be a world of peace, of compassion, of beauty, of opportunity, of wisdom. In the past centuries, weve practiced creating survival, fear, anger, war, resentment, competition, shame, guilt, rivalry, and other forms of strife. As a species, weve had thousands of generations to experience the material circumstances that result from that type of thinking.

We have seen the suffering it produces. Now, I believe, we are ready for a new experience. We are ready to paint a new world. As we realize our ability to choose that world, we begin to select thoughts, feelings, experiences, and beliefs that facilitate its creation.

When we first make the discovery that we create with our minds, we produce our first small deliberate creations. Like a baby taking its first steps, were tentative and uncertain.

But if youve ever watched a child learn to walk, you know that this hesitancy quickly gives way to exuberant confidence. Now free to explore the world, the child strides about enthusiastically. She goes places she has never been able to go before. Her circle of influence expands ever wider, as she ventures farther and farther from her point of origin. She quickly adjusts her mind to the new reality and assumes a degree of mobility and freedom she never knew before she took the first step.

Thats us today. As a species, we have just begun to scratch the surface of our power. We have no idea yet what we are capable of. Weve hardly taken even our very first step. We are only just beginning to realize what we might accomplish.

While the future is unknown, shrouded in mystery, we can look back and see clearly what has happened in the past. We see the two world wars of the 20th century, and the even bloodier conflicts of the 19th century and earlier times. We see the ignorance, poverty, starvation, injustice, and cruelty in which our species has been bred for millennia. While a millennium of progress in science and philosophy has given us the first glimmers of enlightenment, human existence has been driven by the stark requirements of survival for most of our history.

As a species, weve been there, done that, and bought the T-shirt. Now its time for more. When we didnt know that our thoughts created our reality, we assumed that all the suffering in which we lived was a fixed and objective reality.

Now we know better. We have begun to understand the immense potential of our minds to create reality. We understand the leverage we possess over both the microscopic and the macroscopic levels of form. On the microscopic scale, we understand that our thoughts are shaping the anatomy and physiology of our cells at every moment, calling molecules into and out of existence, like a medieval alchemists fantasy.

On the macroscopic level, our thoughts combine with those of the rest of our species to create the broad sweep of history. The history we create once we understand our power is very different from the history we created when we labored blindly under the illusion that reality was composed of random events that simply happened to us.

As conscious creators, we choose differently. When our survival needs push us to think angry and bitter thoughts, born out of the illusion of scarcity and competition, we choose not to think them. Not thinking them, we join with the millions of other people making similar choices. We find ourselves drawn into the reality fields of that new community. Multiplying the resonance of those shared fields, we shift the direction of society.

When you choose not to think that negative thought, and you replace it with a positive one instead, you arent just shifting your own reality. Youre shifting reality for the whole human species. Youre adding to the sum of kindness and compassion in the world. Youre reinforcing that new reality field. Youre one of millions of people adding their positive energy to the new reality. Youre helping transform it into an irresistible force that turns the tide of history.

While the forces of miserypeople driven by survival and ignorant of the fact that they were creating the same dark world that they fearedmay have been running the show for millennia, today is different. We understand our power. We make different choices. We use our power to shape first our own personal reality and then, collectively, the reality of the planet.

Having experimented with fearful thinking and its consequences, I believe that we have now embarked on a new experiment. Like that toddler taking her first steps, we are shining light into the darkness of our old conditioned thinking. That first beam of light, like that first step, gleams hesitantly. Yet the light feels good. The molecules we create in our bodies when we lighten our thinking feel good. The circumstances we create in the world around us when we enlighten our minds are infinitely more enjoyable. In a positive feedback loop, this reinforces our desire for more of the same.

Growing increasingly confident in our newfound power to create a positive world, we begin to think boldly. We imagine what a world without war, hunger, or poverty might look like. That subjective immaterial vision is the embryo of objective material reality.

This is the work we now do together. Joining with the millions of other people all over the world who have made the commitment to a positive future for themselves and humankind, we produce an irresistible field of love. The field of love we create opposes no one. We dont judge, condemn, or complain. We simply love.

As the field of love grows stronger, it bathes everything within its circumference. Out of this shared reality field of love, a new material reality is born. The material reality reflects the energy of the vibrational reality. In the new material reality, people act instinctively with kindness and compassion. Respect and altruism are the new normal in human relationships.

From the moment they are conceived, the children of the future grow up with these assumptions. Bathed in love from conception onward, children experience nothing else. They become vibrant creators, with their play, social interactions, and life expectations saturated with the certainty of love. Growing up in a world of love, they create love in their careers and families. The world changes to reflect their expectations.

I have no idea what our children, or our childrens children, might create. I am certain that the types of creations produced by human beings saturated with love will be the products of happiness. I believe that their fresh creations will take science, technology, education, art, music, philosophy, religion, architecture, the environment, civilization, and society to places far beyond what our generation can conceive of.

Thats the world I plan to live in for the rest of my life. Thats the world I choose to create with my personal thoughts from the moment I open my eyes at the start of each new day. Thats the world I invite you to join me in creating with your personal thoughts moment by moment. There is no better place to live.

Thank you for partnering with me in this journey of exploration. We have seen how the proposition that mind creates matter is not mere metaphysical speculation, but scientific fact. We have discovered that our minds create reality and become aware of the potential each of us has to create a benevolent reality using the astonishing power of thought. As we play together from this point on, I look forward to co-creating this delicious world of love and joy with you.