Chapter 5 Breaking the Pattern of Worldly Thought

The muscle the spiritual muscle developed from this experience is used to “fight the good fight” against the recurrence of worldly thought and its many addictions both mental and physical. Most simply, it is excessive thought that often produces feelings of anxiety and stress, sleeplessness, and the seeking of some form of an escape a drug, alcohol, or other harmful behaviors. Even other addictions such as anger and hate can lead to excessive thoughts of revenge. Unfortunately, revenge produces many different types of behaviors that can lead to jail.

Determining whether anxiety and stress actually lead to anger, hate, and revenge, or if the reverse is true, where anger, hate, and revenge lead to anxiety and stress, is of no value. This determination is a distraction that prevents an escape into the Spiritual Self and its meditative state. Therefore, you should avoid it.

As stated above, this same meditative process can produce an escape from the physical addiction to drugs, alcohol, and medicines at least temporarily. By repeating this escape process, over time, a more permanent cure may be produced.

Most fundamentally, any spiritual awareness is an experience of God’s Holy Spirit, who brings forth inner peace and calm that is described in the words of a more than two-thousand-year-old Testament written by the ancient prophets King David and Isaiah:

“Be still and know that I am God.” 1

“Be silent in the Lord’s presence and wait patiently for him.” 2

“In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” 3

Think on these things but without intensity memorize them, at least in part. Let the personal experience that these words produce flow as it will.