I recently started reading Book of Wisdom by Harry B. Joseph, and there was one idea that made me stop for a moment. It wasn't because it was completely new to me. In some ways, it felt strangely familiar.
The book draws on the work of Walter Russell, an early 20th-century polymath who spent much of his life exploring the relationship between light, consciousness, energy, and creation. Russell described light as fundamental to existence and saw mind as something deeply connected to it.
In his view, God wasn't necessarily a distant being somewhere outside of creation. God could be understood as the thinking mind itself — with the universe expressing that mind through light.
There is something beautiful about that idea.
Russell also suggested that what we experience as matter is, in a sense, light moving at different rates or frequencies. What feels solid and separate to us may not be quite as fixed as we think.
Whether you take this literally, spiritually, or simply as something interesting to contemplate, it opens up a fascinating question:
What if the reality we experience is influenced by what we are tuned into?
And this is where the idea gets really interesting.
What If Your Mind Is More Like a Radio Than a Creator?
One part of this philosophy especially caught my attention.
What if our minds don't create every thought from nothing? What if we're also tuning into thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and possibilities that already exist within a much larger field?
Imagine turning on a radio.
The music doesn't suddenly come into existence because you turned the dial.
It was already being broadcast.
You simply adjusted the receiver until you could hear it.
Perhaps the mind works in a similar way.
When we're constantly focused on fear, we seem to notice more things that confirm that fear.
When we're focused on lack, we become more aware of everything we don't have.
When we're consumed by resentment, even small things can suddenly feel like evidence that the world is against us.
But something different happens when our inner world begins to change.
We notice different things.
We respond differently.
We become aware of possibilities that may have been there all along.
Maybe the circumstances haven't completely changed yet.
Maybe we have simply changed the frequency from which we're experiencing them.
And that thought stayed with me.
Your Inner World Changes the Way You See the Outer World
There is another part of this idea that I found especially fascinating.
Light enters our eyes, but we don't actually experience the outside world exactly as it is.
Our brain receives information and then creates our experience of what we're seeing.
In other words, there is a process happening between the world outside of us and the world we experience inside of us. And that makes me wonder:
How much of what I see is actually the world — and how much is the world as interpreted through the state I'm currently in?
Think about a day when you're anxious.
Everything feels louder.
A short message can feel cold.
Someone's silence can feel like rejection.
A small problem can suddenly feel enormous.
Then think about a day when you feel peaceful.
The exact same world can somehow feel completely different.
The traffic is still there.
People are still people.
Problems haven't magically disappeared.
And yet, your experience of them has changed.
That alone makes me pause.
Perhaps the inner world doesn't control everything that happens outside of us. But it may influence what we notice, what we interpret, what we expect, and ultimately how we move through what happens.
Where This Meets Modern Physics
This is also where the conversation becomes interesting from a scientific perspective.
There is a concept in theoretical physics known as the holographic principle, which explores the possibility that the information describing a three-dimensional space could be represented on a two-dimensional boundary.
It is a fascinating idea, although it is important not to confuse a scientific hypothesis with proof of a spiritual philosophy.
Walter Russell wasn't working with today's understanding of theoretical physics, and I don't think we need to force the two together.
Still, I find it interesting when ideas from completely different worlds begin to create similar questions.
What if the reality we experience isn't quite as solid, fixed, and independent as it appears?
What if there is more happening beneath what we can see?
I don't have an answer to that.
And maybe I don't need one.
Sometimes an idea doesn't need to become a belief immediately.
Sometimes it can simply become a question we carry for a while.
Maybe This Is the Missing Piece
If you've been following my blog, you may recognize this idea from some of the things i've posted before.
In my reflections on Florence Scovel Shinn, about the subconscious — how deeply repeated thoughts, words, and emotions can begin to shape the way we experience our lives. Then, the superconscious and the idea of becoming quiet enough to hear something beyond the constant noise of the mind.
And perhaps this idea adds another layer.
Maybe our minds are not simply creating.
Maybe they are also tuning.
Every thought we repeatedly return to.
Every emotion we allow to live inside us for a long time.
Every belief we keep rehearsing, even quietly.
Perhaps each one is like turning a dial.
And the interesting thing is that we're doing it all the time.
Usually without realizing it.
When we're afraid, we tune into fear.
When we're constantly expecting disappointment, we become more sensitive to signs of disappointment.
When we believe we're not enough, we can spend our days collecting evidence that confirms it.
But the opposite can also be true.
When we become more open, we begin to notice possibilities.
When we become more grateful, we notice what is already here.
When we become quieter, perhaps we can finally hear something that was difficult to hear beneath all the noise.
Clearing the Static
This is why I've started thinking differently about the idea of "inner work."
Maybe healing isn't always about becoming a completely different person.
Maybe it is partly about clearing the static.
The old fear.
The stories we inherited.
The beliefs we accepted without questioning.
The reactions that became automatic because we experienced them so many times.
The constant need to know what happens next.
All of these things can become noise.
And sometimes, when there is too much noise, we can't hear the signal that is already there.
That doesn't mean we need to force ourselves into positivity.
I don't think we're meant to walk around pretending everything is beautiful when we're hurting.
Sometimes the most honest thing we can do is sit with what is actually happening inside us.
Feel it.
Understand it.
Allow it to move through us.
And slowly, perhaps, the static begins to soften.
So What Are You Tuning Into?
I don't think the point of this idea is to spend every waking moment trying to "raise your frequency."
That can easily become another form of pressure.
Another thing we think we're doing wrong.
Another version of ourselves we're trying to become.
Maybe the invitation is much simpler.
Just notice.
What have you been thinking about lately?
What emotions seem to keep returning?
What stories are you repeatedly telling yourself?
What are you expecting to happen?
And perhaps most importantly:
If your mind really is a kind of receiver, what are you currently tuned into?
You don't have to change the station today.
You don't have to force yourself into a higher state.
Just notice what you're listening to.
Because maybe the first step isn't changing the frequency.
Maybe it's finally becoming aware that you've been holding the dial all along.
♡𓂃adetriyani
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