Thought Counts

Upcoming Show 9-29-25! It’s the Thought that Counts.

Thought Counts is a podcast with the title It’s the Thought that Counts.

Thought Counts:

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about how we think is what we become in relationship to consciousness is experience.  Listen as they explore the three modes of mortal thought as the son of perdition and the operations of Divine Mind as the Truth of Being. In this podcast they will discuss resolving the physical body into a mental image capable of receiving Divine inspiration by linking the form to the mind. Welcome to the Voice of Yoga; we are talking consciousness! Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to get the Light in your soul and rest in Eternal peace.

Notes:

1. I grew up with the saying “it’s the thought that counts” when evaluating the worth of a gift. When I Googled the phrase “It’s the thought that counts”– it comes from the original aphorism “It is not the gift, but the thought that counts,” coined by American professor, writer, and clergyman Henry van Dyke Jr. in the early 20th century. The proverb highlights that the kindness and intention behind a gift are more important than its monetary value, especially when the gift itself is disappointing or unsuitable. So, today we will look at the concept of changing how we think about persons, places, and things– by piercing through the sense testimony and abiding in the Truth– the Divine Creation, everywhere always, without doubt or opposition.
2. How we think is what we become– do you know there are three modes of mortal thought and the operations of Divine Mind simultaneously influencing the human experience continuously. I think of the Christmas Carol, line “do you see what I see?”. Let’s talk about the phrase “thinking differently” as a developable skill. What Mrs. Eddy called to think with God, as God. God thinks in the Absolute and mortals think in duality or the rational. James called this double minded and suggests making the eye single.
3. Linking the device to the app – in today’s technologically advanced world we have some valuable metaphors to help us understand how the human mind body complex actually works. I have a bicycle computer which tracks my distance, speed, time of day, average speed, temperature, elevation, which is all I understand at this time. I couldn’t figure out how to change the reading from metric to imperial and found out the indicator was in the profile of the app. Simply changing the option to imperial changed everything from Kilometers to Miles from Meters to Yard, Feet, and inches. We can’t put an Infinite Mind in a finite form so we must learn to resolve the physical form into a mental image capable of receiving Divine Revelation.
4. S&H 552:19 by Mary Baker Eddy it is written, “”But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild with freedom and so be self-contradictory.” Please check me on this, there cannot be Christ identity and human anything. We live in human thought and have human experiences; but, when we know Divine Mind we live in Divine Idea, then we have Divine experiences. Truth dispels the lie; there is no human life.
5. When we think with the corporeal senses we are under the law a karma– driven the universal belief in two powers. When we cast out world mind functioning as corporeal sense in consciousness we stop thinking with duality, when we begin Knowing the unified state of Divine Perfection, this is the “real thought that counts” when Spirit is cause creation is Perfect.
6. To help prevent the betrayal of world mind functioning as corporeal sense in individual consciousness, by casting out the belief in a mortal sense of existence, we have something from La Jolla Series by Herb Fitch class 3B Principles to Neutralize World Thought
   Now let’s look at these principles; The first; The greatest principle you can know is actually the first commandment given by Jesus Christ, only now we’re going to phrase it in another way. A way that I hope you will find easy to remember. And this principle is: God is your Spiritual Identity.
   That’s the first principle. The second principle is: God is the Spiritual Identity of your neighbor, whether your neighbor is a person, an animal, or a tree. You will discover that these two commandments can open the gates of heaven on earth. If understand and faithfully practice them, you will be living, moving, having your being in God, honoring God supremely, loving God with all your heart, Soul and mind, you’ll be walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Within yourself you must know and practice that God is your Spiritual Identity. God is the Spiritual Identity of everyone and everything. God is everywhere as the Spiritual Identity of everything you see. You cannot look anywhere without the inner realization that behind what you see, whatever it is, the Spiritual Identity there is God, that is omnipresence accepted. (23:14)
   Doesn’t matter now, if it’s an A-bomb or a tidal wave, a flood, fire, it’s not up to you to stop these disasters, it is up to you to accept the invisible Spiritual Identity behind the universe, behind every appearing thing, and then, let infinity reveal itself, and you will discover that you have touched the magic button of Truth.