The Movie Projector Metaphor
October 20, 2022
One of the metaphors we use when sharing the Three Principle is – our minds work like a movie projector.
- Divine Mind is like the power or energy source.
- Thought is like the film, an ever-present but transient source of content.
- Consciousness is like the light of the projector, bringing the otherwise nearly invisible images on the filmstrip to life.
If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.
John Appleseed
What I’ve found over the years of teaching people about how the mind works is that these make sense to them on an intuitive level. They begin to see how they live in the feeling of their thinking, not the feeling of their circumstances or the things being thought. And thought, by its very nature, is temporary and changing all the time.
When people see this for themselves, it seems to free up their minds. They get more curious about and less afraid of their experience, and they begin to feel more peace and freedom in their lives.
As Syd Banks, who first articulated this understanding used to say, “Every human being is sitting in the middle of mental health – they just don’t know it. And no matter what’s going on in your life, you’re only ever a thought away from happiness.”
