Written by Patrick Wells   

Was the Universe Spiritual before it was material? This is the most important question that a human being can ask herself or himself. If you arrive at the correct answer early in your life, yes, you will have the chance to reach your full potential and achieve all your goals.
Consciousness (The Implicate Order) precedes, is more primary than and animates matter, space and time (the explicate order). In the beginning, there was only the Absolute or the Void. So before the Big Bang, the Unformed Absolute or Consciousness was without form, matter, space or time. You might say the Absolute was homogenized.
Even though without form, the Absolute (or the Void) contained within it the total potential of all possible manifest form. In order to experience this potential through form, the Absolute willed the Big Bang to happen, what might be called the beginning of a “Divine play, a play of Consciousness.” So 13.75 billion years ago, our four-dimensional space-time continuum exploded into existence from a single dimension point, a Zero/Infinite point (or Eternal Infinite Point), see symmetry mathematics or Singularity. All light, given Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity remains forever in the Zero/Infinite point.
Moreover, the light emitted from the Big Bang carried and transmitted all of the information necessary for the continued evolution of the Universe (photons, as we now know, are very capable carriers and transmitters of information).
Now that you are certain that the Universe was Spiritual before it blew up into the material, what is the best way to achieve your full potential and attain your goals? The right path always requires intuition, intelligence and hard work, but here is an extraordinary Mind Tool as well, Creative Visualization. It works best with a lot of repetition. Some call it Creative Prayer. Creative Visualization (also used in sports visualization) refers to the practice of seeking to affect the outer world by changing one's thoughts and expectations.
To see how a person’s mind works is to see the nature of his or her future. It’s rather obvious what a person is creating for himself simply by examining how he thinks. Each one of our thoughts (another aspect of matter) radiates a vibratory energy, which is magnetic in nature. It attracts to itself everything similar to itself. Depending on a person’s mental intensity or degree of concentration, the thought will be vitalized by the Life Force. One who learns to properly direct and utilize the Life Force to energize selected thoughts and to withdraw energy from undesirable thoughts, can actually create and dispel certain future circumstances.
But it is magical thinking (i.e. “The Secret”) to believe you can manifest anything you want with Creative Visualization unless that manifestation is already an integral part of God’s Will.
The Universe is set up so that we are not given what we ask for; rather we are given what we believe in. For the religious among us, Jesus said in Mark 11:24 NIV: “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have (already) received it, and it will be yours.”
Gandhi wrote: “Carefully watch your thoughts for they become your words. Manage and watch your words for they become your actions. Consider and judge your actions for they become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits for they become your values. Understand and embrace your values for they become your destiny.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
The key is to actually visualize the desired outcome in you own mental video, as if the outcome had already occurred. As Consciousness lives only in the NOW, it only responds to your video demonstration of “What is”. I used Creative Visualization every night for 18 months while producing a $450,000 movie, THE PERSONALS. I saw the title on a big movie marquee in my mind every night before falling asleep! THE PERSONALS ended up opening in LA at the most famous Movie Theater in the world, the Mann Chinese Theater. It was one of the first successful Independent Films ever produced and distributed worldwide. To see the actual photo of the Mann Chinese Theater Marquee with THE PERSONALS on it, go to my Facebook Front Page and look at my photos. https://www.facebook.com/patrick.wells.9210