{"id":324,"date":"2008-06-05T05:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/06\/people-power-and-god-power.html"},"modified":"2008-06-05T05:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:40:03","slug":"people-power-and-god-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/06\/people-power-and-god-power.html","title":{"rendered":"People power and God power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people agree that God works in the lives of human beings. But the question is: How? Through unasked-for intercession? Through begged-for miracles? Through answered prayers?<br \/>\nAnd how about the problems of the world? Does God work with the world itself to solve those dilemmas? And again, if so&#8230;how? And what role, if any, does a mere human being have in all this?<br \/>\nWe spoke in this space on Tuesday about some of these ideas, about the nature of Life itself, and about how human beings can work to solve the problems of our world.  I ended that column with the statement&#8230;<br \/>\nTHE ENERGY THAT CREATES THE SOLUTION MUST BE EQUAL<br \/>\nTO THE ENERGY THAT CREATES THE PROBLEM.<br \/>\nMoving on from there, I notice that Albert Einstein once observed that you cannot solve a problem using the same energy that created it. That is true. It must be a different kind of energy, but it must be of the same intensity.<br \/>\nWhether you call the tools that you use to create this energy intensity prayer, meditation, positive thinking, Personal Creation, the Mechanism of Manifestation, the \u201cformula,\u201d the \u201cmystery,\u201d or the \u201csecret,\u201d they are all the same thing. They are all part of a process than can bring us to greater happiness. They are all a functioning of, a putting to intentional use of, the process of life itself, the way of the universe.<br \/>\nThis is God\u2019s process. This is the way God moves. \u00c9mile Cou\u00e9 called this process \u201coptimistic autosuggestion.\u201d The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, \u201cEvery day, in every way, I&#8217;m getting better and better&#8221; (<em>Tous les jours \u00e0 tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux<\/em>) is the best known example of what is often called Cou\u00e9ism or the Cou\u00e9 method, according to the writers of Wikipedia, who also tell us:<br \/>\nIt was in 1913 that Cou\u00e9 founded the Lorraine Society of Applied Psychology. His book Self-mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion caused a sensation on its publication in England in 1920 and in the United States two years later.<br \/>\nSuch \u201crevelations\u201d have always caused a sensation\u2014just as the revealing of \u201cthe secret\u201d is causing today. Yet always the sensation tends to die down, and the world returns to its Old Ways.<br \/>\nHistorically humanity has sparked itself with a glimmer of hope, then returned to its sadness and its anguish, its turmoil and its conflict, its pain and its suffering. For the forces mounted against New Revelations have throughout the ages (and yes, even in this \u201cenlightened\u201d time) beaten back the message of inner personal empowerment in favor of an edict of continuing reliance on sources exterior\u2014namely, religion, government, and Those In Charge.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s been the history, but all that can change if we will but place <em>ourselves<\/em> in the category of Those in Charge.<br \/>\nWill humanity do it?<br \/>\nI believe the answer is yes, and that it will happen when People Power and God Power are reconciled; when one is not made to devalue or dishonor the other.<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll talk more about this tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people agree that God works in the lives of human beings. But the question is: How? Through unasked-for intercession? Through begged-for miracles? Through answered prayers? And how about the problems of the world? 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