How Concentrated Thought Links All Humanity Together

Posted in: The Power of Concentration | June 3rd, 2008

The Thinker, Artist's rendering of the sculpture by Auguste Rodin.

Chapter 5 of Dumont’s book is entitled “How Concentrated Thought Links All Humanity Together”. He seems to be saying, and I’ve read this elsewhere, that there is a power beyond yourself, a thinking power, which is at your service. Dumont usually refers to this as “the omniscient force”. Those who are able to control their thoughts and moods are able to access this force. Within all of us, there is a powerful urge to reach perfection. It is this urge that drives all life, to one extent or another. An amoeba replicating itself is achieving its highest purpose, as is a plant growing towards the sun. However, what constitutes perfection or achieving a higher self in a human being is considerably more complicated. I suppose this is why it is so easy for people to put up barriers of their own making, preventing them from achieving what is possible. Dumont assures us that by concentrated thought we can tap into this shared omniscient power (which all humanity shares) and achieve our dreams. Interesting ideas. Anyway, here is my summary for lesson 5 of “The Power of Concentration”.

Success is the result of the way you think. It is our unlimited power to think that connects you to your omniscient source. We evolved from the atom due to our ability to think, Dumont believes. The power to keep evolving towards perfection is within all of us, as well as the barriers that are preventing us. It is concentrated thought that will allow us to burst through these self made barriers of ignorance and achieve our highest ambitions.

Deep concentration will allow you to link to thoughts of omnipotence. You will entirely kill your belief in your limitations, driving away all fear and other negative and destructive thoughts. You will be able to build up the mental belief that every venture will be successful. Concentration allows you to control your mental creations, moulding your physical environment and circumstances to your desires.

It is just as easy to surround yourself with what you want as what you don’t want. If you base your desires on justice and good will, you will align yourself with the helpful powers of what Dumont calls the universal currents. By doing so, you can depend on ultimate success in your endeavours.

All just causes succeed with time. Focus on your ultimate goal, and do not become discouraged by temporary appearances. If you come upon a time when everything appears to be against you, use your concentration to drive away these destructive thoughts and quiet your fears. “Be Faithful in sowing the thought seeds of success, in perfect trust that the sun will not cease to shine and bring a generous harvest in one season.”

A negative mood attracts negative thoughts of a similar nature due to the law of affinity. When you think of failure, you will attract failure by your worries and anxiety. When you think of nothing but Good, Truth and Success, you will make more progress than eve before.

If you find that you can’t control your fears, think this thought to regain control: “Do not falter or be afraid, for I am not really alone. I am surrounded by invisible forces that will assist me to remove unfavourable appearances.” This thought can also be used to increase desire, aspiration, imagination, expectation, ambition, understanding, trust and assurance.

Always concentrate on what you are doing at the time. If you do not learn to control your mind during unimportant acts, you mind will wander on important acts as well. The person who learns to concentrate possesses a happy mind. Time does not drag him, he always has plenty to do. He does not think about past mistakes, as they make him unhappy. One’s Will will only act with the clearness, decisiveness, and promptness of the trained mind. If the mind is worried or hurried, the will cannot be photographed onto the sensitized plate of the subjective mind.