The phrase I used to hear was "Thoughts are things. Think with care."
I've not read or heard of many people with this understanding since I left Arizona.
Your posts in this area are very valuable and I appreciate your caution.
On a spiritual level, if I take your posts at face value and as being genuine, then I think you are an example of what is written in Scripture (Acts 2:27, Joel 2:28, etc.).
Like the man says: "Here's your sign." We must be getting close to something major, just as written, perhaps "The Purification" event I've read about.
In addition to cancers and other diseases you've written about, the more I pray and seek forgiveness for my sins, the more I wonder if mental illnesses such as dementia, Alzheimer's and others might have the same or a similar cause.
Ultimately, how can one be guilty of a sin one has no memory of? The person's experience then is almost as though being born again and now free of a sinful past s/he can no longer remember.
Just a random thought that I can't support or verify, but the mental is way higher up the hierarchy than the physical body, so I assume that a great deal is possible, just as Jesus said, even "miracles" good or bad, especially if the will is undisciplined or that of a child.
Fascinating gift the Father has blessed you with!
Thank you for using it well and for sharing it as you do!
Thank you for the excellent thoughtful comments.
In response to your comment: “Ultimately, how can one be guilty of a sin one has no memory of? The person’s experience then is almost as though being born again and now free of a sinful past s/he can no longer remember.”
You have identified a key problem in today’s field of psychology. This is especially true of people in denial. The mind has many powerful defense systems.
I personally define “sin” as anything that creates a space in our souls where “Love” cannot exist. or simply, an obstacle to “Love.” The reason that Love is important is that Love is the glue that holds the soul together. A mother’s Love that creates the emotional bond within a baby is what builds the foundation for a person’s life.
In many ways, failure to love someone is itself a sin. Failure to “Love God” is an even greater sin.
As it relates to remembering, there is a lot more to this than I can put in this post. The number one attraction in relationships (what creates chemistry) is that we are attracted toward someone who’s personality is similar to someone else with whom we have unresolved conflict. (In order to use them as a surrogate to resolve our wound in our soul.) God’s not sadistic, it’s just His way of helping us to cleanse our souls. Often we do not remember the original perceptual programming event that wounded our soul, but yet we are attracted toward a surrogate to bring it to the surface and resolve it.