[jeff3]

A line in the "where's Max" thread got me to examining my beliefs about supply and demand. I'm just thinking out loud here trying to get a breakthrough in my beliefs concerning the universal storehouse. Maybe someone else can benefit from, or add to, what I dig up.

I am pretty sure I have lots of beliefs that stack up and form the meta-belief "there's never enough", the reason I know this is because it's my current reality, there's never enough. period. Where does this come from ? I can think of lots times I was told "you can't have ______, because we can't afford it." or, "money doesn't grow on trees" or, "you can have this OR that, but not both." My life, and maybe some of yours has been one continuous , "I can't afford that".

I use towels until you can see through them, keep clothes I never wear, have socks with holes in them, my shop is full crap that 'I might need some day', we eat with old bent silverware that someone gave me, I won't go for a drive just for the fun of it because gas costs so much, I just counted 32 pens and pencils in my desk drawer-some of which don't work- that I might 'need' some day. I have a box of magazines that are about 25 years that I keep because??? who knows.

Some of this is maybe not so bad, but the general idea is , "I better keep this because I would have to buy it later if I need it." Along with, "there is only 'x' amount of 'whatever' so it is going to be hard to get, because everyone else wants it too." Which leads to "If I get it, someone has to do without."

Any ideas on how to counteract this mind-set ? One thing that comes to my mind is the old picture of the 'horn of plenty' that used to appear on the almanac covers. While very simple , if you really look at it you'll notice that it has only one opening and the other end actually goes to a point, not a big sack or a barrel, but the impression I get is that it implies everything comes from a single source, no-where. It all comes from nothing, so it is inexhaustible because we never run out of 'nothing'. This also kinda ties in with the scientific reduction of matter to basically 'nothing' . Each atom has almost no mass ,and when reduced further, even what it has is made out of basically nothing but information. The problem is that I can understand this intellectually, but I still don't really apply this knowledge in the form of beliefs. Maybe my old belief has more weight because it is bigger and I have applied it to so many things and the notion that there really is a non-stop, never ending supply is still too abstract to be active in my life.