We are gods with amnesia. Near-death experiencer Jan Price says, “Born of God, we are spirit, and cannot be anything else. All is mind—one mind. We are that mind asleep—yet awakening, and God is that mind eternally aware.”8 Jesus said, “Lest ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe” (John 4:48). Miracles, though fascinating and inspiring, are only performed by saints and sages to awaken belief. The miracles of the saints and sages are strong prods to our sleeping memories of our divine nature. Their purpose is not to entice us to want to perform miracles ourselves, but to awaken us to our divine potential, to shake us out of our amnesia-induced conviction that we are merely physical bodies and that this physically manifesting cosmic movie is the only reality. Even when we realize we have amnesia, however, even when we believe in the power of our own thought, we will not be immediately able to use its power consciously. Not until we have mastered the exacting mental discipline practiced by the saints and sages will we, like these great ones, be able consciously to use our thoughts to change the hidden, nonlocal energy template and thus the physical world. Further, our existing convictions run deep into our nonlocal subconscious. Merely thinking with the conscious mind that one has blue eyes instead of brown is not going to overcome the much more powerful conviction—lying deep, and all but inaccessible, in the nonlocal subconscious mind—that one has brown eyes. We hold our convictions so deeply that even when they make us miserable we cannot easily change them. Being told that a problem is all in the mind is no help at all—as a wise man said, “That’s jolly well the worst place for it to be.” Our deeply held thoughts are like girders that hold together the structure of our being. And like steel girders, our thought girders are immensely strong. The exacting discipline undergone by the saints and sages to achieve such profound mental control begins with direct experience of one’s subtle, nonmaterial, divine nature. Intellectual belief in our higher potential, our divine nature, is a starting point, but belief is not enough to change deeply held convictions that the physical world is fixed, immutable, and separate from ourselves. Direct inner experience attained through practicing the disciplines of the science of religion, on the other hand, will transmute those deeply held convictions of materiality by enabling us directly to experience the subtler, interconnected, nonmaterial reality of energy and thought.
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God

Almost all of us have no conscious awareness of our ability to make the cosmic movie play in three-dimensions, or to shape our bodies in accordance with our deeply held thoughts. A rare few, however, are consciously aware of these abilities and have learned how to use them deliberately. The rare few are the saints and sages, and they assure us that we, too, can do the same.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? —John 10:34
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these. —John 14:12
Since everything is made out of mind, it can be controlled by mind. As you develop more and more mental strength, ultimately you will be able to do anything. —Paramhansa Yogananda, yoga master
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God