Mind CAN influence matter...Mind CREATES and FORMS matter.

In each life, YOU choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one your choose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience.
YOU WROTE THE SCRIPT!

... There is however, a portion of you, the deeper identity who forms both the inner and the outer ego, who decided that you would be a physical being in this place and in this time.

This IS the core of your identity, the psychic seed from which you sprang, the multidimensional personality of which you are a part.

There are NO LIMITATIONS to the Self!  There are NO LIMITATIONS to its Potentials.

An "energy personality essence" no longer focused in physical form. My present existence is the most challenging one that I have known and I have known many, both physical and non-physical. There is not just one dimension in which non-physical consciousness resides, any more than there is only one country on your planet or planet within your solar system. My environment now, is not the one in which you will find yourself immediately after death. I cannot help speaking humorously, but you must die many times before you enter this particular plane of existence. (So there is no need to fear death. And I, who have died more times than I care to tell, write this book to tell you so). Basically, you are no more of a physical personality that I am, and in telling you of my reality I tell you of your own.You ARE multidimensional - that you exist in many realities at once. The SOUL or "INNER SELF" is not something part of you, but the very medium in which you exist.

If you believe that your existence is dependent upon this corporeal image, then you feel in danger of extinction, for no physical form lasts, no body, however, beautiful in youth retains the same vigor and enchantment in old age.

The "truth" is not found by going from teacher to teacher, from church to church, or discipline to discipline, BUT by looking within the SELF.

If you identify with your own youth, or beauty, or intellect, or accomplishments, then there is the constant gnawing knowledge that these attributes can and will vanish.

Consciousness CREATES form... It is NOT the other way around.

All personalities are NOT physical..It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by ordinary self. You have lived other existences, and that knowledge is within you, though you are not consciously aware of it.  You have been given perhaps the most awesome gift of all: The ability to project your thoughts outward into physical form. This gift brings a  responsibility.

The fact is that each of you creates your own physical reality; and en masse, you create both the glories and the terrors that exist within your earthly experiences.

You form the physical body that you know at a deeply unconscious level with great discrimination, miraculous clarity, and intimate unconscious knowledge of each minute cell that composes it.
This seemingly unconscious portion of yourself is far more knowledgeable, and upon its smooth functioning your entire physical existence depends. This portion is conscious, aware, and alert. I call this seemingly unconscious, the "inner ego" for it directs inner activities. It correlates information that is perceived not through the physical senses, but through other channels.
It is the inner perceiver of reality that exists beyond the three-dimensional. It carries within it the memory of each of your past existences. All necessary information is given to you through these inner channels. An unbelievable activities take place before you can so much as lift a finger..... or read this sentence upon the page. This portion of your identity is quite natively clairvoyant and telepathic, so that you are warned of disasters before they occur, whether or not you consciously accept the message. And all communication takes place long before a word is spoken.

The "outer ego" and the "inner ego" operate together. The one to enable you to manipulate in the world that you know; the other to bring you those delicate inner perceptions, without physical existence could not be maintained...Part of your purpose is to acquaint your egotistical self with knowledge that is already known to a larger portion of your consciousness, that you have long ignored....I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends--and I may add, unfortunately, to those you consider enemies as well. You are not simply aware of this fact. Perhaps, it is better to say that physical reality IS one form that reality takes. In your system, however, you are focused much more intensely upon one relatively small aspect of experience.

Three-dimensional experience is an invaluable place of training. Your personality as you now know it will indeed persevere, and with its memories. But it is only a part of your entire identity.

You are intuitively aware that you form your image, and that you are independent of it. You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world, as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into a matter--- a breakthrough into three-dimensional life. Your bodies not only change every seven years; they change constantly with each breath.  The hormones are in a constant state of motion and alteration.

You are the multi-dimensional self who creates and takes part in these cosmic passion plays. You have set these rules for yourself for a reason. It is learning the art of actualization.  It has within it infinite sources of creativity, unlimited possibilities of development. But it has yet to learn the means of actualization, and must find within itself ways to bring into existence those untold creations that are within it. Therefore, it creates far more environments than you realize. Now each actor, going about the role, focused within the play, has an inner guide....It creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenges, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must create the conditions which will bring new creations about it. And all of this is done with great spontaneity and unbounded joy!

 (from THE ETERNAL VALIDITY OF THE SOUL)