This year for my Mother’s Day gift, my daughter treated me to a movie. We watched the new Star Trek.

As a teen, I grew up with the original show. My older brother was a science-fiction addict. One of his favorite authors was Robert Heinlein. Since I loved to read, I picked up these books and was introduced to the science-fiction world. So when Star Trek hit the air waves, my brother was hooked and I watched along with him.

Dad, however, would almost always turn the channel. This meant I didn’t watch every show, but I saw enough to know the characters and to develop a keen interest.

“I don’t want to see no attitude!”

That order was given countless times by Mom when I grew up. We kids displayed our attitudes toward being disciplined with either a scowl, pouty lip, or—though, rarely–tears of repentance. But the one in particular that Mom meant was when we sassed back. That kind of attitude usually produced a ready switch in her hand that she swatted against our fannies.

It is the knowledge we have of spiritual principles, that determines the kind of reality we create through consciousness. consciousness is made of mindset and energy. Your mindset is formed by the kind of conceptions and opinions you have about things. These conceptions and opinions are ideas that are crystallized “within” your subconscious-mind. This crystallization happened by the kind of impression (influence) your life experiences, your religious belief, and any form of discipline you may have received, had on you. These crystallized ideas, or your this mindset is “self-expressive”. It expresses itself through the kind of life-energy that emanates from your heart.