From what i understand - as PuRe said, thoughts are things and we are thought and so the thing we are is subject to our thoughts...
It takes 7.2 years for the human brain to 'turn over' or 'turn around' which means a polar shift in the mind which is the 'brain-child' of
thought.
I personally can attest to this being reliable and proven in practice - I am not the same 'person' i was in 1998. I realized this around 7.5 years
later....
This is the idea of 'tribulation' - for it is indeed troubling in many ways, as PuRe also said....but what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger and
if your thoughts don't kill ya then nothing will....

And he said, ‘Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death.’
Jesus said, ‘Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds.
When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be
astonished, and he will rule over the All.’
-Gospel of Thomas #1 & 2
This is about the most reliable gospel in a practical sense that I know of, so far...at least it worked for me....the first saying, above, is the
'alpha' and here is the
'omega':

Simon Peter said to him, ‘Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life.’ Jesus said, ‘I myself shall lead her in order to make her
male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.’
- #114
Think of the soul = female
and the flesh as well as the spirit = male
Just like in the Garden of Eden...2 males (ADAM and the snake (atom)) and 1 female (eve who was a 'side' of Adam)...
That is why, in #114 above, that Jesus says 'resembling you males.'
Those males he is speaking to are the fleshly males, and Jesus is the spirit.
Jesus is saying he will marry Mary and since that means she will become 'flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone,' yet spirit does not have flesh
and bones....she will become a living soul....
As Adam was, at the start.
The first ADAM made of blood, a mortal...the second atom made of light, an immortal...and the soul is the human element in between the two....
The sin of Eve in the Garden of Eden is actually not the problem at all! The problem is fear! And Adam feared but Eve ate, then Adam ate, too...
And so the sin of Eve is the salvation of Adam - because she died and was re-born and married the atom....the light.
Light is knowledge/intelligence.
All things are light - there really isn't anything else, only varied frequencies governing that light....
thoughts are things
make your thoughts COUNT
see?
I wished upon a star I'd never seen, before, 2 summers ago in 2004....it rose each day before dawn and when I saw that star, I knew home was near
(whatever that means - all I know is I never felt homesick again after feeling alone for 36 years).
So..the 7.2 years until 2012 is covered with a few weeks to spare!
....it started June 8, 2004 with the Venus Transit...
I know because I was standing on the watchtower that night for all 3 watches!
It's taken care of but yet remember what I said - it is for all of us not just a few or one or two...
FOR THE ALL!