We create our own reality.....
This is an idea that both intrigues us and challenges us. Many of us look around our private world or at the world at large, and think, ‘Who on earth would create this reality? I wouldn't’. But we do create it. We do so individually, and we do so collectively. I cannot tell you why this is so, or how it works, only that it does, and that it is completely in accordance with modern science and psychology.
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Let me clarify: When the sages and teachers say that we create our own reality, they do not mean that we create the world.
There is only one primal Source, and it is NOT us.
Science knows that there must have been a force that existed before the world began, a force that must have caused the quantum fluctuations that initiated the Big Bang, creating something (everything in that funnel in the picture) out of nothing. Call that pre-existing force God, if you like, or Universal Consciousness or just the Source.
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What do we create then?
The reality that we experience, individual and en masse. We create the nature and conditions of our experience in the world, a profoundly creative action that we are continually performing every moment of every day. We do it collectively, on another level of consciousness influencing through our collective beliefs, thoughts and vibrations the world that we see and experience; and individually, imprinting onto our perceived world our own fears, desires, expectations and beliefs that are always mirrored back to us.
We are not the Creator, but we are supremely creative beings.
One aspect of this is now accepted by science is 'the observer effect': that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. In 1935, Erwin Schrödinge came up with a thought experiment now called Schrödinger's cat to illustrate that.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaAxUO6-Uw
Much later, the observer effect was scientifically confirmed.
See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm
You can read about some experiments on the power of mind to influence matter. No easy videos: you have to read this:
https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/mind-over-matter-experiments/
Then there's my favourite philosophical/quantum science question about the falling tree. You’ve probably heard it before.
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Now let’s take it a step further. ‘If there is no one, no living thing around to see or hear it, does the tree even exist?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoUZJWKlyM
(obviously, someone did see and hear the tree fall, but pretend they didn't.)
Some scientists will say yes, that the tree exists and makes sound when it falls whether or not it is ever seen or heard by a living being. That’s the classical view of the world in which things have their own independent nature and lives. Quantum physicists might say no, that if there is no living being to observe the tree, it does not exist, because according to quantum physics there is no thing out there, just probabilities.
According to quantum physics (and also to some philosophies) reality is not made up of things that exist independently of us; it is comprised of infinite possibilities that exist as waves, fields or strings of energy (I go with fields) none of which manifests (in our reality, at least) until one probability is activated through thought or intention - The process for the most part is totally unconscious, but occurs with every choice we make: to cross the street or not, to smile or scowl, to be angry, afraid, calm or not and so on .......
Every choice and action has not just one but many probable consequences, about most of which we remain ignorant. (Some metaphysicians and some quantum theorists say that those probabilities that do not manifest in our dimension do so in different dimensions, but we won't go there).
If you do not see this as supremely creative action on our part, then also consider the intricate and extensive web or pattern of manifestations that each person generates through his or her choices and observations.
We even have the awesome ability to change the architecture of our brain with our thoughts and intentions. Just as we have created certain mental patterns over our lifetimes by having the same kinds of thoughts, beliefs and reactions to what happens around us, we can change our neural structure - create or reinforce or erase neural pathways by thinking and reacting differently, and changing our basic attitudes and beliefs. Its called neuroplasticity, and it gives us the capacity to heal sickness, replace old negative or fearful patterns of reaction and behaviour with new supportive, life-enhancing patterns.
You are free, of course, to see the universe as wholly predetermined, and your choices as fundamentally meaningless, but why would you?
You can choose to believe that your thoughts and intentions don't matter to anyone but you, and have no influence on the world around you. But again, why would you when you could put aside your skepticism and doubts (you can always get them back later, if you like), and enter into a grand experiment with consciousness.
Instead of feeling worthless, focus on those times you felt good about yourself, or what others find good in you.
Replace one negative, limiting, hurtful belief with a belief that is supportive, kind and optimistic. Work on it for at least a week, preferably three.
Stop lamenting about the state of the world, the environment, wrongdoing, etc. and take time every day to imagine what you would rather see in its place. Don't get too piddly about this, as you could get in the way of the creative forces. Just imagine how you'd like things to be, as if they really are that way.
Meditate, pray or simply send loving thoughts to help bring the world, a situation, a person into a balance and peace
© Tosca Zraikat Oct 2016
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