Who Creates Reality? Part II
Grace of ‘The Phoenix Effect’ left a very thought provoking comment to “Who Creates Reality”. In the comment, Grace asks many important questions. Questions which most of us ask as we attempt to understand the “why’s” of the Universe. I have chosen to address some of her questions in this format, for I believe they are questions which are great for discussion and to answer them in the comment section would be to limiting.
Grace’s first series of questions were, “So then no ‘destiny’ is involved? Nothing happens to us is pre-ordained I struggle with this. Did the people who lost their lives on that bridge, or the children that have starved to death in Dafur, or the babies that are murdered by their parents?
Did my neighbor create her breast cancer? Did her daughter?”
Note, if you have been reading my writing for a while, you may have noticed that I very rarely use the word ‘God’. I try not to use the word ‘God’ on purpose. I feel that the word ‘God’ creates limits for many people, most of us have a preconceived idea/image of ‘God’, therefore I use ‘The Universe’ or ‘Source’ in the place of the word ‘God’ in an effort to allow people to keep an open mind and not be as clouded by their own perceptions. With that being said, for today’s purpose I will use ‘Source’.
Most of us struggle with what appears to be the dark side of life. We have been brought up to believe in dualism, heaven and hell, ying and yang, good and bad. We even have adages to support the concept of dualism, “you have to take bad with the good”, “we must have rain to have rainbows”.
The big question that I want you to ponder today is this, If we believe that our Source is pure love and in being so, is pure perfection, then is it possible, even conceivable that our Source could create anything that is not perfect? Chew on that thought for a moment. You may struggle with this thought for a while, that’s okay, however invariably your answer must be that, our Source, which is pure love and perfection is not able to create anything other than love and perfection. Therefore everything is perfect in itself. Everything!!!! Now this goes against most of what you have been taught and probably against your logical, linear thinking self, however this is a great truth, everything is perfect! Our Source does not make mistakes, nor does it create bad things, nor does it punish you for your thoughts or behavior, nor does it play games with its creations to amuse itself.
Here in lies the struggle, if our Source is perfect, pure love, then how do we explain things like war, starvation, rape, murder, cancer, etc? Do we create that reality? The answer is yes! Most of humanity does not want to accept that. We want to point the finger someplace else. We want to say that the ‘devil’ did it, or we must suffer as a result of our past transgressions, or that we are at the mercy of a vengeful God, etc. We say anything to not believe that we could have possibly created a reality, which we view as bad. How is it possible that we could create the horrors that befall humanity? It must be some outside source, we certainly cannot be responsible for all of the horror and tragedies, which seem to randomly befall humankind.
The truth is, dualism is an illusion that we created to offer believable explanations that we are not in full control, that we often are victims of fate, destiny, etc.
Everyone and everything has a purpose and is perfect within that purpose. Our thoughts, both collective and individual create our reality, a reality that is subject to our perception of good, bad, etc.
Do we have a destiny? Do we have an overruling purpose to our existence? Yes! We are with purpose and our purpose is our destiny, however there is not a pre-set path that you must or will follow to fully realize your purpose. We will all achieve our purpose!
To better understand and grasp what I have said today, we must acknowledge that this form we are in now, is not who we are and that this form called ‘human’ is simply one form of many that we take. We are eternal, therefore not all must be learned or even understood within this human lifetime.
I have laid out before you some pretty heavy thoughts to consider. There is much more to be said, however we will do that another day.
Grace asked more questions in her comment which we will discuss in the near future.
Love and peace!
As much as we might control our destiny we still sometimes are a “victim” of fate. This can’t be helped because there are so many of us walking around making choices. Other people’s choices affect us. This can not be avoided. We create our own destinies but never without jumping over hurdles. This by design is to make us stronger better individuals. I don’t believe that we are in total control and never will be here on earth and I think that is simply because we are here to learn and if we had complete control we would never learn anything. However, we all have much more control than we realize and we all have the power to make our lives here the best that they can be. I agree we all have a purpose and part of our life lessons revolves around discovering that purpose and making the most of it. I also agree that our destinies are not written in stone they are empty slates waiting for our scripts! Very thought provoking article today Mark! Thank you for giving us all much to think about!
I say there is no such thing as darkness, merely places less illuminated than others.
Physicists are clear that there is no such thing as cold, everything has heat.
Absolute Zero.
Of course we as humans can only exist within a narrow range of temperatures.
This creates a perception of relative cold and hot which are effectively absolute as to our ability to survive in this form if we were to experience it directly.
Hi Mark,
Our source creates everything as you so elegantly state. We are surrounded by the varying textures and patterns of life which comes in an array of colors. We may not like them all, but they are all part of the fabric we require to be released from our mortal coil. Once we learn to eradicate our preconceptions and embrace the darkness, we will understand the purpose of light and find comfort in our source.
Hi Mark:
I believe that our perception of a situation creates how we feel. Either we can move forward with our lives or think constantly about the situation. Take for example if your car won’t start one person will go back to bed and feel life is so hard, while another person would call someone to fix the car. The choice is ours. Helen
Ahhh Mark, my friend, I like the way you think!
You always give me fun stuff to explore!
I sense the duality came from an awareness of the surivial needs of our ancestors (for the past few billion years), and the more recent survival needs of the human. IOW, the selfishness that has contributed to the emergence of life in this form, and, the unselfishness of understandin our oneness.
However, from my perspective, I sense that source is not external from us… we are a form expressing the Source but not separate from it.
Our unique sense of individuation, is what the universe has brought forth, only one tiny facet of potentiality.
Ohhh I could discuss this topic for a few days with ya!
If you are ever in need of a topic on which to blog, I would love to hear your thoughts on the afterlife.
Thanks for your light and inspiration and wisdom Mark… gosh I appreciate finding you in this cyber world!
Jen
I feel this way as well, that we were given everything in it purest form. We must just learn how to be responsible for it.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, Mark
While I understand what you are saying – and have heard that line of reasoning before – I’m not sure that it answers ‘my’ questions.
If I may make this personal for a moment. You spoke awhile back about your mother, I believe. Are you saying that she created her illness? Those in the Blogworld…who are suffering with cancer…or are abuse and rape survivors. Are THEY responsible for the horror that fell upon them?
Now, I can totally see where certain actions & decisions of our own ‘create’ a reality by their consequences. Got that. But let me tell you, I do NOT see how the mother of a spina bifida child ‘created’ that scenario…or how the child would have. I do NOT see how the children in Iraq – that are having their limbs blown off – are creating THEIR reality. This isn’t to say I’m attributing those nightmares to “God”. I don’t. A small collective of people created those realities. But from that poor baby’s perspective??? This line of thinking is still not working for me.
I guess I’m just dense. And as far as ‘duality’ is concerned, I live in a material world. When I flip on the switch, I get light. When I flip it off, I get dark. I make a judgement: Jeffrey Damer’s actions were “BAD”. I make another judgement: Mother Teresa’s actions were “GOOD”.
*sigh* Seems I’m forever a literalist in a relative world. Or something. LOL
BUT THANK YOU, my dear friend, for your time and attention. Perhaps one day it will all sink in.
{{grace}} Most often the times you have mentioned are times of ’sowing’. Our RESPONSES to these events tell all, not the events themselves. As Mothers we understand how each child undergoes development through challenges and facing ‘new’ situations. Development of our ‘inner child’ proceeds the same way. While a lot of us Mothers think to spare our children the potholes and unpleasantries in life, it is those potholes and facing those potholes, that create inner substance of character and emotional coping skills.
It also is a matter of perception as to what constitues ‘life’. When our awareness is limited to 3d, we have a tendency to define life in terms of 3d, too.
Energy from Source is Pure. Once we qualify it, as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ we are responsible and accountible for that qualification. Everything we have qualified as ‘bad’, will eventually return to us for transmutation and release, so then that energy may again return to Source, in its pure state.
Much insight canmbe gleaned by pondering our coping skills and relating those skills to the fact that our peptide production is under our own individual control. The majority of us, have been trained and raised to be emotional dependents, not Sovereigns.
Blessings to you.
ps. When I flip on a light in a dark room, there is no battle. I won’t even find darkness hiding or lurking in any corner if my bulb is of sufficient wattage. Such is always the sace with Illumination.
No amount of light wattage can penetrate a solid barrier, just remember that.
We as humans presume that we are above and beyond everything else in nature because we are aware of our own existence. In nature, things die, and are born. There is no regret by the trees if a forest is burned down, or if the neighboring petunias if a garden of flowers die. If animals or insects lose their lives, we are sad, but it’s not a moral dilemma. It’s not as if something clearly “bad” has happened. If mountains, rivers, rocks and sand lose their form and become something else, we don’t mourn.
Yet, humans – if we die – it’s something much worse. It’s as if our deaths and the changing of human flesh into another form in nature is more important than anything else in the universe. It’s the only thing that is worth mourning.
Nature, or in other words, the source, has no concept of good and bad. That’s a human creation. Things are “good” if they match what we want, and “bad” if they go against what we want. But to the universe, the plants, the sand, animals, the sun, none of anything else in the entire universe would agree with our idea of what is good and bad.
The idea of “how can God/the universe/the source” create things that are “bad” is a question that is only answered with “why does our personal opinion of what is bad trump the natural events of the universe? Why does our personal opinion of good and bad mean anything?” Because we say it does. If we didn’t say it means something, then it doesn’t.
Seems pretty self-centered and narcissistic, eh? For humans to decide for the universe what is good and bad and how it should behave itself so it works the way we think it should?
That’s the reason why bad things happen. Because we say they happen. We’re actually one of the unlucky ones because we know what’s going to happen to us. We’re going to die. And for far too many of us, that understanding gets in the way of our living. Everything else on this planet doesn’t have this unlucky privilege.
I want to try and explain further what I meant. To me it is like a huge gift of pureness was created and given to us without any type of conditions attached, it was ours to do what we wished. But maybe we have no idea what to do with it as yet, and since it is without conditions we experiment to see what it is capable of, but through these experiements many other things can come about, some of which may not be so pure in its result. Maybe we are still learning what our actions and reactions to this gift cause, and we have yet to know how to be fully responsible with it in order to keep it in the state that this gift was intended.
Tammy, we don’t die, we transform. We are just manifestations of ourselves.
Tumel, there are no conditions to use any power in the universe, but there are consequences.
I wonder if energy in its purest form is unpredictable, nature to me is energy, and it is unpredicatable.
Desiree,
Thanks for your thoughts. I understand what you are saying about other people having an impact on us that we can’t control. I am not sure that this is true. If I follow your thought correctly, then an innocent bystander who gets shot in a drive by shooting is not in control. I believe there is an element of control, I believe that we are given a knowing. There are times where you make a plan to do something and right before you do it, you get a feeling or a notion that you should do something differently. If you choose to listen to that feeling and act on it, then you could have avoided something like an accident or whatever, however if you choose to ignore this awareness they you may place yourself in a bad situtation. I don’t believe that this is your fate, your fate can be altered by your choices and your awareness.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Whig,
Thanks for all of your comments and thoughts. I agree, we are eternal energy which transforms from one form to another. Even while we are in human form we transform over and over again as our form ages.
Not sure I understand where you are going with the body tempeture, other than that you are elluding to the fact that all is an illusion which we have much control over.
Alexys,
So very well said. I think one of the other key componets to understanding source and preceived limits is to understand that we are so much more than our current form and that we go beyond form in many ways.
Great thoughts, thanks for sharing.
Helen,
You are correct, choices are a key part in creating our reality, however it goes way beyond our choices, it goes down to our very thoughts and what level of vibration our energy is at.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Jen,
I agree, source is not external, we have the abiltiy however to seperate on a intellectual level from source and that is where the majority of our angst comes from. The other factor is that we think that we are our form and fail to realize that this form is not us, nor our we limited to our form.
Thank-you for your kind words and thoughts.
I will consider doing a post on beliefs of afterlife next week. This is a great topic for discussion. Do you think we are ready for it? Ha.
Tumel,
I agree with your thoughts. I would add that one of the biggest limits that we self impose is that we are limited to learning all of this within this human lifetime. I don’t believe that limit exists, we are eternal and we may shift forms many times as you travel along our journey.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Grace,
The human body breaks down, that is a fact. Is my Mother responsible for her illness at age 86, to some extent she may be, to a larger extent her current form is at its expiration date and she is getting ready to transform.
I do believe that yes, in a way, we all do create are reality, even the horrors which befall us. There is indiviudal and collective energy which creates this reality, we are all responsible in one way or another for what we preceive as good and bad.
I think to that we think of only this current form in which we reside, we do not take into consideration of previous forms which came before. We are eternal energy, a baby is simply in new form, not new energy, soul or spirit.
I know that this is a lot to digest. It is a lot to consider and think about and that is what we are doing in this discussion. I deeply appreciate all of your thoughts.
Sue Ann,
Thank-you for such and elequent explanation! Right, wrong, good, bad, are all are perceptions. Source is love and perfection therefore all is perfect as it should be. There are no mistakes in a Universal sense.
I love your thought process!
Tammy,
Love your thoughts that you expressed here! Once we understand that we are spirit in form and not a form who has a spirit, then the issue of the death of our form will cease to exist and we will begin to understand that we are not limited by our form rather only limited by our thoughts.
Thank-you so much for sharing your thoughts.
{{Whig}}, Science has even proved ’solid’ is an illusion. Again I say wattage of bulb is what makes the difference when it comes to Illumination. So says this Engineer, who among other things, used to design electrical distritution systems for Power Companies.
Yes, there are those of us in the world who express unattractive and disrespectful behaviour. But this behaviour is a symptom of mistakes of Nurture, not Nature. Addressing the cause, is the way to eliminate the behavoir. Deal with the dis-ease and the symptoms go away.
It seems that there are many more comments once I got beyond this one of Grace’s….so I may be repeating, but I felt a response well up, so I skipped down here to write.
If I may make this personal for a moment. You spoke awhile back about your mother, I believe. Are you saying that she created her illness? Those in the Blogworld…who are suffering with cancer…or are abuse and rape survivors. Are THEY responsible for the horror that fell upon them?
Responsible…perhaps, perhaps not.
I think that souls seek lessons…and some times souls respond to others need for lessons, and sometimes people are just where they are when lessons happen.
Lessons are the same as experiences, the actions of fate, the need to explore the self and that isn’t relegated only to the light sides of life or self. It is also necessary to understand the dark of life and self.
Sometimes that means that one must be the victim…sometimes it means being a bystander as someone goes through a very difficult thing, sometimes it means doing something horrid, sometimes it means stepping in and offering the hand up and out, sometimes it simply means stepping up and fixing it even though you didn’t make the mess.
There are many shitty things that happen in life. But its still all a part of life.
Do I think I had war on my to do list for my soul lessons. Nope. I don’t think so. That doesn’t feel mine…but it does feel mine to lend a hand up and out…to give solace and healing where I can.
I was raped. Do I think I called it to myself? My soul did for reasons that don’t really matter here. Am I a masochist? Nope. I wouldn’t choose that with my intellect, but its a tool for the soul. A tool that could just as easily be to loose my arm or to break my back. Rape worked for what I needed…which was to be a wounded so that I could develop a certain sort of viewpoint that is relevant to now. Do I think I am responsible for his actions? Nope. That’s on him.
Do I forgive him? Yup.
Did I call upon myself being poor most of my life? No and yes. I have a greedy streak…so yes. It keeps me focused and no. I am in part also subject to why my husband is poor.
So…there’s the picture of the soul and the picture of the ego/personality. They are not the same and the motivations of each are not the same…but they do interplay in some fascinating ways….and it doesn’ t mean that you are victimizing yourself just because your soul took up a tool that worked for your needs.
Sue Ann, forgive me, I do not wish to argue, but to make a point that perhaps thermonuclear energy is unnecessary if you just use a mirror or two.
I understand that light waves do travel around barriers, but there are areas of relative shade nonetheless. I have already said and agree there is no shadow that is absolutely dark, and more wattage will illuminate everything more, at some expense of potentially blinding many of us.
I feel we have much much time to learn as well, do you think sometimes that we try to create what our next life might be? I do when I am consiously thinking about it, moreso since I have been reading about awareness here. It is scary in a way to me sometimes.
Sue Ann, I believe so much too that we must find out the true causes of certain things, instead of masking them with other things or ways.
Whig, I am wondering if the solid barrier could be our closed minds at times?
{{{hugs Every ONE}}}
Creating our own reality is a big pill to swallow for most of us. But once we get past our denials, much Wisdom can be gleaned as we endeavor to relate cause to effect. Especially when we start tuning in to our emotions and being Honest with ourselves about what these emotions are.
Doubt is not Love. Nor is Need. Both Doubt and Need sping from a lack of Love, not it’s presence. Nor is Fear of Death, Love of Life, for Death and Dis-ease are parts of life, too.
Resurrection is a facet of Life.
Revealed to us every Spring.
Fear.
Now we do not have the power to do more than what we do together and in consent with one another, if we wish to end war.
I cannot shut off the knowledge of reality for the sake of philosophy. We have the ability to transform our realities, but we do it by following rules that are accepted by people if we want to be accepted by people.
But then I’m a perfect idiot much of the time and don’t know the rules at all. So there ya go.
Sue Ann,
Yes the key is in removing the dis-ease and replacing it with love.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Greenwoman,
Thank-you for such a great explanation of ego/personality and soul. You have hit the nail on the head, thank-you! You have added great value to this discussion.
Thank-you also for sharing so much about yourself. When you use the word ‘poor’ I am assuming poor in the way of economics, for I know that you are very rich in spirit and wisdom.
Whig,
You provide some interesting thoughts. I agree with some, am confused by others and on some I disagree. I do not agree that we most conform to the rules of the masses to transform are realities. In fact, often it is quite the opposite. Thanks for all of your thoughts.
Tumel,
I think that attempting to live for future lives, trying to create what we will be in future lifes is a common trap. We must always learn to live in the “now” and not be concerned with the illusion of the future. Living in the ‘now’ will accomplish all that we need and will remove the anxiety that we build when we attempt to plan for future lifes, next levels, etc.
I like your question to Whig.
Great thoughts, thanks for sharing!
I don’t think I said anything about “the masses” but transformation remains a group collaborative project, and there are rules of collaboration even when we are unaware of them or even the group. For any of us to become injurious to the work of another requires resolution or conflict. I am speaking of ourselves and our desire not to work at cross purposes, and hoping to achieve as much unity as possible.
What should humanity become?
I think humanity should become more natural.