Putting a Couple of Ideas Together
In the interests of integration, I have been putting together some
of the basic ideas of ‘you create your own reality' thinking. It's fun
to extrapolate some of these ideas and see what they look like in
combination with each other.
The basic idea, obviously, is that we each create our own experience of reality right down to the molecular level. [Whether
we literally create our own reality, or merely create our experience of
our reality, or it's only our perception of our reality, it all amounts
to the same thing.]
The second idea that impacts greatly on the first one, is the idea
that the ‘we' that is conscious and thinks about our life here, is only
a small part of the ‘we' that is creating the whole of our reality for
us, moment-to-moment.
There is much more of us involved in this grand endeavor than our
conscious daily thoughts and beliefs. Kris has called the conscious
part of ourselves ‘the thinker' and our neo-conscious selves - our
whole self - is ‘the maker'. And it is at the layer of the 'maker' that
our material creation energies come into play to actually manifest our
reality.
This is a realm within ourselves that our conscious awareness almost never visits, 
although there is no prohibition. [Does
this suggest that our conscious awareness can travel ANYwhere within
the neo-conscious? And still maintain appropriate recognition of the
various layers of self involved in the gestalt, including and without
diminishing the focal personality!]
The neo-conscious is not the ‘un'-conscious or the ‘sub'-conscious
and does not exclude the conscious. The neo-conscious encompasses the
totality of what we are aware of at any level; our conscious awareness,
plus our subjective awareness, and in expanding layers, our awareness
as essence, entity, and eventually ATI.
When we put these two ideas together we understand that our stance
regarding our neo-conscious must be based on trust of our whole selves
to create the experiences we want - without our direct supervision, so
to speak. This is why the ‘dead guys' always stress trusting ourselves
and our essential goodness.
This also places a huge premium on knowing our selves, including our
whole selves, as best we can. This is why the ‘dead guys' are always
talking about noticing what we are doing, and accepting ourselves
without judgement.
If we don't know and trust our whole selves, the conscious part of
us - the thinker - may start to think of the part of us that is
creating our reality - the maker - as an unpredictable stranger. [and if that's what we're 'thinkin', that's what we're 'makin'!]
Be Gentle With Yourself
This brings me to the last idea for today. All the ‘dead guys', to a man, [woman, source, spirit, energy, genderless sensuality... ;]
regardless of gender they all admonish us to be gentle with ourselves.
This makes good sense when you think about it because if we create our
own reality, we are the sole source and cause of every unpleasant and difficult thing that has ever happened to us! [We don't just make the nice bits of our reality, we make it all]
So do your world a big favor and be good to yourself.
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Illustration - This lovely image is from an e-business site, artist unknown.