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Questions and Answers - Number Three
Are
you telling me that cause and effect really doesn't rule life's actions? Then what does karma have to do
with us or is there really and if so that is cause and effect.
scientifically then, does cause and effect really exist? Show me specifically
how you can say there is no cause and effect in the world
It
sounds as if you are looking for outside proof for reality creation,
which is something that no outside source can provide for you. The concept
of conscious creation is based on the premise that each of us creates
the reality we perceive. You then are the only person who can provide
any proof for yourself.
You
mentioned science, which is a belief system that is based around only
those things in physical reality which can be measured. Conscious creation
does not fit into the framework of science, from the scientific perspective
it is literally "non-sense."
The
concept of cause and effect as it is normally understood does not apply
to conscious creation. It is based on linear time, which is an illusion,
and it pre-supposes the concept of absolute freedom. As a conscious
creator, YOU are the cause and reality is the effect. Your beliefs and
intent cause reality to be formed around you, and the world you perceive
is the effect. However, if you BELIEVE in the scientifically-based
idea of cause and effect, that will be your experience.
As
for karma, the concept varies from various religions and belief systems,
but the common definition is based very much on linear time: What you
do in this life has an effect on the next one. When you step out of
the illusion of linear time, this definition falls apart, since all
lives are happening in the NOW moment.
From
a perspective of simultaneous time, karma looks very different. Instead
of a cause and effect duality, it becomes a communication based on unity.
Imagine that when you are not focused in physical reality (such as when
your asleep) there is a conversation among all your various "reincarnational"
selves. Experiences and lessons learned are being shared, each learning
from the other, rather than any one being punished for a deed done in
the preceding life.
Ultimately,
you are your own guide; if this or any other material does not resonate
with you then discard it freely. You are your own best judge and all
paths are equally valid. We have offered conscious creation because
it has been successful for us and we enjoy sharing the concepts with
others, we make no claims to having a monopoly on "the truth."
What
about limitations that we perceive right now. Sometimes even if I am filled with creative energy I can get tired
later, and for each wish or reality that I want to create I must
have enough wish power or creative energy focused. Even if I feel joy
in imagining the "positive" change. What if I need to change
a lot of things in my world? As time passes by I have more and more
ideas, or details that I sense, and by doing it seems that I'm getting
out of resources. I'm losing focus for some things. Are we limited
or I just need to gain more energy and focus by centering into my love
field. How can I do that? It seems to me that we have to go through
periods of recovering energy too. Or can we just wish for more energy
so we can do creation continuously, and during sleep or meditation
we can imagine that we are resting multiplying the effect 100
times? I suppose (even sure) that there are no limitations out of the material
world, but where is the catch then?
It's
true that there are no limitations (except those that we create for
ourselves <grin>) but the shifts in personal energy are not an uncommon
occurrence. There is no trick or technique specifically for centering
yourself in love, though affirmations or visualizations might be helpful.
It
sounds like you might be pushing "too hard" or putting more effort then
necessary into your creations. Remember that once you are setting the
process in motion, it will build momentum and you don't have to "push"
as hard. Trust the process and act in harmony with your own inspiration.
And
this segment was a comment more than a question, but we wanted to include
it in this post.
In
reference to the question about individuality and
separateness -- I've been thinking this way
so long that
I can't remember when I realized that it was
like a body
part, as it relates to a body. e.g. A
leg or an arm is a part
of your body( individual and unique, it is also
a part of
your total body (the whole or God consciousness)
The leg
doesn't stop being a leg or individual just
because it is a part
of the body or the whole. We are a part of the
whole God
and just like any body part we don't stop being
unique
because we are a part of the whole ( God Consciousness).
I hope this may help any of you who are where
I was when
I first confronted with this truth a while ago.
And
another similar expression:
The
comment I wanted to make, was because there
seem to be some on the course who are having
difficulty
with the concept of unity and separation. Many
years ago
I read a small book, written by a man who's
name I can't
recall unfortunately, but who had experienced
a physical
death (heart attack or something) and had been
brought
back by ambulance or medical staff. His experience
of
death was that he had access to all the answers,
for all the
questions he had wondered about while here...
He said the
veil of forgetfulness had been lifted, and on
his return to
his body life here it remained lifted. His description
of the
individual vs. unity was this - that all consciousness
is like
water in a pool. And individuals are like single
droplets of
water. These drops can merge completely to become
the
"body" of water, but also retain their individual
droplet
awareness - while being totally merged.
Back
to the Questions....
Just
finished lesson five.. very interesting, and a different
thought, for me, came to mind.. I agree certainly
about
dreaming........ Is it possible, in an unlimited
thinking, that
in creating our dramas, as in dreams, if we
could experience
them only as experiences, without the major
attachments...
(ex. riding in the car, then your on the bike
and it just is so..)
our interaction with others, also be created
strictly for our
own experience and they would not even necessarily
know..
be aware of our experience???? Then this
would put another
slant on karma... maybe its not at all what
I have thought it to
be.. and maybe "what comes around, goes around"
would
then carry our experience in creating... I can
recall several
times when another has walked away with a very
different idea
of what occurred than I ..... So then would
this mean , realizing
ones own powerself, would not have the impact
upon another
as I have thought.. the experience would strictly
be mine....
unless it was a group experience.. and even
then my personal
control to create, would be completely
mine, and would have
nothing really to do with another... To thy
own self be true!
WOW. Hope I have made my meaning clear, this
really is a
very exciting thought. Lots of old sayings
come to mind..
make more sense.. "I'm not my brothers keeper"
for instance...
Well thanks for listening.. going to work on
this a little more.
Technically,
you can never "do something to" another person without their permission
- you will draw people to you that are a vibratory match to you, although
you may play varied roles within that vibration. For instance,
if you vibrate in duality with a victim mentality, you will draw others
who also believe in victims. Believing in victims also requires
a perpetrator, of course. So in some relationships you may experience
being a victim, and in others, you may experience being a perpetrator
- getting to see both sides of the coin. This is yet another way
to look at the usual concept of "karma".
And
yes, there are many times when two people will walk away from an event
with completely different ideas of what "really happened" there.
One obvious example of this is to ask siblings (and their parents) about
events from their childhood - not one person will remember that time
in the same way. Perspective is a very real and literal concept
here. When we sit down to dinner, John experiences a different
"perspective" or "space continuum" than Kristen does. If we talk
about it later, we may realize some of the discrepancies that we overlooked
as irrelevant or weren't even aware of at the time. Truthfully,
we experience different probabilities/perspectives from others all the
time - some have more details in common, some are so different we sometimes
wonder if we were talking about the same event at ALL!
This
next post was broken up into parts...
In
my own life there is a difference, I can take the pain
or illness from another but not myself.
I learned via
experience that if I fight a reality I only
draw more. In
other words if I have a problem I don't dwell
on it
because it seems to draw more of the same, I
try to
let it flow through me and release it.
It's
wonderful that you help others recover from pain or illness. Sometimes
we're are simply not USED to looking at ourselves the same way we look
at others, or helping ourselves the same way we help others. When
you help to heal others, you are directing love/energy their way.
Do you do the same when you "don't dwell on" your own problem or do
you try to ignore it?
There
is a difference between not giving something energy or not focusing
on something and ignoring your own problems. Most of us grow up
thinking that it's not okay to "complain" that we feel we have problems
at all. And sometimes, as you said, we try not to focus on how
bad we feel because we're afraid of feeling worse.
However,
there's comes a point when you are ready to really look at the problem
directly, especially if it doesn't simply go away on its own.
If something doesn't just dissolve when you redirect your focus it usually
means there is some emotional attachment to the situation. This
could mean that while you're trying to let it go, you can't until you
find out WHY.
continued...
My
husband of 12 years now is my problem... I don't
like to criticize, but he is lazy and thinks
he knows
everything. Cannot hold a job, complains about
everything
in fact I lost patience one day and told him
he would bitch
if hung with a new rope. He is a terrible
hypochondriac and
if I have a pain he has it to but worse.
Relationships
can sometimes be the most challenging parts of our lives to untangle.
We have to figure out what we're focusing on, how the other person is
cooperating with our own beliefs and expectations (whether or not we're
conscious of them), and how to choose a new focus.
One
of the most interesting things about a relationship between two people
is that often each person will become polarized, expressing one side
of a coin, as the other person expresses the other half. And many
times we experience situations with other people to see what we are
projecting away from us. For instance, you mentioned that you
were a healer and helped others, that you are married to a hypochondriac,
and that you try not to dwell on your own problems. If you try
not to dwell on your own problems, especially when you are talking with
others, perhaps your husband's hypochondria is a dramatic overcompensation
for you being UNABLE to express your pains. If you are critical
of his pains, you may be expressing a judgment you've internalized against
expressing your OWN pains. In other words, when we criticize someone
else, we are actually criticizing ourSELVES, but we are expressing it
with someone else.
Let
me offer an example. Let's say I grew up with my parents always
criticizing me for not washing the dishes. As an adult, if I have
not released this behavioral pattern, it may manifest in many ways.
I may still rebel against washing my own dishes until the last minute
and then criticize mySELF (having taken the voice of my parents within
me) for not doing the dishes. Or, I may do my own dishes so that
I can avoid the feelings of judgment around the issue, but criticize
someone close to me who is not doing dishes. Why would we criticize
someone else? Because we're still holding onto the judgment ourselves
- we're just avoiding the circumstances that cause the judgment to come
out. I may believe I am a bad person because I have not done the
dishes, so I do the dishes so that I can feel good about myself.
To release this criticism, we must look it in the eye and say, "I am
a good person even though I HAVEN'T taken this action. I deserve
love even though my dishes are still dirty." That's where we start
to heal ourselves. And when we heal ourselves and our unconscious
behavior patterns, we create different events in our reality to reflect
that new self-healing.
For
instance, if your husband complains all the time and you criticize him
for it, is this event a mirror for some behavior pattern that you may
have experienced growing up? Did your parents tell you not to
complain? Did your parents criticize you for expressing unhappiness?
There is nothing wrong at all with expressing how we feel in the moment,
although we sometimes grow up with a lot of judgments about what makes
us a good person and what doesn't. Expressing unhappiness doesn't
mean we keep creating unhappiness. It means we allow the energy
(the emotion) of our experience of the current situation to flow through
us and leave. Often an experience of unhappiness, when we allow
ourselves to express it, will offer us a contrast and help us decide
what we would RATHER experience, but first we must release the pent
up energy that we have, before, refused to express.
I
saw potential in this man and began teaching him
the spiritual ways of my people as well as some
of
what I have learned in my journey. Meditation,
and
focus. He tells me I am full of hooey that he
does
meditation in his own way, which seems to be
losing himself in the television and he creates
a
separate world in his mind where he thinks he
has psychic ability, leadership ability and
everyone
owes him.
Him
telling you that it's a bunch of hooey could be a voice of criticism
about your own doubts about your path. If it bothers you when
he says this, then most likely there is a place within you that you
need to love and accept unconditionally. Even in a close relationship,
it's completely okay if your husband believes differently from you.
And - here's a tough one for many - YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING
YOUR HUSBAND, OR ANYONE, ANYTHING. (Great advice coming in the
form of an email class!) What if you stepped back from
the situation and simply allowed him to "meditate" anyway he wants to?
If this is difficult for you, you may want to look at your beliefs around
this. WHY is this difficult?
And
even if you think you know that your husband is kidding himself, what
if you ceased criticizing him and started supporting his ideas?
You don't have to agree with his ideas to support HIM emotionally.
And, if you want to look at this creation more deeply, as you begin
to offer unconditional love to your husband, you are also learning to
allow it for yourself, because you are starting to step away from the
focus on criticism. When you are not sure what to do, ask yourself,
"What would love do? I choose love." Other people can sometimes
be our best teachers for what we are unaware of inside ourSELVES, ironically.
It
is as if he feels he doesn't need to work for what he
or we need because he will weedle (I call it)
or cause
others to feel they have to provide what we
need....
food, cigarettes, vehicle repairs, everything.
I on the
other hand feel it is up to us to earn what
we get. I am
not comfortable having others helping us all
the time, and
he uses me to get what he wants from others.
People have
actually told me that they do for us not for
him but for me...
this gives me a guilty feeling I can not shake
off. I appreciate
the help, don't misunderstand me. but my husband
is not
crippled (really) He just doesn't like to be
as he calls it
controlled (told what to do at a job) resents
any authority.
How can I create my reality when I must fight
this all the
time. again when I resist, I draw more of the
same.
Here
is the important point, which you have stated quite clearly. You
BELIEVE you must fight these tendencies in him you do not approve of.
However, and you know this, what you resist persists, because you get
what you focus on. The only way to release something is to love
it, to say, "It's okay just as it is, and there's nothing I need to
do to change it." After a lifetime of struggling, this is not
always the easiest task, to release struggle, but it is important.
This doesn't mean you are letting his ideas take over your efforts.
But you do not need to struggle against HIS ideas and attitudes in order
to create what you want for yourself. Sometimes we grow up believing
that in order to have what we want others must agree with us.
And when they DON'T agree with us, we feel we must try to convince or
manipulate them so that we can have what we want. You can release
this belief. Notice how much energy you focus on what HE is doing
instead of what YOU are doing and how YOU are thinking.
When
we stop struggling against someone, we are breaking a pattern of energy
expression for ourselves. "Others" might resist our change, but
they are free to resist it if they want. So we stop struggling
and start becoming conscious of what words and feelings we project towards
another person, and realize we have also been projecting towards ourselves.
Then, choose love - unconditional love - not matter how "horrible" or
"inappropriate" or "lazy" someone might appear to be. And then
we can also forgive ourselves for these judgments and begin choosing
love instead of separation. You may also want to develop a vision
for the kind of relationship you would PREFER to have with your husband,
and with yourSELF as well.
Along
the way, things may get confusing for a while, but remember that you
can always trust yourself - if you have a question, ask it. The
answers may come in many surprising ways.
The
question I have is that though I am fully
aware I am still creating the circumstances
of my existence, I have yet to allow many
of the things which I truly desire to create
into my life. I would like to identify
what I
am allowing to block me, or learn how to go
about allowing myself to understand and
remove the block.
I
understand that gratitude is important. As well as
forgiveness and love of self. I understand
that fear
and doubt close many doors which we wish to
open for ourselves. I also understand
that part
of creating is understanding that we already
have
what we desire, though oftentimes there is still
the veil
of illusion preventing us from seeing it.
In
your post, you also described the feeling you had when you did your
first manifestation in such a magical and simple way and that you still
remembered that feeling. When we create what we want, we have
taken that item, person, or event, the FEELING of it, and have brought
it within us. Technically, we have internalized the vibration
of the desired creation, and when we have internalized something, we
have made it a part of us. (And whether this is a desirable or
undesirable thing) it is now a part of our vibration and expression
and will be manifested in physical reality. How do you FEEL about
these things that you want to create? When you think about them,
if you are unable to hold the resonance and feeling of love and complete
acceptance for these creations, pay close attention to the feelings
or thoughts that come up around it.
Because
you haven't manifested it yet, you are still technically "separate"
from the creation, and separation often manifests as feelings of fear.
Are you afraid that you won't be able to create what you want, or are
you afraid that you WILL? Are you afraid of consciously admitting
your power to create? Do you experience any kinds of judgments
about what's okay to have and what's not?
In
our own experiences, when we try to make large changes to our lives
(like creating a mate or a perfect job, instead of simply creating a
parking space) we must change our vibration. Changing our vibration
can be a process by which we experience various events that help us
to spot what limiting beliefs or emotional blockages we still have.
If a manifestation feels like it's taking a long time, you may have
a larger vibration shift to make before you are aligned with the vibration
of what you want. But don't worry, your inner Self (you, of course)
is leading you even when you don't know where you are going. Trust
that your destination is assured and allow the events between you and
your creation to unfold as they may.
So,
I suppose the real issue here as you have
pointed out is doubt and fear. How to
get past
that hump even when you know that it actually
isn't real.
You
trust yourself. And you continually CHOOSE to trust yourself even
in situations where you feel doubt and fear. "I may feel fearful
right now, but I'm going to trust myself anyway." One of the subtle
judgments many grow up with is that it's not okay to feel completely
fear-free, to trust yourself completely, to feel utterly confident in
your life here (no matter what it looks like), etc. But it's perfectly
fine not to feel doubt and fear anymore - remind yourself of this.
And in every situation where doubt and fear pop up out of habit, you
have an opportunity to see a place you used to unconsciously choose
fear and separation and to make a new choice. Ultimately there's
no fix but choosing love and trust instead of doubt and fear.
I
would assume, dangerous word I know, that basically
this means if we can imagine it then we can
live it. So
taken to the extreme this would mean that I
could wake
up in my current world work through lunch and
then decide
that I want be Darth Vader from Star Wars for
several years
and come back to this "reality" without missing
a beat. I
know this is extreme but I am trying to test
the boundaries
here.
Yes.
Of course we'll say yes! Anything and everything
is possible, and you get to choose EXACTLY what you want to experience.
Nothing is impossible. You create what you focus on and what you
put energy into. The key here is to free up the energy that is
habitually and unconsciously focused in places you are truly NOT interested
so that you can fully focus on the adventure you really want to experience.
Secondly,
if we all have our own space continuum this
means that the people we are dealing with are
just our
own personal holograms of these people and that
what
we do in relationship to or with them really
has no impact
on them specifically. They would just
experience what
they are creating. So I guess my question
is are we really
dealing with others or am I just playing with
myself here,
no pun intended. I guess this goes back
to that
whole thing of I am GOD and everything and
everyone else is just a figment of my imagination
that I created to keep me entertained.
You
are god. Everyone else is god too. You are as real as we
are, and as unreal as well <grin> You are creating an interpretation
of their energy just as they are creating an interpretation of yours.
You are in complete "control" of your own space continuum and will attract
people who resonate with your own vibrational state and the thoughts
and beliefs that you choose. It's another one of those interesting
paradoxes - you are in complete charge of your own experiences and you
interact with other who are just as real as you, but you do not CONTROL
them.
For
instance, say you are in a loveless relationship and want to spice it
up, so you start focusing on the kind of relationship you really DO
want. Next thing you know, your previous partner has left and
a new one comes into the picture. Perhaps your previous partner
did not want to experience the same kind of relationship that you now
chose to, but you attracted one that does. You did not "control"
these people or make anyone do anything, but you got exactly what you
wanted. One of the key things here is to let go of any specific
symbol in physical reality that you are attached to - allow your symbols
to shift around and adequately reflect who you really are. In
some cases, your previous partner may also decide to change and experience
a new reality with you. Most often if we have attached ourselves
too much to a specific symbol, we'll have to let go of it in order to
allow ourselves to change. By "symbol" I mean any physical representation
of an energy or vibration - could be a person, an event, an object,
or a kind of situation.
I
have read about how by changing your NOW
you can change your past. I have understood
that,
up to this point, to mean that through a more
complete
understanding of your NOW you can change how
you
feel about your past but I am wondering about
changing
the actual events. I think that you could
pick to
experience a similar event but how would that
work
out. Would you now remember the new event
as
your actual past and the old one as a possibility
now
or would you remember experiencing two different
events for the same time period?
When
we look at a "past" event with a new perspective, we are actually choosing
a new probability where different events occur that more resonate with
our new perspective. As we go through our own changes in the NOW
and apply this to a "past" event, we will be gradually shifting probabilities
to another alignment. Eventually (and we have had our own experiences
with this as well as talked with others) you will experience the new
probability "past" as more vivid, real, and "present" and the old "past"
will seem more hazy and unclear, as if it were a dream. The more
"vibrational difference" we have between two events - for instance,
if we focus on love or on criticism (two different kinds of vibrational
states) the more psychological "distance" there seems to be between
the two.
Why
"101", why is the course called "reality creation
101"? What next? Do you know whether there will
be
a discussion list as a follow to the course?
We
called this course "Reality Creation 101" because while it discusses
the general ideas behind how to consciously create reality, it would
have taken at least a year-long course to discuss all of the specific
nuances of the concepts and the specific kinds of applications of the
concepts that people experience. For instance, we could spend
an entire year talking about nonlinear time and multidimensionality
and how it relates to conscious creation, but we wanted to touch on
the key points.
If
you're very confused and don't really know what
to do, can you then trust your unconsciousness
to
give you the right inputs and opportunities
that your
consciousness then can grab and make use of
?
Most
definitely! If you can ask the question, you already know the
answer! Just ask with the intention to receive the answer and
be open to receiving it in any way that it wants to come. Sometimes,
the most difficult thing to do is "nothing," you might not feel like
any action is the "right" one, in which case not taking action might
be the correct choice.
End
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