Are You Really The Creator of Your Reality?

So one of the big buzzwords floating around in the Law of Attraction community these days is the idea of being the creator of your reality.

I see a number of people claim to be awake once they learn about this, but really all that’s being done is the transformation from a traditional egoic identity to another more spiritual identity. This is not truly waking up beyond the dream.

“I” am the Creator of “MY” reality. So you’re suggesting there is supposedly both a creator and a reality that this creator is creating? This is a classic case of Subject/Object duality. From the perspective of awakening, it’s utter nonsense. It’s part of the illusion, not what’s actually happening.

False Identification

What are you?

Are you your job? “I am an investment banker.”

Do your actions define you? “I am a basketball player.”

If you were to stop doing those things and start doing something else, would you cease to exist? Of course not. So your current job is not literally what you are. Neither are the actions you take. You are here regardless of what job you have or what actions you take. Identifying with your job, or any activity for that matter, is yet another case of false identity.

So to identify with what you do is a case of mistaken identity. Classic ego.

The same applies to the activity of creation.

A Creator Implies Duality

For there to be a creator, there must also be a reality that the creator creates. The two go hand in hand. As soon as we create for ourselves the idea of a creator and a created reality, BAM! Instant duality.

The reality of the matter is that there is simply creation happening. (The recognition that everything already exists here and now beyond time and space and that truthfully there’s nothing new ever being created.. this is another matter, but that’s slightly beyond the scope of this article.)

In your own direct experience, rather than some spiritual theory, what’s actually happening here in this moment? Awareness is aware. Thoughts are being thought. Actions are being taken. A world is manifesting around you. Where is this “creator” thing people talk about? Can you find one? Or is it simply just some abstract thought? Where is the “me” that is this “creator”?

Who is the doer? There isn’t one!

Yes thoughts are an integral part of the creative process. Yes there is the ability to deliberately choose thoughts. Yes what you think about you bring about. Yes thought is the energy that creates worlds. All the stuff the LoA teaches you is true, but this is all part of the illusion.

Co-creation Implies Duality

If we settle for the idea of “I am the creator of my reality” and adopt that as our new sense of self, now the mind may mistakenly say, “Ah, now I know who I REALLY am,” a feeble attempt for the mind to recognize the Self. But that’s okay. This is all the innocent mind can really do. This is certainly a step in the right direction. It’s closer to the truth than “I am the victim of a power beyond my control.”

Seeing that “I” am the Creator of “my” reality and “you” are the creator of “your” reality and the two of us are, together, creating a shared reality, we are “co-creators.” Since there is more than one of us here creating, it’s duality and thus part of the dream.

This isn’t to say that the idea of being the creator of your reality is somehow wrong or invalid. No no. This is definitely the case in the world of the relative, but this is simply just another part of the dream state. What you truly are lies beyond the dream.

Non-dual Creation

What’s actually here is simply the unfoldment and flow of creation. To think that you are a single droplet in control is like trying to flail about and control the flow of the entire river. You actually are the totality of the river. When we stop struggling with life, we find that going with the flow or “turning downstream” as Abraham puts it is quite natural. Life becomes an experience of effortless creation.

Instead of “me” trying to control “my reality,” there’s a total letting go. In my experience, here’s the recipe for quick/instantaneous manifestation:

• A thought or desire arises from a state of pure joy and appreciation: “I would LOVE to do/have that!”
• The thought is experienced for just a moment.
• The thought fades away just like the breath after your previous exhale.
• You move right along with your life, completely forgetting about the desire.
• It just shows up on its own because you have allowed it to and offered it no desire.

Really the universe does all the hard work. All that’s done “on our part” is to enjoy/appreciate/focus up and then let go. That’s it. We’re not doing the heavy lifting. The universe is what does all the heavy lifting and figures out the “how.”

There is no creator and created. There is simply thought arising, a dreamworld happening, and awareness silently aware of it all. When they are all seen to be one, OF COURSE manifestation syncs up with thought. It must for there is nothing else out there!

Without the duality of a creator and a created, there is simply the unfoldment of creation of which everything is an integral and inseparable part.

Where is God in all this?

Saying that there is no Creator does NOT mean that there is no God. This is not what’s being said here.

Many people believe “God” is the creator and you and I are the created, separate from the Creator. The Creator is somewhere “out there” and the “created” is right over here.

But what is discovered is that there is no Creator or Created, independent of each other. There is simply the unfoldment of Creation. There is the flow of Life. There is the One, being. This unfoldment, this process, this being… this is God. This Life that you are, is God. You and God are One.

The attempt to split up “God” and “me” or the “human” and the “divine” or “heaven” and “earth” or the “Creator” and the “created” are all functions of the mind. They are illusory. The are based in duality.

You are God.

The human is divine.

Heaven and earth are one.

The creator and the created are the same exact thing.

This unity is experienced directly when we allow it to be, when we stop buying into our thoughts that suggest otherwise. Thoughts of separation may arise, and that’s not a problem. It’s buying into those thoughts as if they were the Truth that creates within us the experience of separation.

Enlightenment and the Law of Attraction Complement Each Other

With the Law of Attraction we have this mysterious non-physical Source *somewhere* through which we can feel our connection via our emotional guidance system.

Waking up and getting enlightened, we discover directly the presence of God Unmanifest, the emptiness, the nothingness, the unnameable, the Source of All That Is, prior to manifestation. We become that Source, or more accurately, we realize that we actually ARE that and have always been that. The recognition of what we truly are expands. The manifest physicalized presence here “on the leading edge” consciously unites with the unmanifest nonphysical presence of Source. In awakening, the unification of you and You, as Abraham puts it, becomes much more real as the apparent separation that previously seemed to be here vanishes. This happens because we see that the manifest and the unmanifest are one. The physical and the non-physical are one.

Awakening is about waking up out of the dream, but that doesn’t mean the dream necessarily ends. Mastering the Law of Attraction is about learning how to play with the dream in alignment with natural laws. The two go hand in hand and are both complementary pieces of the puzzles.

Both are valid. Both are functional. Both are just fine.

Going Beyond Identifying With a Creator

If you want to play the game of being the creator of your reality, by all means go for it! Have fun! Enjoy yourself! Play!

Just recognize that what you truly are is far deeper than any conceptual identity such as “a creator.”

What you truly are is totally independent of what you do. You just are.

What you truly are can’t be named. You just are.

What you truly are can’t be conceptualized. You just are.

It’s almost too simple for the mind to accept, and so the mind continues to run around under the delusion that “I can’t just be! I must be someone! Someone must be doing all this! I must be a someone, such as a spiritual/creative/enlightened someone!”

No mind, doesn’t work that way… What you really are is not a someone. It is not a something.

You are no thing arising as every thing. You are not anything as opposed to anything else. You are not a creator as opposed to a non-creator. You just are. You are a non-dual being.

Creation is gonna happen whether you mentally identify with being a creator or not. You don’t have to mentally identify with what you are to be what you are. Every specific mental identity is an extra layer on top of pure being. It can be stripped away. You remain.

Who would you be without adamantly clinging to the notion that you are “the creator of your reality?”

Without that added layer of mental abstraction, who would you be if you were to just be?