Are You Really The Creator of Your Reality?

[Ariel]

Use this thread to discuss the following blog post:

Are You Really The Creator of Your Reality?

[Lee]

Ariel Ariel Ariel.

Bullseye!!!

This is your best one yet!

All of your writings are keepers, but this one I had to copy!

I have wanted to hear these words forever. And the way you can put truth into words is always great, and this one was exceptional.

You wrote exactly what I’ve wanted to say for so long- but am not a writer like you.

“I create my reality” has dogged me for decades. This is not a new thought. Though there is a truth to it, it is not The Truth.

Though thought, “creates” it does so through a condtioned mind. There is no choice here. And if one is good at “creating” or manifesting THINGS- like a good career, or big boat or whatever, it makes no difference. Only a temporary, worldly difference. It means nothing.

“I create my reality” is so flawed. Who is creating this reality? And is this truly reality or is this illusion, the dream? And is this “creating” or is this manipulating thought for a preferred life style?

True creating comes from--- within. Not within the mind. But within and then the mind is used.

But “I create my reality” comes from the thinking mind alone. It comes from personal desires, and also from conditioning.

The only reality is God.

Thank you Ariel for setting this straight. That was creating. That came from within. And it’s the Truth.

[Marko]

Great post Ariel. A few comments.

What's the big deal about duality? So what? Can we not experience oneness and duality at the same time? Is that not part of being in this game of the physical. I think it is.

You say "What you truly are lies beyond the dream." Actually I'd say it's included in the dream game but just hidden by design until we awake further down the line which is also part of the design.

"Enlightenment and the Law of Attraction Complement Each Other" I like that.

You also say "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."

To me physical life is like lucid dreaming in our sleep where we can wake uP in our dream and have more control and we're not fearful. Physical life when we are in our everyday wakefulness going about our business, is much the same. We awake more and use the illusions, rather than the illusions using us. It's still a game, a mighty elaborate simple and complex utterly wild game, but it's all by design to be this way.

When you say "...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!”

True enough, but we desire it that way, that's part of the design and the fun and challenge of it.

"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?"

When you are in pure beingness, you may or may not experience a identity of sorts. Pure beingness has no contrast or counter duality to it, (or so we think)

Like the totally white room with no reference point to it, all is whiteness. At some point we desire to jump back into the cosmic lucid dream game, for the sheer fun and experience of it. It's all part of life's cycle of beingness. Being, and being even more.

So the fun is trying on all the costumes and identities, when we tire of that, we can move into pure beingness once again or not.
It's always a choice is it not?

[Ariel]

What's the big deal about duality? So what? Can we not experience oneness and duality at the same time? Is that not part of being in this game of the physical. I think it is.

In a sense, yes, but most people experience only duality and that's we're here to go beyond.

You say "What you truly are lies beyond the dream." Actually I'd say it's included in the dream game but just hidden by design until we awake further down the line which is also part of the design.

Yes. As is often said, "in this dream, but not of it." It is sourced beyond, yet inseparably here with the dream, AS the dream.

To me physical life is like lucid dreaming in our sleep where we can wake uP in our dream and have more control and we're not fearful.

Very much so. At first we may be totally asleep. Then we may have a dream while knowing it's a dream. Then we may wake up within the dream and discover who we really are that's dreaming in the first place.

Physical life when we are in our everyday wakefulness going about our business, is much the same.

Yes sir! Externally it may be very much the same. It's really an internal transformation that occurs, despite the fact that there's no inside or outside, but whatever..

We awake more and use the illusions, rather than the illusions using us.

You're on a roll! Bashar has a line here I like to use: "Playing with the power of the illusion rather than succumbing to the illusion of power."

When you say "...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!”

True enough, but we desire it that way, that's part of the design and the fun and challenge of it.

Only the mind desires that. The awakeness is calling you forth to see beyond that play and being completely in it. We've done that for thousands of years. Now the Self is calling itSelf back to itSelf.

"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?"

When you are in pure beingness, you may or may not experience a identity of sorts. Pure beingness has no contrast or counter duality to it, (or so we think)

"or so we think" ...?

So the fun is trying on all the costumes and identities, when we tire of that, we can move into pure beingness once again or not.

It's always a choice is it not?

That's the game, yep. Who chooses though? Who has free will?

[kele]

THANKS for this post, oddly enough I had in mind to ask you about the LoA as seen from a not-dualistic stance, and you've answered beforehand.
Very much like Matthew 6, 8 reads ("for your Father knows what you need before you ask him").
In a dualistic view, I can think that "I manifested" your answer; in a one-without-two view, my question and your answer arouse alongside.
Well, happy September to you and to everyone, I hope everyone's spiritual and physical energies are picking up now....

[Ariel]

Yeah, see now THAT'S the interesting thing.

As the idea of time begins to fall away, we start to wonder.. what comes first? Thought or manifestation?

It's like all this work is being done behind the scenes. Suddenly an "inspired thought" just so happens to *pop* into our minds. We open up to the idea and suddenly the manifestation floods into our awareness.

It's like thought and physical reality really begin to sync up, both forwards and backwards through time.

[Marko]

Thanks for the nice response Ariel.

When I said "When you are in pure beingness, you may or may not experience a identity of sorts. Pure beingness has no contrast or counter duality to it, (or so we think) "

I was being both coy and serious. There is a saying and bumper sticker that reads "Don't believe everything you think."

Just because we think we know, or think we have some of this stuff figured out doesn't mean we do. I always leave room for more tweaking and more clarified info.

[kele]

As far as SPACE:
I can think "I manifest" next-door room as and when I walk through my house
OR
"me and next-door room" arise in synch.
It starts looking magic, isn't it - is the latter an appropriate description? Thanks as always.

[Ariel]

err, I don't really understand your question kele. Could you clarify? Or perhaps someone else who understands it could answer.

[vert73]

Interesting thoughts. It's impossible for me to separate "me" and this moment. Everything I see in my physical reality is an extension of myself, right?

Though I would disagree with you that thoughts create reality. If thoughts create reality, then we'd all be powerball winners.

What creates reality are your deepest feelings, beliefs, and expectations. Anyone following the LOA needs to understand that if you walk around telling yourself "I'm going to win the lottery", that's just wishful thinking - you actually create what you truly expect, trust, and believe.