Hello !!

This is one of my favorites topics, and one that takes a lot of time on my meditation, my reading and my research.

I do believe we create our own reality, based on intentions, Karma and believes.

I have come to the conclusion that the solution is very simple, all we have to do is:

"change our minds",

the dificult part comes here, how do we change our minds???

Hi Tish

I was wondering if anyone would have the gumption to tackle this tabula rasa empty forum, and sure enough, you did! Bravo!

You hit the nail on the head. Who was it who said (maybe George Bernard Shaw?) "You can do what you please, but can you please what you please?" Aye, there's the rub! Creating our own reality is as "simple" as changing our beliefs. If I truly believed that there was a talking pink elephant in my backyard, there would be! But how do I manage to believe such a thing when "common sense" tells me that it can't be? Or as the Bible says, if you had but the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains. Indeed, but who really believes they can move a mountain? Tricky business!

This is one of the things I really want to explore on these new forums, because I do truly believe that we create our own reality, both individually and collectively ... and in fact, the structure of the mental prison that we are in as a global society is a constant barrage of consensus judgments telling us what is impossible. World peace is "impossible" because human beings are selfish and violent, and it's always been "survival of the fittest" and always will be, and so on and so on. With these beliefs pounded into our brains from infancy, we are afraid to believe otherwise, because we will be ridiculed as foolish and unrealistic, so we settle for hoping rather than believing. But in a way, hoping is just a disguised form of disbelief! As Linda Goodman emphasized, it does little good to hope for a miracle ... but if we EXPECT A MIRACLE it will come to pass!

So the real question is, how can we meaningfully change our beliefs and expectations, to realistically CREATE the realities that we currently wish and hope for?

Love,
Greg

Hi guys!!!

Whoa...now what it real and what is imaginary, I guess if you find the "bite" point just like driving between where somthing is a product of the minds meanderings and something becomes real. I have not really thought that is was based purely on belieif, but as all faeires who have warrented their wings KNOWS that without beleif you do not hve existence...well of course you exists but not in any tangible way. However once beleif is present then and image or idea converts into an idea with substance.

I will go thing longer...

Lov n hugs

Lis

Hi Greg and Tink,

I couldn't resist startint the thread! I am glad I did...

I've been thinking and researching a lot about this big question I have,

"How to change your beliefs??"

I have arrived to some conlusions

The first thing to do is to discover the bad belief surrounding the event we are creating that we don't want to have in our lives.

I always have had a tendency of creating crisis and hurricanes in my life in order to create something good... is like I can't "have" something good in an easy way.

So I discovered the following belief that I must change:

"Life is hard, things don't come easy."

OK, so now I know.

This is the first step...

Fab thread!! thanks for starting it. this should be pretty interesting...

Greg- wouldn't the first step to changing what we hope for to what we truly believe in, have to start with feeling we actually deserve that which we desire?

How much does ego factor into it? sense of self-worth? confidence?

Is it enough just to believe something is possible or do you have to also believe that it is possible for you???

Its funny, but one of the things I think I was most gifted by was that my parents both did not set predefined limitations as I was growing up. I was always told that anything was possible, and that some people convinced themselves that you somehow had limitations, and thus lived lives of quiet desparation instead of trying to do the things they only dreamed of.

We all deserve to be happy, though life experience and other people and even ourselves at times tell us otherwise.. Sometimes it takes a book like Psychopictography, or a course like Silva to open barriers that were either imposed upon us by others or ourselves.

Then, as we age, the kernal of cynicism begins to sprout and work against us. You try to believe that people will change, and true consciousness will begin to take root, but then you see with your own eyes the people around you with the same petty motives, or prejudices, and that sprout takes root and rapidly grows..

As said in Pulp Fiction.. I'm trying, I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd....

Incanus, that was truly a gift your parents gave you! In fact, I would suggest that ONE of the most powerful things we we can do to change the world for the better is exactly this: teach our own children (and all young minds we come in contact with) this same lesson.

I too was fortunate enough to have been raised by a remarkable woman who led me to believe that I could do anything I set my mind to and I still believe it to this day!

Yes, certainly self-worth/self-esteem plays a big part in this, as do limiting beliefs about the world ("life's a bitch, and then you die!")

A the risk of getting into another religious debate, I also think that one of the most harmful thought-forms ever unleashed on the human mind is the doctrine of "original sin." Now from a philosophical or spiritual perspective, I can see how it makes sense to realize that at some point in the evolution of our current state of consciousness we collectively made some erroneous decisions that have had lasting consequences for all mankind -- and this may well be symbolized by the Biblical story of the Fall (putting our own ego-centered physical/material desires above spiritual Love and the "will of God." ) Taught properly, that could be a liberating insight, making us aware that we can reverse the materialistic limitations we imposed on ourselves by changing our minds about that decision. In practice, however, the doctrine of Original Sin has been used to lay a collective guilt trip on humanity, making us believe that we are "unworthy sinners" from the moment we are born! If we buy into this, how can we possibly believe we are "worthy" of wonderful things? Perhaps the early Christian belief that our sins were redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ was an attempt to lift us out of this imprisoning belief, but again in practice it has usually been used as a justification for imposing strict adherance to dogma: that is, to "prove" that we have "accepted" salvation, we have to pledge allegiance to certain doctrines, follow certain standards of behavior laid down by authorities, and in many cases follow prescribed rituals laid down by whatever particular church is validating our salvation. This does not result in making us feel like powerful spiritual beings who can create our own reality ... to the contrary, it makes us feel like helpless, fundamentally evil beings whose only hope of escaping punishment for our sins is to think and act as we are told!

Nor has the modern "scientific" rebellion against religions improved matters - under the enlightenment of scientific thinking we are told that we are only the product of blind materialistic forces, that any aspirations to a spiritual life are merely "superstition," and that the bottom line is that we are no more than animals driven by instinct and cutthroat "survival of the fittest."

In short, we have been taught for thousands of years, by EVERY major thought form that purports to "guide" us, that we are weak, helpless, and intrinsically unworthy beings.

This false and demeaning picture of who and what we are, I submit, is the first thing we must overcome if we wish to claim our true power as spiritual beings who create our own reality. This belief in our own powerlessness has been programmed into our nervous systems relentlessly, and in turn we do our own part to perpetuate it by programming it into our children, aour neighbors, the people we meet on the street and interact with every moment of our lives. We have become each other's prison guards constantly telling each other how powerless we all are by the very acts of blaming and complaining about each other, competing with each other, and vying for power over each other socially, economically and politically.

Every time I say to someone else "you can't do that," I am giving the same message to myself! Every action I take to control others or to force them to my way of thinking and acting, reinforces my own belief that I can be controlled and dominated.

I believe that restoring our own spiritual ability to create our own reality is a two step process:

• First, we must come to realize how deeply we have been "programmed" by limiting beliefs and social control mechanisms, and how "robotic" most of our thoughts and actions really are. Until we clearly see the trap we are in, no escape is possible.
• Once we have come to understand, through direct perception how deeply programmed and controlled we are, the way out is through granting others their freedom.

The most fundamental of all mystical truths is that everything is a reflection of ourselves. We are all familiar with the psychological observation that the flaws we see in others are usually the flaws we possess ourselves. This is really no more than the Golden Rule applied to the spiritual realm: as we do unto others, so it will be done to us; as we perceive others, so will we perceive ourselves. To get love, give love. To get freedom, give freedom. To regain our power to create our own reality, recognize that others are creating their own reality, respect the reality others are creating for themselves, and give them credit for creating it.

Obviously this is a tall order, because in our current limited awareness we do NOT see others as creating their own reality. We see them as fellow victims (or beneficiaries) of circumstance. When a co-worker gets a promotion, we think it is because the boss favored them, not that they created the circumstances for that promotion themselves. Likewise, when we see someone suffer misfortune, we find it difficult to comprehend that those misfortunes are experiences that person attracted into their life for the purpose of learning needed lessons.

And thus we see ourselves. And powerful creators that we are, as we see ourselves, so shall we be!

Love,
Greg

BTW, Incanus, what is Psychopictography? I'm not familiar with it, sounds interesting.

Love,
Greg

Hi Greg,

I find very interesting what you wrote,

"To regain our power to create our own reality, recognize that others are creating their own reality, respect the reality others are creating for themselves, and give them credit for creating it."

The moment we accept that others are creating their reality, we accept that humans CAN and DO Create their own reality. Therefore WE also CAN and DO.

If we watch other people we immeditaly recognize people who do believe they have their lives in their hands and people who think they are at the mercy of destiny and chance.

Lately I've been reading Seth's books again, and wanted to share here this Seth Teaching.

Seth calls the physical reality we live in "framework 1" and there is "framework 2". On framework 2, we, together with our Inner and Higher self program our lives, during sleep, depending on what lessons we have to live and also on our beliefs. So, changing our beliefs throgh meditation we can change tha way we are creating our reality into more positive and good things.

It does imply a lot of internal work, because we have been programmed by our parents and our religion like Greg and Icanus said, with so many false beliefs.

I didn't have the good opportunity to be raised by a positive parent, but I am trying to teach my kids differently and not bombard them with negative beliefs.

Ack, my book is at work, and I have forgotten to set my link to the new site there. I will do that now and give you the data on the book.

In essence the book is out of print, but occasionaly you can find it at a used book store. It is a way of opening the subconcious to positive change by reading stories written in the book that reprogram some falsehoods that people are "programmed" with. In a way, allowing the subconcious to begin to think in new ways and forms.

Its not necessary to mediate on the stories, like you would on a Zen koan or something of that nature, but more reading and re-reading to help change those incorrect values we accidently picked up during our socialization process.

Lemme see if I can find a link to it...

Well, well.. Looks like its back in print.

Check it out at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0132312832/glance/ref=sdp_ab_ub/002-5751896-5565607

Greetings, just wanted to say that I believe that the channeled Pleidian a stuff is quite capable of changing your perceptions of reality also. Can work pretty fast too while you arent even consciously aware of it. Dont know, just a thought. I posted a link to it in a previous post. Grace to Your Day. Aha.

Hello! Has anyone read, or heard of, the book, Conscious Evolution? I have been reading it, and it is amazing

Love and Light,
InfiniteEvolution

Just had to add - my new member number reduces to 17/8... cool!

Peace,
InfiniteEvolution

Hello everybody...This is an interesting topic.
I agree with Linda Dahl, that the first step is to change our belief that we can't change our beliefs.
We can.

Hi Viejo,

The book of Linda Dahl, "A Thousand Whispers" is fascinating, it changed completely the way I looked at things.

It has a lot of advise on how to change beliefs and create the reality we want.

She also tells how to change probable events we don't want to happen.

I've read Barbara Marx Hubbard's "Conscious Evolution" and found it very inspiring! It's interesting that this book came out in 1998, just a few months after I had first registered the ConsciousEvolution.com domain ... so that idea was definitely floating around in the cosmos at the time!

I'm not familiar with Linda Dahl's books. I looked her up at Amazon and didn't find anything ... when did she write?

Love,
Greg

Greg,
Take a look at these links on Linda Dahl, of Seth Network International, www.sethnet.org and Brass Ring Bookstore, www.brassringbooks.com for Linda Dahl Books.
I just read 'Ten Thousand Whispers', which Tish mentioned before, it is really good.
V.

Hi there. ..

Awesome thread you started here Tish ( hehe, Tish & I share the same birthday!! No surprise to find you here, interested in the same spirals as I am, Tish. . .

In Love & Light,
Jennifer

Hi dear Jenn,

Oh yes!! this topic takes a lot of my time, and I am sure it takes a lot of my nonlinear time and space too!!!

Nice to see my astro twin here !!
(just day and month, not year!!!)