I have read in different books, that we create all of our realities. It seems to be Seth and Elias motto as well. I like the concept of "you make your own choices", but started to wonder HOW we create our reality.
An example comes to mind,for instance, what about the 32 people who were murdered in Virginia Tech? Did they choose to be killed? A choice means that it must be conscious, and in this case, I dont think they were consciously aware of their choices (being murdered)... Are our choices "hidden" from us, i.e subjective choices? Your views and comments are welcome.

As with everything else, it depends on what school of thought you happen to be following, Gemini.  On the one hand, there are those who believe that we are divine through and through and hide our godlike natures in the physical world in a metaphysical game of hide-and-seek.   In that school of thought, extensive planning is done with spiritual advisors prior to incarnation, and while the details are not known in advance, the major events may be.

The other school of thought is that we have no such planning or say in our lives.  This can make us appear at the mercy of the whim of a powerful universe, and often goes along the lines of Hobbes, who at one point called the life of man:  'nasty, brutish and short.'"  Or Shakespeare:  "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

My own belief is that I have seen intent and thought shape events in the physical world.  However, you have many individuals and energies interacting, in unpredictable ways.  I don't think those massacred planned to die, for the most part, but the killer's intent and energies simply intersected these lives in an arbitrary fashion.  The same with tsunami victims,  or those of a nuclear bomb.  Is there pre-life planning?  I don't know.......perhaps.  But we wouldn't learn everyitng if we knew about it beforehand.


M

Seems like we start as children and wind up as Gods. Children are often cruel - mostly because thoughtless. Then because mistaken, and finally they stop that behavior because of understanding. The next problem is how to be useful and increase all the positives, like love, awareness, joy, and here we are.

works for me.
dave

Sometime we just have to allow thing to happen in our life, without labeling them.  It's even better.

Wow Juditha, for a nice, spiritual person like you, with psychic
talent, the idea that life is crap, does not sound right at all.
I am scratching my head, how could this possibly be? My feeling is,
we had better do something about this. Your life should definitely
not be crap.

We do create some of our realities, but we are surrounded by people
who are creating their realities also, and the two may or may not
work together. But I see in this thread a great range in how people
view their ability to control their own lives. Some people think
they are creating everything that happens to them, and some think
they have little or no control. Some New Agers have a greatly
exaggerated idea that they are creating everything, when they are
not.

But it is possible to figure out, step by step, what you created
and what you did not, what is created upon you. If you look back,
you will see all sorts of choices that you actually had, that you
did make, and you can analyze how these then caused whatever to
follow from them. You chose, for instance, to accept a marriage
proposal, and with that you handed over half of your destiny to
someone else, and you were no longer in full control, and not
creating your reality by yourself. If you chose a line of study in
school, you handed over the control of your time to the person
teaching that subject. The same, when you applied for a job. You
chose what job to apply for, but after that, the job and its bosses
controlled things from then on. You, however still affected the
outcome by the manner in which you applied yourself to each of
these things, whether you did so in a successful way or not.

Some things in your life are controlled by you,  and some are
controlled by others. The balance varies with the situation.

You might think that your situation was out of your control, but
someone else hypothetically stepping into that situation, might
bring a different attitude or policy that would define the
situation differently, and change its direction and its results.

Overall, I think that the idea that you create your own reality is
the greatest contribution that the New Age has made, even though
they have greatly exaggerated it. But I think that people do not
realize the very large extent to which they do in fact create their
own reality. Every day offers choices on how to do something, and
how to think about something, and how to talk to people. These
choices that we make are the way that we caused much of what
happened to us. But others also caused much of what happened.

Love,
Boris

I agree with you, Kathy.  However, one must consider random energies which interfere with our lives - many interactions of this kind do not arise by our conscious/subconscious decision.  A large meteor could land and decimate a part of the world (aka what killed the dinosaurs).  If this happened now, here in NY, I doubt very much that I, Matthew would have decided that the meteor should by chance make contact in this day, time, etc.  Would I have known i pre-life planning that it would occur?  I'm not sure - the jury is still out in my book on how much pre-life planning/knowledge we are permitted or know. 

Physical life is precious, a gift and a learning experience.  I believe that while we do create or attract to ourselves our own realities (changing probabilities in the real world) that there are random intersections of energies which are unplanned, and not necessarily under our control.

I still look on life in a positive way, feeling that we can create a better world in our microcosm and macrocosm.  I just don't think that the random energy interactions are forseen.


Matthew

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Hi Matthew,

I agree that there does seem to be a chaotic nature in our world... universe, but you're talking to someone who drove her car right through another car as though it were jello.  I can't explain why or how that happened, but it did. 

What exactly our relationship is to a meteor or some similar global event, I really don't know.  Do I think a meteor could pass right through earth like jello.  You bet!   But I don't have a clue about how that might happen, only that it is possible.

Love, Kathy

Juditha..tear down the wall..I know that's easier to say than do, but try.  One brick at a time.

You don't have to have confirmation from others that you belong here.  Do you know the biggest reason others use put downs?  Its because it makes them feel better about themselves and truly has nothing to do with the one they choose to belittle.

I have seen you grow so much since you've been here..you definately belong here, and not just "here" as in this board, but in the larger worldwide community.

Hugs and love,
Shirley