Designing Our Own Reality

by Harry Palmer

Given enough time, everyone will become aware that what they believe has a direct consequence on their lives. Unfortunately, most children do not get this discovery time and are bombarded from an early age by what they should believe. The result is that what they sometimes say they believe (their indoctrination) obscures what they truly believe.

The real dilemma of existence is deciding what to believe. Entire lifetimes are spent side-stepping this decision. The majority of us are already deeply patterned and indoctrinated by the time we realize that deciding for ourselves is an option. Deciding is fundamental to creating!

Eventually we learn that the beliefs we truly hold, the one we've decided to believe, our faith, will cause us to create or attract experiences which will verify them. The beliefs we have merely accepted as part of our indoctrination may sustain an existing reality, but they will never create a new one.

Reality consists of the experiences we believe are real. What is real may or may not be the same for everyone.

Fantasies are the experiences we believe are not real.

Pretending is resisting what we decided to believe.

Doubt is a conflict between new decisions and old decisions.

What we believe and how we believe determine our reality.

To make something real we must believe in it. For it to be real to others, they must believe in it. To the degree that we fail to manage our beliefs, reality will remain beyond our control.We experience what we believe. If we don't believe that we experience what we believe, then we don't, which still means the first statement is true.

We may believe that what we experience will surprise us, which then it usually does. We may believe the experience will enlighten us, which then it probably will. We may believe we will have to look long and hard to find the experience... We may believe we will never find the experience... We may believe there is no experience to find... We may believe there is nothing we can do about it, even if we find the experience... We may believe the experience we find is not the experience we believed we would find... We may believe anything we please, and when we decide to believe it without doubt, it is what we will experience as reality.

So, from the viewpoint of source, any perception or creation, directly or indirectly received through any sensory channel, through the imagination, through intuition, through faith- through any dimension--can be experienced as real or not, dependent only upon what we deliberately believe. (It is not possible to have a perception or creation that does not exist, but one may believe the perception or creation is unreal. Human beings intentionally limit their own perceptions.)

Thus reality is anything we believe it to be! (As long as there is not conflict with our previous beliefs.)

The only thing outside of reality is the inexpressible source. And it is an illusion created by language that there appears to be an inside and an outside. More accurately, if somewhat enigmatically, source occupies analogical dimension that permeates everything!

Source is awareness without definition. It does not contain separation nor is it contained. There is no difference between what is believed, what is experienced and what is experiencing. Awareness without definition is a unity from which reality arises. The essential self that we experience ourselves to be exists as a creation within this awareness-without definition. The minimum equation for each of us is: awareness + primal creation=essential self. Essential self is generally expressed as "I am."

Identity is composed of and defined by the additional layers of beliefs that are added to our essential self!

When people move away from being the source of their beliefs, their past takes over as the source of their beliefs. Responsibility is being source right now. Blame is looking for who was source. People can become addicted to the past to provide answers. Reversing the flow and having a person give answers to the past can be a powerful transformational process.

For a very long time people have weighed evidence, analyzed, and taken measurements to answer, "What should I believe?" It's now clear this was the wrong question. The right question is, "WHAT DO I WANT TO BELIEVE?"

 

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