You’d probably agree that, in countless small ways, you create your life every day. You decide whether or not you’re going to get up when the alarm clock goes off. You decide what to wear, what to eat for breakfast, or maybe to skip breakfast. And as you run into people throughout the day, you decide how to treat each one. Your intentions for the day - or your default decision not to set any intentions but just to float on through - affect what you do and what you’ll experience.
But the question remains, how far does that life-making extend? As far as that chance meeting with the girl of your dreams? As far as the tyrannical boss? Winning the lottery? And who’s life are YOU making anyway? Actually the ‘I’ in ‘I create my reality’ is a big question mark. And answering it gives some clarity to this whole creation stew.
Who am I?
The Indian sage Ramana Maharshi built his teachings around this very question. According to him, the inquiry into this question leads directly to enlightenment. But let’s postpone enlightenment for now and limit the question to the act of creating.....
According to Fred Alan Wolf: ‘The first thing to realize is that the idea that you create your own reality, if by you you mean that egotistic person that you think is running your show creates your reality, is probably wrong. It’s probably not that you that’s creating the reality at all.’ But this begs the question: ‘So who is?’ Certainly when you order that first cup of coffee in the morning, it’s pretty clear that the ‘egotistic person’, or the personality, decided upon the double cappuccino, and not the transcendental, immortal self. And that when the tree lands on your shiny new car, the personality had nothing whatsoever to do with that.
Most often people reject the ‘I Create Reality’ idea when something occurs in their life that they absolutely, positively, would never, ever create. ‘I would never create this!’ That’s true; they - the personality - never would. But as all spiritual traditions maintain, there’s more than one ‘you’.
This divine schizophrenia goes by many labels: ego/true self, personality/divinity, son of man/son of god, mortal body/immortal soul, but in essence it says there are different levels from which you are creating. And the goal of enlightenment is to erase this fragmentation of self and create from one source. (Which I guess is why ‘Who Am I?’ works.) It’s to expand our consciousness until we are conscious of all our creations.
And accepting that ‘I create...’ is an amazing tool for that expansion. For if it’s true, then every time you reject your part in creating reality, you are rejecting or denying a part of yourself. Thus the fragmentation continues. In fact, according to the Enlightened, the spirit half of you is creating these realities for the sole purpose of becoming whole. There are things you must experience to grow that might not be your ego/personality’s first choice.
They call it karma: We did create, at some time in the past, whether recent or remote, all the conditions that we are faced with in this life. But how do all the karmas of all the people in the world interact? How does it all fit together? How do those happy (and unhappy) ‘coincidences’ occur that are often the harbingers of a new world? Who is running the computer that can keep all this straight, for 6 billion humans?
How does it work?
The universe IS the computer. Non-duality. And it doesn’t have to run. It is connected, entangled [see Entangled Minds for more explanation], so that it is hooked into everything and is created from everything. It doesn’t respond to us - it is us.
The dualistic model of karma says: I hit Bob, so someone will hit me. It’s a very cause-effect (a.k.a. Newtonian) way to view this phenomenon. But from the non-dualistic, entangled model, it’s different. It says that action or thought (which are the same ‘thing’) arises in a piece of my consciousness. There is a certain frequency or vibration associated with that. By taking the action, I endorse that reality so that I am now connected to the universe by that frequency or vibration. Everything ‘out there’ of the same frequency will respond to it, and they will then be reflected in your reality.
By this notion, everything in your life - people, places, things, times and events - are nothing but reflections of your signature vibrations. According to Ramtha: ‘Everything in your life is frequency specific to who you are’. So if you want to know ‘Who Am I?’ just look around: the universe is always serving up the answer.
The trouble is that the hidden, repressed parts of us are also reflected, and we repress them because we don’t like them. It’s those reflections that make us say: ‘I would never create that.’ And it’s that which keeps getting reflected back over and over until we understand it. That’s the wheel of karma.
So, if you want to turn your life around, then, instead of asking the universe to prove that you create reality, so that you can sit on the fence and accept or reject what happens, you take it as given that your life and its happenings are created by you, so therefore you look for the meaning in them. And by meaning, we don’t mean a philosophical, cosmic meaning, but rather what does this mean about who you are, or what you’re creating, or what in your life you are denying? Looking for change in your life? Make this switch and watch it transform before your many ‘I’s’.
From What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality, by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente, © 2005 Captured Light Distribution LLC, published in 2007 by Health Communications Inc.
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