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Shaping Your Own
Reality
by Harry Palmer
Reality comes in at least three flavours. First there is the
physical reality of things as they are. Not much you can say about that other
than it is what it is. Second there is the perception and interpretation of
this it-is-what-it-is reality. This is where variable realities begin to
form (it-is-what-you-believe). Some people think snakes are beautiful; some
people think snakes are ugly. Reality is not the same from every viewpoint.
Perception affects reality. The third reality is your mind. For most
people, this is life. It is how you feel about things, where you make
decisions, and who you honestly are when no one is looking.
It would be nice if everyone could become aware that what they believe has
a direct consequence on their lives. In the realm of mind, believing makes
it so. Unfortunately, most people are bombarded from an early age by what
they should believe. The result is that what they sometimes say they
believe, or even say they want to believe, is far different from what they
honestly believe. If you expect your mind to operate according to what you
have been told to believe, or according to what you want to believe, you are
likely to be disappointed. Mind is shaped by your beliefs; it is not shaped
by the "should" or "like" beliefs, but by the "I
honestly believe" beliefs.
On the Avatar Course you
experientially discover that the beliefs you truly hold, the ones you
decided to honestly believe, without doubt, will cause you to create or
attract experiences that will verify them. This may be good news, or not so
good news. To the degree that you fail to manage your beliefs, mind-determined
reality will remain beyond your control.
The beliefs you have accepted from others, although they may reflect
reality, will not shape it. If your only aspiration is to live as another
has lived, then believing what you think they believed will probably create
the pretense you are seeking. Yes, pretense! Because fundamentally, you are
not them! You will never be them, and you may even be mistaken about what
they believe. You are you!
When you allow, accept, and settle effortlessly into you, you will discover
the beliefs that were shaping your reality. And with a little practice and
instruction you can learn how to change your "I honestly believe"
beliefs and shape your life.
You do experience what you honestly believe. If you don't honestly believe
that you experience what you believe, then you won't, which still means the
first statement is true.
You may honestly believe that what you experience will
surprise you, which then it usually does. You may honestly believe the
experience will enlighten you, which then it probably will. You may
honestly believe you will have to look long and hard to find the
experience... You may honestly believe you will never find the
experience... You may honestly believe there is no experience to find...
You may honestly believe there is nothing you can do about it, even if you
find the experience... You may honestly believe the experience you find is
not the experience you believed you would find... You may honestly believe
anything you please, and when you learn how to honestly believe it without
doubt, it is what you will experience as reality.
Mind-determined reality is anything you honestly believe it to be! (As long
as there is not a conflict with your previous beliefs.)
The only thing independent of all realities is you. Source being!
Source being is awareness with abilities but without definition. You are
you. From this awakened state, time (arguably a conscious phenomenon) is
the only difference between what is believed, what is experienced, and what
is experiencing. You are everything and nothing. It is a wonderful and
awesome paradox.
When your beingness descends from being the source of
beliefs, you become the experiencer of your beliefs. Who creates you? You
do! You may not have created all facets of your identity voluntarily, but
the truth is you did create them, some from desire, some from resistance.
Identities are layers of beliefs starting from source being. The first
belief of source being is always, "I am."
Sorting out all of the above can be a daunting task. You will find the
Avatar tools are of great assistance. But once it is sorted out (and it
should be sorted out) you will find yourself with a new dilemma.
For a very long time you have weighed evidence, analysed, and taken
measurements to answer, "What should I believe?"
It's now clear that this is the wrong question to ask a source being. The
right question is, "What do you want to believe?"
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