The Reality Creation Project

The Natural Law of Consciousness and Creation

Ultimately, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment – there just IS. There is what works for us and what doesn’t; what makes us happy and what doesn’t. (From Encounter with unconditional Love and A New Story of Origin)

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them! – Pete

As human beings, we may condemn this statement as blasphemy of the worst kind. We may point to the world as it is to bolster the argument in favor of humanity’s evil nature but that would be dishonest. Our fear of suffering and death habitually portrays anyone or anything that threatens us as “evil”. It is our belief in evil that creates the world, as we know it. We fear that if individuals learn to question and think for themselves, the doorway to hell will open and chaos will reign. We will be right, of course, as long as we continue to believe we’re evil and  not worthy of love or trust, incapable of real understanding and good intention.

As an individual, do you really think you’re evil? Do you honestly think you cannot learn how to manage and direct the flow of your thoughts and emotions in a world free of judgment and social condemnation? Do you honestly believe you cannot learn how to manage your body’s natural appetite for food and sex in a world of love and acceptance? Do you honestly believe you’re not capable of determining what works for you and what doesn’t, what makes you happy and what doesn’t? When we stop thinking in terms of arbitrary cultural definitions of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment,  everything becomes an exciting learning experience, an opportunity to grow! We act “bad” only when we think we’re bad. Believe we’re “good”, and we’ll act good.

As we think, we create. CHANGE what we think, and we change what we  create.

Growing up, we see, hear and experience many things in life and dreams. Some are pleasant and some unpleasant. How we perceive and react to our experiences determines who we become and how we react in life as adults.

As children, we often believe what we’re told without question, no matter the source. It could be a parent who strikes us repeatedly, abandons us, ignores us or tells us we’re bad. It could be a teacher who, in a moment of anger or frustration, tells us we’re too stupid to learn or we won’t amount to much. It could be an acquaintance who tells us we’re too fat or too skinny, too short or too tall, a loser, a fool or a queer. In every case, we can choose to let external judgments define us and control our behavior or we can take responsibility for defining ourselves and controlling our own behavior. This is the creative challenge we all face in life.

We Create Our Own Reality

During the course of everyday events, we often forget the role of thoughts in the forging of our material reality. We get lost in the visible symbols, the material by-products of our imaginations, forgetting the invisible blueprints from which they, and we, emerge.

Pure energy like money, its material equivalent, is shaped into matter and experience by thought. It can be used to lift up or smash down, to build character or destroy character, to express love or express hate, to beautify or make ugly.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning how to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are “things” with a reality of their own and you, an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, you paint the landscape of your life. Create the change you want to see in yourself, and the world!

© Copyright 1991, LifeSong

Only when we improve the way we think about ourselves will we improve the way we treat ourselves, and the world.

When you fall asleep at night, what’s the last thought on your mind? When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first thought on your mind? You have the power to decide what those thoughts will be. Do they work for or against you? Do  they make you happy or unhappy?

Dominating our current worldview are beliefs in fear, separation and competition. We too often measure “success” by how much money, power and privilege we have at the expense of love, truth and joy.  Controlling behavior in a fear-driven world that believes in humanity’s “evil” nature requires external definitions of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment – a cookbook of religious and secular laws enforced by powerful forms of institutional authority. Fear of physical and psychological punishment is the stick that keeps us in line. Even though we’re held accountable for our actions, our cultures define what is and what isn’t “acceptable” in our behavior. Most laws are reasonable but some are self-serving, written to benefit those currently in power, which is shortsighted and abusive.

From our earliest years, many of us are told we’re bad and we can’t trust ourselves. How do we respond to ideas like these? We often respond with denial, defensiveness, depression and stagnation, which results in a loss of love, truth and joy in our lives. Ideas like these, if we choose to believe them, weaken us into submission and force us into dependence on others who claim to be stronger and wiser than us. At its best, it is a system of leaders and followers. At its worst, it is a system of predators and victims.

Being responsible is about changing ourselves for the better. It is about reclaiming our power and taking responsibility for creating our own reality. It is about expanding our consciousness by paying attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

Live by Value Fulfillment and Practice Idealism

By paying attention to what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, not only do we discover our true selves, we actively develop powers of observation and discernment. In furthering our dreams of self-fulfillment and understanding, we learn how to use our imaginative and intellectual skills, as well as our inner and outer senses. When we pay attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, we honor and acknowledge the desire to be the best selves we can be, not because we have to but because we can. In doing so, we replace confusion with clarity, weakness with confidence and fear with love.

To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is a two-step process. The first is to determine the qualities of life and being we value most – our ideals. Ask value questions like:

• What’s the best or ideal way for me to think about myself, and others?
• What’s the best or ideal way for me to treat myself, and others?
• Who do I love to be?
• What do I love to do?

Write a paper or keep a journal to clarify your ideals. Use your dreams and imagination as tools. Identify the roots of old conflicting or unwanted beliefs and reaction patterns. Forgive all involved, including you. We’re all doing the best we can with what we know in this moment even though we know we can do better with time, effort and insight. For examples, read The Healing Power of Forgiveness and look for similar articles in books and on the web. Scientific and religious beliefs aside, Aware Energy (Consciousness) is the root of all change. It is the closest thing to anything being absolute.

The next step is to fulfill or actualize our ideals to the best of our ability over time. That’s what practice is all about. When it’s done with natural passion, it’s not work; it’s play. This process is the SOURCE of our power! It is CHANGE! It is Growth! It is CREATIVITY! It is FREEDOM! It is doing it MY WAY and learning from it as a way of life! We’re already doing this unconsciously. Why not do it consciously?

It doesn’t matter that we come up with the same answers. What does matter is that we come up with them ourselves – that we do things for our own reasons. Allowing ourselves to become receptacles for information given to us from other sources without question or examination, no matter how much we love, fear or respect those sources, is not power, creativity or freedom; it is laziness and passivity. It usually results in subjugation, which breeds resentment and conflict. Failing to question beliefs that cause harm or make us unhappy reflects poorly on us. It does not honor the source from which we come nor the creative selves we are.

A Project-Centered Life

To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is to live a Project-Centered Life in which we are the project. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? Who do we love to be? What do we love to do? What works for us, and what doesn’t? What makes us happy and what doesn’t? These are questions we must always ask if we want to fulfill our own unique potential.

If an idea in the form of a belief, attitude, value or expectation does not work for us or make us happy, we have the power to replace it with an idea that does work for us, one that does make us happy. This creative ability is our means for self-determination, for becoming self-directing and self-motivating. It is the key to self-fulfillment, honest collaboration and true democracy.

There is no greater show of love than the acknowledgment of power and worth in yourself and others. Conversely, there is no greater show of fear than the denial of power and worth in yourself and others. By taking responsibility for who we are and what we do, by putting ourselves in the driver’s seat of our own lives, we celebrate all being as having value, including our own. This is love!

Larger Dimensions of Reality

Who are we? What’s reality? Where do we begin and where do we end?

Excerpt from A New Story of Origin:

What are thoughts, where do they come from and where do they go? What are emotions, where do they come from and where do they go? Where does each moment come from and where does it go? Where is the biological “you” that existed two minutes ago and where is the biological “you” that will appear two minutes from now? In what form do they exist while you experience yourself in this moment? In what form does the universe exist in the past and future of your present? Who or what creates each new moment of your experience with such exquisite clarity, detail and integrity; who or what creates your experience in the universe of matter, time and space, and who or what creates your experience in the universe of dreams, fantasies and visions?

Three Aspects of the Self

1. Body - The adult human body is comprised of trillions of individual cells. One common estimate is 60 to 100 trillion. Each one provides a unique service, singly and as part of larger organizations of cells (organs). Genes serve as the blueprints for growth and change that takes place in the body (do they represent the unseen intention of consciousness, our own and larger fields of awareness?). Working together in collaboration, the cells and organs of our bodies provide us with that unique whole-body “human” experience we often take for granted. The Biological Self, the body and brain, provide us with the means to experience life within the context of fixed space and linear time. In physical bodies, we get to experience birth, we grow up, we reproduce (if we so choose), we experience, we learn, we grow and we die as human beings. The body represents the “being” aspect of Consciousness as opposed to the “source” or creator aspect. The behavior of electrons in atoms serves as a good example to help us understand this two-state idea. In one form, electrons appear as particles or solids. In the other, they appear as waves of energy.
2. Mind - “Mind”, is the perceiving, thinking, feeling and action-taking aspect of the Self. The human mind is that portion of us that most closely identifies with the human body and waking reality. Like Seth in the channeled material by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts, let’s call this aspect of mind, Level One. It is home to our Outer Selves or egos. It is the “I Am” of our being or earthbound identities with their unique sets of characteristics, beliefs, attitudes, values and expectations. It contains our subjective or conceptual sense of self (identity) as opposed to our biological or objective self. Along with many of our beliefs, strong thought and emotional reaction patterns learned in early childhood, and from traumatizing experiences later in life, reside in the subconscious and automatically pop up in response to related thoughts and experiences. Left alone, habitual thought and emotional reaction patterns produce robotic or habitual behavior. We think and act the same way repeatedly with little thought or question. Spreading from person to person, as they often do, they leave us with even less control over who we are and what we do, unless we stop to question and challenge those beliefs and habitual reaction patterns that neither serve us nor make us happy.
3. Spirit - The spiritual aspect of Self-identity is that portion of our being that is subtle, spontaneous, creative and eternal. It is our invisible connection with All That Is. It is the ghost, whose presence makes us more than machines. The Inner Self is that aspect of our being that dreams and imagines. Since we cannot see or touch it with our biological senses or scientific instruments, we must sense it intuitively. We must infer its presence or accept it on faith. It is here that information is gathered and decisions made that orchestrate and direct change in our waking minds and material bodies. The Inner Self invisibly and faithfully translates the contents of our waking minds – our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes, values and expectations – into the substance of our material reality, visions and dreams. It is from here that we communicate with All That Is and it  communicates with us. For examples, see: Inside Ivy and Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers. Let’s call this level of Consciousness or mind; Level 2. Are there more levels? The Inner Self gives us the power to change our stance in physical reality. Through the power of imagination and inner guidance, we can rethink and re-imagine negative thought and behavior patterns and turn them into positive ones.

(Remember, this is imaginative speculation based on personal study, experimentation, observation and experience in both inner and outer reality. It is what makes the most sense to me! You must decide what makes the most sense to you, what “feels” right based on your own thoughts and experiences.)

If we compare the different states of Consciousness to water, which is another form of Consciousness condensed into matter, our physical bodies are similar to ice, or water in its solid state. The human mind, with its unique capabilities, characteristics and beliefs, flowing thoughts and feelings, compares best to water in its liquid state. The invisible or spiritual aspect of the self, with its everywhere invisible presence and heightened vibrational levels, compares best to water in the form of steam or water vapor. It is free of limitation and containment. For examples of spiritual freedom, see: The Ball of Light – A Dream About the Nature of Consciousness and Being. In The Ball of Light, as my Inner Self, I shared a perspective with a young girl from inside her mind that would lead her out of growing despair from the oppressive demands and expectations of her life.

This is a good place to point out that there are no real separations between body, mind and spirit. All aspects of the self are one and separate at the same time. All That Is is one and separate at the same time. As Consciousness (Energetic Awareness) expressing itself in every way imaginable, we are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself! Everything is a manifestation of Consciousness – call it Aware Energy or Energetic Awareness, whichever you prefer – in one form or another. We exist, as not only human bodies and minds; we exist as a ghostly presence, capable of interacting directly with the Consciousness of All That Is. Every one of us, every thing, is another face of God. Some of us see this and some do not.

In her last Oprah Winfrey Show, May 25, 2011, Oprah let the world know she understands that each one of us is another face of God, and that she has believed this since she was a child. At the end of her show, she encouraged everyone to develop his or her own inner connection to higher Consciousness for wisdom and guidance in fulfilling his or her greatest potential.

Born into a world that considered being black and female an automatic two strikes against you, Oprah had much with which to contend. Her mother was single and poor. Her first sexual encounter occurred with an uncle at the age of nine. How could anyone surmount these odds in a value judgment world without access to inner wisdom and guidance, without trusting his or her own innate goodness? What could make Oprah want love more than feeling unloved, what could make her want to be valued more than feeling unvalued and what could make her want to be someone more than feeling like she was no one? How can we know success without failure?

Faced with challenging dilemmas like these, what is a person to do? Oprah’s public record clearly demonstrates she was perceptive and trusted her own inner wisdom far more than most. Starting at a young age, she memorized passages from the bible and recited them at her grandmother’s church, (Google “Oprah biography”) much to the delight of church members. At a young age, she knew intuitively, if not intellectually, that what you give is what you get. Give love and you get love. Value others and you will be valued in return. Treat others as though their lives have meaning and your life will have meaning.

Did the invisible hand of higher consciousness guide Oprah’s thoughts and actions? Did she keep her mind open to the soundless voice of her Inner Self and higher consciousness so it could whisper in her ear? Did her Inner Self and higher consciousness set the stage for her unique circumstances in life before birth, on the fly, or perhaps, a combination of both? To what degree was her waking mind involved in the creation of her reality?

The thoughts and events we experience in life do not happen by accident. We attract them to us as surely as though we were magnets. Our personal thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, draw them to us. As we think, we create. Earlier, I asked, what are thoughts, where do they come from and where do they go. The answer is, they come from everywhere and nowhere in response to our need or desire in the moment. When we look for them, they appear. When we stop looking for them, they disappear, although never lost. For examples of how thoughts come and go, read Pete’s Creation Dreams.

When our bodies are hurt, hungry, horny, sick or tired, they let us know of their condition, which inspires us to thought and action. The world around us loudly lets us know about its condition. When our waking minds are quiet, as they are in meditation and sleep, we open ourselves up to thoughts emanating from more subtle levels of Consciousness. How well we receive and understand those messages depends on how experienced and open we are to them. When we ask questions, we inspire thought in ourselves.

Awareness and action define Consciousness. Without energy, or the power to act, Consciousness could not know or express itself, and without the desire for Consciousness to know and express itself, what would give rise to action? One needs the other for anything to exist!

We all have stories to tell about mysterious thoughts, impulses, dreams and encounters we’ve had in life – how we reacted to them and where our choices led us. Dilemmas, acted out by the people and circumstances around us exist to give  us choices. Who creates our unique dilemmas and why do we choose them if not to learn from them, if not to discover who we are? Love, or the need for love, played a huge role in Oprah’s life. As a result, her life serves as a living example of what love, the opposite of fear, can do for us. How will we use this knowledge in our own lives? Oprah makes the mysterious real like no other.

The Reality Creation Project

The Reality Creation Project is about changing ourselves for the better. Who has more of a right to change us, and who can do a better job than we can?

To change ourselves, and the world, for the better, it helps to have a solid ground of ideas to stand on. It also helps to know what is better, and how to get from here to there. The following excerpts from A New Story of Origin give us a place to start in reshaping ourselves, and the world.

In the beginning, there was nothing – until Nothing decided to be Something. You can call this profound event Original Thought, the Divine Spark of Creation, the Birth of Unconditional Love, the Birth of All That Is or God, or the Birth of Consciousness (Aware Energy). In fact, it was, and is, ALL these things and more; including the moment Consciousness learned how to condense a portion of itself into “matter”. Humanity refers to this moment as the Big Bang.

In deciding to be Something, Nothing expressed a Primal Motive – the Impulse to Be. Why would Nothing do that? What would make Nothing want to be Something? Isn’t it for the same reason you and I learn to think, walk, talk and try new things? In its most basic form, don’t you and I “exist” and “do” things out of a Love for Being and Creation, tempered by the Impulse to Survive, once we exist? As Nothing, in the beginning, yearned to be Something, we yearn to be something in response to the same impulse, the Will to Be, tempered by the Will to Survive. Not only do we want to be everything we can be, we want to remember ourselves in every way we have been, every way we are.

Our current forms of knowledge are too specialized, intellectualized and compartmentalized. To make choices that work for us and make us happy, we must learn how to use our inner senses as well as our outer ones, our intuitive abilities as well as our intellectual ones. Our thinking must become more holistic and universal. As unique, individualized expressions of Consciousness or All That Is, we must ensure that our personal and collective belief systems take everything we can think of into account. Our worldview and our myths must make sense to us. I f they do not, we must upgrade them.

Just because someone with the authority of a parent, teacher or preacher shares their “truth” with us does not mean we must accept it without question. We must question all ideas since us, and only us, are accountable for who we are and what we do. If we fail to establish our own beliefs, we absorb them from our surroundings and create our reality by default – passively instead of actively.

Because we are Consciousness (Aware Energy), condensed into matter:

1. We are both one and separate.

2. We are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself!

The Natural Law of Consciousness and Creation

Ultimately, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment – there just IS. There is what works for us and what doesn’t; what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

If an action, idea or belief does not work for you, what does? If an action, idea or belief does not make you happy, what does? Be bold! If you can disengage from current events and old reaction patterns long enough to ask these questions, you will make rapid progress in changing yourself, and the world, for the better. However, if you continue to watch and play the game as it is, change of the kind you value will not happen.

The growing collapse of our economic and social system (increases in human population, the number of people in jail, homelessness, joblessness, hunger, disease, wars, global warming, the loss of wealth and unsustainable growth and consumption), can be laid at the feet of putting individuality and self-interest (ego) ahead of oneness and the common good, fear ahead of love. A similar imbalance occurs when we put the common good ahead of self-interest so why not create a system that balances both. By giving equal value to both our oneness and individuality, we make it possible to cooperate, not compete with one another. By asking questions that include everyone, we not only acknowledge our oneness and individuality, we acknowledge our individual and collective roles – and responsibility – in co-creating our shared reality.

In life and business, how many of us ask: is what I’m doing good? Do my actions improve the quality of life or undermine it? Do they increase humanity’s chances for survival or threaten it?

Instead of continuing to create a world of leaders and followers, predators and victims, by letting thoughts of fear, separation and competition dominate our thinking why not ask: what is going to work best for ALL of us?

This question takes YOU, ME and US (everyone and everything) into consideration. It takes into account the fact that we’re both one AND separate. It also supports the understanding that we’re not only the product of creation but creation
itself!

• What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What is the best way for us to fulfill our own unique potential in support of the world AND ourselves?)
• What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What is the best way for us to maintain the health and well-being of the planet and humanity?)
• What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What is the best way for us to learn and grow? What are the most important things for us to know in life?)
• What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What is the best way for us to treat nature and the earth?)
• What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What is the best way for us to treat ourselves as individuals and nations?)

To ask questions, make suggestions and share your successful strategies with other, go to the Reality Creation Project Yahoo Discussion Board. The website address is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/create_reality.

I also encourage you to form local groups for fun, experimentation, mutual support and discussion. The antidote for fear is love. The antidote for distrust is trust. The antidote for contempt is appreciation. The antidote for violence is forgiveness. The antidote for the belief that we are unlovable and unworthy is the belief that we are lovable and worthy. Instead of thinking about how bad we are, how little we do and how poorly we do it; why not remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it? Isn’t it better to count our blessings than our sorrows?

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

The self (the “decider” in you) is your seat of power and the moment (now) is your point of power.

“Nothing you can ever think, say or do can keep you from being loved  unconditionally.” – The voice of Unconditional Love (from Encounter with Unconditional Love)

Think about what it feels like to be loved unconditionally. In the presence of unconditional love, do you feel the urge to commit hateful acts of mayhem or do you feel the urge to let your own love flow?

As I said earlier, the ideas expressed here represent what makes sense to me based on my own experience. Whether they make sense to you, based on your experience, is up to you to decide. As with all things, take what you like and leave the rest.

Respectfully,

Roger A. “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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First posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by “Oceanside Rick”, Monday, May 23, 2011 6:10 am (PDT)

Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. You break away from self-adopted restrictions, and you grow spiritually as you learn to step aside from limiting
conceptions and dogmas.

Your rate of learning depends entirely upon you, however. Limited, dogmatic, or rigid concepts of good and evil can hold you back. Too narrow ideas of the nature of existence can follow you through several lives if you do not choose to be spiritually and psychically flexible.

These rigid ideas can indeed act as leashes, so that you are forced to circle like a tied puppy dog about a very small radius. In such cases, through perhaps a group of existences, you will find yourself battling against ideas of good and evil, running about in a circle of confusion, doubt, and anxiety.

Your friends and acquaintances will be concerned with the same problems, for you will draw to yourself those with the same concerns.

Session 55, The Early Sessions, Book 2, Copyright © Jane Roberts

The meaning of an experience can continue to unfold long after it occurs. Have you ever noticed this? I often find myself going back to review old experiences that happened in my past both in physical and dream realities. See My Recurring Superman Nightmare for example. I relived this dream for many years until I stopped running from it. When I finally confronted the monster in my dream and understood what it symbolized, it stopped haunting me.

Seth’s example of “a tied puppy dog” circling “about a very small radius” reminds of an older dog I once saw who had been tied in one place for so long there was no vegetation left on the ground in his circle of movement, only dust. He had been living in and kicking up dust for so long, he was blind. I can’t help but wonder now, was his owner, whom I never met, as blind as the dog from circling around the same limiting ideas for too many years? It makes you wonder.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Published on Seth, Practicing Idealist by “Oceanside Rick, Friday, May 6, 2011

Ruburt is Jane Roberts, and Joseph is her husband, Robert Butts. This is part 2 of a series of Seth posts about fanaticism. – Rick

SESSION 852, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, MAY 9, 1979. Copyright © 1981 by Jane Roberts

9:39 P.M. WEDNESDAY

Seth: Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

When you are discussing the nature of good and bad, you are on tricky ground indeed, for many, or most, of man’s atrocities to man have been committed in misguided pursuit of “the good.”

Whose good?

Is “good” an absolute?

In your arena of events, obviously, one man’s good can be another’s disaster, [Adolf] Hitler pursued his version of “the good” with undeviating fanatical intent. He believed in the superiority and moral rectitude of the Aryan race. In his grandiose, idealized version of reality, he saw that race “set in its proper place,” as natural master of mankind.

He believed in heroic characteristics, and became blinded by an idealized superman version of an Aryan strong in mind and body. To attain that end, Hitler was quite willing to sacrifice the rest of humanity. “The evil must be plucked out.” That unfortunate chant is behind the beliefs of many cults,  scientific and religious, and Hitler’s Aryan kingdom was a curious interlocking of the worst aspects of religion and science alike, in which their cultish tendencies were encouraged and abetted.

The political arena was the practical working realm in which those ideals were to find fruition. Hitler’s idea of good was hardly inclusive, therefore, and any actions, however atrocious, were justified.

How did Hitler’s initially wishy-washy undefined ideals of nationalistic goodness turn into such a world catastrophe?

The steps were the ones mentioned earlier, as those involved with any cult. Hitler’s daydreams became more and more grandiose, and in their light, the plight of his country seemed worsened with each day’s events. He counted its humiliations over and over in his mind, until his mind became an almost completely closed environment, in which only certain ideas were allowed entry.

All that was not Aryan, really, became the enemy. The Jews took the brunt largely because of their financial successes and their cohesiveness, their devotion to a culture that was not basically Aryan. They would become the victims of Hitler’s fanatical ideal of Germany’s good.

Hitler preached on the great value of social action as opposed to individual action. He turned children into informers against their own parents. He behaved nationalistically, as any minor cult leader does in a smaller context. The Jews believed in martyrdom. Germany became the new Egypt, in which their people were set upon. I do not want to oversimplify here, and certainly I am nowhere justifying the cruelties the Jews encountered in Germany.

You do each create your own reality, however (intently), and en masse you create the realities of your nationalities and your countries, so at that time the Germans saw themselves as victors, and the Jews saw themselves as victims.

Both reacted as groups, rather than as individuals, generally speaking now. For all of their idealisms, both basically believed in a pessimistic view of the self. It was because Hitler was so convinced of the existence of evil in the individual psyche, that he set up all of his rules and regulations to build up and preserve “Aryan purity.”

The Jews’ idea was also a dark one, in which their own rules and regulations were set to preserve the soul’s purity against the forces of evil. And while in the Jewish books [of The Old Testament] Jehovah now and then came through with great majesty to save his chosen people, he also allowed them to suffer great indignities over long periods of time, seeming to save them only at the last moment, and this time, so it seemed, he did not save them at all.

What happened?

Despite himself, and despite his followers, Hitler brought to flower a very important idea, and one that changed your history. All of the most morbid of nationalistic fantasies that had been growing for centuries, all of the most grandiose celebrations of war as a nation’s inalienable right to seek domination, focused finally in Hitler’s Germany.

The nation served as an example of what could happen in any country if the most fanatical nationalism was allowed to go unchecked, if the ideas of right were aligned with might, if any nation was justified in contemplating the destruction of others.

You must realize that Hitler believed that any atrocity was justified in the light of what he thought of as the greater good.

To some extent or another, many of the ideals he held and advocated had long been accepted in world communities, though they had not been acted upon with such dispatch. The nations of the world saw their own worst tendencies personified in Hitler’s Germany, ready to attack them.

The Jews, for various reasons, and again, this is not the full story, the Jews acted as all of the victims of the world, both the Germans and the Jews basically agreeing upon “man’s nefarious nature.” For the first time the modern world realized its vulnerability to political events, and technology and communication accelerated all of war’s dangers. Hitler brought many of man’s most infamous tendencies to the surface. For the first time, again, the species understood that might alone did not mean right, and that in larger terms a world war could have no real victors. Hitler might well have exploded the world’s first atomic bomb.

In a strange fashion, however, Hitler knew that he was doomed from the very beginning, and so did Germany as far as Hitler’s hopes for it were concerned. He yearned for destruction, for in saner moments even he recognized the twisted distortions of his earlier ideals. This meant that he often sabotaged his own efforts, and several important Allied victories were the result of such sabotaging. In the same way, Germany did not have the [atomic] bomb for the same reasons.

Now, however, we come to Hiroshima, where this highly destructive bomb was exploded (on August 6, 1945), and for what reason? To save life, to save American lives. The intent to save American lives was certainly “good”, at the expense of the Japanese this time. In that regard, America’s good was not Japan’s, and an act taken to “save life” was also designed to take individual lives.

At what expense is “the good” to be achieved, and whose idea of the good is to be the criterion?

Man’s pursuit of the good, to some extent now, fathered the Inquisition and the Salem witch hunts. Politically, many today believe that Russia is “the enemy,” and that therefore any means may be taken to destroy that country.

Some people within the United States believe fervently that “the establishment” is rotten to the core, and that any means is justified to destroy it.

Some people believe that homosexuals and lesbians are “evil,” that somehow they lack the true qualities of humanness [and therefore need not be treated with normal respect]. These are all value judgments involving your ideas of the good.

Very few people start out trying to be as bad as possible. At least some criminals feel that in stealing they are simply righting society’s wrongs. I am not saying that is their only motive, but in one way or another they manage to justify their activities by seeing them in their own version of the good and the right.

You must realize that fanatics always deal with grandiose ideals, while at the same time they believe in man’s sinful nature, and the individual’s lack of power.

They cannot trust the expression of the self, for they are convinced of its duplicity. Their ideals then seem even more remote. Fanatics call others to social action. Since they do not believe that the individual is ever effective, their groups are not assemblies of private individuals come reasonably together, pooling individual resources. They are instead congregations of people who are afraid to assert their individuality, who hope to find it in the group, or hope to establish a joint individuality, and that is an impossibility (emphatically).

True individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness.

To be continued…

Published with permission from current copyright holder, Laurel Davies-Butts, Seth/Jane Roberts Yahoo Group

Wow, Seth sure knows how to lay it out, doesn’t he? When we see ourselves as separate, thoughts of fear and competition dominate our thinking. If our “good” is someone else’s “bad”, that’s too bad! “Life is a matter of survival-of-the-fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed”, we tell ourselves.

Is it? Why not ask: what’s going to work best for All of us before we ask what’s going to work best for “me”? What’s wrong with acknowledging that we’re both one AND separate, and that we’re not only the product of creation but creation itself? What’s wrong with love and collaboration instead of fear and competition? We’ll get there, and certainly, articles like this will help us get there faster.

Cheers,

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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If others do not love, trust and believe in you, love, trust, and believe  in yourself, and them. Give yourself and others encouragement and room to grow.  Fear and judgment imprison us. Love and acceptance free us. (See: Encounter with Unconditional Love)

To personalize the thoughts below, convert them into “I” statements with  exclamation points for emphasis. For example, I love myself, just  because I can! I love you, just because you are! Remember them wherever  you are and whatever you’re doing. We treat people and things we love better  than people and things we don’t, including ourselves.

Each set of seed thoughts ending in, just because I am and just because I can, provides you with two important  alternatives; one is a quiet acceptance of being and the other  is a declaration of power over the creation your reality. Use  whichever one suits your mood in the moment. Plant them in the fertile soil of  your imagination. Watch them grow and bear fruit!

Love yourself, just because you are.

Love yourself, just because you can.

Trust yourself, just because you are.

Trust yourself, just because you can.

Believe in yourself, just because you are.

Believe in yourself, just because you can.

Love others, just because they are.

Love others, just because you can.

Trust others, just because they are.

Trust others, just because you can.

Believe in others, just because they are.

Believe in others, just because you can.

Forgive yourself, and others, for perceived “sins”. We’re all doing the  best we can, given what we know and experience. Love and acceptance speed  development, fear and judgment slow it down. Stop playing the “I’m right, you’re  wrong, I’m good, you’re bad, I’m innocent and you’re guilty” game. We can do  better than this.

LIVE for the love of Being and Creation; live for the love of your  soul.

Be yourself to the best of your ability.

Determine the qualities of life and being you value most, your  ideals, and actualize them.

Make self-improvement and natural passion the center of your life and  you will automatically change yourself, and the world, for the  better.

Being who you love to be and doing what you love to do connects you  to your soul and stimulates natural passion!

As works of art in progress, natural passion leads us to daily  self-improvement.

Remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do  it.

“Nothing you can ever think, say or do can keep you from being loved,  unconditionally.” – Unconditional Love

What can be more  exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the  better?

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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