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Originally Posted by Rosie  I think the secret is a wonderful, utopian view of reality. The poor people in africa are living in shaqs because they aren't aware of the secret? According to the secret, if they just believed they could become rich, they would. Apparently law of attraction is the secret to ending world poverty, but I'm not buying it. Rich, succesful people will all agree with the secret. People living horrible, mal-fortuned lives, will laugh at the idea. I know people that are incredibly happy, and positive, yet experience mal-fortunes on a daily basis. |
I believe in Steve's idea of subjective reality, and I take responsibility for everything in the world, including the state of Africa. Many people (including myself in the past) would think I was crazy for admitting this, but when I see something, I ask myself "why am I responsible for this?"
In Steve's article after the Virginia Tech shootings, he says this:
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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina When I started dabbling in subjective reality, at first it was overwhelming to consider that I could be creating everything in my reality, but after a while I understood how the subjective perspective pushed me to grow a lot more. My perspective has me assuming responsibility for everything in my experience. So I wouldn’t say the Virginia Tech shootings were anybody’s responsibility but my own. From my perspective I manifested the whole thing, and how I respond is my responsibility and my choice. I won’t go into great depth on this — that would require a whole other article — but I can easily interpret the Virginia Tech shooting as a dream in a way that’s meaningful for me. For example, the key numbers (age 19, 33 dead) are significant for me. At age 19 I made a decision to turn my life around while sitting in a jail cell (as explained in podcast #1), and at age 33 I launched StevePavlina.com. The shooting occurred at the tail end of a weekend Erin and I spent in Sedona, Arizona, which unearthed and eventually resolved a lot of internal conflict about certain upcoming decisions. I don’t see this event as tragic in any way. It doesn’t cause me to feel outrage, a desire to see people punished, a sense of addiction to the drama. It just is. |
I had a similar experience. Only a few days before the Virginia Tech shootings, I was talking to someone who was retiring from teaching and concerned about what he would do in the future. I was trying to reassure him and I said "you know, maybe now is a good time to get out, since there may be a school shooting or something." And before that comment, I hadn't talked about school shootings for a couple of years.
Likewise, I take responsibility for the UN peacekeeping forces arriving in Darfur. I write down a list of goals for myself and also for the world and I meditate on these goals. Peace in Darfur was one of these goals.
People may say that this is confirmation bias or attribution bias or just a result of a variety of social factors, but I think it is an interesting way to interpret the world.