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Originally Posted by Max Power  SR is very empowering, but I can see why people struggle with it. The best way to look at it is to see it not through human eyes, don't trust them, they are limited, they can deceive you, see it through consciousness, see it how you'd like to see it. As you observe, you create and you create it right now. |
I'm supposed not to trust my own eyes, but believe in my fantasies instead? This doesn't sound very empowering to me. Delusional, yes, but not empowering. At least not in the long term.
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Originally Posted by Max Power Do you want to look at the world and see selfishness and pain and suffering? Do you want to see poverty and broken relationships, no money and anger? If you don't want to see any of that then stop observing it and it will cease to continue. |
It's not that easy. I agree to the degree that you co-create your own experience. Your beliefs undoubtedly influence your perceptions - a lot.
But it's more probable that poverty will continue to exist out there when you stop looking at it. If a giant truck comes rushing towards you and you just close your eyes, the truck will be out of your perceived universe, yes. But only until it hits you. And then you'll be out of the truck's universe.
Throughout history people have been poisoned by people they have trusted. How do you think that happened? They surely didn't see that coming.
I'm not that well-versed in the Bible, but didn't Judas betray Jesus without Jesus knowing it?
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Originally Posted by Max Power If you desire money, love, health, happiness, you have to observe those things inside you first and then the inside with change and then the outside will change (actually there is no outside, but that's another rant  ) |
I'm quite certain many people get diseases without thinking about them. I agree that the existence of the outside world is a model (everything is). But it's a pretty good one. I'd even say it's the best one you have.
I think your consciousness-theory applies perfectly to the dream-world. There you can be solipsistic and change the world easily with your thoughts alone. I doubt it applies to this one.
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Originally Posted by Max Power 1. It makes you take full responsibility for everything. If it's in your awareness, then it's of your creation.
2. Creation only takes place right now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now, so when you want to change somethining in your world, you change it inside you right now and it will change, it has to.
So it's all you and it's all now Would you really want to live any other way??  But that you is not you the human being it's you consciousness. Awesome cosmic power, itty, bitty human bean  |
I think it makes you responsible for things you are not responsible for. You are in a great way responsible for your own experience. But not for all of it.
How do you know you're consciousness?