Can You Choose Your Own Reality?

Can human beings create or choose their own reality?
PARADIGM SHIFTING AND HUMAN POTENTIAL
by Dave Hunt and T. A. McMahon
Excerpted from America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice
 
ENCOURAGED by New Age apostles such as Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point) and Gary Zukav (The Dancing Wu Li Masters), the belief is growing that modern physics and ancient mystical traditions have striking parallels that lead to similar views of reality and thus justify a merger between the two. The facts are quite the opposite. Rather than supporting Eastern mysticism because it is so similar, modern physics actually has little in common with it.

In addition to his claim that he has a direct experience of the essence of the universe (which science denies is possible, as we have just seen), the mystic also claims to "experience" the unity of all things, including his own "oneness" with the cosmos, as though the universe were his own body and the expression of his mind. In contrast again, the physicist declares that the universe is a separate reality and therefore this experience of "oneness" with the All is a deception. Mysticism denies any reality external to the mind, while the physicist declares that the external world is in fact real and that we have no way of comparing our mental impressions of the universe with its true character and essence. For these reasons Ken Wilber declares: "What an absolute, radical, irredeemable difference [separates science] from mysticism!" Most physicists disagree with the thesis of Capra and Zukav, which would not be the case if it followed from the evidence. In fact, Capra admits that his theory (which is so popular among New Agers) did not result from insight gained through scientific observation, but actually came about through a powerful mystical experience he had in 1969 "on a beach in Santa Cruz [California]." In The Tao of Physics he writes:

Five years ago, I had a beautiful experience which set me on a road that has led to the writing of this book. I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon... when I suddenly became aware of my whole environment as being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance....  I "saw" the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy, I felt its rhythm and "heard" its sound, and at that moment I knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of Dancers worshipped by the Hindus.

Presumably this religious experience of "cosmic consciousness," or the "oneness of all," that is attained in an altered state provides an insight into the actual reality underlying the universe--a reality that we do not ordinarily recognize because our perception is flawed. Before accepting such a thesis, however, one cannot help wondering how and why, if all is perfect, our perception could be imperfect. From what source did this imperfection arise to mar the perfection of the All? If all is indeed one, then how could we even have the illusion of separation from the universal consciousness and unified whole, of which we are allegedly an intimate part? And why is there so much conflict within the individual human heart and so much jealousy, hatred, greed, and antagonism exhibited toward fellow members of the race?

Whether the altered state of consciousness that brought "enlightenment" came about through drugs or Eastern meditation, the fact remains that Capra's present obsession is not the result of scientific investigation or evidence but of a classic Hindu mystical experience. In The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, Capra argues for an integration of Eastern and Western thought in order to bring about what he perceives as a necessary "revolution in all the sciences and a transformation of our world view and values." It would not seem advisable, however, to base such a "revolution" in scientific thinking upon a religious insight such as Capra experienced in an altered state of consciousness.

Sir James Jeans demolished the view of Capra, Zukav, et al., long before it became popular. Jeans demonstrated that there is in fact an objective world and that this would not be the case if reality were the creation of individual minds. He did this very simply by presenting three criteria that are essential for objective reality: surprise, continuity, and change. What he meant is easily illustrated.

Twenty million people are suddenly awakened from a sound sleep by an earthquake in Mexico City, an earthquake that kills many of them by collapsing the homes and apartments they occupy. The fact that so many people were surprised by this event, indeed, awakened by the shaking and roaring of an earthquake that they certainly were not even dreaming of, is evidence enough that an objective reality imposed itself upon its victims. It would be madness to suggest that a hurricane or a fire that guts a hotel was created in the minds of those who experienced it. Yet new-consciousness gurus continue to promote and sell various techniques for creating one's own reality, and the customers are still eagerly paying for seminars that will supposedly teach them to develop this amazing human potential.

Such ideas are being taken seriously even by our top government officials. Consider, for example, the statements of ex-astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell in a [1980] address to members of Congress and Congressional staff on behalf of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future:

Within ten years, psychokinetic functioning will be reasonably well accepted. It knocks down the previous model of the human; there is something more fundamental than the material we are made of. We can control, external to our bodies, the matter that is around us, and control internally the functioning of our bodies, by the way we think.

Mitchell's projected ten years for this new paradigm to be in operation [have come and gone] and we are no closer than we were, 3000 years ago when the same ideas were being taught by Yogis in India. Consider Jeans's second reason why this dream must forever remain a delusion: the continuity of objective reality. After a 20-year absence, you return to your high school for a reunion. The same rooms in which you once attended class are there, complete with desks, blackboards, and cracks in the ceiling--everything that you had never given a thought to during the 20-year interval. Everything has remained in place without your mind supporting its existence.

Such continuity proves the objectivity of the world independent of human minds, a continuity without which life would be impossible. Imagine the chaos if reality were in fact the product of billions of individual minds of independent and forgetful (or even insane) nature. Whose "reality" would be dominant, and how often would one person's self-created "reality" suddenly be overturned by another's imposing itself? There have also been many changes at your high school during your absence. The old gymnasium has been torn down, and a new and much larger one stands in its place. Change such as this, coming without our knowledge in places we have forgotten, clearly has occurred without our minds creating it. This, too, demonstrates the objectivity of the physical universe about us. So Jeans argues that these three elements--surprise, continuity, and change--prove that the world about us is not created by our minds but has in fact an objective reality of its own, independent of anything we may think or do.

Nevertheless, the universe seems more like a great thought than a great machine. Consequently, Jeans concluded that it must subsist "in the mind of some Eternal Spirit," who is in fact its Creator. Far from mentally creating reality, mankind has been struggling to discover the incredible secrets of a universe that is at once so awesome in size and yet so intricate in minutest detail that it reflects the genius of a Designer whose mind is infinitely beyond human capabilities. The theory that we can create our own reality would seem to represent the envy and rebellion of little minds with delusions of grandeur who have an insatiable desire to play God.
Nevertheless, the belief that we have already conspired to create the delusion we now call reality, and from which our imaginings can deliver us, grows ever more popular. In Shifting Worlds, Changing Minds: Where the Sciences and Buddhism Meet, Jeremy W. Hayward argues that everything we see and experience in the world about us is mere illusion. The mere fact that the universe obviously existed before homo sapiens came along to "create" reality with his imagination ought to be sufficient to end such theories, yet they persist....
In spite of its obvious folly and impossibility, the delusionary dream of playing God is so appealing that few people can resist the temptation when this carrot is dangled in front of them....  As we have already indicated, highly educated Westerners are embracing, as science, a Hindu gospel that must take much of the responsibility for making India one of the poorest, most superstition-bound countries in the world. This gospel offers to Calcutta's one million beggars who have been born and live and will die in its streets the good news that their running sores, gnawing hunger, and poverty do not really exist, but have been created by their own "negative" thinking. There is no suffering, disease, or death; one merely misperceives what is actually there. All one needs to do to change one's experience of life is to change the way one perceives it. In that same address to Congressional leaders, Edgar Mitchell declared:

Our physical and emotional well-being is totally under our control and we can train ourselves to control ourselves. It puts responsibility for health and well-being on the individual. I am not a victim. I choose on some level, whatever happens to me. Within ten years, the AMA will endorse this viewpoint.

As [Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz], and many other motivational speakers would persuade us if they could, anyone can change his entire world by changing his thoughts. Now this is either the most wonderful truth or else it is the cruelest hoax imaginable.

Who could reasonably doubt that it is the latter? Yet this delusion, surprisingly, continues to grow in popularity in spite of the obvious fact that no one (not even a patient in a mental hospital) lives in his own mentally created reality separate from the rest of the world.

Who walks in sunshine while others all around him are in the rain? Or who continues to fly safely through the air on a plane that the other passengers and crew, because of their negative thinking, "imagine" has sustained a powerful explosion and is falling from the sky? Or who can (by positive thinking) cause a stock that he or she owns to maintain its value, when, to everyone else's perception and according to the figures coming out of the New York Stock Exchange, that particular stock has drastically fallen in value? Nevertheless, millions are persuaded by gurus of the new consciousness that they have such "potential" and are purchasing and practicing various techniques for cultivating altered states in pursuit of this pot of gold at the end of the New Age rainbow.

Mystical fantasies in altered states aside, the daily experience of all mankind has always demonstrated that there is a common reality shared by all human beings upon planet Earth regardless of whether they are positive or negative thinkers. Ecological disaster or nuclear war, for example, do not threaten only those negative people who are pessimistic enough to believe in such horrors. The possibility of World War III is just as much a threat to those who display "Visualize Peace" stickers on their car bumpers, practice Transcendental Meditation faithfully, and think nothing but positive thoughts day and night as it is to anyone else.

Nor can it be argued that the majority belief is imposed upon the minority. This idea forms the basis for the attempt to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to meditate for peace in the hope that a "critical mass" of peaceful thinking will be reached and will thus tip the scales in the Universal Mind itself and bring about peace upon earth. If it requires millions or even billions of persons thinking the same thought together to effect such changes, then obviously one person could not possibly create his or her own individual reality in competition with billions or even thousands of other minds.
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In March, we announced that Dave & Tom's book, The New Spirituality, would soon be available. It's now here, but we're releasing the book under it's original title, America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice, which we're pleased to offer this month as part of our expanding "Dave Hunt Classic" library.

 ROYAL HEIR

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Something Is Coming ...Part I

A NASA contractor from Boeing made some mysterious statements in August 2009 about a potential coming event that is so potentially devastating that he said he planned to quit his job no later than June 2010, without leaving a trace, take his family and move to parts unknown, where for the past year he has been making preparations to survive as if he is living in the 1800s. He says there are at least 12 levels of security above him, so what he knows and hears is kindergarten level stuff.

Stay with me during the scientific stuff because we will reach the spiritual aspect of what this man says. I have been wanting to write this article for months, but was reluctant to tackle the science of it while at the same time reducing it to a much shorter length. The time is now. So stay with me.

This coming event is a natural occurrence and is affecting the sun as evidenced by the solar filaments. He said, "The sun is reacting to 'forces' we cannot see." Apparently NASA is just as puzzled as everyone else about this incoming celestial 'body,' which is not an asteroid (although some news sites are calling it that) or the like, but possibly the "Fluff" cloud that is held together by powerful magnetics, first discovered by NASA around October 15, 2009, and it has been believed that it cannot enter our heliosphere, which protects earth and the inner solar system.

This anomaly consists of a ribbon of magnetics that scientists did not know existed, or what has created it - but it did change their previous ideas about the heliosphere. They may have something to do with the spirals being witnessed around the planet and may be linked to the Birkelund currents. These currents are basically super massive "cables" of electro-magnetic energy that spiral through space. These cables appear to exist only in pairs and wrap around each other like DNA. (The Book of Enoch talks about the angels at the end of days, bringing long thin 'ropes' to locate those saints who have died. Some theologians speculate that these might be DNA strands.) Some believe that we are heading for an electro-magnetic event (EMP?) of biblical proportions. It seems that all information about it is being kept very hush-hush. The major concern is a matter not of what it is, but when it occurs - the timing. It is known as P/2010 A2.

This whistleblower believes that no one will know it is happening until a day or two before the event and that there will be no public announcement. He says that a ban has been put in place on information regarding asteroid or other objects entering earth's atmosphere and that many gov't agencies have moved to higher elevations. He doesn't believe the government is trying to keep the information from the public, but the discussion of it, because they are themselves at a loss to know what it is or what to expect. Meetings where this is discussed are tense and urgent.

The concern is not that something will hit the earth, but the potential of something hitting the sun and affecting the earth ... and the timing. It appears as if magnetics are being pulled out of the sun and making the filaments. It also seems that it will not be an event as much as a sustained process.

MAGNETIC PORTALS CONNECTING THE EARTH AND THE SUN

In just the time span of a few minutes, something happens which scientists didn't think possible until recently. A magnetic portal will open, linking the earth to the sun. Tons of high energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again. It is called a 'flux transfer event,' an FTE. Approximately every 8 minutes the portal opens, taking the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as the earth. A number of European and US spaceships have flown through and around this cylinder. This is just about all they know right now.

VOYAGER MAKES AN INTERSTELLAR DISCOVERY

The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that should not exist, according to physicists. This is the 'fluff' cloud spoken of above. It survives due to its strong magnetic forces, thereby resisting destruction. The Voyagers are not inside the fluff yet, but they are approaching it. The original research is in the 12/24/09 issue of Nature.

It is the electromagnetic energy that is the key, and this is what they are keeping their eye on.

PLASMA

A dense plasma has already entered our solar system. Since there is plasma (molten rock and metal aka lava) within the Earth, it would suggest a connection to the plasma that has entered the solar system.

What is plasma? The first state of matter is a solid, and it is the coldest state. As a solid heats up it becomes liquid, the second state of matter. As we heat up liquid, it turns to gas, the third state. As we heat up gas, it turns into plasma, the fourth state of matter.

The sun's plasma is called the solar wind. It's charged particles are so hot that it flies out into space, along with the sun's magnetic field. The charged particles and the magnetic fields influence each other.

The higher the state of matter, the higher the transmission capability. What is being transmitted? INFORMATION. States of matter transmit information, which is the highest form of energy. This "fluff cloud" is allowing greater transmission of information. As our environment becomes more highly charged, our ability to 'think' increases. To make a long story short, science may be validating prophecy and indicating that things are very near to the end.

To attempt to separate the science from new age thought, and then separate both from scripture is a huge task which I am always plodding through with the limited understanding of a mere mortal, but it appears that a phenomena never before seen on earth is approaching and will cause profound experiential perception and dimensional knowledge, i.e., a radical change in the separation of our physical and spiritual perceptions. Many are thinking, the rapture?

Calculations approximate the year of earth's actual entry into the mainstream of the photon belt to be 2011, bringing a transition into super-consciousness "in the twinkling of an eye." The energy of the photon belt is of etheric and spiritual nature - not physical - but it interacts with the physical. The question before us is: Is this a scientific hypothesis, a new age hypothesis, and how does it conjunct with God's Word? It's a mystery. But it is believed by all to be virtually at the door, whatever it is. All three disciplines recognize the earth cycles, newly discovered by most of us, and that we are at the end of several cycles all at once.

Part I of this subject matter is an attempt to describe the basic facts (to use a term loosely) of the phenomena. In Part II it will really get interesting. I will try to compare what the New Agers are being fed about this to what God's Word tells us - and attempt to arrive at a tentative conclusion. It is one of the most fascinating things I've ever studied, and the information is coming in fast and furiously. I am virtually one moment ahead in my thinking before it gets translated into words and hits the blog. Dangerous thing to do, but I have no choice. Being me.

Royal Heir

ET's - Spiritual Mentors?

I read an article entitled, "Aliens: The Next Spiritual Mentors?" and, even though I completely believe that ETs/UFOs are demonic in nature and will assist in ushering in a new spiritual aspect for the new Antichrist world religious to hail as just that - mentors - I was nevertheless shocked to actually see it in print. It is a confirmation of everything I have believed for many years about the UFO phenomena.

While we have had a plethora of books, TV and movie themes about aliens over the past 25 years, they have rarely talked directly about a spiritual relationship with these beings. There have been a few exceptions.

Enemy Mine, a 1985 film, depicted an intergalactic war between us and an alien race called Drac. Starting as enemies, a human finds himself on an island with a Drac who refers regularly to a religious book. The two slowly become friends and discuss the philosophies of life's large issues. This results in a deep friendship between the two. The result is that the human being learns a great deal of 'wisdom' from the ET, which changes his life positively.

A fiction series called the Green Stone of Healing is another example, which features an alien who seems to have qualities which we identify as those of angels. He can materialize and re-appear at will and assumes physical form for easier communication, reminiscent of angel appearances in the Bible. He is clearly a spiritual being who teaches the man things which are very different than what he has previously believed to be true, thus examining his faith, which results in a 'higher understanding' (higher consciousness) which provides him with tremendous spiritual growth. The alien takes a very hands-off, subtle approach, which is even more inviting to the humans. He even heals one person and comforts all of the humans during trying times. He seems to show a great reluctance to intervene due to his great respect for free will of the humans.

This is especially interesting and relevant, because almost without exception, when people have 'spirit guides' and communication with aliens, the aliens always insist that the people express of their own free will a desire to know more. When studying this subject, it has always been striking to me that they require this 'free will consent' before 'enlightening' humans. I have come to understand that this is apparently a legal requirement placed on these entities - apparently by God their creator!

A third example of speculative fiction portraying intelligent non-human beings with a highly developed spirituality is Alien Nation, the television series. Most of these alien newcomers are just regular folks like you and me, with a normal life, jobs, homes, children. However, their religious traditions and rituals are extremely important to them, and the series relays the message that they have superior understanding in the spiritual realm from which we humans have much to learn. The humans always benefit from a relationship with them.

These representations of aliens among us always portray them as spiritually superior to us, with greater wisdom, truth and understanding. This is highly seductive to people, since we are born with a desire to know God, and it is always so much easier for man to accept an 'easy spirituality' which makes him see himself in a better light. Satan always plays to the ego, so that the human being becomes more knowledgeable. This feeds and builds up self, the greatest obstacle to a real relation of obedience to the one true God, our Lord.

We are being acclimated to a relationship with these beings which are portrayed as making us feel so complete, so good, so at one with the universe, just as the new age religion teaches. It's the same tactic Satan has used since the garden of Eden. He comes as a creature of light ... and leads humanity to its death, spiritually and physically.

It is critical to be armed with knowledge about the demonic powers, their seductive approaches to mankind, and to be prepared to hear much more about them and their religious philosophy which as already infiltrated the Christian faith with great apostasy.

Know your adversary and all his wiles.

A Child of the King