In my last post I discussed the concept of creating one’s ideal world by being the kind of person who would populate it. This ties into the concept that we create our own reality. In a world of six billion people though, all with different beliefs, hopes and dreams, how can it be said that we each create our own reality? How do we reconcile each individual’s subjective experience with the greater objective consensus reality?

You may be familiar with the theory of dreams that says every character, place and situation within the dream represents an aspect of the self. I believe that in a sense, real life is the same way. We “dream” people and situations into our experience that represent aspects of ourselves — the only difference being that in life, the other dream characters are self-aware and are dreaming you into their experience for their own reasons.

Common sense would seem to dictate that there is an objective and “real” universe, “out there” that exists and is what it is independently of our perception of it. Discoveries in quantum physics have disproven this however — the behavior of a particle changes based on the presence of a conscious observer. Extrapolate this to the macrocosm, and it becomes evident that the universe is being continuously co-created by Consciousness.

Based on parallel universe theory, the idea that everything that can exist does, somewhere/when, I’ll take it even further. I posit that in a sense, we are each at the center of our own individual universe. My universe may overlap with those who enter my sphere of influence and share a lot in common — but it might also be very different, in very real and significant ways.

Think of it like a venn diagram, where one circle is my reality, the other is yours, and the place in the middle is where they overlap.

Now picture billions of these circles, all moving in and out of each other, flowing and rearranging continuously in infinite configurations. If we picture a visual representation of this image, we would end up with something resembling the Flower of Life.

The place where two circles overlap are the reality shared between, say, you and I. This area consists of our shared beliefs, perceptions and experiences. When we say we know someone, the person we know exists in this overlapped section. But can you know me as I know myself? If you’ve cultivated self-knowledge and objectivity you’ll know more of the true person just as you know you true self. If you haven’t, your impressions of them will be largely colored by your own perceptions; they’ll simply be a character in your dream.

The part of the circle that doesn’t overlap represents the part of ourselves and our reality that is not shared. How much of our fundamental experience of reality do we really share with the random guy we pass by on the street, and how much do we simply assume that we do based on what we suppose is “common sense”? How much of our reality do we share with the random guy across the world and how much do we simply assume based on our own beliefs, experiences and perceptual filters?

The statement “history is written by the winners,” is often used to convey that what we take for granted as being “the way it happened” may or may not be the case. If we take into account the concept of divergent timelines, it may even be possible that one’s history depends on which timeline they’re on, and continue along, when timelines overlap.

I’m reminded of a few times in my life where I and someone else remembered two completely different, mutually exclusive versions of an incident that was too recent for memory to degrade that much, but too mundane for either of us to have any vested interest in changing the details. Since its only happened rarely, I don’t think its a problem with my memory, and since its happened with a few different people I don’t think it was theirs either. Each time while it was happening I had a sense like “pay attention; something unusual is going on.” Ever since, I’ve always wondered whether we experienced some sort of timeline crossover. According to countless accounts that I’ve read, my experience is one among many; some similar, some even more likely to make one raise an eyebrow. The concept of “alter-vus” is an interesting one, which is defined as your experiences not matching your memories. For example, today you find a fully stocked and operational grocery store where you know there was just an empty lot yesterday, and everyone you ask remembers it as “always having been there.”

Back to the flower of life… the larger circle around the collection of smaller ones could be said to represent the greater consensus reality. This would consist of the physical and metaphysical laws that preserve the appearance of a coherent and continuous experience. Then again, as far as I’m concerned, rules and laws are handy for providing structure just until we’re able to transcend them… I believe that within the larger structure is a lot more possibilities than we could ever imagine; many of what we take to be rules or even laws are simply common assumptions. Within those larger boundaries, vast numbers of personal realities can exist comfortably — largely because we never question the assumption that they’re all the same.

“This is all very interesting” (or downright nutty as the case may be) you may be thinking, “but what’s your overall point?” That’s a damn good question, glad you asked. The point is that if we get rid of the assumption that we’re all playing in the exact same proverbial sandbox, then we’re left with some very important implications. If my reality is literally my own creation, and not contingent on any other person or entity, then I have a lot more freedom to act and create, to choose who to share my reality with, and decide what parts of other creations I want to allow to color my own. If I want to make an awesome cake, I would include chocolate but exclude ketchup; if I want to create my ideal experience I need to be equally discriminatory about what I put into it. This starts with what qualities I exhibit in my own life, and extends to the people I choose to share my life with.

That’s not to say I’m trying to emphasize separation — we have enough of that in this consensus reality already! But that brings me back to the subject of self knowledge and objectivity. With self-knowledge and love, objectivity and discernment, we begin to attract more people and influences that are compatible with our reality, and recognize those that aren’t. At that point an interesting thing begins to happen — the circles within our area of the Flower start to show greater overlap, “the divine within me recognizes the divine in you,” and there arises a new creation that we may have only thought was possible in our wildest dreams.

Namaste indeed!

–Palehorse

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