REALITY-MAKING SENSE OF YOUR WORLD

To say we manifest our reality by the way we think is not simply a “new age” platitude. It is an observable fact. And today, with science and spirituality befriending one another, our contemporary quantum physicists say it best. So let’s take a look at what we now know about how we truly create what we call “reality:”
All potential is contained within what theoretical physicist David Bohm calls the invisible “implicate order.” Yet, until something is actually explicated as a thought (as a particle, or a created “something”), it is still living in the invisible world of spirit (the wave function, or the vast Uncreated) as only a possibility. And we may not realize the potential is always there, just awaiting our recognition and real-ization. It’s the attention we give to something and our focus on it that calls it out and makes it real. All possibilities exist in the enfolded order of Reality. So why do we choose to explicate what we do? Let me go deeper with this for a moment, since this awareness is so crucial to our very quality of life.

Dr. Bohm demonstrates his theory with this experiment, which I was fortunate to see with my own eyes while studying at Esalen Institute in the ‘80’s: Put two concentric cylinders in a container, one inside the other with some space in between the two. The inner cylinder is fixed, while the outer one turns slowly in one direction. Fill the container with a viscous fluid like glycerin and put an ink drop into the fluid. As the outer cylinder begins turning, the droplet is drawn out into a finer and finer thread that gradually becomes invisible. Now, reverse the motion and the droplet will retrace its path until the ink drop emerges once again in tact.

In this same manner, we construct a series of thoughts that unfold/enfold like the ink drop does. Each idea we have formulates in our brain as a distinct thought. Then, each explicated thought affects what we see and call “reality.” But it is always simply one possibility in the infinite invisible whole, the implicate order of Reality where everything vibrates as uncreated potential. In quantum physics, particles do not even show until someone looks through a microscope and observes them. Then, they explicate and split into two opposites – one spinning one way, one spinning the other. On the subatomic level, this is how our Reality is created. There is a cosmic law that says, “As above, so below.” So, you see, it’s what you decide to notice in life that becomes your reality. So again, the question: Since everything exists in potential, why do we choose to explicate what we do?

And here, I believe, is the reason: Most thoughts we hold in our minds arise from memory. We respond to the memory and make a thought that is based in some little piece of our past we’ve paid attention to, then stored. Often, what we remember is now outdated, or no longer useful. And some thoughts are founded in a complete misunderstanding. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between a memory and a current experience; it reacts exactly the same in either instance and causes the same emotion. A mechanical memorized set of thoughts that contain emotion can never be creative. So not only is this way of living in the past uncreative, it can be downright destructive.

Many I meet today in Eupsychia’s program tell me they wish to create a new way of life. To be creative, then, capable of free thought, the question becomes: How do we get beyond being stuck in our memories? How do we learn to think in ways that are not conditioned by memory, but come from a fresh, here-and-now approach? If we could possibly empty our minds, creative inspirations could emerge. We’ve learned that creativity does not come from thinking, though it is an instrument that can express in thought. Creativity spontaneously manifests from moments of emptiness in the mind. It’s as though “Big Mind” can enter a human mind that is not already filled to the brim with stacks of old ideas from one’s past.

Research on how music affects our brains is helping us understand how music clears these dead thoughts from the mind. Music, from Beethoven to Pink Floyd, has the power to carve new neural pathways through our brains right where memory and emotion converge. This is one of the most powerful aspects of our breathwork musical journeys we do in Eupsychia’s work. Today, we need more and more methods that can help us clear out our past, because these old thoughts are the basic reason humanity isn’t working! Now, make that a personal statement, and you’ll see that it’s your old thoughts that are the reason parts of your life may not be working.

Everything we ever conceptualize has to come into and through our psyches to be perceived. As I’m sure you realize, your psyche is your perceiver of reality. It is consciousness itself. Just as the goddess Psyche chose to fall from Mt. Olympus and become a human girl, we all stepped out of "the Garden" -- where, as God’s innocent children, all our thinking was done for us – and took on the grave responsibility of becoming conscious individuals. As part of our Father’s plan for all His children, we had to “eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” – meaning we needed to learn to decide for ourselves the difference between what is right and what is wrong. And in so doing, the human psyche was born. As Jean Houston so beautifully puts it: “Consciousness entered into time.”

And interestingly, even how we think of God can only be known through our own perception of God or of anything we decide to call “holy.” Carl Jung tells us “God has never spoken except in and through one’s psyche, whether it be experiences that originate within the psyche, or outer experiences or dogma that must be processed by the psyche.” This God- image we carry in our minds holds the central position of authority for us and can spontaneously burst upon the ego at any time, producing what we label a mystical, divine inner event, or a “living religious experience.” So frankly, no matter how lofty our thoughts, nothing really resides outside our own perceptions of God and Reality. Think about it: This just has to be true.

Since we create how the think, I’ve found that some thoughts help us have a better life. Here’s a way to think of who you are: Since “psyche” is a Greek word that means soul, you can think of your psyche as your individual soul who came here straight from Source to experience being fully human. Your soul is twinned, then, being both divine and human: When it "looks up" it relates to Spirit, and when it "looks down" it becomes an individual human psyche who takes on the worldly life in order to make it conscious and thereby spiritualize this material world. The human psyche was created to do the work of our heavenly Parents. We’re here bringing Spirit from the abstract down into concrete Reality. Now this is a serious responsibility. It’s no wonder we avoid knowing who we are for as long as we possibly can! Once you truly “get” this, your entire life is transformed, because your whole identity shifts into knowing you are someone much bigger than you thought you were. Your little personal insults become so much less significant than the Big Story you realize you are living.

This earth life we are experiencing has a very sacred purpose that consciousness is currently passing through. Evolution is a mystery that, as consciousness, we live, but never really know much about intellectually. We just do it. We just are it, as apparently, this is God’s plan. Even today’s physicists tell us no one knows where we are headed, or what this life of ours is truly all about. But today, scientists know there is something bigger than they can define that caused “the Big Bang” of creation to happen. Darwin was certainly part of it, but along with nature’s natural ways of evolving, there have also been quantum leaps that cannot be explained.

What we do know is that we are here now for consciousness to experience being fully human and spiritualize it by our active and conscious participation in every part of our human life. This translates into bringing divine Love and Wisdom here. We are here to blossom the human kingdom, the fourth kingdom in nature. And we each must do this by blossoming into our whole Self. Another way of saying this is you are here to move from blindness and fragmentation to being fully awake and whole.

Look around in our troubled world today. What you’ll see are people still trying to live as separate, divided nations, cultures, and egos trying to hopelessly win each argument or war. Yet we are too awake now, and too far along on the Path of Return to our Source to keep forgetting that we are all One Human Soul. The cosmic Law of Evolution will not allow this egoistic separatism to go on forever. Therefore, we must work with all our might to wake up and remember who and what we are and why we’ve come here. Our human lives truly depend on this now.

So how are you doing with your holy job description? Are you still caught up in your little personal story line that keeps you stuck in your past? Or are you beginning to “get it” and remember who you really are, willing to take responsibility for any healing you may still require? So far, it’s taken me seven decades in this one lifetime to get this far, and I’m still so easily capable of dropping into Self-forgetting! We really do need each other as reminders of our bigger Story, and we need spiritual practices and psychological healing that can keep us living it.

Your psyche is the vital link between Spirit and matter -- here to be the mirrored reflection of your spiritual nature. And, as the human psyche, like standing in the middle of our own picture, we simply do not see ourselves. But no longer can we deny our real nature and true purpose for being here. Our world is in grave trouble, living out of dead philosophies and old thoughts based solely on memory of the past. We must each become an undivided whole person now – knowing we’re both the particle and the wave -- and grow on into our full blossoming as unique beings able to stand on our own in free and creative thought.

Tielhard de Chardin told us we are a hybrid species made of both spirit and matter. Once we explicate this thought that our species is by nature both human and divine, there's no way we can ever feel separate again from God, or Spirit. Nor can we disavow our purpose for coming here to be demonstrators of the Divine. With no respect for or knowledge of psyche as the human soul, who serves as our link between Spirit and matter, we live in a "disconnect," lost to the true workings of our very being. Anytime we fail to bring Spirit into all our human activities, we suffer, we fragment, and then we are lost.

Our religions and psychologies have failed to tell us who we really are and why we're here. Many religions say we’re “sinners.” And Western psychologists tend to keep us stuck in wounded egos needing fixed by outside experts and medication! We've failed to comprehend that Psyche, our perceiver of reality, is a divine Being living right inside us as our minds and hearts, just awaiting our recognition so she can release her powers!

It’s time now for each of us in our own way to accept the mantle of our destiny as a demonstrator of the Divine. We don’t need to talk about it; we need to just do it. This is not an ego trip; it is our job as sons and daughters of our Creator. We each have a sphere of influence here in this world. So let’s use our influence now to raise consciousness in every way we can, beginning with our own.