"Yeah. Collective consciousness is incredibly powerful. Your personal choices create your own reality on an individual level, but they also contribute to the 'blueprints' of larger systems — the same way that a cat's fear of snakes contributes to the 'blueprint' of their species. God articulates this really well…"
No, not all the things which you call bad which happen to you are of your own choosing. Not in the conscious sense — which you mean. They are all of your own creation.
You are always in the process of creating. Every moment. Every minute. Every day. How you can create we’ll go into later. For now, just take my word for it — you are a big creation machine, and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.
Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances — all are created out of consciousness. Individual consciousness is powerful enough. You can imagine what kind of creative energy is unleashed whenever two or more are gathered in My name. And mass consciousness? Why, that is so powerful it can create events and circumstances of worldwide import and planetary consequences.
It would not be accurate to say — not in the way you mean it — that you are choosing these consequences. You are not choosing them anymore than I am choosing them. Like Me, you are observing them. And deciding Who You Are with regard to them.
Yet there are no victims in the world, and no villains. And neither are you a victim of the choices of others. At some level you have all created that which you say you detest — and, having created it, you have chosen it.
This is an advanced level of thinking, and it is one which all Masters reach sooner or later. For it is only when they can accept responsibility for all of it that they can achieve the power to change part of it.
So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there “doing it” to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say “I did this” can you find the power to change it.
It is much easier to change what you are doing than to change what another is doing.
The first step in changing anything is to know and accept that you have chosen it to be what it is. If you can’t accept this on a personal level, agree to it through your understanding that we are all One. Seek then to create change not because a thing is wrong, but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of Who You Are.
There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.
Used in this way, life becomes Self creative. You use life to create your Self as Who You Are, and Who You’ve Always Wanted to Be. There is also only one reason to un-do anything: because it is no longer a statement of Who You Want to Be. It does not reflect you. It does not represent you. (That is, it does not re-present you…)
If you wish to be accurately re-presented, you must work to change anything in your life which does not fit into the picture of you that you wish to project into eternity.
In the largest sense, all the “bad” things that happen are of your choosing. The mistake is not in choosing them, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, you call your Self bad, since you created them.
This label you cannot accept, so rather than label your Self bad, you disown your own creations. It is this intellectual and spiritual dishonesty which lets you accept a world in which conditions are as they are. If you had to accept — or even felt a deep inner sense of — personal responsibility for the world, it would be a far different place. This would certainly be true if everyone felt responsible. That this is so patently obvious is what makes it so utterly painful, and so poignantly ironic.
The world’s natural calamities and disasters — its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods — its physical turmoils — are not created by you specifically. What is created by you is the degree to which these events touch your life.
Events occur in the universe which no stretch of the imagination could claim you instigated or created.
These events are created by the combined consciousness of man. All of the world, co-creating together, produces these experiences. What each of you do, individually, is move through them, deciding what, if anything, they mean to you, and Who and What You Are in relationship to them.
Thus, you create collectively, and individually, the life and times you are experiencing, for the soul purpose of evolving.
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You should now better understand how people of like mind can work together to create a favored reality. The phrase “Wherever two or more are gathered in My name” becomes much more meaningful.
Of course, when entire societies think a certain way, very often astonishing things happen — not all of them necessarily desirable. For instance, a society living in fear, very often — actually, inevitably — produces in form that which it fears most.
Similarly, large communities or congregations often find miracle-producing power in combined thinking (or what some people call common prayer).
And it must be made clear that even individuals — if their thought (prayer, hope, wish, dream, fear) is amazingly strong — can, in and of themselves, produce such results. Jesus did this regularly. He understood how to manipulate energy and matter, how to rearrange it, how to redistribute it, how to utterly control it. Many Masters have known this. Many know it now.
Neale Donald Walsch
"Of course, all of this makes perfect sense when you understand the algorithm," I said. "If you, as an individual, express love into the world, your individual world will become more abundant. If we, collectively, all express love into the world, then our collective world will become more abundant."
"I don't quite get how that happens, though," Zac said. "Like, it's just a fact that money doesn't grow on trees. It's a fact that we have limited physical resources or oil reserves."
"No, it's not," I said. "Look at how much the standard of living has improved in the last hundred years, and how much the economy has grown. Where do you think all the great ideas and inventions came from? Do you think they were random? And have you observed data on exactly how much oil there is under the surface of the Earth?"
"Well, no…"
"Then, in your universe, the oil reserves could be incredibly abundant. Remember — the oil wasn't put there billions of years ago. It was put there the moment you measure it. Right now, collective consciousness believes in scarcity and lack. We express that belief by fighting, hoarding, and holding on to our energy resources while using the military to protect our interests. Therefore, physical reality manifests everything we need to physically experience our collective belief in scarcity. We manifest scarce oil supplies and conditions that promote war and conflict because that's how we've decided to play this game. And remember — this game is infinitely flexible. We can choose to play the game in a different way. We can choose to be abundant, and experience that."
