Iamwhomiam » Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:54 am wrote:We're reactive, rather than proactive.
While I agree with the sentiments expressed, that our projections create our reality, I seem unable to unthink my thoughts.
And while our projections create reality, so many other people's projections (often unconscious) are creating theirs and theirs impacts ours, especially when you get so many who see 'xyz' as inevitable. I can project peace and love for very limited amounts of time, but eventually the shit reality everyone else wants to settle for wins out and I become a cynical old bastard again.
Years ago I knew a guy who grew up to be enforcer for a cult. Along with teaching me the basics of spiritualist-style 'new thought' (some of which I recognize as the material used in 'the secret'), he used to tell me somewhat gleefully that there was no stopping armageddon because too many people were envisioning, embracing it. Try as I might, I cannot shift this belief in others and am probably doomed to ride over the falls in a barrel with them due to sheer numbers and cultural force.
I do appreciate what is being said, I have grown used to secrets and things I cannot articulate being locked inside anyways. But as much as I can carve out a destiny for one ( and those around me), I regret that it will likely take a miracle to shift the majority of humans out of their negative and suicidal trajectories. I do not advocate hopelessness, just pragmatism.