Haha, that depends on your definition of cynicism, Philip. I suspect that the world, as we perceive it, exists in our single Mind as a nightmare of our own imagining. We've had the power all along, Dorothy, to love the Real World--as a reflection of the Reality outside of time and space--into being by recognizing other people as our Self. It's inevitable that we come to that recognition because that's God's will. Time, saved in a bubble for us, gives us control over how long that will take.
Under your assumption, someone else will save us--aliens, parallel universes. And if we find out that was another psyops, we'll look outside ourselves for something else. I don't think there's a shortcut from doing the work ourselves of questioning reality, and testing our theories in our own lives.
If we do indeed create our reality by how we assign meaning to events, then everyone would always be correct, because their perspective will always be true for them. There is no single-line reality or truth.
Therefore, there can be as many interpretations of events as there are interpreters, and each person will have their own truth. They will then experience a world, an environment that reflects to them their beliefs.
Debating which interpretations are correct and which are false is an exercise in futility only undertaken if the personalities involved simply want to have the experience of debate and disagreement. Otherwise, everyone is welcome to have their own interpretation of events. And, as a result, their own outcomes.
The mistake we make is thinking that everyone's realities are the same. That is not true. Our realities can vary widely. We "seed" our probabilities in the moment with our beliefs.
We create through our perception. So we have it backwards. We don't observe and create. We create and observe. It's a constant feedback loop that reinforces our beliefs. That's why it's so easy to miss it.
There IS a Collective belief that would be considered the default, and it's where most people fall in their beliefs. But we are not limited by that in our own beliefs and truths.
You're bringing up important questions, Philip. The first is "Does reality exist, apart from our perception of it?" Another word for Reality is God, if that's part of your vocabulary but they mean the same. To say that we each individually create our reality isn't what I mean, that would be saying that we're each our own god and Reality, outside of our individual minds, doesn't exist.
I think that our perceptions are either closer or further away from Reality, and the closer we can get, the more successful we'll be in the role we play within the dream. I absolutely don't believe that the world of our sensory perceptions is all there is--I don't even believe it IS, that it exists. I also don't believe it doesn't. I let my experience tell me what's true without imposing a dogma on it about the reality or unreality of sensory perception.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. As you know, my rule #4 in having a better argument is to explain why it matters. You see the existence of aliens and/ or parallel universes or dimensions as good news. Why? Are they better, wiser, more powerful than us? That would contradict my only dogma that no one is better than anyone else. And if they're no smarter or more moral than us, doesn't that just make things more complicated? Why would we want to imagine aliens driven by greed and power coming into our world?
But I'm open to how that story unfolds. I just don't 'believe', which you see as cynicism. My response was to you characterizing me as cynical, and explaining why I was not, it wasn't to diminish your position as a 'Savior complex.' If these are not aliens who are better than us, why is it hopeful to believe in them? And if they are better than us, isn't that believing in someone to save us? I'm just not understanding.
"If these are not aliens who are better than us, why is it hopeful to believe in them? And if they are better than us, isn't that believing in someone to save us?"
They are us. They are other focuses of ourselves. I contend that our "Essence" or soul, creates hundreds, if not thousands of focuses, which we consider lives, of different types, such that the breadth of our experience accomplishes some sort of core exploration, each unique.
These focuses span past, present and future. They incorporate, not only human lives, but also extraterrestrial and alien lives, or focuses. The Shift is where the veil is lifting, and we are beginning to be aware of, and recognize, communication that occurs between ourselves and our other focuses.
It has always happened, we just didn't recognize as such.
This is why we can have expertise or familiarity with something that we have no viable means of having through our life experience. We share communications with other focuses of our own, and they share with us.
For instance, I am aware of focuses of my own in many different recent timeframes, from which I draw many things, such as dialogue, talents, ideas, experiences - I often know when I am pulling on that knowledge, because I know that I don't personally know it in this focus.
So why the multiverse is important, why aliens are important is that we are beginning to recognize that we exist beyond these particular physical lives, and we are more powerful than we understand.
Aliens may be able to travel to this dimension - we also may travel to other dimensions. This is what the Shift is about - our burgeoning awareness of ourselves in all our forms.
We are moving towards expressing Essence in our physical form. This has never been done before in this way in all of Consciousness.
It is monumental.
Just because people don't understand that it's happening doesn't mean that it isn't. I write about this extensively in my columns.
I don't expect everyone to understand or agree with me, but thank you for responding and giving me another opportunity to express this Tereza. I greatly appreciate it.
A belief in the existence of aliens and/or parallel Universes or Dimensions is not in and of itself evidence of a Savior complex. It is evidence of a belief in the existence of them. But the two are not mutually inclusive.
This would require me to 'trust the science' of Google execs and Newsweek.
I think sometimes our cynicism makes us get in our own way.
Haha, that depends on your definition of cynicism, Philip. I suspect that the world, as we perceive it, exists in our single Mind as a nightmare of our own imagining. We've had the power all along, Dorothy, to love the Real World--as a reflection of the Reality outside of time and space--into being by recognizing other people as our Self. It's inevitable that we come to that recognition because that's God's will. Time, saved in a bubble for us, gives us control over how long that will take.
Under your assumption, someone else will save us--aliens, parallel universes. And if we find out that was another psyops, we'll look outside ourselves for something else. I don't think there's a shortcut from doing the work ourselves of questioning reality, and testing our theories in our own lives.
Gavin Mounsey posted a question on the 'drones', which got some interesting responses along with mine: https://substack.com/profile/43807786-gavin-mounsey/note/c-82595325.
If we do indeed create our reality by how we assign meaning to events, then everyone would always be correct, because their perspective will always be true for them. There is no single-line reality or truth.
Therefore, there can be as many interpretations of events as there are interpreters, and each person will have their own truth. They will then experience a world, an environment that reflects to them their beliefs.
Debating which interpretations are correct and which are false is an exercise in futility only undertaken if the personalities involved simply want to have the experience of debate and disagreement. Otherwise, everyone is welcome to have their own interpretation of events. And, as a result, their own outcomes.
The mistake we make is thinking that everyone's realities are the same. That is not true. Our realities can vary widely. We "seed" our probabilities in the moment with our beliefs.
We create through our perception. So we have it backwards. We don't observe and create. We create and observe. It's a constant feedback loop that reinforces our beliefs. That's why it's so easy to miss it.
There IS a Collective belief that would be considered the default, and it's where most people fall in their beliefs. But we are not limited by that in our own beliefs and truths.
You're bringing up important questions, Philip. The first is "Does reality exist, apart from our perception of it?" Another word for Reality is God, if that's part of your vocabulary but they mean the same. To say that we each individually create our reality isn't what I mean, that would be saying that we're each our own god and Reality, outside of our individual minds, doesn't exist.
I think that our perceptions are either closer or further away from Reality, and the closer we can get, the more successful we'll be in the role we play within the dream. I absolutely don't believe that the world of our sensory perceptions is all there is--I don't even believe it IS, that it exists. I also don't believe it doesn't. I let my experience tell me what's true without imposing a dogma on it about the reality or unreality of sensory perception.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. As you know, my rule #4 in having a better argument is to explain why it matters. You see the existence of aliens and/ or parallel universes or dimensions as good news. Why? Are they better, wiser, more powerful than us? That would contradict my only dogma that no one is better than anyone else. And if they're no smarter or more moral than us, doesn't that just make things more complicated? Why would we want to imagine aliens driven by greed and power coming into our world?
But I'm open to how that story unfolds. I just don't 'believe', which you see as cynicism. My response was to you characterizing me as cynical, and explaining why I was not, it wasn't to diminish your position as a 'Savior complex.' If these are not aliens who are better than us, why is it hopeful to believe in them? And if they are better than us, isn't that believing in someone to save us? I'm just not understanding.
"If these are not aliens who are better than us, why is it hopeful to believe in them? And if they are better than us, isn't that believing in someone to save us?"
They are us. They are other focuses of ourselves. I contend that our "Essence" or soul, creates hundreds, if not thousands of focuses, which we consider lives, of different types, such that the breadth of our experience accomplishes some sort of core exploration, each unique.
These focuses span past, present and future. They incorporate, not only human lives, but also extraterrestrial and alien lives, or focuses. The Shift is where the veil is lifting, and we are beginning to be aware of, and recognize, communication that occurs between ourselves and our other focuses.
It has always happened, we just didn't recognize as such.
This is why we can have expertise or familiarity with something that we have no viable means of having through our life experience. We share communications with other focuses of our own, and they share with us.
For instance, I am aware of focuses of my own in many different recent timeframes, from which I draw many things, such as dialogue, talents, ideas, experiences - I often know when I am pulling on that knowledge, because I know that I don't personally know it in this focus.
So why the multiverse is important, why aliens are important is that we are beginning to recognize that we exist beyond these particular physical lives, and we are more powerful than we understand.
Aliens may be able to travel to this dimension - we also may travel to other dimensions. This is what the Shift is about - our burgeoning awareness of ourselves in all our forms.
We are moving towards expressing Essence in our physical form. This has never been done before in this way in all of Consciousness.
It is monumental.
Just because people don't understand that it's happening doesn't mean that it isn't. I write about this extensively in my columns.
I don't expect everyone to understand or agree with me, but thank you for responding and giving me another opportunity to express this Tereza. I greatly appreciate it.
A belief in the existence of aliens and/or parallel Universes or Dimensions is not in and of itself evidence of a Savior complex. It is evidence of a belief in the existence of them. But the two are not mutually inclusive.
I'm not sure why you think I'm looking for someone to save us Tereza.
That's the second time you said that to me recently.
I'm looking for evidence that we exist everywhere.
If you read my recent article, you would see that I proposed inter-dimensional beings as other focuses of ourselves.
That's how powerful WE are.
I seem to have lost you in an errant assumption about my contentions along the way.
If you want there to be nothing more to life than what we know with our physical senses, I believe that is selling us short.
Since I don't think that is true about you, I'm not sure where I lost you.
Since my contention is that it IS true, I'll take any port in a storm. Especially since it's so high caliber.
And what would be the benefit of making such an outlandish claim?
They could talk all day long about computing power without bringing the multiverse into it.
I don't see the upside of the statement if they didn't really believe it to be true. . And it wasn't just Newsweek - it was widely reported.