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Originally Posted by janielee
Hi iamthat
I presume you believe this; may I ask you to comment further - how did you come to see this for yourself, and how do you interpret it to live life?
We really ask for everything that we experience?
JL
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Hi JL
I do believe that we are the creators of our own experience. We each have our own subjective experiences within a shared objective reality. The shared objective reality is the environment we all live in. My experience of this environment and every person in it is entirely subjective. All I can know (on a physical level) is the information which is received through the senses and interpreted by my mind.
So at the moment you and I are apparently engaged in a conversation, but my actual experience is simply seeing shapes and colours which I mentally interpret as words on a computer screen, and I assume that there is another person somewhere on this planet who has typed those words.
It is the same if I go into town. I may meet people and engage with them, but all I experience is the shapes and colours I see and the sounds I hear (plus whatever else is experienced by my other senses), and that brings forth mental and emotional and physical responses within me.
In other words, I cannot know anything outside myself. There is only me, experiencing my creation and how I respond to my creation. And I am responsible for my creation and my responses.
But I also accept that my experience is governed by the laws of karma.
This may be my own karma which I have generated along the way. So my present experience is determined by my choices in the past - in other words, these choices are the things which I have asked for and am now receiving.
But there are also greater karmic forces which govern nations and humanity as a whole. These I have no control over, and I am swept along by these greater karmic forces along with everyone else. But I can still only know my own subjective experience within these greater events.
How did I come to see this for myself? It has been a long process of observing and reflection. And of course, I could be completely mistaken, but if I am mistaken then my erroneous understanding is also my creation.
How do I interpret this to live life? I am a great believer in ho'oponopono, which states that we are responsible for everything which manifests in our lives, and if something manifests which causes us stress then our response is one of forgiveness and love.
To sum up, I am consciousness, the creator of my own experience living in my own little universe. And I choose that my universe is a loving and peaceful place. And spiritual realisation allows me to see that my Being pervades my universe. There is only me. But within my universe there are other Beings also experiencing their own universe. So consciousness finds fulfilment through service to all Beings.
Peace.
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