Jan:
I acknowledge what you are saying. I appreciate it, as well. Thank you for expressing your ideas.
Now, if our minds are not boggled now and then, they become sedentary. :-) And they do not grow.
JAN: "I must make a definition clear - when Todd declares that we create our own reality he does not mean that we do that but that we create "Our perception of the reality"."
Jan, please make it clear that that is your definition, not mine. I realize that you are translating your thoughts and feelings through English, which might not be your native language. I appreciate that, greatly, for I have only one language. I also want you to know, and also others here, that I choose my words with the utmost care, and in the most impeccable way that I can. To be precise, I mean exactly what I say, within my limitations. I may address elsewhere the mechanics of reality creation, but here let me say that we DO create reality, and we do so through the projection and reception of energy through perception. This is an extremely foreign conception, I know. Because it is so different, it may be difficult for those mechanically minded to agree that we create our own reality. But, I mean exactly what I said, WE CREATE OUR REALITY.
If we get out of our own way, Jan, it won't be long before we do win a million dollars and the Dalai LLama calls US, humurously speaking.
It does rankle me a bit when I read that "we would never be allowed to create our reality". I'm taking your words literally as an accurate expression of what you mean. By whom would this allowance be granted? By what right? By what power? I didn't grant this right or power to any thing or energy outside or foreign to me. I have no other gods before me. In this physical reality I was born into, there are certain assumptions like governments and parents and other adults that have putative power to allow me. That also was created by me, for my purposes and intent. (A very difficult concept to understand, also.) I appreciate where you are coming from, and why. However, it is not necessary to believe that there is a power that is greater than us.
Opinions are like noses, Jan. Everybody's got one. Yours are due the same credit as mine, and this is as plain as the one on your face. From this point on, it can be understood that misunderstanding is our own creaton. It may not be.
Thanks,
Todd