“It’s Better to Have It and Not Need It Than Need It and Not Have It” School of Thought on Considering If & How You Will Direct Your Consciousness

Consciousness Creating Reality is not about Positive thinking.

It isn’t about superficial wishing.

Consciousness is connected to core beliefs. About yourself, your expectations, & about the world around you.

There is no down side to consciously directing your Consciousness.

Albert Einstein said:

Everything is energy, and that’s all there is to it.

Match the frequency of the reality you want,

and you cannot help but get that Reality.

It can be no other way.

This is not Philosophy. This is Physics.

Einstein also said: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.

Plato believed it. Buddha believed it. Enlightened men.

This is ancient wisdom that modern Science is decoding.

Today, quantum physics is telling us that Consciousness may in fact be a fundamental aspect of reality like an electrical charge.

So is Consciousness a part of the Fabric of the Universe?

Panpsychism is the new term to identify this new awareness.

Philosopher David Chalmers suggested in his TED Talk that a photon (a particle) ‘Might have some element of raw, subjective feeling, some primitive precursor to consciousness.”

While Christof Koch, neuroscientist, noted in his 2012 book, ‘Consciousness’, ‘that if one accepts Consciousness as a real phenomenon that’s not dependent on any particular material—that it’s “substrate-independent,” as philosophers put it—then “it is a simple step to conclude that the entire cosmos is suffused with sentience.”

The topic was the subject of a series of workshops at Marist College. organized by Phillip Goff from the University of Durham, UK.         Noted scholars, psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, attended the workshops.

The conversation revolved around the scientists, physicists who will design experiments that define the physical, but will never be able to adequately define the ‘experience of a individual’s consciousness’, their inner mental life.

The question is, can Consciousness be explained in physical terms?

Is there something about Consciousness that cannot be accounted for by physical facts alone? These empirical thinkers actually have a name for the spaces that can’t be codified.

They call it, ‘God in the Gaps’. Where there is a gap in the facts or discovered information, it is filled with a supra-natural reason.

And then there is Cosmopsychism. These thinkers believe that the Universe itself is Conscious. Paul Draper, a philosopher from Purdue, has a mind blowing theory. Draper calls it the

Psychological Ether Theory, that says our brains don’t produce Consciousness, but rather make use of Consciousness because it already exists!

Hoffman of Univ. Cal, Irvine, thinks spacetime may be an emergent phenomena from Consciousness itself, as he postulated in his 2023 paper, “Fusions of Consciousness”.

Quantum mechanics holds the view that our universe is just 1 facet of a vast quantum multiverse, and wonders if every material thing has an inner life? Paradigm shift.

Now it is time to consider the ramifications if it is correct that Consciousness creates the reality we imagine, then experience. Whether we deliberately imagine a desirable reality or whether we stream our imagination without a goal, we will create it.

Actively or Passively, deliberately or randomly, based on whether we direct our conscious mind where to go or IF we choose not direct it at all, we will make it happen.

Einstein also said: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts. God in the Gap.

Relating this to designing experiments that will prove the theory, it puts physicists in a bind.

I have had multiple experiences throughout my life that convince me that Consciousness creates the reality I experience just as naturally as the the fetus in the womb develops without the host needing to give it instructions. It is the nature of physical reality.

And when I apply this new way of understanding our ‘biology’ to my observations of how my world works, it is validated.

I have had clients who were in my art therapy groups when I worked in-patient with adolescent girls who angrily resisted the theory because they interpreted it as ‘blame’. Two clients in particular had the epiphany after discharge and came back to tell me of their catharsis.

Both clients were angry, cynical and mean. They came by their feelings through traumatic events and did not trust the world or people.

I would explain to my groups that we attract all of our experiences into our lives, the vibrations of the energy we emit will pull similar vibrations towards us. Like attracts like, it’s simple science. Many felt that this ‘blamed’ them for their condition instead of being responsible for tuning their vibrations to a certain frequency without knowing it.

The first client to get it was discharged as angry as she was when she was admitted. She literally would tell me I was full of shit for promoting the theory.

After discharge, she went/was sent to South America to do some volunteer work. Something happened to her there while she was there working with infants and mothers. A shift of mind.

She came back to visit and attended a group, where she affirmed the theory I had been advocating. Her world changed when she changed how she thought about the world.

It then occurred to her that she could choose her own reality.

She wanted the other girls to realize the truth of it.

My other client is about to graduate college, in her late 20s now. Her path was long and circuitous. But her epiphany came shortly after discharge when she was making connections with people socially at work. She got a job in a pizza parlor and naturally gravitated to the other cynical, negative people on the crew. They hung out and spent their time mutually disparaging the world. My client started to get bored with the repetitiveness of the grievances and she began to drift away from them. She began to meet different people who presented different views. Then she remembered the theory I promoted to my groups, and the lightbulb went off.

She made an appointment to see me a few years after discharge so she could tell me, “You were right!” Here’s what she wrote about it.

“It wasn’t until I was 16 or 17 that I had a clear understanding of the statement, “Whatever you think about most, You make happen.”

Once I realized its importance, my life began to change. During my teenage years, I had dug myself a very deep hole I wasn’t sure I could ever get myself out of. I felt stuck, helpless, and that I was not even worthy of getting better. I did not realize how much power I truly held over what I attracted into my life and the situations I brought myself into. After a long time, I finally admitted my old ways were not working and I started to adapt this mindset and realize the truth that it held. Now that I understood its power, it was up to me to utilize it.

After a full reset of my mind, thanks to the help of trained professionals, along with 2+ years of intense therapy around this topic, I was able to learn how to create a life for myself that I have always dreamed of, and now at 27, I still use it to this day to guide me. I do not believe I would be where I am today if I didn’t accept the help and change that needed to take place, and if I hadn’t taken that control over my life, these changes allowed me to start projecting my dreams and goals in order to turn them into a reality.

You can’t choose the family you are born into, but you certainly can learn from the mistakes and choose the life you want to create for yourself in the future”

“What we think, we Become. What we Feel, we Attract.

What we Imagine, we Create.” — Buddha