I cause all famine, pestilence and war
I am the cause of all famine, plague and war
Who am I? Beelzebub? God? The latest Xbox?? No! It’s just me, average global citizen. I did it. I caused everything, everything, everything in my world. I am at cause for all joy, grief, beauty and every glorious or heinous act east of the Mississippi, and my name is NOT Legion!
So this article is another twist, though more direct, on the time tested quote “Be the change you want to see in the world”.
We all ask ourselves why the world is the way it is. We watch the news, read the paper, hear bits of conversations and from the appearances of it all, we’re helpless bits of flotsam in a turbulent, horrible, violent world just careening toward eventual self destruction!
What if I told you that it’s ME? Or now that you’re reading this article, what if I told you that it was YOU that are at cause? I’m convinced that everything exists because we collectively decide that it does. We either decide world reality by “abdication”, “active participation”, or “unconscious participation”.
Active participation is when we actively contribute to whatever our reality is and either accept it OR rationalize our contribution.
An example of abdication would be sitting and watching the news and seeing that the local school is going to cancel their music program and saying “what a shame, I hope they beat that!”. Abdication is the realm of “It’s not my job”, or “what can little old me do?”. Active participation is when we actively contribute to whatever our reality is and either accept it OR rationalize our contribution. So it can be either “Active” or a cross between active and unconscious. Examples might be knowingly purchasing a tobacco stock knowing that they contribute to x number of deaths per day. “How can purchasing 100 shares of Altria Group contribute to death and disease??” Hey, you’re a part of it, my friend, and in the realm of “subjective reality” and the “law of attraction”, SIZE does NOT matter! Unconscious participation is simply “not knowing that you don’t know”. Purchasing 100 shares of a cigarrette company and truly NOT getting that you’re helping to fund them and keep them alive. Ignorance is bliss, you know!
So every time you find yourself muttering about the condition of the world, or thinking how nice it would be if everyone got along better, there was less pollution or the Sox won the pendant again, make sure that your thoughts, words and deed support that wish. “Be the change” is one of those timeless bits of wisdom that got swept under the carpet by the broom of apathy and it’s time we honored it and reaped the rewards.
For some more thoughts on creating your reality, spend a few minutes reading these articles below by Steve Pavlina about subjective reality and reprogramming reality.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa/
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/reprogramming-reality/
Until next time
Cheers!