Conscious Creation

By Darrin Owens

We create our own reality. This statement has been one of the most popular—and misunderstood—teachings in the New Age movement. But the truth it expresses is fundamental to spiritual development. I've had many people in my seminars ask how they can learn to create their own realities. This kind of question shows some confusion about the concept. You are always creating your reality. It's an inherent ability and a part of being human. So you don't have to learn how to do it. What most people do have to learn, however, is how to create the kind of inner and outer reality that keeps them on the path of spiritual growth.

We are creative beings, and our minds are powerful. What we create in our minds shapes our experience of the world, and even the world itself. It all hinges on perception—how you see yourself, your situations, and the world you are living in. A person who sees herself as a desirable and successful person in a world of opportunities is going to create around herself a reality that's very different from the reality of a person who thinks of himself as a failure in a world intent on beating him down. Your perception shapes your thinking, your thinking shapes the way you act, the way you act affects the people around you—and it all gets reflected back at you.

Here's an example. Let's say you get up one morning, go to your coffee maker and find that it's dead. No light is on, the burner is cold, and the water doesn't drip. You are faced with a choice. You can perceive the coffee maker's death as a bad omen, because it is Monday morning and it's raining outside. You can rant and rave as you get dressed and think the day is going to be as dysfunctional as the coffee pot. If you do, you have already created the day's reality and you haven't even walked into work. You will be in a dark mood, and people will treat you accordingly. You will expect the worst, and the worst will likely happen. Or, can make a very different choice.

You can see the dead coffee maker as an excuse to change your routine and stop to get a latte on the way to work. You can see it as a good reason to go to the mall and buy the new coffee maker you've been eyeing for weeks. The coffee maker's demise becomes an opportunity. You make this choice with positive energy and the positive energy is projected into the world. You are happy and people treat you as someone they want to interact with. Your day goes great, and you have a new coffee maker the next morning.

This is a simple example, but the same principle applies for life's bigger challenges and traumas. Thought is action and it manifests itself in you and your world. Most importantly, you have the power to choose how you will think and perceive. You decide what type of power you use to fuel and project your thoughts. It's simple as that—a matter of learning to direct your thought patterns in constructive and positive ways, to consciously create your reality.

Spiritual Self-reliance: For me, learning this truth was an incredible revelation that helped me transform my life. I realized that I could not be responsible for anyone's thoughts but my own. That in itself was a great relief. And if I did not like my life, then I could change it by changing my thoughts and perception about it. I could no longer blame someone else for my misery. After awhile we all come to the same realization: the only burden we are carrying is that of the reality we have created for ourselves. We must take responsibility for our actions, thoughts, and feelings. Self-reliance, therefore, is the first rule of conscious creation.

This is a spiritual principle as much as a psychological one. Not only can you make your life better through conscious creation of your reality, there is a spiritual source within yourself that will support you in doing it. Conscious creation is a matter of making choices about manipulating and accessing interior power, or sacred energy. You are your own energy source, and you can be aligned with divine energy—or not.

In other words, conscious creation is important not only for creating happiness and positive outcomes, but for making contact with the divine and expanding the presence of the sacred within you. The divine is the universal force of creation. When we create consciously, with divine inspiration, we become partners with the divine. We become co-creators. This insight was explored by the mystic and psychic Edgar Cayce. As explained by Herbert Puryear in his book The Edgar Cayce Primer, Cayce's ideas about co-creation "define us as souls with the attributes of spirit, mind and will. At this spiritual level, the mind is the aspect of our being which enables us to be co-creators with God."

Cayce meant that our Interior Power is an extension of the creative force of the universe. By using our interior power consciously, to realize intentions of love, we become channels for universal sacred energy. This alchemical energy, vibrating with love, is the creative force of the Divine—the life force. When we project it into the world with our thoughts, we act as the agents of the Heavens.

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