This may be obvious….

But, isn’t the sun, at least for the inhabitants of earth a symbol, metaphor, an example or proof of an absolute truth or objective reality?

It shows up and leaves at different times of the day.

BUT, it’s always there. 

People experience this truth differently in different parts of the world

BUT, it’s always there you can count on it. 

Saying that reality is what you make of it or that you choose your reality is true to an extent…Just as I can choose to travel to different parts of the world to experience the Sun in different ways. 

BUT it’s always there regardless of my choices

No matter what my personal perspective, experience or conscious choice of or about the Sun, it is a constant.  I cannot change the existence of the Sun, with my beliefs.  That is an absolute.

The subjective reality perspective seems to take the issue of  “responsibility” and “choice” to an extreme.  I’m in agreement with personal responsibility, freedom to choose and varying relative truths but…

If everything is just a projection of my thoughts and beliefs than nothing really exists, only the projector, which seems extremely self-ish and lonely. 

If I only exist, then how does that explain all the blogs on wordpress for example. I’m not the center of the universe, the sun doesn’t revolve around me exclusively.

I know that not only “I” exist because I can “feel” strong connections, which are usually reciprocal.  When two people connect at a soul level consciousness, the subjective reality view is that I created this.  This is way bigger than myself, I don’t have the skills for that.

If I don’t have the skills for that, there must be a creator.  If there is a creator, there must be an absolute truth as is symbolized by the sun, a creation of the creator.

My power to choose, create, see, feel, think, experience or project is part of many truths while part of the whole, not the whole itself.

As for creating “my own reality”, the Law of Attraction works, even before I learned it had a “name”. 

I used to call it “praying.  I don’t ask for proof and believe in manifestation only if it’s for my highest good and or the timing is right.

I guess though, I’m looking for a fundamental truth to agree on with others that recognizes or brings connection not separation.  If there were one truth to agree on what would it be?

This past October a friend came to visit from Germany.  We went to Busan for a few days and checked into a hotel.  Well, wouldn’t you know that my room number was 302 and my friend’s was 301!  

If you read my previous post on repeating numbers you’ll find that this incident has in total appeared four times since 2007 as the number of my apartment and most recently as a hotel room number. It cannot be discounted and anyone who refutes a meaning attributed to 301:302 appearing in my life consistently doesn’t have a chance.  There are no coincidences.  

301:302 has led me to some conclusions after much thought and research.  I’ll post later.

It was 9:18, my time I’d just gotten up from bed after staring up at the ceiling pondering the concept of a parallel or multiple universes..
The ceiling, a patterned row of squares, row upon row, helped organize my thoughts about the possibilities.

Having come to some conclusion I jumped to my computer, got online and went straight to the personal development blog, clicked on Multiple Universes, a new thread that had started at 9:07.  I felt connected.

It had been my focus all week, reading various science sites, mixing it with my own ideas in an effort to make sense of uncanny experiences, where a multiple universe would be a satisfying discovery.

Reads by Dr. Michio Kaku, the originator of string theory, theories by Hugh Everett, Niels Bohr, Einstein and more.

A good site with information:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/parallel-universe2.htm

An interesting book on the subject:
“The Universe and multiple reality by Prof. M.R. Franks, and he quotes:

“There is no one reality. Each of us lives in a separate universe. That’s not speaking metaphorically. This is the hypothesis of the stark nature of reality suggested by recent developments in quantum physics. Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective. Consciousness is the only reality.”

The following are blog entries that make damn sense, taken from the “Personal Development for Smart People” blog forum at www.stevepavlina.com
(click on Intention-Manisfestation, then Multiple Universes for the original posts)

I believe all possibilities already exist. It’s like a hypersphere of experience radiating outwards into infinity. It is composed of consciousness. Points of consciousness determine what experience they have based on what they tune their consciousness to. It is similar to an enormous ocean of frequency. What we think of as “wave collapse” is consciousness transversing along nodes of experience because its focus or frequency has changed.

So from that perspective all realities exist. An infinity of them. We get to sift through that infinity of parallel realities and pluck out conscious experiences to have.

Your essence is far more vast than your human body can accommodate. However, there are countless parallel “you’s” with the same or similar overleaves and similar bodies. These parallel you’s are experiencing different aspects of your life task, giving your essence a more complete experience of the physical plane. Some may think of these parallel you’s as not being as valid as the you who is reading these words. They are, in fact, as real to themselves as you are to yourself. Sometimes there is bleedthrough between parallel selves, especially when you are asleep and dreaming.

A post that got my goat in response to a blogger asking for information about the existance of Multiple Universes…
(I’ll have to meditate on it to see why it did):

What kind of answer are you looking for? Like you want to know if it’s true or not? If that’s the question you have, I think it is something you will have to meditate on and think about, and just “feel” if it’s true for you or not.
I studied this theory in a class this semester, and basically we learned that some people believe it might exist, but there is no scientific way to ever confirm or deny its existence.

While I get that one needs to find out how they feel about something, that information doesn’t prove its existence or not. As if saying that if they exist for you than they do in fact exist. It’s not subjective. The oft loosely spoken “we create our own realities” comes to mind. The term should be “we create our own situations that can affect reality”.

Wikipedia Reality Definition: (many pages on reality)
Reality (disambiguation) refers to the state of things as they actually exist as opposed to how they could possibly exist.
Reality, in everyday usage, means “the state of things as they actually exist”. [1] [2] The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In other words, “reality”, as a philosophical category includes the formal concept of “nothingness” and articulations and combinations of it with other concepts (those possessing extension in physical objects or processes for example).
In the strict sense of western philosophy, there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. These levels include, from the most subjective to the most rigorous: phenomenological reality, truth, fact, and axiom.

When one lives by their own rules or standards in contrast to following the status quo, as if Society is a model of the norm, the collquial definition of reality gets put to use and one that gets me all tied up in a knot. Society is no example of what is real. It is merely a form among many that people follow or don’t. However, mass consciousness tends to follow society’s standard.

I don’t need to convince myself that multiple realties or universes exist. For me, they do. The point is, do they exist separate from my experience? Because if they don’t then….?

In the Theory of Positive Disintegration by Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, he writes that society is the lowest level of consciousness.

Below is a blogger after my own heart found at www.stevepavlina.com
click on Spirituality & Conciousness, then on
Subjective Reality-Life is Not My Dream

I know from personal experience my emotional resonance effects my reality BUT physical reality is not my individual dream or creation.
How do I know this? What’s the proof?
LANGUAGE
When I was in infant form and knew no words or language how did I dream
others who could talk and speak and teach me to talk if everything in my personal reality is a product of my individual consciousness?

If reality is subjective then it’s all about me…there is no ‘other’ to learn from.
So anything which is developed can only be developed by me…there is no one else.
So where did these ‘teachers’ come from and why did I forget how to walk and talk?

While you can never escape yourself and always bring your emotion, experiences, inherited qualities, problems and “illusions” where ever you go there are more factors to consider than just your “state of mind” when questioning if an environment is good for you.

Everything has energy, why not a geographical place? How you feel about a geographical location is quite different from its existing inherent energy.

While living in Germany, long ago, a psychic told me that Germany’s earth energy was not good for me. I would definitely agree as it brought out a part of me I didn’t like which prompted serious study about my own energy in an effort to understand and heal my darker side.

A really good example I like to use is the Italian movie “Life is Beautiful” about a father and his child in concentration camp awaiting execution. The father refuses to mar his child with the “reality” of the Nazi’s intentions and tells him the camp is a big game where you can win a real army tank. He puts on funny skits in front of the officers to keep his son laughing and sane. The father is eventually executed, the child survives is reunited with his mother, unmarred by the experience.
**What the father did was triumph in a horrific situation but he couldn’t prevent the reality of other energetic forces no matter how strong or positive his state of mind was.

I went on a trip to Croatia, in Istria, in the guide books it talks about the positive energy of the area, where many alternative healing seminars were starting to take place as a result. The area has the greatest concentration of “conscientious objectors” in the warring history of former Yugoslavia.

Presently in Korea, where I make frequent overnight visits at a Buddhist temple and am in agreement with others the energy there is distinctly powerful and positive. I recently took a job offer to be close to this energy and study at the temple.

I read that Hitler was quite interested in Geomancy. Here’s an excerpt from Mary Sutherland’s Upcoming Book, ‘In Search of the Mound Builders’

“The forces of nature do not discriminate. He who has the knowledge, hold the power, whether it be of the dark side or light. On its darker side we have Adolph Hitler. For his Aryan Race Master Plan, Hitler researched folk customs and geomancy; first to learn more about their Aryan forefathers and later to control Europe geomantically.

Hitler established the German Ancestral Heritage Organization, to study the spirit of the people, the land of the Nordic Indo-Germanic (Aryan) race inhabited and to get other Germans involved in its study. Wilhelm Teudt, head of the organization worked closely with Heinrich, head of the dreaded Nazi SS. Teudt visited Himmier at Wewelsburg, the SS’s Grail Castle in Saxony. The circular Nordturm (North Tower) of this geomantically designed triangular castle was said to be ‘the center of the earth’. It was built to support the Nazi Aryan race doctrines.

Himmler, Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and other Nazis experimented with geomancy throughout Europe in an attempt to control that part of the world. The Fuhrerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze, Hitler’s main headquarters , was intentionally constructed on an ancient holy power well.

One example of the Nazi’s belief in geomancy happened during the German rush to take Moscow. At one point, a detachment of mountain troops were diverted to place the Nazi flag on top of a strategically unimportant mountain, Mt. Elbruz. But for the Nazis, this mountain was very important. The Persians, Aryan stock, believed that Mt. Elbruz was a world mountain, center of the Earth Energies. Himmler was convinced that if the Nazi swastika controlled Elbruz, they could better control the Russians.

One example of many, In 2007 I moved to Korea for a year, put my stuff in storage, the storage unit was #302.

The lock was broken so I moved my stuff  into unit #301.  When I arrived in Korea my apartment

was # 301, In 2008, I moved again to another city in Korea and my apt. was also # 301. Is this a coincidence?

Before I even got interested in numerology, as a child, #4 represented my family, #5 my family and my boyfriend or husband to be.  Twenty or so odd  years later, I read “Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs” where she explains the origins of numerology and why numbers are attributed meanings.  The meaning seem to all stem from the basic family unit, which she explains as father, mother and child.  So I wasn’t far off.  

Almost 4 years ago I had a devastating relationship breakup and decided to stay single. I still thought a lot about X in Korea.   Moving my storage unit from #302 to #301 seemed as if the universe was giving me the single status I had asked for. Three times in a row certainly does seem auspicious.

Finally, residing in a country where the “Swastika” is a benevolent symbol as intended.  I say this with relief, fingering the silver swastika that hangs around my neck, as a result of having lived in Germany for eleven years, where the symbol used for “black magic” purposes under Hitler’s rule could not shake its malign meaning.  I did a bit of reading on the Third Reich’s “Swastika”, WWII and the Holocaust, fascinated by the symbol and found that it’s presently against the law to use the Swastika or the word “Nazi” in Germany. Strange, by creating a law against it,  it still gives it a dark power it doesn’t deserve.  In my dream I’m running up and down a Berlin street screaming nazi nazi nazi to exhaust it’s meaning and envision correctly colored Swastikas placed upright plastered throughout Germany dispeling the lingering negative effects of a symbol gone bad.

Isn’t a logical approach to the healing of the Swastika’s misuse by introducing it into German culture as it was intended?  Symbols are powerful, and only so because of the thought intention behind it. 

In Reiki, symbols are used energetically to invoke healing and can only be introduced by a Master to a student before it’s used for healing.  Reiki is a universal energetic force available to all, some more than others depending on sensitivity, intention and attention.  The symbols are treated with the utmost care and respect with a spiritual oath that they be used only for the highest good, as their power is evident and has been so for centuries.

Here in Korea, the Swastika is often seen as a Buddhist symbol..and I’m relieved..and somehow feel that it’s all connected somehow…my life, its path and connection to my own past lives.  Traveling the globe feels like a journey into previous lives, places I’ve lived before, taking me back to my roots, further and further, until one day, I reach home…

I’ve  always felt deeply connected to countries I’ve travelled to, as if I am Korean, German, Japanese, American, Italian, British, French, Spanish, etc.  It’s a bondedness, a feeling at a soul level.  The connectedness can feel warm, knowing, familial, dangerous, sad, persecuted and always, always love…

Woudn’t you know Korea celebrates 11.11 or November 11th.  In the U.S., this is Veterans day, I believe…however, for me, it holds a much more spirititual signifigance…

When 11:11, repeating numbers pop up in your life repeatedly in random places..usually on clocks, watches, digital gadgets, costs of items, your restaurant bill..according to esoteric lore it holds very powerful meanings..

In Korea though, it is a day children celebrate by giving “Pepero” to those they love..friends, teachers, family members.  Pepero are pretzel-like sticks that have been dipped in chocolate. And, just because two of these sticks look like the number 11, it’s become the symbol for November 11th.

All the stores are set up for this with kids buying like mad..and I thought, damn, I’m definitely in the right country this time…

For me, seeing 11:11 has come up at some very important times in my life…just recently it came up when I was on a disasterous date wanting desparately to escape..the date suggested we go to his apt., I didn’t want to but when I saw  “1:11 on the digital car clock, I knew I’d be okay and was.  Later, when he was chatting me up again about going to his apt.  I saw “2:22″ , got out of the car and into a cab home, safe.

Go to cyrstalinks.com for a full explaination. 

“Physical reality is a consciousness program created by digital codes. Numbers, numeric codes, define our existence. Human DNA, our genetic memory, is encoded to be triggered by digital codes at specific times and frequencies. Those codes awaken the mind to the change and evolution of consciousness. 11:11 is one of those codes, meaning activation of DNA.”

“Many associate 11:11 with a wake-up code/alarm as they see it on digit clocks and watches. It can also be seen as a key to unlock the subconscious mind, our genetic encoded memories, that we are spirits having a physical experience, not physical beings embarking on a spiritual experience.

11:11 or derivatives of these numbers, 111 and 11, are digits that repeat in time thus a metaphor for reality as patterns that repeat in time for us to experience. This can refer to the rise and fall of civilizations, our personal experiences and lessons, loops in time. They are cycles of time that create and recreate following the blueprint.”

“11 is a double digit and is therefore considered a Master or Power Number. In Numerology 11 represents impractical idealism, visionary, refinement of ideals, intuition, revelation, artistic and inventive genius, avant-garde, androgynous, film, fame, refinement fulfilled when working with a practical partner. Eleven is a higher octave of the number two . It carries psychic vibrations and has an equal balance of masculine and feminine properties. Because eleven contains many gifts such as psychic awareness and a keen sense of sensitivity, it also has negative effects such as treachery and betrayal from secret enemies.”

I have “11″ in my numerology profile and have always been piqued by the number, loops in time and paraellel universes.

11 represents spiraling twin strands of human DNA moving into higher frequency of consciousness.

11 represents balance.

11+11=22=4=Time. 22 is a Master or Masonic Number.