A viewer asks: “‘You create your own reality’ has become a New Age mantra. It’s really though referring to a person’s inner experience, not an outside situation or circumstances. However, there do seem to be some leverage points on creating the inner experience and on intentional action. Perception depends on: what is selected for attention (based on threats, rewards, goal-relevant cues), questioning first impressions as final truth, moderation of strong emotional reactions (defensiveness, overreaction, etc.), cognitive appraisal (based on beliefs and past experiences), and then a story that integrates it all. To what extent can a person influence this process of constructing their inner reality for the better?” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a feeble and quite superficial understanding of how the mind works, who people truly are in the depth of their existence, and the fact that the entire world is groping in the dark, in major respects, as a body of useful knowledge and deep insight is yet to be developed and put in place. As long as people either disregard or disbelieve the existence of the soul and a spiritual origin and purpose for their lives to exist, they will be without basic moorings and without appreciating there is a true purpose for their existence and a life mission to see to. No wonder people are floundering and engaging in much that is frivolous and inconsequential. People have trouble focusing their lives and coming to grips with the basic responsibilities and realities of physical existence, not knowing how to fit in and where they belong. People are lost in a kind of fog of unawareness, and this is how people drift along from day to day, not really doing or accomplishing much but being relatively unfocused and aimless in their pursuit of choices. Most are passive witnesses to the passing scene, spending almost all their waking hours observing, through their screens, what others do, and perhaps commenting on it and sharing that witnessing with others in their circle, but never really being a dynamic actor in their own lives, let alone in conjunction with others in a deep way. All have become members of an audience and do not take part in the drama themselves in any significant fashion. That is what needs changing. There needs to be an awakening to an understanding of how the world got this way and what is needed to bring about a change for the better. That will only happen through divine healing for the many sources and types of manipulation subjugating and diminishing humanity.