We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.?

Question

Currently, in the study of quantium physics, there are schools of thought that promote exactly this, that it is our thoughts, our beliefs, and the emotions behind them that create each individual reality. Therfore, reality is unique and transient to each. How then do we exist sharing the belief that we are all experiencing a common reality?

Answer 1

I've actually thought about this before and I'm glad your asking it! We all see the world differently but we all know that we live on Earth. Our common reality is that we're all humans living on Earth(forget about the crazy skeptics who think some people are aliens).

Answer 2

I think this means world is a reflection of us. Like our angerand greed makes wars, homeless and hungry people, extincting creatures...etc. You see a persons anger is individual but when a lot of anger arise, a common reality occurs. One other point is actually we dont share the same common reality. Even at one person, one of his eye sees different and the other is different (try it, one would be more colorful, and of course will see another edge from the other one). So each and every one of us perceive and comment on things different. Our past, genes, culture, personal traits, physical charachteristics...and last of more things play roles. Another prospective is, when someone doesnt percieve a common reality as we see it, we think it is a mental problem. (that can be a reason yes) but also we forget to relaise that normal is majority (which can be learned), so maybe we see the world as we learnt

Answer 3

What's the difference what we believe about a shared reality? We operate on the premise that everyone shares the same reality, and that's enough. For example, whether I see an elephant or a truck coming down the highway, I'm going to try to avoid it! It's a different pond for every fish. Besides, how many people believe that we each share a different reality? Most people agree (whether or not they know that they know!) on most things and that, if nothing else, makes it so.

Answer 4

I hope this is what you were asking.

My brother asked a similar question and I took a colander (a metal bowl with a bunch of holes in it used for rinsing vegetables or other food - I had to look it up) and a flashlight and turned the lights off. The I shined the flashlight through the holes onto the wall and asked him "How many beams of light are there?" He tried counting and said there were maybe 30 or more. I told him "No, there's only one, it's the flashlight." Then we walked back into the family room and I asked him how many people there were. Even though the whole family and relatives were over totalling more than 40 people, he said "Just one, because we are all connected. Just like the beam of light"

We are all connected, we are all family, we should not always trust our senses or our egos that would indicate otherwise. Your experience is my experience. It is through that connection that we understand each other, love each other and seem to have unique experiences.

Answer 5

In reference to my favorite book, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing created." We are simply seeing the fruition of the design and plan of a loving Creator. Naturally, we all share a common reality, but the living of that reality is an individual and unique choice.

Answer 6

I loved the movie, “What the Bleep”, but I don’t buy into the notion that our thoughts literally create reality. I do believe that our thoughts have a huge, I mean HUGE impact on how we experience reality. So much so that I don’t have too big of a problem when New Agers talk about our thoughts create our reality. I can experience a conflict with loving and peaceful thoughts, or I can experience it from a place of fear and ego (what’s in it for me). Same conflict, but way different experiences. So much so, working on my thinking is my number one priority in my life. I need to align it with what is real, and then align it with unconditionally loving THAT. Until I can do that, I’m not done with my work.

Answer 7

However complicated you put the theory, the simplest understanding seems to be this: Individual reality and Common reality and the coexistence of this seemingly different thoughts.

I donot know about quantum physics but I do know that sages of ancients times ( in India) have deeply thought about this apparent Duality and the real non duality. The sanskrit word for this non duality is ADVAITA . Please , understand that I am not standing on any platform to propogate advaita. far from it. all I am saying is that consistently we seem to be"REDISCOVERING "things.

It is said that if this Advaita philosophy is understood we will understand the Individual reality and the common relaity. It is ultimately the common reality that humanity seeks.

Answer 8

Your question assumes no God.

In 1966, I died and got an epiphany, then was sent back. I was sent back by the voice of God. The force within those few words, "It is not your time, go back." were enough for me to know there was God.

Consider the old story of the 7 blind men and the elephant. Each was right about the part he held, but wrong about the whole. So too are all religions right and wrong. And their viewpoints differ.

Be not fearful, as God exists. God loves you. You should love God. You should be good, as being good is good for you.

And here is the simple part; when you die, believe you will go to heaven, and you will.

Consider you and a child of 2 throwing a tantrum. If sane, you would never turn against your child of 2 because he said, "I hate you." or "You don't exist." If you listen to small children trying to explain things, you smile at their make up beliefs. 200 years ago, science taught things different than they do today. 200 years from now physics of today will seem as the science of alchemy does to us today. Do not be afraid.

God is at least as far above you as you are to that angry 2 year old. You are here to learn love. So love.

Go not worry about not having the right dogma. After death, if you have come to believe, as Faust in Goethe's play, that you do not deserve redemption, there are "seekers" who will come for you. I do not use the term angel, as that implies a non-human being. Seekers are just us trying to do right by one another.

Be of good cheer.
Love God. God loves you.
Love mankind, not just the ones that love you.
Try to do good, as doing good is good for you.
And when you die, go to heaven.

George.

Answer 9

If the thoughts can be understood to be physical too, then there is also a possibility of a merger, a collective thought, a sharing of the thought, and then there is a possibility of common experience, of a common 'reality'... the problem crops up with the recounting, recollecting, the cooking up out of memory, of these thoughts, that we tend to add spice to it, and change the experience into visualisation, hallucination etc !

Answer 10

i do believe that we are what we think and feel and do, yet we have a formation in us that was created before we could challenge the rationality of all that was entered in our mind before we could actually challenge the information. many of us have ingrained beliefs that come from our formation that reflect our parents or authority of our upbringing that is reflective of the beliefs of the time. from here there are common threads to a common belief system that also forms our common interpretation of reality. But we each have our own perception and interpretation of facts and real events that are filtered by this original formation. we arrive at a point in life that allows us to question our beliefs that are judged against the backdrop of how effective they are to living a life that is productive and life sustaining. critical thinking skills are needed for this task and the courage of conviction to stand on what we believe to be of highest truth. not everyone has this skill so there are many who continue to adopt the formation given and then those who choose to question and think and form their own mind and beliefs and live according to that mind. those are those that are the authors (authority) of their own life.