At the very heart of this shift in consciousness that we're going through is the concept of You Create Your Own Reality. It's the basis for what all the many spooks have been going on and on and on about for the last couple of decades. We are being told that we are divine beings who create every last itty bitty little bit of our realities. Every bit of it! If we observe a bird flying overhead we created that bird. That's how powerful we, as divine beings, are!

But we have been conditioned from birth to believe that we are not divine beings; that reality is created by some force outside of us and that we are merely observing it and reacting to it. We are happy to agree to this because we think it relieves us of responsibility. No one wants to take responsibility for a messed up world.

Under the concept of You Create Your Own Reality, everything you observe, you are creating! It doesn't matter whether you're observing it without an agenda or with compassion; if you observe it you are creating it. This is the part of You Create Your Own Reality that is so difficult to grasp. It goes against everything we've been taught.

"...observing brings your attention to it, and attention is giving it energy..."

Exactly! But we must remember that "it" is not separate and outside of us. It is our creation and by continuing to observe it we are feeding it that energy to stay manifest. All "it" needs to stay manifest is energy and it doesn't matter if that energy comes in the form of love, compassion, hate, anger, or professed detachment. If we're observing, we're creating and thus feeding energy into that which we observe.

Let's say there is some conflict in the world and we are passively observing it on the television. We can choose to intellectually and emotionally take sides in the conflict and feed it energy that way or we can be compassionate and feed both sides love. There's no question as to which of these two approaches is more beneficial. But neither of these two approaches will end the conflict. Detached compassion will most assuredly mitigate and lessen and soften the conflict but it will never end it because we are still observing it and thus feeding it energy to stay manifest.

But when we begin to realize our divine nature and that we do indeed create every last little itty bitty part of our reality we learn that we can move our attention and focus and create a new reality rather than trying to change the old one. If we choose to no longer observe conflict, conflict will cease for us. If we choose to instead observe nothing but beauty and joy and love and peace and harmony in everything, our reality will reflect that.

Let's say you're a painter and you are trying to paint a masterpiece. You just finished a painting and it's good but there are some problems with it. It's not the masterpiece you had envisioned. You stare at the painting for a long time and consider painting over parts of it. You wonder how you can change it to turn it into a masterpiece. Finally, you wonder, "Maybe I'll just love it the way it is. I won't change it. I'll just give it love and appreciate the beauty that is there."

That's great! You've come a long way as a painter but there is still something you've got to do. You've got to take that painting off your easel and stop observing it. You've got to let it go so that you can put a blank canvas on your easel and create a new painting; one that just might be that elusive masterpiece. But you cannot create a new masterpiece if you're still staring at the old painting feeding it your energy. You've got to move your attention to a blank canvas….all of your attention. That new masterpiece needs all of your attention to manifest. As long as we continue staring at the old painting that is what we continue to create.

We can influence conflicts even from afar with our compassion. We can soften them and lessen them and, with enough love and compassion, we can even transform them. But even when transformed, the conflict is still there. Its nature and appearance have merely changed. The conflict will present itself again down the road but in a totally different way so that we can continue to see the multitudinous facets of conflict. This is what we've been doing for the last 35,000 years.

We can transform conflict or step beyond it by creating a new reality without it. But we can't step beyond it if we are still observing and feeding energy to that conflict of the old reality. There comes a point in any transformation when a great movement is made in perception. Perception is observation. We create our realities through our perceptions. If you want to change your reality just change your perceptions. Stop observing what you're observing and observe something else. You want joy in your life instead of conflict? Stop observing conflict and start observing joy: and nothing but joy. See the joy in every little tiny thing. See and feel the joy in every human and every animal and every living thing, including the stones and rocks, and in every manifestation that you observe. Feel that joy so intensely that it permeates you entire reality, that it colors your entire masterpiece painting. Conflict will cease to exist. See that joy and you will create it. Feel that joy and you will experience it.

We are outrageously incredible divine beings. We have the power to create entire realities. We are gods. We used to have this awareness but agreed to forget it in order to take a 35,000 year vacation at the universe's number one vacation destination; planet Earth. Now that the vacation is ending we are remembering who we are and what incredible divine powers we have. It's a good thing because we need those powers to get out of here and start a new 35,000 year vacation in a new reality.

We cannot be responsible for our divine powers unless we are even aware of them. As we become aware of them then we can learn what responsibility means in regard to those powers. If we really do create every last little itty bitty bit of our reality then the state of our reality is strictly our responsibility. For millennia we have shirked that responsibility. We have pawned that responsibility off to some mythical white dude with a long white beard who sits on a throne on some cloud ready to throw thunderbolts down at people. We have given over that responsibility to the vagaries of nature and randomness and victim-hood. This was all part of our plan, of course. How can one truly understand their divine powers without experiencing their absence?

"So does observing without participation of any kind help in any way?"

Personally, I think that's impossible. One cannot observe without participation. The very act of observing is an act of participation. Not only have spooks been telling us this but so has quantum physics. We are responsible for everything we observe because through observation we are participating in it. We can choose how we participate and thus change our reality. Or we can choose not to participate and instead create a new reality. This is the very divergence that humankind is going through. It's a divergence of harmonics. Humans will diverge into two camps; those who are trying to paint over parts of the painting to try to make it better and those who have gotten out a blank canvas and have started a new painting. As divine beings we have free will to choose what we want.

Yes, I totally agree that conflict is a great teacher; a necessary teacher even. But how much longer do we have to learn the same thing from the same teacher? Graduation time is quickly approaching and it will be time for us to move on. But we can't move on without disengaging from the old teacher. We can't move on if we're still feeding our attention and energy to the old teacher.

Choice is the big lesson here. It is all about choosing. Choosing is one of our divine powers.

Conflict is an essential ingredient in polarized duality. It shows that we always have a choice between two sides of things. First, we learn that we can choose one side of a conflict and put all our energy into it and engage the conflict that way. The next part of the lesson is realizing that we don't have to actively participate in the conflict; we can participate passively by simply observing it and feeding it our energy. Then, we learn that we can further detach our observation by not feeding one side of the conflict with our mental and emotional support. We learn we can observe the conflict in a detached and compassionate way without feeding either side of the conflict. Though this lessens our participation in and contribution to the conflict, we realize we're still feeding the conflict at least some energy simply because we're still observing it. That's when we learn that there is a third choice, and that there is indeed always more choices beyond the duality we've been accustomed to. That third choice is to move our attention elsewhere.

Imagine you're a teenager sitting down at the dinner table with your parents and siblings. Every single night at dinner your family argues. Dinner comes with conflict. Your parents are fighting, your siblings are fighting, your siblings are fighting with your parents, and your parents are fighting with your siblings. The conflict is horrible.

As the teenager, you observe all the conflict. You have the option of taking sides and joining in the conflict. You can take your mother's side or your father's side or a sibling's side. This, of course, greatly increases the energy put into the conflict and the conflict can only escalate.

You also have the option of being detached and observing the conflict with compassion and without judgment, feeding your love to the others at the dinner table. This is a wonderful option that we've been learning and it really helps mitigate the conflict and holds the potential for transcending it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this at all. It's fantastic!

All I'm saying is that there is a third option. That third option is to get up and walk away from the table. And there's nothing wrong with that option, either. After all, we created the dinner table and all those family members arguing around it. Our divine right of free will allows us to exercise this third option. The dinner table is our creation and we have the power to disengage from it and move our attention elsewhere and create a whole new dinner table and a whole new family sitting at it.

But we can't do that if we're still sitting at the old table. Through our divine powers of perception we can change the nature of that old table repeatedly for eternity. We can soften the conflict and make it more loving but it's still the same old table. We cannot create a new table unless we get up and walk away from the old one.

"Without observation how does one become able to choose their reality?"

Good point! You can't. The statement shows the connection between choice and observation. Observation is utterly necessary for us to learn choice. We can learn what to choose by observing what NOT to choose. But we can also choose to observe.

I can choose to spend 30 minutes watching the news on TV. I could remain detached and give my love to all the endless conflict going on in the world. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this! It even holds the potential for making the world a better place.

Or I can choose to get up from that TV/kitchen table and go sit by the lake for 30 minutes and contemplate the incredible mind-blowing beauty of nature. With a clear mind, I could see the absolute perfection of the lake and I could feel the vibrant life of the lake environment. Feeling and observing that perfection, I could then choose to incorporate that into everything I create. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with this, either.

Ah, but what about all those poor suffering people around the world? Am I ignoring them by living in joy?

That's guilt talking. It’s pure unadulterated guilt. But it's an understandable guilt. After all, we participated in the creation of conflict and suffering. We created it so we are guilty.

But do you see the difference between guilt and responsibility? If we feel guilty about the conflict and suffering in the world we try to transmute that guilt into compassion. We try to assuage that guilt.

But if we're being responsible we simply stop contributing to the creation of it--on all levels. We must be responsible through our actions. We must actively get up from the table and move to a new creation. We are responsible for what we observe/create, so if we don't like what we see it is our responsibility to move our focus to observe/create something different.

When gods create something they release it immediately upon creating it because they know that it is no longer theirs. It's like creating a baby. Once the baby is birthed it has its own independent life. Sure, we will help that baby along until it can live on its own, but eventually we have to release it so that it can have its own life and we can have our own lives. Gods create/release, create/release, create/release. If the releasing stops, the creating stops because you can't create something new if you just continue to recreate that which you already created. You can't start a new painting until you take the old one down off the easel and put up a blank canvas.

We are in the process of creating a whole new reality but we can't seem to release the old one. We spend incredible energy trying to change the old one and because our attention and focus is on trying to change the old reality we don't even see that blank canvas and we miss out on creating something new. We must take responsibility and move our focus, thereby changing what we observe/create.

I can choose to continue to observe/create the old reality or I can choose to observe/create peace, love, joy, and beauty on every bit of my canvass. We all have the divine right to choose how we observe/create our reality. And, as gods, we are responsible for our choices. When we see this and start putting it into action on ALL levels we will be realizing our divine powers and we will be able--and willing--to create a whole new reality free of all the pain and suffering and doom and gloom.

One of the main problems with understanding this is that we continue to see other people as separate from us; as separate from our creation. If we come across a young boy in trouble do we intervene or walk away? First of all, if we come across a boy in trouble that is our creation! We created it. The people we create to come through our lives all bring with them a reflection of something within us. We wouldn't come across a young boy in trouble unless there was something inside us that needed resolution; something the boy, in some way, is reflecting.

So if you see a boy in trouble of course you help out! In the process of helping is the potential for resolving our own issue which the boy, by being on our path, is helping to show us. The important thing is how we help. Do we help out of guilt? Do we help out of fear that we'll get in trouble if we don't help? Do we help out of a sense of duty or sympathy or compassion or what?

Or do we help out of a sense of responsibility that that boy is part of OUR creation? Do we help knowing that we are simultaneously helping ourselves; not by assuaging our guilt, but rather by illuminating those issues within ourselves that keep us from walking through the park without seeing some conflict.

"If we are at total inner peace, can we watch humans being tortured in the same room and truly feel nothing about it but peaceful-ness and acceptance?"

If we were at total inner peace, no humans would be tortured in the same room. Energetically, it couldn't happen. Those with a propensity to torture (or be tortured) will not be able to enter your space because there is no torture inside you to reflect.

Even if you were in a peaceful place is there any difference between someone being tortured in the same room as you and someone being tortured on the other side of the planet? The sad fact is that someone is being tortured all the time. If we have to feel sympathy and guilt for each and every one of them then there would be no minutes left to be at total inner peace. We have to be able to get up from the dinner table and walk away from it. That's when we can really find "total inner peace" and realize that we do, indeed, create our own reality. That's when we realize that we are really not separate; that we are all ONE. As long as there is any conflict within us it will be reflected to us in our reality. That's where the saying comes from, "Change your self and you change the world." But we can't change our selves until we take full responsibility for the fact that we create our own realities (completely). If we don't like what's going on at the dinner table we can spend our lives trying to fix it or we can get up and walk away and go to totally different table.

Imagine sitting at the same dinner table for 35,000 years! You've been sitting there for so long you've forgotten about what exists away from the table. You've been sitting so long it's hard to even imagine getting up and going somewhere else. But the time is coming when we will all exercise our divine abilities and get up out of our chairs. There's a whole new dinner table waiting for us and it will be like dining in paradise.