Fantastical Reality

Something happens when you start to live your life based on the premise that what you are thinking is creating the world around you. The Universe opens up to you and you become a co-creator of your own reality. You realize that in every moment you have a choice whether to live a life of peace, health, comfort, happiness, and abundance, or one of strife, disease, discomfort, struggle, and dependence on the whims of outside forces.

It is work to change our inner selves, and thus our outer world, and it takes constant diligence to do so. It is helpful to infuse our consciousness with positive people, art, books, web sites, music, sounds, smells, and natural beauty. It is as if in the beginning we are babies who must be sheltered from the harsh world and coddled while we reprogram ourselves and transform our inner beings into accepting light, positivity and abundance.

At first, there is a transition period while your old beliefs are challenged. It is easy to slip back into a belief in lack and become steeped once again in the negativity of the collective consciousness. Loved ones and friends who do not accept the idea that their thoughts have any bearing on the world they experience find us hard to understand and dismiss us as flaky or weird, mirroring our own subconscious doubts and fears.

Then we are transformed and something clicks. We start to see where all of our hard work is paying off. We manifest our desires and find that as we become more loving towards ourselves, we attract more loving people. We develop more compassion for others and feel a tenderness toward our fellow human beings who are doing the best they can to get by in a world that bombards them with ideas of poverty consciousness where they believe they must struggle for every morsel, kill or be killed, swim with the sharks, and fight a battle against a constantly changing, amorphous enemy. We realize that what we are seeing is our own projection of the negativity within, and when we attract harsh circumstances we question ourselves and try to root out the source belief that is generating the experience, change it, and learn from it instead of condemning it and disowning it as "other."

The only word that can sum up the ecstasy of the choice to live a fantastical reality is juicy, or as SARK, the writer and artist says, succulent. Life becomes delicious with experiences of joy, love, and a constantly flowing river of abundance. We might still experience shadowy depths of course, for such is the nature of the tides, to ebb and flow, but we are able to navigate our way again to the surface and are nudged lovingly along, swimming not with the sharks, but with the dolphins.