We are Extraordinary Creators

I post this blog just as we move from the shadowy realm of week eight into the bright new future of week nine. And as we do I'm just bringing myself present to the magnitude of what we are doing here. Let's face it, 'Living a Wealthy Life' is no ordinary course, it is a course in miracles. We are positioning ourselves in relation to the world from the perspective that we create our own reality. If we create our own reality, and if we have the power to manifest in our lives whatever we think and feel about, then we are confronting the realisation that we are responsible for everything that happens to us.

Now, there is usually a difficult thing to hear. The most common reaction to this idea is - well, that means I'm to blame for everything! This is conventionally much harder to accept than - well, that is someone else's fault. Well, if you have it that responsiblity equals culpability, then sure, this is a natural reaction. No wonder we human beings want to give responsibility away whenever possible. But let's look at this word 'responsibility'. If we are committed to the idea that there is something inherently wrong with the world then no wonder we conflate these two notions. However, if we are truly taking on the philosophy of abundance, the philosophy that there is more than enough, the idea that wealth and well-being is the source of life, then, despite whatever evidence may appear to exist to the contrary, there is, from that perspective, nothing wrong with the world in any absolute sense. After all, the evidence we are gathering that there is something wrong is really just an interpretation of reality. If you can cultivate coming from a place that there is nothing wrong, then there is nothing to be culpable of, nothing to be to blame for. The problem is that we live in a culture of blame, a culture of lack, a culture of 'something wrong'.

Now we are not talking about burying our heads in the sand here. We can all agree that there are a lot of things in the world that we would like to be different. But until we can step outside of ingrained cultural assumptions based in lack, blame, sin, and wrong-ness, we have no power to make a difference in that world.

That is why what are doing here is so extraordinary. It loosens us from those cultural assumptions, it allows us to step outside of erroneous beliefs about the nature of reality, beliefs that are undermined by millennia of spiritual teachings; teaching that and are now being confirmed leading edge scientists.

One of the questions in week 9 is 'What is God'? Is God really this authoritarian disciplinarian waiting to judge us for our 'sins'? None of us probably believe that really, and yet we live our lives as if that is the case, projecting that archetypal figure onto parents, teachers, bosses, politicians, governments, societies etc, etc. I prefer to think of God a force of loving coherence of which we all partake. I know deep within myself as an unshakeable truth that we all have creative God-force within us. Only thing is, very few of us choose to recognise it consistently, even less to apply it.

We are all extraordinary creators. We all have the responsibility for our own creations. I like to hyphonate the word responsibility, and think of it as Response-Ability - literally, the ability to respond. To be responsible is to have the creative freedom to respond to any situation from a place of real choice. And this is what we are about here. We are doing nothing less than taking on the responsibility for our lives - the comfortable (or not-so-comfortable) familiarity of being a victim of circumstance really ceases to be an option once we really take on the immensity of our own creative power.

So please don't underestimate for one moment the power of what we are doing here. We are going beyond our stories, beyond our limitations, and creating together the possibility of living extra-ordinary lives.

Love John x