I believe we create our own reality on both an individual and collective basis. I think destiny is like an autopilot option, the manufacturer’s settings or the default builder’s grade, which can either be left as is or customized to one’s desired specifications. And I suppose that means I believe, to at least some degree, in free will. I believe we, the collective, co-create our shared reality through the average sum of our individual beliefs. Let me explain.
The Wisdom of The Crowd
The video below is about an experiment that involves guessing games including guess the weight of the cow and guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. Marcus du Sautoy explains how the findings demonstrate what theorists call the wisdom of the crowd. When all the guesses were averaged together and then divided by the number of guessers, the average sum total was within close proximity to the actual number.
I think we can apply this same method to anything, not just jelly beans in a jar. For example, let’s look at the afterlife. We have a lot of people who believe in Heaven, Paradise, Hell, Nirvana, etc. Others say there is no afterlife at all. So if we take all these beliefs, or guesses, and add them together what would the average sum be? I think we would discover that we are still creators in the afterlife and that we have options. In other words, we would discover that we go to a place where we continue creating and co-creating our realities.
The possibilities would be infinite. Isn’t that how it is here? And don’t people like to repeat that old familiar quote? I’m talking about the one that says, “As above, so below and as within, so without.” Near death experiencers seem to prove this. Some come back with information that often contradicts what was experienced by others who were brought back to life. They’re all right. I call this the creation of the crowd theory.
Whenever I discover a theory I want to embrace, or when I’m re-evaluating a belief I already hold, I rip it to shreds as I play the Devil’s advocate. I research what the antagonists say. I try to think it all the way through from all sides while applying it to every imaginable situation and scenario to see if it holds “true.” Let me define what I mean by “true.” Since I choose to believe that we create truth with our beliefs, I am no longer in a place where I am trying to decide what is true vs what is false in the arena of spirituality and religion.
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Pseudoscience ~ Making It True
Instead, I am choosing beliefs that I want to embrace as “true for now” or as “provisional truth,” which is a term I heard from Gad Saad, an evolutionary psychologist. Although, I’ve quoted him, I believe he would vehemently disagree with the way I define the concept. By the way, prior to my first hit of marijuana, and long before any of the Ayahuasca ceremonies, I was aware that I embraced beliefs, some of which, were what traditional science once called and sometimes still calls pseudoscience.
I believe we are constantly creating science with the power of our collective beliefs. Does that mean that I think gravity would become null and void if we all collectively believed it had no power over us? Possibly. But maybe the defying would happen in small steps throughout generations until we learned how to quantum leap. Perhaps, a next generation scientist like Dr. Lipton, would discover our non-coded (formerly called junk) DNA has a function which lets us switch to the mind of a bird.
I’m speaking literally, but also, I suppose, my 12th house Mercury is communicating metaphorically.
Of course, the generation after that might discover the function was never original to our design. They might say we collectively created it through our mass desire to fly (ask and it is given) but we couldn’t realize it because we see through the filters of our strongest beliefs. Once, our strongest belief was that we couldn’t fly. Now, we believe that we can fly with the assistance of a machine, ironically, one that we created. One day, we will fly machines with the collective belief that our minds control the machine. Eventually, we’ll believe we can fly our bodies in the same way.
That was my Mercury in Aquarius talking.
If we are creating science as we go, does that mean our collective belief could raise Ghandi from the dead? Maybe. Perhaps, like Jesus, we would first need to believe that together, we are God. “I and my Father are one,” he said. But what if Ghandi has already risen from the dead through rebirth? What if reincarnation (in linear time) is rising from the dead? Some would argue that those of us who remember our past life/lives, are just being tricked by familiar spirits and demons. So what if we are? Placebos are also a form of trickery, and yet, the end justifies the means.
That was my line 5 heretic in Human Design talking.
”You get to choose what you believe. You get to choose what you make true. You are already choosing what you make true.” ~Abraham Hicks