What It Means To Be A Conscious Creator of Reality
Big Brother is controlling your life right under your nose.
Creative power without consciousness is ignorance. Consciousness without creative power is idealistic. Your job is not only to merge the two but to remove all barriers that stand in your way from doing so.
Read that again.
Now, this is where I push you off a cliff.
You my friend, are not in control of your life as much as you think you are.
Let me reel you back in and set the scene.
It’s late in the evening, and you just finished eating dinner. After a busy day of working on numerous projects and being in meetings, you plop on the couch with your dog curled up next to you, ready to veg out and relax.
Three minutes in, on auto-pilot, you reach for your phone and check your inbox. No new messages have come in, so you open up your favorite social media app and start scrolling.
You turn on the TV, start flipping around, and then a minute later, you’re back on your phone. Some version of this loop continues for the rest of the night.
During a recent back and forth session with my phone, I recalled what 17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote:
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Nevermind sitting alone quietly, why can’t we keep off our devices when we are seemingly doing something else?
Is it because we are obsessed with having a clean inbox? Is it because we love social media? Is it because we have so much on our plate we can’t stop working?
Is it FOMO?
Partly, yes. But it goes deeper than that.
We are wired to care about nonsense.
Several years ago, you might recall one of Facebook’s founders talked about how the company was focused relentlessly on how to exploit a “vulnerability in human psychology” to steal a slice of the world’s attention.
Facebook started in the mid-2000s, and now that discovery has become our version of Big Brother that George Orwell writes about in his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Big Brother: A person or organization exercising total control over people’s lives.
Here’s what many of us don’t realize:
Right now, at this very second, some of the world’s smartest people are getting paid a small fortune to figure out how to steal your attention. If you are unintentional with where you put your focus and energy, they will decide for you.
With all problems in the world right now, this might seem low on the totem pole. However, is it crazy to think we are on the verge of a spiritual and technological crisis?
Let’s not just blame social media.
Traditional news outlets have always been about keeping us glued to watching all the bad stuff happening throughout the world.
Let’s not forget about Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and the others. You can also throw in online shopping. Amazon sure did a number on us with that.
Our reality has become about endless content consumption, eyeballs to a screen, likes, shares, and comments. This has turned the act of creating content into being more about “look how great I am” and micro hits of dopamine instead of providing value.
The Spiritual Fallout
Spiritually, this world of Big Brother is designed to hijack our attention to keep us addicted to being detached from ourselves.
Let’s face it, those quiet moments sitting alone that Pascal mentions can be quite uncomfortable. After all, without these distractions, we’d be forced to face ourselves. We’d be left to deal with our minds and emotions. Yikes!
Also, putting our phones down (and leaving them there) means we aren’t trying to achieve something or be acknowledged by someone. If we do that, then who would we be?
However, if you want to live a full life instead of a partial one and be a conscious creator of your reality, taking charge of your mind is your responsibility.
As spiritual teacher Ram Dass recites in the song Mind Karma:
Meaning, that the quality of your life experience will come down to how well you can take a leadership role with your mind.
Here’s the biggest question we have to ask ourselves as we head further into a future that will see exponential advancements in technology:
“How can I preserve the echoes of my soul in the midst of all the noise from Big Brother.”
Those who are conscious of this and can do it intentionally will be able to craft a reality of their own making. They will be the ones to create something new the world hasn’t seen or heard yet, and no longer be another cog in the wheel of mindless content consumption doled out by Big Brother.
The world needs a new flavor of influence.
It craves a new type of know-it-all. It needs a new style of creator.
Will that be you?
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