{"id":81,"date":"2007-09-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/the-triad-process-of-reality-c.html"},"modified":"2007-09-23T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T01:01:01","slug":"the-triad-process-of-reality-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/the-triad-process-of-reality-c.html","title":{"rendered":"The Triad Process of Reality Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday is Message Day on the blog. Monday through Friday we look at contemporary events and day-to-day occurrences at the intersection of Life and the New Spirituality\u2026but on Sunday, we reserve this space for a specific teaching derived from the material in Conversations with God<\/em>
\nThis week\u2019s message: The Triad Process
\nConversations with God <\/em>makes the astonishing statement that all of life is an illusion. If this is true, how do we deal with it? God says that we are like magicians who have forgotten our own tricks. We are living in an Alice in Wonderland world, wherein we swear that what is so is not so, and that what is not so is so.
\nYet, the fact that we are living in an illusion is what makes our lives so exciting, and their possibilities so endless. For only in a fantasy can we have anything we want, and do anything we please, and create anything we desire.
\nAs Lewis Carroll wrote:
\n“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
\nThe trick in all this, of course, is to know how to live with the Illusion, and not within it. Or, as the Bible says it, to be \u201cin this world, but not of it.\u201d
\nThere is a way to do this, and in the CwG book Communion with God<\/em>, we are given that way in the Triad Process of Reality Creation.
\nSays Communion with God<\/em> on page 175…<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe Master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the Illusions are illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the Illusions.
\n\u201cWhen facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you, too, may move toward mastery.
\n\u201cSimply make the following statements:
\n1.\tNothing in my world is real.
\n2.\tThe meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
\n3.\tI am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is.
\n\u201cThis is how to work with the Illusions of Life.\u201d
\nThe first step in the Triad Process is for many people the most difficult. It proclaims that everything we look at, everything we experience, is unreal. Nothing is actually what we imagine it to be.
\nThis does not mean that it is not there. What it does mean is that it is not \u201creal.\u201d That is, it is not \u201creally\u201d what it \u201clooks like.\u201d It is not what we assume it to be.
\nFor greater insight into this phenomenon, I suggest reading The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot. This extraordinary book brings us insight, from a scientific point of view, into the make-believe world in which we live.
\nThe statement \u201cNothing in my world is real\u201d is more than an insight of quantum physics, however. It is a psychological and spiritual reality as well, and can be very healing\u2014particularly in times of great trouble or great stress.
\nIf you think that what you are experiencing during times of difficulty is real, you will quite lilterally make it real in your world. If you think that it is unreal, simply the figment of your imagination, have no sum or substance whatsoever, you will disappear it right before your eyes. That is, you will cause it to no longer exist within the Illusion.
\nCwG says, \u201cWhat you resist persists, and what you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form.\u201d
\nNow, if you are thinking, \u201cThis is very much along the lines of the message of the science fiction movie, The Matrix,\u201d you are absolutely right. You will remember that, in that film, the characters will depicted as living in a make-believe world, created by their thoughts, and that the lead character, Neo, became a sort of \u201cGod\u201d among men by simply training his mind to resist the appearance of things (like bullets coming at him) and deny their reality.
\nBy literally denying the reality of anything that is now happening to you that you do not wish to have happening, you are, at the very least, reduce its effects. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a popular Christian minister, pointed this out in the late 1940s in his revolutionary book The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em>. So did new age author James Allen in his classic, As a Man Thinketh<\/em>.
\nOf course, the master teacher Jesus said it directly and perfectly when he announced, \u201cAs you believe, so will it be done unto you.\u201d
\nSo the first step in the Triad Process is one of denying the reality of anything. This means the so-called \u201cgood\u201d as well as the so-called \u201cevil.\u201d Now, what is the point of denying the so-called \u201cgood?\u201d, you may ask. And it is a good question.
\nThe answer is that, by looking straight into the face of your greatest joy and calling it what it is\u2014an illusion\u2014you fail to become deeply attached to it. You can continue to enjoy it, but you literally \u201cenjoy the hell out of it.\u201d That is, you take the hell of becoming addicted to the enjoyment right out of it.
\nIt is addiction\u2014to people, to places, and to things\u2014that creates misery where once there was joy, pain where once there was pleasure, sorrow where once there was happiness. This has never been more clearly described than in the breathtaking book by Ken Keyes Jr., A Handbook to Higher Consciousness.
\nIt is important to note that by denying the reality of everything we think, say, and see, we are not necessarily sending it away from us. We are merely recontextualizing our experience to cause ourselves to notice that what we are looking at is an illusion. Only then can we empower ourselves to either (a) cause the illusion to continue, or (b) cause the illusion to come to an end.
\nSo long as we think that what we are experiencing is real, we will imagine ourselves to have no such power. That is, we will see ourselves as powerless in the Life, simply moving through the experience and constantly being at the Effect of it.
\nDenying the reality of all that we see is, therefore, an extremely powerful and important tool in the Creation Process.
\nNow we are ready for Step 2. If nothing I see is real, then what does anything mean? That\u2019s a fair question, and the answer is, the meaning of everything is the meaning you give it.
\nIf you thought that the first step in the Triad Process was powerful, you haven\u2019t seen anything yet. This second step puts you firmly in command of your experience. You may not have changed anything in your outward reality, but your inner reality\u2014that is, the exact experience that you are having\u2014can be changed in the blink of an eye.
\nYou and you alone decide what anything means to you. You and you alone get to decide what matters and doesn\u2019t matter, what is \u201cgood\u201d and what is \u201cbad,\u201d what is \u201cokay\u201d and what is \u201cnmot okay.\u201d You and you alone get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something\u2014or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s not true!\u201d you may protest. \u201cI do not want to feel badly about this or that, I just do.\u201d Yet this is not so\u2014and the sooner you understand this, the sooner you move to mastery in your daily living.
\nYou decide, and you alone decide, what something means to you, and how you are going to respond to it. This is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings and experiences and understandings and desires, or future fears and apprehensions or wishes and desires. None of these have anything to do with what is going on right here, right now, however.
\nThe trick, as Eckhart Tolle made it so brilliantly clear in The Power of NOW, is to stay in the moment. Don\u2019t \u201cfutureize\u201d and don\u2019t \u201cpasteurize.\u201d
\nI have come to see the real power in this in my own life. When I \u201ccome from yesterday,\u201d I frequently overlay meanings on things that are not in those things inherently, but that I have placed there as a result of my previous thought about them\u2014or about something similar to them\u2014from my past. (Going to the dentist is a perfect example.)
\nWhen I \u201ccome from tomorrow,\u201d I overlay an idea about some imagined future (and usually, some imagined fear) on the events of today. These future realities may never come to pass (in fact, my life has shown that they rarely do), but what they often do is ruin any chance I had to maximally profit from the experience of the moment.
\nNow, when I get out of my past and stay away from my future, I can consider what\u2019s happening right here, right now, within the context of just that: what\u2019s actually occurring in the present moment. And\u2014free from the interpretations of the Past and the Future\u2014I can give that occurrence any interpretation I desire. I can call it \u201cgood\u201d or I can call it \u201cevil,\u201d I can judge it \u201cright\u201d or I can judge it \u201cwrong,\u201d I can label it \u201cpleasure\u201d or I can label it \u201cpain.\u201d
\nThis was the great liberating lesson of my life. When I learned this, I understood at last that my experience of everything that is going on, is going on in my mind. I can stare into the face of events and I can choose to BE whatever I wish to BE with regard to them. I can be \u201cokay\u201d or I can choose to be \u201cnot okay.\u201d I can decide to be \u201chappy\u201d or \u201cunhappy,\u201d \u201coptimistic\u201d or \u201cfearful,\u201d \u201cpowerful\u201d or \u201cpowerless.\u201d
\nThe decision is all mine. The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
\nIn the third step of the Triad Process of Reality Creation I decide that I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is.
\nI have a vivid memory of a woman who spoke up once at one of our Foundation\u2019s ReCreating Yourself<\/em> retreats. She had been sexually abused as a child by her uncle, and she spoke about it in very calm terms. She spoke also about a woman\u2019s support group that she had attended on a regular basis, and remember how, when she told that group about her experience, its members raised their voices in concern. \u201cYou should be furious about this!\u201d they told her. \u201cHow can you speak so calmly?\u201d
\n\u201cWell,\u201d she had said, \u201cthat was a long time ago, and besides, I understand why he did what he did, and I\u2019ve forgiven him. So I\u2019m not angry anymore.\u201d
\n\u201cNot angry anymore?\u201d, they protested, \u201cHow could you be not angry anymore? Don\u2019t you know what happened to you?\u201d Then they told her that she had apparently \u201csublimated\u201d her feelings and buried her rage, and was angrier than she knew. \u201cA walking time bomb,\u201d they called her.
\nProblem was, she didn\u2019t feel that way. Her experience is what she said that it was, and she became unwilling to \u201cbuy into\u201d the way others in her group told her that she was supposed to be feeling.
\nI never forgot this example of Reality Creation. The exterior experience of this woman was not different from the experience of many other women who have been abused as a child, but her interior experience was remarkably different. She simply chose to hold the experience in another way.
\nIn my own life, when something crazy or unwanted happens, I never ask myself, \u201cNow, why did that happen\u2026?\u201d Rather, I ask myself, \u201cNow, if I could give that a reason for happening, what would it be?\u201d
\nI assign everything a reason, rather than looking for one. And I decide how I am going to feel about things, rather than looking to see how I feel. And I choose with great deliberation my responses to everything, rather than watching my responses from the sidelines as if I was not the major player in my life.
\nThe Triad Process of Reality Creation is what I call a Turn Around Process. That is, it is one of those teachings that, once internalized and utilized, can turn around one entire life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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