Scott Free Thinking

I recently got into a conversation with my grandmother about what determines one’s ability to do any particular activity. To her, the idea that any individual anywhere has the potential to carry out any improvement they wish simply did not fly. And it is no surprise that those in my own family would not hold this same belief - people everywhere are holding themselves to their own self limitations. But perhaps the most disturbing part of it is the tendency you will have to find solutions for a particular problem within your belief system, and will sometimes do whatever possible to hold onto certain beliefs. This is also true, even for the concept of unlimited potential, and unlimited ability - if you truly believe in this concept then you will continue to find solutions and evidence to confirm its truth. A short while ago I was doing research on a particular topic and I noticed that for both that topic, and others I’ve recently had the experience of being involved with, you can find opposing, conflicting views on almost any issue. Yet, not only is there conflicting views, I could even go further to say that you can find views that are contradicting of each other. It is amazing. Facts and figures that directly are at conflict, saying two opposite things, from two opposite sources. Somewhere, somehow, something is always getting skewed.

Or perhaps the very notion of this fact of contradicting views, contradicting evidence, might lead individuals to interpret and create their own reality as they see fit. In general, there is certainly a debate going on over whether or not there is a true objective reality. One thing that is for certain, however, is that our perspective of that reality is entirely subjective. While we are sure that our perspective, perception, and interpretation of our reality around us is subjective, there is still a conclusion trying to be made as to whether or not reality itself is subjective. Or maybe reality is partially subjective, where certain aspects of it can actually be manipulated, while other components of it will always remain constant.

I think the main reason that we all keep coming back to the topic of subjective reality when trying to explain what we’re capable of, is because it truly is so critically important. If subjective reality and its entire existence is true, then that would mean that reality itself or the very definition of “real” that you currently know is immediately put into question. Are people nothing more than mental projections you have manifested for you to see in front of you? Is there any other consciousness but your own? Is the content of your dreams nothing more than an actual alternate reality in which you have removed the need for your usual limitations, restrictions, and usual choices? If a dream character is only a dream character, then you are presented with a huge problem in trying to understand if the people in your waking reality are anything but being only ‘dream characters’ themselves, in a way. Or maybe they’re just “reality characters,” and what is there to stop you from thinking of them as anything but?

The part of us that will stop us from believing this might be certain elements in our lives to be moving seemingly against our will for change. But what we have to remember in thinking about that, is that often these are from things that have already existed, existed in our past, and we have a conscious recall of what those things previously represented. When we think of that, we come to time, and time is presented in this whole equation as subjective too. Our past does not have to exist, yet somehow we often will remember something whether we intend to remember it or not, and therefore, our memory will serve as the basis for what future events will occur. I have seen it proven, and experienced it myself, the fact that radical change is possible to happen overnight, or even in seconds, but the only reason it often doesn’t is the simple point that there is often no motivation, or no reason for change itself to occur. If you have no reason to change, why change? Even asking that question is kind of redundant.

I will use as an example the situation of a girl who wishes that she could win back her ex-boyfriend, or vice versa. The reason that the person cannot be won back easily, or at all, is due to the fact that our past representation of them presents the basis for which all future and present conditions will occur. The very memory of them leaving, even if it was a very pleasant, mutual understanding leaving, can serve as a barrier, and manifestation road block, so to speak, as to why they will not return once again. Of course, under the entire intention-manifestation theory, you should be able to bring that particular person back into your life anyway. The problem with that is, why limit yourself, and why face needless past-based resistance?

And that is often a common problem. In thinking about some situations, the entire solution or next step in a progression forward seems entirely obvious. In other situations, however, we might be focusing on entirely the wrong thing and there is nothing to tell us that the situation is being solved incorrectly, because consciously we have no way of knowing the fact that on a subconscious level we have already created whatever it is we are doing as a ‘fail system,’ where the mere definition of its existence is for it to be destined to fail.

Yet, even at the end of all of this, the question remains, why? The question remains as to why we can consciously direct a manifestation by holding intentions, yet on a subconscious level there is a massive amount created beyond our control for unknown reasons. The question remains as to why our past remains persistent and stubborn to being abolished, or perhaps just why the difficulty remains in rearranging the perceptions of our own past.