What is Conscious Reality Anyway?

Since our new webcast is called “The Conscious Reality Show,” everyone keeps asking me, “What’s conscious reality mean?”

Author teacher Byron Katie has said “You can argue with the way things are. You’ll lose, but only 100% of the time,” which seems to be a statement that reality is reality, with no exceptions.

Author Robert Scheinfeld,  Busting Loose From the Money Game taught me (as did Quantum Physics, A Course in Miracles , Access Consciousness, and, well, Jesus the Christ (whose website is still under construction) that we each create our own reality.

Who is right?

My own experiments with reality suggest that all of them are. The way things are showing up is the way things are showing up. The way I am being is the way I am being. It doesn’t mean I can’t change or what is showing up can’t change, but sometimes a step through to change is what lots of people call acceptance, but I call allowance.

If I believe I can change my own reality, the first step is allowing that reality (and my feelings about it) to be what they are. If I just got split up with someone, I may not be able to change that I split up or that I’m sad or mad or lonely, but I may be able to be loving to myself.

(One book I’m reading even suggests I could find a way to get off on even the worst feelings I’m having, and I AM experimenting with that right now but don’t want to suggest anything TOO radical)

The conscious reality we’re playing with on the webcast is — how do we look at what’s happening and then ask different questions about it than we were asking before? like my favorites, (also from Access Consciousness), “What Else is Possible?” and “How Does it Get Even Better Than This?”

As an “integrative psychiatrist,” our guest tomorrow, Dr. Abhishek Rai, MD, asks exactly those kinds of questions when, instead of going straight to psych meds the way the average psychiatrist does, he investigates what else could be going on in the body.  Sometimes there’s a physical cause for depression. The results and implications are exciting — conscious reality indeed.