BEYOND IMAGINATION SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS

COURSE TWO: REALITY CREATION

In this course, we get to explore some of the secrets of reality creation. However, we must also deal with some of the perils and pitfalls as well. While we intend to cover specific techniques for manifestation, what we'd prefer to focus on is the whole picture of what is going on from a spiritual perspective. This will be instrumental in helping to decide what you want to make so, and what means might be the most appropriate for making it so under the prevailing set of conditions. We are creators manifesting our own reality. It's high time we realized this. Also, we might as well learn to play the reality game as the masters we truly are
OUR INTENT IS TO TEACH YOU TO ACCESS WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW AT SOME LEVEL. YOU ARE SPIRIT ENFLESHED, CREATING YOU OWN REALITY ALREADT. IN THIS COURSE WE WANT YOU TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH JUST HOW YOU DO THAT. AS FAR AS WE KNOW, THIS MAY BE THE ONLY PLACE TO LEARN WHAT WE TEACH u DEFINITELY IN THIS WAY.

Your teacher for this course is Wayne Hartman (beyond@redshift.com)

Our reading material will be drawn from: o o o o Beyond Imagination: Early Works Ch 10: The Art of Making it So Reality Creation 1010 Reality Creation Reality and Reality Creation

As a result of having taken this course, it is our hope that you will have the understanding and the tools that you need to create the reality that you desire.

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READINGS: 1. Chapter 10: The Art of Making it So 2. Reality Creation QUESTIONS Please answer in your own words
1. 2. 3. 4. What does reality creation mean to you personally? To what degree do you create your own reality? To what degree are you responsible for what you create? Is your life the masterpiece that it could be? If not, what is missing? If so, what parts of it do you consider to be a masterpiece? 5. Do others in your life agree with your assessment? 6. What do you desire most to change in your life? 7. What guidance from The Art of Making it So did you find of value?

From a consciousness standpoint, reality interpretation is in many ways more important than reality creation. Reality interpretation involves assigning meaning to what happens. Much of our emotional reality is created by how we interpret situations and events on a physical level. Another aspect of reality interpretation deals with the symbolic or deeper meaning of situation, events, and the things that they are associated with. This level is much more complex involving all of the levels of mind. Most people don't see the symbolic meaning, they see the physical event as the only reality. The inner meaning, however, is far more important to consciousness.
8. What five techniques from Reality Creation do you use on a regular basis? 9. What new techniques did you become aware of from reading Reality Creation? 10. Are there other techniques that you use besides those identified in this work?

That's enough to get started. Reality Creation is one of the grandest games there is. It helps to know some of the rules and the tools that we have available in playing this game. Thus far, we have only offered a comprehensive overview of what is involved in this.

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation 1010 (Part of Beyond Imagination: The Early Works): Chapters 1-3 I find it difficult to deal with a view of reality that separates itself from the consciousness that experiences this reality. From the point of view of an individual, there is an inner and an outer reality. The outer reality includes everything I sense with my senses, including others that appear to be as I am. The inner reality is one of thoughts, feelings, models about the world, and models about myself. The inner reality is the one that is the most prominent. It is where the majority of life is lived. Then again, this may be because I'm an introvert. I don't have the experience to know whether extroverts see life this way. QUESTIONS 1. What is reality to you? 2. How do you experience outer reality? 3. How do you experience inner reality? 4. Are you primarily an introvert or extrovert? Why do you think this? 5. What are the five most meaningful passages about Reality to you and why are they important to you?
Reality creation is what human life is all about. We are creators, learning of our own true nature. It is through our experience of reality that we discover that we are creators and start learning the basics of how we create the reality we experience.

6. What are the five most meaningful passages about Reality Creation to you and why are they important to you? 7. Are there any areas where you strongly disagree with what was stated? 8. What chief operating principles do you most relate to and why? 9. Are there any of these that you do not live by? If so, which one(s)?
This world is an illusion, an elaborate one, but an illusion nonetheless. That doesn't alter the fact that it is reality. It just means that reality is truly an illusion, just as a movie on a screen. Also, there is great meaning in the illusion.

10. What are the major techniques that you use in creating your reality? 11. To what degree are you consciously involved in creating your reality?

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation 1010, Chapters 4 - 5 QUESTIONS The Brain as a Computer 1. What were the most important things that you learned from this, in your own words? 2. What were the ten most meaningful passages to you and why? 3. What programs are you most aware of operating in your life?
The body is an incredible biological machine, a wonderful manifestation of consciousness. However, how is consciousness embodied or enfleshed? What is physical, and what is non-physical?

4. What does this analogy mean in specific terms in your life? 5. What were the five most meaningful passages to you and why?
All the events needed to confirm our beliefs are provided. It is not until we show that we are interested in change or that we start to question our beliefs that we experience anything outside of these beliefs. Then, we are free to interpret the experience in whatever way we choose. There are always events in the outside world that can trigger awakenings, but they only impact us if we choose to see them.

6. Do you experiences conform to your beliefs in this manner? In what ways? 7. Have you had any awakening triggered by questioning some of your beliefs? If so, what were they?
Interpreting inner reality involves developing a conceptual model of all that one experiences. The objective is to determine the meaning of what we experience. Here, we must understand symbols and how they are used.

8. What kinds of things are included in your conceptual model in this regard? 9. How has this changed as you have gotten more involved in metaphysics/spirituality? 10. What symbols are the most meaningful for you? 11. Have you found others who see and interpret reality as you do?

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation 1010, Chapter 6. QUESTIONS
Multiple bodies and energy fields.

To start with, in this model there are at least five bodies and several energy fields that go with these bodies and allow them to communicate and perform the functions for which they are responsible. These bodies include the physical, emotional, mental, causal, and spiritual bodies. 1. Does this make sense to you? To what degree are you aware of each of these bodies? 2. Do you think in terms of partitioning yourself in this way? If so, how do you do so in practical ways? 3. What are the five most important passages to you from this section and why? 4. Is there anything that you strongly disagree with? The causal body operates at a still subtler level. It ensures that our actions and decisions are balanced over the longer term. It teaches us the law of responsibility for our actions. It assures that we have experiences in accord with the law as ye sow, so shall ye reap. It does so by insuring that reality gives us what we deserve. This is not necessarily what we think we deserve. The timing does not have to be within one lifetime, however.
5. To what degree do you believe in karma, the balancing of actions over the course of our lives? 6. Provide a couple of major examples where this has been evident in your life. The spiritual body is the Self. Its primary function is to keep everything functioning in a manner that allows us to play our allotted role in the Play while pushing us as far as possible toward realizing who we truly are.

7. How do you experience the spiritual body? 8. What is your allotted role? 9. Who are YOU truly?

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation 1010, Chapter 7. QUESTIONS As humans, we are primarily information systems. Further, most of the information we deal with is symbolic. In this chapter we'll discuss what this really means to us as individuals, and investigate how this is connected to the way we create reality. 1. 2. 3. 4. How does all of this impact the way that you create reality? What were the ten most meaningful passages to you from Chapter 7 and why? In what ways do you consider yourself to be an information system? What are your inputs, processes, and outputs?

For those of us that live in the world of ideas, symbol processing is the major activity that we engage in. Literally, the ideas we play with are alive. They are just as active and engaging as anything in the physical world. No, more so, because in many cases they actually create the things that happen in the physical world. 5. Is this the world that you live in? What five ideas engage you the most?
In the physical world, one goes to the wilderness to get back in touch with the awesome physical beauty of nature. In the mental realm, one follows the great thoughts to get to these places that reveal the awesome mental beauty of universal mind. The way is tougher, for the paths are narrow and in many cases nonexistent. There is a vast virtually unexplored territory that few have ventured to enter. Let's call them the explorers of consciousness.

6. How does this passage resonate with you? 7. What journeys have you made into this realm and what were their impact on you? 8. Have you encountered others who have made such journeys? If so, who?

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation 1010, Chapters: 8-End QUESTIONS
Life as a Play of Consciousness The play has themes at many levels, and many playwrights are busy taking care of all the details. These details determine how physical reality will occur. One of the playwrights is your higher Self who takes care of detailing the part of the play that includes you. Your Self had to audition for its role in the larger play of life, the Piscean Age. The particular role you will play in ushering in the Age of Aquarius is determined by how far you've grown in awareness.

1. How do you relate to this? How is this reflected in your experience? 2. Are you aware of what your role will be in all of this?
An important issue is to what degree we create our own reality. Answer one is that we create it completely but from an other than conscious level. We clearly do not create it completely from a conscious level. The final alternative is that we create reality from both the conscious and subconscious level. I subscribe to this last alternative but believe that the conscious control comes only from our beliefs. The only other part that is under conscious control is our interpretation of reality. This is driven by what part our consciousness focuses on and what meaning it gives to what it sees.

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At what level(s) do you create your reality? What are the ten most meaningful passages to you and why are they important to you? Were there any passages that resulted in major revelations for you? Are there any areas where you strongly disagree with what was stated?

We are souls creating experiences so that we can learn of our own nature. We are part of a consciousness that is readying itself for a leap of awareness due largely to our concerted efforts. We are moderately advanced as consciousness goes, more advanced than some, less advanced than others. We are the seeds of a greater consciousness than our own that has been nurturing our development for all of our time on earth

7. Do you agree or disagree with this and why?

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READINGS: 1. Reality Creation Now that we have completed Reality Creation 1010, go back and read Reality Creation once again. It provides a concise framework to capture the how-to relevant to manifesting the reality that we desire. QUESTIONS 1. What are the ten most meaningful passages to you and why are they important? 2. What techniques do you use on a regular basis? 3. What techniques do you never use? 4. How do you employ your imagination? 5. Were there any passages that resulted in major revelations for you? 6. Are there any techniques that you are strongly motivated to try now? Which one(s)? 7. Do you have a clear picture in your mind of what you desire to create? 8. Are there any areas where you strongly disagree with what was stated?
Needs are our primary drivers. They color everything that we do. When our needs go unmet, we suffer. When collective needs go unmet society suffers. Most of the ills in society are due to unmet needs, either at an individual or a collective level. The economic system is our way of filling needs. It employs us to create the goods and services that we need collectively in a manner that allows us as individuals to acquire the goods and services that we need. Unfortunately, it does not do a very good job at present. There are far too many people living in poverty, even in this country, but especially in the world. People should not have to struggle excessively just to live.

9. Do the needs identified make sense? Are there any major ones that are missing?
Core beliefs are the fundamental beliefs that are the basis of our belief framework. Typically, they are few in number and all of our other beliefs are attached to these core beliefs. The fastest way to tend to our belief garden is to focus on the core beliefs, find those that are disempowering or negative, and replace them with ones that are empowering or positive..

10. What are your 20 most important beliefs organized by topic and hierarchy if applicable? Which of these are core beliefs? How do you know that?

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READINGS: 1. Reality and Reality Creation, Pages 1-21 QUESTIONS
We start from the premises that reality is what we experience and that this is different for each and every one of us, and we create our own reality. You don't have to believe these premises, though it helps if you do. Neither will we prove any of this. Primarily, because we don't believe that this is something that can be proved. As with most metaphysical knowledge, some amount of faith is required. Though, we don't expect you to take too big of a leap of faith. It is OK to be skeptical. Let utility be your ultimate guide.

1. What is reality to you? How do you experience reality? 2. What are the 12 most important passages from the readings in order of importance and why are they so meaningful and important to you?
The body is an elaborate vehicle for the brain, its primary occupant ... which in turn is a vessel for the mind to interface with, and to create and experience the game that we call reality. The reality game is primarily a mental construct. It is something that we create in our heads and experience in the world. Ultimately, there are more levels than this: body - brain - mind - consciousness - spirit. That's at least five that I can think of. I would have added soul as well, but she didn't seem to fit into that progression.

3. What is your experience along these lines? To what degree are you aware of these six parts of yourself? Typically, we are aware of parts through the works that they do.
I AM is the only reality. It is your only true HOME. And there you are always safe, secure, and happy. When you think I AM and make that your focus, it is indeed the only reality.

4. What is your concept of the I AM?

Reality is indeed a game that we play ... and the bulk of the game is played within the realm of the mind. This may or may not be true for you. The game can be played in the physical, in the emotional, in the mental, in the spiritual realm or any combination thereof

5. Where and how do you play in the reality game? 6. To what degree is consciousness involved in all of this? 7. Do you feel yourself to be a master creator? Why or why not?

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READINGS: 1. Reality and Reality Creation. Pages 21-42 QUESTIONS
Reality is subjective. It is intimately dependent on our experience of it. There is no objective reality that is independent of the experiencer. There simply cannot be. That is simply not how things work. 1. 2. 3. 4. In what ways do you experience your reality as being subjective? What are the major different focuses though which you experience reality? In what ways does your experience mirror what is presented here?

What are the 12 most important passages from the readings in order of importance and why are they so meaningful and important to you?

Symbol systems characterize a hidden spiritual world, or perhaps multiple such worlds since the symbols typically have meaning on multiple levels. All such systems are valid. All such systems are real. And, indeed there are multiple such systems. We have only to open our eyes and our minds to see them. 5. What symbol systems are you aware of? What kinds of meaning do you get from them? Ever increasing awareness is the name of the game. We do this by finding our limits and breaking through them into a new awareness of reality. We strive to increase our awareness as much as we can. 6. How would you describe your level of awareness? 7. What major awakening experiences have you had and how did you deal with them? We are eternal, immortal, omnipotent and omnipresent. We have always been such. It is a matter of remembering whom that we truly are, and not being so focused on the limitation within the present illusion we call reality. 8. In what ways do you relate to this? 9. How would you describe yourself in similar terms?
Yours is not to be a master of this world. It is another world that you are helping to manifest. This world will be tantamount to a utopia on Earth. You have chosen a present moment in which dreams are to become reality. Many have created the ideals and worked out the details for manifesting them.

10. What does this mean to you personally? What is your purpose? What are your dreams?

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READINGS: 1. Reality and Reality Creation, Pages 42-63 QUESTIONS
All of reality is a backdrop for the evolution of consciousness. That is what the reality game is all about.

1. In what ways do you experience this personally? 2. What are the 12 most important passages from the readings in order of importance and why are they so meaningful and important to you?
Freely give! That is the key. Further, know that abundance is the reward when we choose to do this ... abundance on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Giving primes the abundance pump.

3. In what ways do you give of your time, or your resources, of yourself? 4. In which of these is the giving unconditional? 5. In what area and to what degree do you experience abundance in your life?
We each have a spiritual destiny that is unfolding in our life. For the most part, it seems that it unfolds as it will without our being able to exert much control over it. But, this pertains primarily to the big things that happen in our life.

6. Is this your understanding as well? If so, what is your destiny so far as you know it to this point in your life? Physical reality is important ... but, it is not our only reality, not by far. In particular, we also have a spiritual reality. And, while it can be difficult, it is worth the effort to open our ego so that it accepts this spiritual reality as well. 7. What is your experience physical and spiritual reality and dealing with your ego? Our egos are meant to be tools, not masters. They have a function of interpreting physical reality. Tools are meant to be useful, especially when they are used to do the tasks for which they were designed to do. So, use the ego to interpret what physical reality is telling you. But, use other tools to interpret what the symbol systems in your world and what your spiritual world is telling you. 8. In what ways do you use your ego as a tool in your life? Have you reached a point where it is receptive of information that comes from the spiritual world?

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READINGS: 1. Reality and Reality Creation, Pages 63-94 QUESTIONS The moment is the point of power. It is the only time in which we can experience anything. It is the only time in which we can do anything. Everything that is flows out of the moment. Everything that exists is re-created in each moment. We can live weeks without food, days without water, minutes without air, but not one second without spirit. 1. In what ways do you experience this personally? 2. How would you define reality creation in your terms now? 3. What are the 12 most important passages from the readings in order of importance and why are they so meaningful and important to you? As you go about creating you reality, we urge you to remember to create the circumstances that allow you to be all that you can be. When you are being all that you can be and sharing who you are with others, everything seems to fall into place. It is also helpful to remember that you don't have to do everything. The best results come when we allow spirit to do her works through us. 4. When are you being the best that you can be? How do you share this with others? Reality creation is a powerful art ... especially conscious reality creation. It takes a heightened degree of awareness to wield it properly.. 5. To what degree are you a master of the art of reality creation? Provide some specific examples that illustrate this. All that exists was created from thought. Yes, everything. It doesn't matter whether it is matter, energy, or ideas. It is all thought. Thoughts create things ... it is that simple. It is thoughts that move us to act. It is thoughts that determine how we interpret what we experience. Everywhere we look, we see the results of thoughts in action. 6. 7. 8. 9. What are the dozen strongest thoughts that have driven your life in priority order? What specific impacts have these thoughts had on you and others? What is your understanding of where your thoughts originate? How do thoughts and beliefs relate in practice in your world?

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READINGS: 1. Reality and Reality Creation, Pages 95-End QUESTIONS Consequences are how the universe responds to our choices and actions. They form the conditions and experiences that become our reality. Change the choices and our reality changes. Choosing again is therefore quite a powerful tool. Change the actions and our reality changes. Therefore, what we do makes a big difference in what we experiences. Predicting consequences is an art at best. Further, there are almost always side effects ... some good, some bad, some different, but all unintended. 1. In what ways do you experience this personally? 2. What new methods for reality creation have you learned? How would you apply them? 3. What are the 12 most important passages from the readings in order of importance and why are they so meaningful and important to you? Such is my experience of reality. I observe myself doing things and taking action without conscious awareness of why or in many cases how. I experience what I experience. I do not consciously control or create this experience. It just happens and I am left to assign meaning to it. 4. Provide examples of how you do this or do not do this as the case may be. With increased awareness, our powers of creation increase accordingly until we are able to create not only masterpieces of our lives, but masterpieces of the lives of others as well. 5. To what degree are you doing this? Provide some specific examples. What we imagine, we can create in our lives. Yes, imagination is that powerful. But, it is only so when it is consistent with the other tools in our arsenal: thoughts, beliefs, expectations, choices, actions, and dreams. All of these must be in sync for the forces of reality creation to do our bidding. 6. 7. 8. 9. Do you have this arsenal of tools working for you? Are there any particular tools that you are strong or weak at using? How is collective reality created? How is synergy invoked? In what ways are you creating a masterpiece of your life and your world?

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READINGS: 1. None. QUESTIONS Answer in your own words. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What is reality? What is reality creation? What are your 12 strongest beliefs and how are they connected? What is your purpose? Are you living up to it? In what areas is your life a masterpiece already?

Tools for Reality Creation 6. What are the major tools for reality creation and what is you expertise level in wielding each of them? Powerful Passages 7. Select the 12 most powerful passages from this course in priority order and explain what they mean and why they are so important to you. You can select these from passages you selected for other lessons or select entirely new ones it is up to you.

COURSE CRITIQUE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How would you rate the course material (1=Great, 5=Poor)? How would you rate the instructor (1=Great, 5=Poor)? How would you rate the lesson plan (1=Great, 5=Poor)? Would you take another of our School Without Walls courses? Do you have any other feedback or suggestions for improvement?

THANK YOU, WAYNE

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