The Magic of Agreeing

We agree together to create our reality

Master: When many agree on the same experience, and when the many lose awareness, the experience of reality becomes a shared illusion.

Student: You mean that this whole world is an illusion?

Master: Your reality is not an illusion. It is your creation, and it is very real. The illusion is in the limitation, in the conflict. Your reality is not the illusion. The illusion is that your reality is all that is.

Our knowledge of how our mind works to give us a view screen of reality makes us aware that its function is very mechanical. It’s an automatic process, and follows the same function in any individual, in any society, in any belief and reality structure anywhere in the world. We know from experience that we are all living in a seemingly consistent physical world. We have developed rules and regulations that define what is "normal" in our movie. We call this physical world "consensus reality" -- that in the movie about which we all agree.

So far, we have learned that most of the sensory information in our physical world is filtered and refined by our paradigm and presented to us as a movie that fits our expectations. We have also learned that information beyond our paradigm limits is virtually eliminated from our movie of reality. Those of us who agree on what is happening in a specific scene in our movie find it easy to understand each other. We agree on similar information, and filter and refine information in the same way. Does the fact that we agree have an effect on our experience? Let’s try another experiment.

We have two volunteers that have agreed to undertake an experiment in shared fantasy. Both are excellent hypnosis subjects. The purpose of the experiment is to determine if illusion, or fantasy, can be shared beyond the physical senses.

The subjects choose a setting for their illusion. While still in a normal state of awareness, they agree to a setting on a beach and begin to imagine what it would be like. With a little coaching, they build their fantasy until they begin to talk about it as if it were reality. We now place them both in a state of hypnosis and suggest that they continue their fantasy. As they continue, their dialogue changes from deciding where to go and what to do to actually participating in an experience. They are having fun, which was part of the initial suggestion. It’s not long, however, before they stop communicating orally. In the silence that follows, we wonder if they have drifted off in separate fun-filled illusions, into separate dreams, or if they are still together in their imagined world. As we observe, we notice that they display nonverbal clues indicating that they are still connected in some way. We do not know if they are sharing the same illusion, at least not until we bring them back to "reality." We allow them twenty or thirty minutes, monitoring them to assure that they are still having a pleasant time. We now return them to consensus reality and interview them separately.

We discover that these two individuals, while in an altered state of awareness and with no spoken communication, have shared an imaginary experience in detail. They remember where they went, what they did, and what they said to each other as if it were a "real" experience. They continued to talk to each other in their illusion, even though no words were spoken aloud. They decided to go for a walk along the beach, and they both remember the same experience in doing so. They recall the same excitement when they discovered a beautiful sea shell in the sand. They both remember when they decided to go for a swim in the ocean. Further experimentation reveals that they need not even be in the same room to share the illusion. They can be separated by hundreds of miles and still have as real and as common an experience as if they were sitting right next to each other. In other experiments, we discover that a group of individuals can share the same fantasy, all agreeing on the common aspects of it.

The Mind is energy, and energy is not limited by time or distance. Mind and the mind are not separate. When we agree on a movie, be it "illusion" or "reality," we exercise what we call The Magic of Agreeing. We agree to have an experience together. In consensus reality, we agree to walk on the beach of the movie of life -- together.

We are the Sky Heroes who long ago who decided to dream a movie. The movie was once very fluid and easily changed, and we agreed and changed it often. The movie is still very fluid and easily changed, but we have forgotten that our dreamed reality remains as it is only because we continue to agree on it. The focus of our attention is no longer on our movie of reality, but on our created illusion of an individual identity within our reality. Our dreamed reality changes slowly now, as if driven by some external force. Yet our shared experience is still a natural result of our attention. We are participating in our reality through the laws of The Magic of Agreeing -- and the result is what we call the physical world of consensus reality. And even as we share this movie, our mind presents it in a manner that each of us can relate to as individuals. Although we agree on the overall set and script, each of us has slightly different interpretations of our experience because we have developed individual paradigms.

Recall the words of my Master: There can be no exceptions in an absolute reality.

There are exceptions in ours. There are some among us who are not lost in this movie. They need no food. They are never ill. Some can, with the wave of a hand, collapse the pure energy of the hologram into whatever "form" they hold in their mind, seemingly producing objects out of nothing. There are those who heal the body, see into the future, read the energy fields around us, and appear and disappear at will. We call these abilities "supernatural," but they are quite natural. They are not hidden abilities that are beyond our reach. They are the very same abilities that we use to make our dream of consensus reality real to us. These abilities reside just behind the paradigm of our mind, and are accessible with just a change of attention.

Although The Magic of Agreeing sets limitations on our experience, they are self-imposed. We have been told again and again throughout the ages by those who have gained mastery over the dream of consensus reality that nothing is impossible for us. Anything that our mind can imagine can become a reality played out on the view screen of awareness. And when we agree on a reality, the power of The Magic of Agreeing is added to our creation. But, in order for our movie of consensus reality to remain, we must continue to agree to continue to be limited. We are limited only because we choose to remain so.

Dreamed realities are easily manipulated. We often manipulate our nightly dreams without even realizing we are doing it. Here’s an example. We may be involved in a dream where we are in a particular place, but during the course of the dream, the location must change. This relocation may, in consensus reality terms, require moving a great distance and consuming a period of time. In our dream, however, we find ourselves in our new location with just a thought. We may be in a house one moment and on the beach the next. We do not try to reason while we are dreaming why the distance we traveled took such a short time. We move from scene to scene, location to location, as we involve ourselves in the experience of the dream. Our dreams are filled with experience, and traveling long distances is usually tedious and boring compared to the rich experience we are dreaming. We are not restricted by the physical limitations of time and distance in a dream, so our mind simply re-creates our dream in the new location. But remember, time and distance are limitation that we agree upon in consensus reality -- and they are self-imposed. Here is one of those exceptions that appear in consensus reality; there are those who move about in consensus reality as easily as we move about in our nightly dreams.

Limitations are effective only if they have a solid foundation in our mind, in our paradigm. The limitations of our waking reality are the result of The Magic of Agreeing in our consensus movie. We know that these limitations are not absolute. When our paradigm becomes weakened or is altered, these limitations are transcended. We often hear people who are involved in a traumatic accident report that they experienced their whole life flash before their eyes in a moments time. In these cases, our mind allows us a brief glimpse of holographic memory just beyond the paradigm. And identical twins are often keenly aware of emotional situations in each others lives even though they are miles apart. They share a strong link in holographic awareness.

Our paradigm is constantly altered by changing or questioning our belief and reality programs, thereby changing the limits of our paradigm. We should remember, however, that we are not transcending anything external. We are the creators of our reality, and it is subject only to our paradigm. There is nothing "out there" that must be changed or overcome.

Participants in shared illusion usually choose not to continue the experiments after they have come to an understanding of their implication. The subjects in our experiment decided to discontinue after only three sessions. They felt uncomfortable creating an illusion that was as real as their waking life. Their reasoning was: If we continue, how will we know the difference between our illusions and reality?

There seems to be a mechanism in our mind that protects us against knowing that the movie we call reality may be just a projection of our mind itself. After all, it would not be "reality" if we knew that it was just a projection of our mind.

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