Hi Spurious thought, I understand your way of thinking - assuming of course you're trying to make a serious point beyond the humour! So it seems you've made the realisation that our reality is shaped and distorted by the state of our inner consciousness right? It also seems like you've made the next leap that so many seem to do - "if I shape reality by my state of consciousness why not change my state of consciousness to create a new reality?" Or alternatively, if there's something I don't like why not simply process it out? Unfortunately, (or fortunately which ever way you look at it) this is a flawed understanding of reality. That part of you which makes a statement like "I intend to create a reality like this" is that part which is still separate from the "all that is". It is that part which still considers itself to be an identity. In other words an ego desiring or choosing and is not willing to accept things the way they are. That identity is what can be termed the "shadow" or "imposter" of the "seer" - the seer being absolute non-identified awareness. In enlightenment there is no need for intention or even choice - who is here to make the choice? There is simply awareness and an arising from that awareness of authentic purpose - what you might call "soul". The soul is our unique expression of the absolute and arises without intention, desire or effort. It is only the ego that then wishes to own what does or does not arise. It is of course possible to distort our reality with intention - or rather I should say, YOU can distort YOUR own reality with you own intention. However the illusion that you create will not persist indefinitely - why not? Because we are all interconnected and every single thought word deed effects every other part. You might be able to override in your mind what is really going on but what you won't be able to do is override the consciousness of EVERY CELL OF YOUR BEING (billions of them of course ) which are interconnected to every cell in the universe. If you could do that, then you would change the reality of every other being in the universe - and here's the divine paradox - you'd have to be enlightened to do that and in enlightnement there is no need of a choice - there is simply flowing as one with the universe. I also have to say this view of manifesting false realities seems to me to be without real compassion of where other people are at and the reality they are experiencing. Try telling the monks in Burma currently being brutalised by the military dictatorship "all you really need do is choose not to be attacked". Would you suggest they try psychic galic too? Open