Does what we collectively believe shape reality?

Question

I believe that there are two main streams of basic beliefs. One being people who feel the drag of everyone and everything around them. The second being those feel for those who cannot shoulder the burden. Both share common threads of humanity, but think the other belief is wrong.

These two opposing beliefs fuel the disconnection between us all. No matter what part of the planet you are from you support or deny one of the two basic beliefs. There are of course fringe beliefs and you may water your beliefs down with hate, overindulgence, or magical thinking.

I'm not a bleeding heart, I'm a wacko magical thinker. I believe that the energy we put out in thought, manifests as reality. We experience every shift positive and negative and are impacted. Our beliefs are slightly altered as a result. But like compasses we come back to our true north.

We are a magnificent experiment in progress. Each of us affected and affecting one another in subtle and obvious ways. Convinced that our efforts are insignificant. Even when we glimpse a sign that we in fact build the mazes that we run around in.

My most lunatic magical thought is that if 60 percent of the humans on this planet shifted their belief for one day. The next day we would wake up and that reality would begin. Of course 40 percent of the people who woke up in it would wake up determined to change it back. Which is why we have to have thought majority.

Defeating political unrest: Everyone registers republican. No other party. Why not Democrats? Because the back and forth is what it's all about. Politics is a pyramid scheme and someone has to be on the bottom. The basic strength of the scheme is making the bottom feel represented. We believe that it's a numbers game and we just have to have the numbers. Wrong! It doesn't really matter who is on the top. It's just a temporary mental state of mind where one side concedes momentarily. We experience a shift, we respond to it but nothing has changed.

One half of the collective feels slighted, while the other feels represented. If we were all one party, expecting equal representation for all people. We erase that division. We have to invent something new.

Defeating spiritual chaos: We thought we had that one beat by declaring that everyone could believe whatever they wanted. But we argue constantly over whether you can guide us if you have the wrong belief. So what if God, Mohamed, Buddha, the many Indian Gods are powerful enough to run things without our intervention? What if each of us left the planning, killing, or blessing to each of our own Gods? We can't now because that's part of our competitive nature. Our God or Gods have to be the true Gods. So we will fight, kill, disown, or ignore anyone who opposes him or them by virtue of believing is their own.

Defeating environmental destruction: We all just rent the space we live in. You can't keep it. You can pass it on. But it's never really yours. You just did what you needed to occupy it while you were here. One side thinks we could never do enough to it lose possession of it. But what ever deity, or alien race ever does show up and feels that they are the true landlord we are not getting our deposit back.
It's just plain obvious to half of the planet that their shouldn't be giant island of plastic garbage floating in the ocean. But we can ignore it because we believe we can't change that and ignore it.

So about half of the humans that will read this have been laughing and stopped somewhere on their favorite morsel to rave about. And half actually made it to here and are sighing thinking sounds hopeful but it just doesn't work that way. That's where you're wrong because both sides currently believe the same thing. It's not going to change either way, so it doesn't

Answer 1

Wow you are awesome.



I have been thinking A LOT about this stuff lately and its nice to hear others thinking the same. I do believe we collectively shape reality. Honestly I don't feel it will take 60% to change it for the better. When you work with a positive mind it seems to overpower the negative ( not sure why i think that but it seems to catch on). It makes me think of a meditation exercise i read about where a small group of people significantly lowered crime rates after meditating on it for like 20 minutes. I really feel that a small amount can have a big effect.



Think about the amount of people in the government making decisions. We probably out number them at least 800,000 to 1. They will not be able to control us. And maybe some in the government will start working for us.



It is very sad what we have gotten into with politics and everything else that is trying to scare and divide us. We are all connected on the inside and when people start to realize this there will have to be changes. We must help others to help ourselves.



Anyways thanks for writing that. It will help my day and I will pass that on. Sorry about my rambling, i just get excited about this issue. I have a lot of thoughts and it can get hard to figure out how to say them in words.



Keep posting more stuff like this.



People will learn from you.

Answer 2

This is a VERY GOOD QUESTION. There are some "strange" things that happen when you run a double-slit experiment or a half-silvered mirror experiment. It's very much worth investigating, very much worth explaining. And, you're right, a shrug of the shoulders is no answer at all. Well, the article you read did get some of the facts right. When you add sensors to a double-slit or half-silvered mirror experiment, the outcome changes. However, what this article claims that that means is completely wrong. The outcome doesn't change because of human observation. The outcome changes because adding those sensors means you're setting up a different experiment. The very idea of "wave/particle duality" itself is a mistake. Fundamental reality isn't made up of things that sometimes act like waves and sometimes act like particles. Fundamental reality is made up of things that always behave like themselves. And I mean that in exactly the same way that I mean a soup-can isn't sometimes shaped like a circle and sometimes shaped like a rectangle. A soup-can is always shaped like a soup-can. It just looks like a circle from the top and looks like a rectangle from the side. The quanta of quantum mechanics can look like waves sometimes and like particles other times, but they're simply the soup-cans (er, quanta) that they are. Now, the article you read didn't make these mistakes all by itself. It's really just reporting mistakes that many scientists and philosophers made back when this was a new experiment. And they're not stupid mistakes. Given the evidence we had and the poor understanding we had of what was actually happening, these were incredibly easy mistakes to make. Now, if it had turned out that the "observer effect" mistake /wasn't/ a mistake, then, yes, this would have had deep religious implications. It might have been evidence for the existence of God, or at least some sort of man-behind-the-curtain running the show. It would be a very very big deal if human observation could change the nature of reality itself. However, it turns out that that's not the case. The question you asked is "how can this be possible?" Well, it can't be. More importantly, it simply isn't. And, today, we have a much better understanding of what the results of these experiments mean. And that means we have a better idea of how the world works. And we still don't need a man-behind-the-curtain to explain it. Does that help?

Answer 3

NO.