Why Don’t We Feel We Create the World?

"In a meditation, you said experience isn’t superimposed on us. But if the mind creates experience, why don’t we feel like creators? Rupert says: ‘Because we don’t create the world’s reality – only its appearance. The world’s reality is infinite consciousness itself. Its appearance as multiplicity and diversity is the contribution of the finite mind’s perceiving faculties. Wordsworth captured this: we “half perceive and half create” the world. The reality we perceive is truly there; the forms it takes are shaped by our perception. Consider: the mind is not an entity but an activity – thinking and perceiving. Thoughts aren’t things that exist independently; they’re modulations of awareness, like vibrations in water. There are no real selves, no real objects, no real world – just the one infinite consciousness vibrating within itself. Perception creates the boundary that makes “inside” and “outside”. We’re looking at the inside of God’s mind through our perceiving faculties. In gatherings like this, when love is present, the boundaries between minds become transparent. That’s why you sometimes hear the teaching before it’s spoken – not mysticism, just the natural intimacy of shared being.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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