Thoughts On 'Creating Your Own Reality'
Spiritual solipsism's discontents and the freedom of taking action and encountering the real
There is a notion one encounters a lot in new age and spiritual communities. It is the idea that 'you create your own reality.'
I find this idea to be pernicious and causes a lot of damage to people's lives.
To understand why, it will be useful to set it beside another belief which could be thought of as opposite in some ways. It is the idea that you mus…
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