Do thoughts really create our reality?

[Unbound]

Manniz, it's people like you that really encourage me to keep posting and sharing my ideas. I not only accept your praise, but I return it to you in kind. I enjoy your posts and discourse very much.

I admit that for myself I hold a view which is inclusive of both the idea of symbolic philosophy and literal entities. Many of the beings and deities which some view as purely symbolic, I also see as literal, and some who are seen as mostly literal I can see symbolically. Mythology is, to me, the history of the "Dreamtime" (to use an Australian Aborgine's term), the history of the other densities as they have been experienced by many levels of entities. I still have an idea to do a world map but instead of what we see here do "the next dimension up" and show like Shambhala, Valhalla, Mounds of the Sidhe, Mt. Olympus, the Halls of Amenti, etc, etc.

I will definitely check that book out (or rather add it to my list as I have tons of books to read aha) and I do know an amount about the concepts of Shiva, Vishnu and Kali, whereas I see Brahma as being "the one" and Shiva, Vishnu and Kali as "the trinity". Shiva is very interesting because philosophically Shiva is the absolute subjective self which is not "separated" per se but is completely and entirely subjective which is why Shiva is also the basis of the powers of sovereignty and self-mastery.

You are right about perceptions of the traditions of the blade always tying it to militant ideas or the conquering aspect of war and the blade, rather than focusing on the protective aspect or most important the aspect of empowerment through authority and sovereignty. This is seen most obviously in the Grail Saga of King Arthur whom was made king by the claiming of the sword Clarent from the Sword in the Stone which shows his right and capacity to reign as king. This sword of Excalibur which is the twin to the sword Clarent and its opposite was then given to him by the Lady of the Lake (I also see this as an allegory to the awakening of the adept who then grasps the power of both hands, both polarities with choice) to balance out the power of Clarent which, though is the test of a true king, is also the downfall of that king should his courage ever wane. In this, Clarent can be seen as a force like Kali which renews and takes away, bestows and destroys, gives power but at a cost.

Therefore, Clarent as a gift of collective power bestowed by the Gods, and taken thereof, Excalibur is like Shiva and represents the ultimate sovereignty of the individual self which fully grasps the honour/duty of that power. Clarent is a feminine sword in that it represents the ultimate potential to rule, the well of "authority" from which to draw, whereas Excalibur represents the potential made kinetic, the activation and utilization of that sovereignty.

This is just one example of a tradition involving swords which, I believe, has been severely distorted and is just one in the myriads of sword mythologies which has been interpreted.