"You create your reality"

[anagogy]

This stuck out to me. I would like to strongly & honestly disagree with what is being expressed here. Unfortunately after multiple tries, I have been unable to properly articulate that disagreement in a way that is valuable and contributes to the discussion. However, this topic is meaningful to me. Can someone help me here?

It makes it very difficult to clarify my explanation for you when you both A) don't provide a logical reason for your objection and B) don't ask any questions about what I wrote. However, I will attempt to clarify.

As Nightowl suggested, you are most likely having an emotional knee jerk reaction to idea that a rape victim attracted the event. It probably feels to you that I'm "blaming the victim". Its an understandable reaction, most people initially see it that way. However, if you think about it objectively, the process of accidentally thinking oneself into a negative experience is absolutely no different than accidentally wandering into the wrong place at the wrong time, which is what someone of the ordinary scientific and materialistic metaphysical pursuasion would explain the event away as. Both involve chosen actions which result in a negative consequence, but in either case there is an innocent ignorance of the ramifications. Thus, it is impossible to appreciate or understand the danger one is putting them-self into vibrational proximity of. Also, keep in mind there is still a rapist in both circumstances who is deliberately attracting someone to rape. While it does take two to tango, so to speak, the fact that one creates their own reality doesn't take away from the negative intent of the rapist. They just happened to be a vibrational match to one another: victim and victimizer. So naturally they end up in the same reality.

What you think and what you feel are intimately related. I would say that thought precedes emotion but they are nearly simultaneous. You can't define wanted, without also defining unwanted. The more specifically you identify wanted, the more specifically you are simultaneously defining unwanted. I'm not talking about the conscious mind when I say that, this is almost entirely an unconscious clarification. If one had no preferences, one wouldn't have a preference for if they were getting punched in the face, or getting hugged by someone they love, or whether they were lying on a sunny beach, or whether they were rotting in a prison cell. One person's idea of hell, is another person's idea of heaven. So when you turn the radio dial of your thoughts to a negative channel, and you stay there for a prolonged amount of time, the manifestations that reflect those thoughts -- those particular vibrations -- naturally coalesce into real world events eventually, and the degree of the negative manifestation is in direct proportion to the degree one has spiraled into darkness. When you get out of alignment with positivity, you get into alignment with negativity, and those symbols that you have uniquely and particularly carved out to represent negativity are what rise up to meet you (they are different for everyone). The same goes in reverse for when your thoughts and beliefs are in perfect alignment with your desires. You perceive the positive alignment as positive emotion, and those symbols for positivity that you have personally carved out through your exposure to contrast and life experience, rise up to surround and exalt you.

All experiential manifestations are just symbols. You create the symbols, and they show up to reflect whatever your dominant emotional state is.