Conscious Control over our Universe

[zenmaster]

How much conscious control do we really have over creating our reality?

It exists in potential depending on what we have made conscious already.

I've got a question related to the topic question. Tanner and zenmaster please tell me what you think since you're here already - you guys are so smart with this stuff.

Everyone is always saying since we are all the Creator, my reality is only what I make it. If in my mind I've had a constant thought for years and I've firmly convinced myself it is the truth.....is it then the truth?

What is truth? A worldview which seems to make sense and provides a satisfactory degree of utility?

In my question I guess that's the definition I was going for. Although I don't comprehend fully "degree of utility"

By degree of utility, I meant since our experience is necessarily limited the usefulness it provides is similarly limited.
In answering your question, there are obviously relative truths with varying degrees of utility. However, if "truth" serves as our guide, then it must necessarily be "the truth" unless and until we outgrow it. A worldview constantly changes as new experience is integrated, and so do the ideas and conceptualizations which form a "truth'.

Experience is what connects us to our spiritual nature here and is indeed that which enables a transcendent viewpoint. If we identify particular ideas (of relatively less distortion) with that which had enabled that higher connection, we may also consider that foundation to be "the" truth. However, it's still just a worldview and that transcendence is still just another stage in evolution.