This thought is a derivative of many ponderings of the books I have read. I do not believe I have explicitly read this idea in a book, but it comes naturally to me and feels as though it holds pure truth.
When I look at who we are and what we are capable of, what am I looking at? I am looking at an individual, a singular person, that exists and has their own beliefs and thoughts. While people all have similar experiences, I do not believe that any two thought patterns are the same. The chemical and physical make up of who we are based on our desires, our fears, and background could never produce the same thought to another person.
Even if this is not widely agreed upon, it is a fact that you can present the same problem for two people and they will solve it differently. So what makes us different? I think its that inner voice or that creative being we all are. I’ve been surrounded by engineers, and I know people think they are less creative than they really are. I don’t get it really because everyone daydreams, everyone dreams, or at the core, everyone thinks. If you have a thought, you have a consciousness and therefore, at the very least, you are a creator in thought.
So we are all creators, but how does that work in this world that seems to operate with laws and physics? How does it work when many of our religions believe that everything we see has been created for us by a higher being? Well, they are both connected. We are those higher beings, and we actively create our own reality.
Since we cannot have the same thoughts as another, our inner world is literally different in every way. If you ask me to describe an elephant to someone that is blind, her internal representation of what an elephant is would be vastly different than what it actually is, but to this blind person, her world is no less correct than the one I am living as well.
When I read books all talking about the same thing, it can be easy to point out that no two stories are the same. This person said it this way, and this person said it this other way. They both must be wrong. In my opinion, if we really consider life after death, in that transition we would become our most divine and internal self. A self that is pure consciousness or purely creative by my definition. Would it be at all surprising to realize that my heaven is different than yours? If you were a devout believer in a religion, by your own creative nature and belief, you would create a version of that afterlife.
We focus so much on what makes us different, it divides us. If we spent time looking at what makes us similar, I think we’d have a better understanding of how life functions as a whole. I think we would recognize that it is okay that people think differently because it does not affect our own reality unless we let it.
