February 2014 Publisher’s Letter
In the recent movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio travels through layers of different realities called dreams within dreams. Every layer is equally convincing as it occurs, yet most of them are not real. DiCaprio’s character uses a little metal top as his ultimate guide to which of these equally convincing realities is actually real and which is virtual.
Last decade’s enduring movie, The Matrix, suggested that all of us are living in our own fantasized versions of reality—and that many of us would prefer to stay that way.
The Harry Potter books and movies suggest that magic and a place where magic is actually real must exist. A parallel reality of magic and wizards, where buses can fly and bodies be healed instantly, exists right under the noses of “real, ordinary” people known as Muggles.
The phenomenal success of the Harry Potter books and movies—making their author J.K. Rowling the second-richest woman in Britain after the Queen—suggest they resonate at a deep level with many of us. Do we really know that at some long-forgotten level, magic and the reality where magic exists are really possible? What is pop culture trying to tell us? Is everything around us that we are convinced is real, is actually as ephemeral as the world of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, where “nothing is, but what is not”?
This is exactly what the pioneer of consciousness, Gary Douglas, has been saying for 10 years. According to Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer, his business partner in Access Consciousness, everything we think is solid and real is just one version of reality, called contextual reality. According to them, most of us have been spending our entire lives trying to fit into this reality and make it work for us.
The hallmarks of functioning from contextual reality are four questions: How do I fit? How do I benefit? How can I win? How can I avoid losing? If you find yourself asking yourself these questions or attempting to find a way you fit, you benefit, you win or you avoid losing, then you are functioning from this contextual reality.
The above material is an excerpt from an article on the Access Consciousness website. We will publish the entire article, titled: “Would You Like to Live in the Magical World of the Movies?”, in next month’s issue. he subject of reality, and specifically how one can potentially shape their own reality, intrigues both me and Pat. We believe that what we believe can have a huge impact on our lives.
This month’s cover is derived from artwork created by our very own layout designer, Michele Rose. You can view more of her work at CmRose.com.
Happy Saint Valentine’s Day!
Jerry & Pat Hocek, Publishers
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