Create Your Own Reality: Narcissistic or Not?

Yes, the "create your own reality" idea is gaining in popularity, as was evidenced tonight with the appearance of John DeMartini, Bob Proctor, JZ Knight, Michael Beckwith and John Assaraf on Larry King Live (btw, he will interview five other positive thinkers on the 14th of this month). The narcissistic leanings are evident, for sure, but I can see alot of positive benefits in this.   First, as Dr. Hawkins has mentioned, the ego has already created a world of pain, suffering, war, theft, abuse, etc. Yet most of this has been the result of unconscious mechanisms. The "create your own reality" crowd is at least helping to make others aware that our values, whether conscious or unconscious, are producing what we experience in life, which, I think, will help many to become more conscious in how they create. The problem comes in when emphasis is placed on creating our world through positive thought rather than on uncovering and knowing our true nature. Emphasis is often placed on getting what you want, rather than on surrender to God. The movie "The Secret" claims to tell the greatest secret ever told, and that is an error, simply because it isn't the greatest secret ever told. Sure, the fact that we create everything we are getting in life is a great little secret, but not as great as the "secret" of what we really are (or aren't; that is, we aren't the "doers").

What comes to mind is something Lester Levenson said (paraphrased): go ahead and continue to create, but be not attached to what you create; and sooner or later you'll reach the point where even creating whatever you want will cease to satisfy you, and the only thing that will satisfy you is going within and realizing your Self, whereupon true fulfillment and cessation of desire will be prominent.