Hello, everyone. This is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Expert. I’m so excited to have back on the show today Gary Douglas from Access Consciousness, the founder, the brilliant mind behind it all. Well, mind, brilliant being that allowed this thing to be birthed into the world that’s had such a profound impact globally.
We talked years ago, brought him on the show talking about the intersection between superpowers and access consciousness. So I’m not going to get too much in depth there. If you go to the site, we’ll have a link to that prior episode.
But why I asked Gary to come back on the show today is we’re going to talk about choosing your reality, and I want to take this so much deeper beyond the whole concept of thoughts become things and how our thoughts create the world. My impression is that, from a collective consciousness perspective, we kind of get that at this point, those of us who are on the journey. And so, beyond that, is great. It’s all flowery to say that we want to change our realities and change the world, but are we really, really ready for that?
A tiger can change its stripes if it’s willing to change its stripes. And so it doesn’t really matter how much of this work you do, how much developmentally you assist other people, if there’s resistance to actually seeing reality shift and reform in front of your face. And so that’s a conversation we’re going to have with Gary today.
So we’ll jump right in. But first of all, Gary, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
Oh, well. We’re always delighted to share your wisdom to our audience here. It’s priceless. We just really honor you and the work that you’ve done in the world so far. We’re excited to see what you’re doing next. So it’s always fun to hook up with you.
But let’s dive in and talk about it. So, you and I were talking before we got on here about choice and how our choices impact what happens next. And, like I said, I think we kind of get that, but could you talk to the audience for a minute about what that choice looks like? It’s not so much decision-making but allowing. Can you expand on that?
Well, it’s like my basic point of view is that every choice creates something. If you kind of look from the point of view of everything, the good, the bad, and the ugly is our own creation, and that’s the way I see the world. It’s like whatever we like or don’t like, it’s something we created. If we ask, “How did I create this?” you start to see where you made a choice and how that choice created that result. What if every result was created based on every choice you made? What if you made a choice and that choice created something different? What choice could you make that would be different?
It’s like, if you look at it, like,look at our President. He makes choices and it has an impact over hundreds of thousands of people. But how does he make his choice? He tweets it. Does he think about it? Does he figure it out? Does he see what the results are going to be? No, he just tweets. He just decides, and he does it. When he decides and does it, then he does it. And there it is.
It’s so amazing for me to watch what occurs. He makes a choice and thousands upon thousands of people are affected by it. That’s a person who has a relevance in the world, at least from his point of view. And he wants, more than anything else, to be in control. But what if we started looking at it from not the control we can get, but the creation we can have? What could we create that would be beyond anything we can imagine? And it’s like, let’s start going beyond our imagination. Let’s start going beyond what we can and see what else is possible because that’s the place we all began to create from.
Do you see it as different aspects of us are making choices or how do you determine which perspective you’re going to have or how to make that choice in a much broader, more expansive way? Is it just opening that up, or is it that there are conflicting motivations that we hold?
Well, the thing is, most of our lives are conflicting motivations. We have no clue.
I was told when I was a kid, “You can do anything, Gary, just don’t do this, don’t do this, don’t do this.” Why shouldn’t I do those? “Well, those are not good things to do.” What? You said I could do anything. So if I can do anything, why can’t I do those? “Because those are not good choices.” Well, that makes me want to try them.
So I would try the things. I was told not to do, to find out whether I really wanted to do them or not. And I found an easier way to do it, which is this. I went to the point of views, the question. If I choose this, what will my life be like in five years? If I don’t choose this, what will my life be like in five years? And one of those two feels more expansive. And so I will always choose the more expansive choice rather than the most contracted choice.
Well, and then that leads us back to the immediate gratification concepts. And what do you prefer more? What matters more to you? And then on the flip side of that, we have to talk about the responsibility that goes along with that. Some of the patterns that we see in our work here is that there’s this resistance to the very thing that would allow you freedom, which is recognizing that the reality that you’re seeing is based on and formed from the choices you’ve made. But along with that comes this, you can no longer blame anything else, right? You can’t be a victim to anything else if you accept that as truth.
So there is that kind of weighing for folks, I think, when they sit at that threshold of accepting full ownership of the choices that they make. We could probably jump in all kinds of conspiracy theories as to why we tend to relax more into the program of victimization and blaming than we would the very thing that gets us what we claim to want.
How do you help people walk through that threshold?
You start to function from that point of view and that question, what happens is you see this glimmer of a greater possibility by either doing it or not doing it, rather than is this the right thing to choose or the right thing to do?
Well, that’s the purpose of the question. If I choose this, what my life be like in five years? Not what will it look like, what will I have? What will I choose? What will the world create? If I choose this, what would my life be like in five years? If I don’t choose this what will my life be like in five years? When you start to look at, okay, so where do I want to live? Do I want a more expansive world or a more contractive world.
Sorry, my doorbell just went off.
No worries.
I have a strange doorbell. It’s the Addams family.
I was wondering what that was. I was like, “That doesn’t sound like any doorbell.” I love it. Of course, you do.
It’s the Addams family. I mean it’s so appropriate to me. I feel more like Uncle Fester, but just because I feel like that doesn’t mean I have to be that.
The main thing is, if you start to function from this thing of asking if I choose this, what will my life be like in five years? If I don’t what will my life be like in five years? You start to function from that point of view and that question, what happens is you see this glimmer of a greater possibility by either doing it or not doing it, rather than is this the right thing to choose or the right thing to do? You stop giving up the idea that there’s a right or wrong point of view. There’s not a right or wrong point of view. There’s just a point of view.
So what point of view could you take that you haven’t even considered? You started to look at, okay, what can I create here? What’s actually possible here? You start to look from a different point of view and if it’s about what your life is going to be like, then you’re going to have a different choice and a different reality that if it’s, what’s it going to look like? And most people go for what it’s going to look like. They want to know what the picture is going to be in their world. I don’t care about the picture, I care about the possibility. Pictures not as relevant as possible. If we start to look at what’s possible by our choices rather than what we get from our choices, then we start to see that, okay, this possibility is going to be greater than this one.
Beauty is what shows you the gift you can receive and the gift you can be.
It was very interesting. Years ago, I had this lady who had a lot of money and I didn’t, and she wanted to furnish her house. Well, I found some things for her that were just fabulous. And one of them was a Verano mirror. It’s about from the 1800s, 1700s, not sure, but it’s a beautiful thing. And I thought it was so beautiful. I went, “Gosh, if I had money, I’d buy this. So I’ll sell it to her.” And I did. And recently she decided to downgrade and buy a smaller house because she’s decided she’s getting old.
It’s sad when you decide you’re getting old, it’s like I am old and I’m not getting old, so therefore it’s too late for me. So I went, “I would love to have this thing,” and she wanted to sell it. So I bought it and I put up on my house. I just look at it every day and I go, “Oh my God, you’re so beautiful. Thank you for the contribution you are to my life,” because what I see in life is everything is a contribution to it, if we’re willing to receive everything it has to give. Beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is what shows you the gift you can receive and the gift you can be. So what beauty are you refusing that you don’t even know you’re refusing? But you are. When you start to get that and you start to see this, things start to change in your life.
So I ended up with this beautiful mirror that 15, 20 years ago I got this lady to buy because I knew it was stunning and people had been telling her how it’s the most beautiful mirror they’ve ever seen for years. But that didn’t contribute to her. I do not understand that.
I have the strangest house in the world. One of the things I did was I sent my house lady to an auction. It was an auction of stuffed animals. And one of the things they had was a 12 foot alligator. I said, “How much is it?” They said, “Well, they’re only 300 now.” I said, “Buy it.” So she bought it for $400. A 12 foot alligator. So people walk in the house and the first thing they see when they come into our house is a 12 foot alligator, and we call him Rover.
Rover. You named your alligator Rover?
Yeah.
Oh, Gary, you’re delightful.
So we’ve got Rover there just hanging out, looking at things and it’s an amazing thing to see because it creates a smile on people’s faces and little kids love to go sit on him.
Beautiful.
You see that there’s a whole different world that exists if we’re willing to have it. What do we have? What could we have? What is actually possible? That’s the thing of living from, that’s the thing that’s the gift of being in the world and it’s that being that you’re choosing. So I chose to be that person. If I choose this, what would my life be like in five years? I got the humor of it, I got the gift of it. And people come in and they go, “Whoa, what? What’s that?” I go, “An alligator.” “It’s not alive is it?” No, it’s stuffed. “Oh, okay.” They relax, which I think is hysterically funny. Who the hell is going to have a 12 foot live alligator in their house?
Oh Gary, you make it sound so easy, right?
It is easy. The problem is we’ve always had the point of view that you have to get it right, and if you think you have to get the right answer and doing the right thing, then what you do is you spend your entire life judging you. What if you’ve never had to judge you again? What if you just chose to be you no matter what that looked like? Chose to see the gift you are no matter what that looked like. You’d have a whole different world.
Beautiful.
Gary, I’m so excited to dive in a little bit more deeply with this because I know you all are listening and it does sound easy, right? And Gary says, “It is easy. In those of us who have experienced it, it is easy.” So let’s dive into this when we come back from break and talk about how you can make that easy for your life, too.
If you want to know more about Gary, go to AccessConsciousness.com. We’re talking with him today about choose your reality. Stay with us because after the break, we’re going to dive in more deeply here and teach you how to employee some techniques now to make your life easy. So stay with us. We’ll be right back.
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