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As communication technology has advanced and we have allowed ourselves to become submerged in a digital world, our personal interactions with others have become secondary in many of our relationships.\u00a0 For this reason the concept that we are living in a reality TV show or a virtual reality video game has become an increasingly accurate depiction of contemporary life in our socially and technology advanced societies.\u00a0 The lines between what is \u201creal\u201d in our time space reality and what is the reality created by a small number of people often determined to influence mass consciousness is often difficult to define.<\/p>\n
It has become growing clear that \u201creality\u201d is a result of consciousness and not some fixed thing that we observe.\u00a0 In the book,\u00a0You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>by\u00a0<\/span>Deepak Chopra<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Menas C. Kafatos the concept is explained in detail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This means that beliefs determine the reality of the world for each individual and whatever become the predominant beliefs in a society will become the generally accepted REAL Reality.<\/p>\n \u201cFake News\u201d<\/strong> becomes real news if enough people accept it as truth.\u00a0 There was an enlightening program on NPR\u2019s Science Friday show recently (LINK<\/a>) called, The Reality-Distorting Tools Of \u00a0The Future.\u00a0 The story tracked the increasing ease of altering audio and video in ways to totally transform the \u201creality\u201d of a given situation very realistically.\u00a0 As the story pointed out, \u201cseeing is believing\u201d used to be a very valid way of creating a worldview but that is not the case anymore.\u00a0 With sophisticated computer programs readily available to most anyone, altering reality is easy.<\/p>\n Here at DOR (Designer of Reality\u2122) we have long tried to discouraged people from spending too much time with our \u201cNews Media\u201d as the view of the world continuously has become increasingly full of distortions and individual opinions that do not represent the \u201creality\u201d most of us want to believe in.\u00a0 That \u201cwant\u201d to believe in is extremely important if you are willing to accept that what people believe actually defines reality.\u00a0\u00a0 This of course does not mean that the Chinese company iFlyTek produced audio of President Donald Trump\u00a0speaking Mandarin<\/a> actually happened but because of our immersion in the digital world, if it is disseminated widely enough and often enough and presented as real, eventually most people will believe it is real.\u00a0 At that point, as far as how we perceive and deal with our world, it makes no difference that it was \u201cfake\u201d because it has been believed into being truth.<\/p>\n What we hear and see on the \u201cNews\u201d, as full of distortions as it is, generally presents reasonable snapshots of parts of reality.\u00a0 Unfortunately that does not diminish the danger that it poses to our wellbeing.\u00a0 \u201cNo news is good news\u201d.\u00a0 Why is this a sadly accurate statement?\u00a0 Because, the news media is nearly totally focused on BAD news.\u00a0 The world they present us with is a dangerous and cruel place.\u00a0 Death, destruction, hunger and unhappiness fill the airwaves and digital channels all day and night.\u00a0 Many people become obsessed with following the news particularly when tragedy strikes.\u00a0 Since we have become so accepting of the information flow that surrounds us, it is a wonder more people do not sink into a sea of despair and either withdraw from the world or strike out against it.\u00a0 Our \u201centertainment\u201d industry and cyber world from video games to movies to trillions of words of fan fiction, tumblers and snapchats fills the environment with stories imagined that can all too easily begin to be believed in as the \u201cway things are.\u201d<\/p>\n Therefore the note of caution is try and ween yourself from a regular diet of “news” – it is sure to give you a case of Spiritual indigestion and very likely an anxiety attack.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.97″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.97″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.97″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_code _builder_version=”3.0.97″]<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:61.41%"><iframe src="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BU9YAHigNx8?ecver=2" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" width="586" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; 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