Reproduction is nothing short of miraculous. Imagine this: in a fleeting moment of intimacy between a man and a woman, millions of sperm from the man race toward a single egg within the woman. One chosen sperm breaks through the protective barriers of the egg, sparking a nine-month journey that culminates in the birth of an entirely new, unique human being. This ancient process, refined by millennia of evolution, is so seamless that it often unfolds without deliberate thought or effort. Beneath the surface of this apparently automatic act lies a profound mystery—one that invites us to reflect not only on how we create life, but on the power of conscious creation in everything we do.
This reproductive process, and the emotional and physical predisposition towards engaging in it, has been so perfected over the millennia that we don’t even have to think about it. Human beings, the highest form of evolution on this planet, these amazingly unique and powerful animals, are created by the hundreds of thousands every single day, mostly as a side effect of just living our lives.
And yet, hidden within this seemingly effortless process is one of life’s greatest mysteries: the power of conscious creation. What if we approached reproduction—and by extension, all aspects of our lives—with the same intention and awareness as we might bring to a sacred ceremony? What would change if we infused every decision, every action, with mindfulness, trust, and a deep connection to the creative energy of the universe?
Many people understand the power of thought and emotion. Perhaps you’ve experienced the atmosphere around peaceful individuals, or the tension that radiates from aggressive ones. These feelings and emotions are tangible—you can sense them, and they often influence you. Similarly, the placebo effect demonstrates how belief itself can shape outcomes. Simply trusting that something will benefit you can significantly enhance its positive effects on your health, even when it is a sugar pill. Patients who lie in hospital beds with unshakable faith in their recovery often do improve, while those consumed by hopelessness often see their fears become reality.
Most people understand this, that your thoughts can very often shape your reality and experiences. Somehow though, we seem to forget this in our day to day life and how much it can impact us. If the placebo effect is real, then what happens if every time you drink a cup of water you sincerely hold the belief that this water will help you? What if we infused this consciousness into every aspect of our lives, what might unfold for us then?
Of course, it takes a great deal of focus and attention to practice this. And, more importantly, there is another component to this equation: trust. The placebo effect works because most people trust doctors, and they are told what they are being given will be good for them.
If we consider again sincerely believing that every cup of water we drink will be good for us—practicing our own placebo effect—it isn’t quite that simple. The average person is drinking 8-10 cups of liquid per day, and less than half of that liquid is actually water. It is easy to believe that a cup of water will be really good for your health, less so a cup of soda, juice, or coffee. Our bodies and minds are not stupid, we can’t trick them into thinking something is good for us, when they body knows it is obviously not.
Rebuilding Trust and Embracing Creative Purpose
Look at food, and the situation might be even worse. The problem here is trust, in ourselves. Most people do not inherently trust themselves, and so it makes it very difficult to initiate this practice of placing conscious awareness into our activities and believing that they are good. Our bodies and minds know better. We know the food we are eating, the liquids we are drinking, the drugs we use or the harmful activities we engage in.
At the end of the day, most people do not trust themselves to take care of themselves. I’ll give you an example from my own life. In 2019, I was attacked. Actually, someone else was attacked, and I immediately went to defend the victim. In the ensuing chaos, I was struck multiple times in the ribs resulting in 3 fractures in my floating ribs. This was an extremely painful experience for me, starting a 4 year healing journey that I am only now nearing the end of.
Aside from the physical pain, there was another affect. It became harder for me to relax my body, to get comfortable. At first, I just assumed it was due to the pain I was in, but I uncovered a deeper cause in my ceremonial work with sacred plants.
At the heart of it was a lack of trust in myself. Deep inside, I didn’t trust myself to take care of myself. When the attack happened, it took place in a moment when I was not prepared. Even though I did save the initial victim of the attack, I put myself in his place and was not physically strong enough to defend myself. This trauma was imprinted into my body, my bones, my muscles and tendons, and my DNA. It became difficult to relax because there was a deep distrust within myself that if another dangerous situation should arise, I would likely be unable to properly defend myself.
Like me, many people don’t trust themselves to take care of themselves. Maybe its a dark alley, maybe its a bag of potato chips, maybe its a couch and a TV remote. In any case, the body and mind do not trust each other to make the right decisions to ensure safety and health. We cannot trick our body into thinking something is good for us—the body has its own intelligence. Like my physical attack, a sedentary lifestyle or one of chronic overeating and obesity leaves its own imprint on the body.
If deep inside we don’t trust ourselves to make good decisions, ones that lead to health and the life that we desire for ourselves, then we can’t fully utilize our conscious awareness to empower our actions. We have to start by rebuilding trust. The best way to do this is one step at a time, by revising our entire life and one by one eliminating toxic behaviors and integrating beneficial ones.
If hamburgers are making you sick, you have to stop eating them. If your body is always sore, start doing yoga. Eliminate addictions and start sitting by yourself quietly to begin to build a real connection with your inner state. You can begin slowly, change 1 thing a month. With time, trust will return. Patience is necessary though.
Once we can begin to trust ourselves again, there is an inner peace that takes hold. You can actually relax, finally. The body and mind knows that no matter what happens, whatever situation may arise, that everything is fine. We will take care of ourselves. With this newfound peace, our conscious awareness can be utilized to empower our decisions, because there is no longer an inner fear or disharmony.
Now is when the true work begins. Everything before was a side project of navigating the complex and often dangerous waters of a society that is supremely disjointed. Now comes the real human experience, finding your purpose: creation. You are here to create, it is the logical conclusion. Look around you and you’ll see a universe that seems to be focused on 1 thing: creation. Galaxies are creating stars, stars are creating heat and light and planets, planets are creating life, and life is creating more life. Beyond you specifically, creation seems to be the universal purpose of existence.
What do you want to use these powers for? What do you want to create? It is your decision, and only you can find out or know what it is specifically that you are being called to create in this life. Do you want to make shoes? Build houses? Paint, draw, color? Film documentaries? Write? Whatever it is, you must create something. If you don’t focus your conscious awareness through the lens of your mind and body to create something, to physically manifest something real and tangible on this planet, then you will inevitably end up where you were before. The creative energy inside each of us calls to be used, otherwise it stagnates.
We live in a physical world, and no matter our views on spirituality, we cannot ignore this fact. I believe spirit infuses everything, and that there are other universes and worlds that exist in other domains that we can call upon and experience ourselves at times. However, we were physically born into this world. Our domain is the physical. You could spend your life trying to escape this fact, meditating on mountainsides or caves, but you will not escape it. Not until the curtains roll up and the next world draws you beyond forever: death.
Conscious Creation: From Seed to Sustenance
Much better, I think, to find out what you want to create. Music? Is it pottery? Or woodworking? There are, of course, some things that all humans have in common in terms of purpose and creation: growing plants. A great place to start on your quest for what you want to create is plants. Flowers, roots, vegetables, trees. Plant a small garden bed, or plant an orchard. The process of tending plants and a garden is the single best recommendation I can make in this regard.
It is such a fulfilling process and has so many beneficial aspects built into it. Planning and hard work to prepare the area, love and intention to sow the seeds, and patience and gratitude while you wait for and finally receive the harvest. Beyond the personal growth aspects, it offers tangible rewards: food.
This food you grow yourself is not the same food you buy in the store. Remember the power of conscious intention from earlier—empowering the water we drink with our sincere belief that it is good for us. Imagine now this same process unfolding with a cucumber you planted. Preparing the garden bed while thinking of creating the perfect space for this plant. Holding the seed in your hand, planting it in the earth thinking of the cucumbers to come. Every day watering the plant, gently touching the leaves, loving it and the fruit it will bring. Seeing the beautiful yellow flowers and then finally the small cucumbers each day growing more, feeling the joy in your heart. Finally, the gratitude when you harvest them.
By the time you place that cucumber in your mouth, it has very little in common with the cucumbers you see in the store. Sure, it is green and round and long like they are, but beyond that, they are completely different. The effects they will have on your body will be completely different, and I do mean your body. There was a process unfolding between you and the cucumber. This cucumber will have unique effects on your body, and not others.
What are the unique effects? Science certainly has nothing to say here, at least not yet. Science cannot even explain the placebo effect, or why when some patients who have lost the will to live will die even when all else says they should recover. People die from sadness, but with joy and love they can survive any disease. Science today understands very little about what is actually happening in the world.
The cucumber might look the same on the outside, but it is entirely different internally. Why? Because cucumbers are not traditionally grown this way. If the humans that are tending most cucumbers have thoughts in their mind, they are not love and gratitude. They more likely thinking, “I hate this job,” or “I just want to get paid.” That is what you are eating when you consume most cucumbers, or any fruit or vegetable really. Maybe you think that the owner of the organic farm you get most of your produce from is a really nice guy with a beautiful vision, but is he the one planting the vegetables and tending the garden? Or is it hired workers that are simply working for money, very often underpaid and under appreciated.
The Highest Form of Creation
Let’s go even further. Let’s ask ourselves, what is the ultimate expression of creation for a human being? The answer is obvious: another human being. We humans sit at the end of a universal process of organization and creation. We are the highest form of evolution that we have ever encountered in the universe. Every new human is entirely unique, a first of its kind, slowly evolving over the ages. This process of each generation of life creating the next generation of life is exactly how we humans arrived here in the first place.
The logical conclusion is that the ultimate expression of our creativity as human beings is to continue this process, to create another human. More importantly, to specifically use our conscious awareness to do it consciously. So far we know of no other life-form that has the capacity for conscious awareness, let alone using it to consciously, with purpose and intention, create the next generation.
Think back to this process of planting and growing the cucumbers with conscious awareness. Imagine, for a moment, what this process would look like if it were used to create a human being with conscious awareness. Preparing the space, planting the seed, watering, and enjoying the fruit. Every step of the way, conscious intention is present, a vision of the future is held in the mind. Imagine what the human being that was birthed from this process could be.
Preparing the space alone is a massive undertaking. What should the environment look like for this human that we will create? Does it consist of a series of boxes from Ikea and an assortment of plastic gizmos and gadgets? I should think it would rather consist of plants, trees, and parents filled with love, passion and purpose. This helps explain why gardening is good for everyone: it readies them for the ultimate form of their creative urge, childbearing.
In every stage of this process of conscious conception, the vision of the child to come should be alive and present in both the parents. They should think about him, talk to her in their thoughts, see her in their mind. This level of focused, conscious awareness is paramount before the couple even begin to think about the next phase: planting the seed.
Before the seed is planted, we should consider the quality of this seed and the soil it shall be planted in. Men, ask yourselves what the quality of your semen is like when you eat fast food, inhale smoke into your lungs, sit on the couch all day watching tv, or suffer from chronic preventable disease? Women, what are the quality of your reproductive organs when you do the same? As a couple, imagine what you’d want to share with your future child about the love, care, and intention that went into their conception.
Was it a conception that resulted simply from carnal desire, from two people who simply didn’t consider that a child would result from their actions—even though it is abundantly clear and obvious that when semen enters a vagina, a child usually emerges 9 months later? Was it simply a night where dad forgot to pull out? Imagine the imprint this leaves on the seed that is planted in this way, and on the child that results from this.
Was it, instead, a conception that resulted from the careful planning and preparation of two loving parents who, having been envisioning and calling their child into being for quite some time, finally prepared the time and space to plant the man’s sacred seed into the woman’s fertile soil. During this night of conception, both man and woman came together to literally make love, to make physical their love in a co-creation, a child. From the moment they came together this night, up until the seed was planted, they thought only of the child to come. Imagine the imprint this leaves on the seed that is planted in this way, and the resulting child.
This is conscious conception, and it is without a doubt the ultimate expression of a human beings creative urge. Imagine a world where every child is conceived like this. A world where every human has an inner peace deep inside their being, knowing they were brought into a world where they were deeply desired. We can have that world. We can create it.
From Conscious Conception to Paradise
The vision for this world is the reason I choose to express my own creative urges in text and video to share with others. To create this world, we humans must change. All of us. Perhaps you didn’t consciously conceive your children, and that’s ok. Maybe the idea of this even brings an intense sadness to your heart, knowing what could have been. What is important, is this understanding of how things could be. That things can be different.
What typically happens in our society is a filtering of anything that might raise intense emotions or concerns over how we are living. People do not like to be confronted with painful thoughts, like maybe they are doing the wrong thing, or making bad decisions, or living in a way that promotes disease and illness. Doctors are not allowed in our polite society to tell their patients they are fat. Psychologists cannot tell a patient with depression to get up early and start exercising.
In our society, instead we must accept that everyone is different. Maybe someone’s body needs soda and hamburgers, and their natural state is obesity. Or other peoples minds are simply broken, and need pills to fix them so they can be happy. Their natural state necessitates their sedentary lifestyle and perpetual circadian dis-regulation. People do not want to take responsibility for their lives. It is uncomfortable to accept that they have made poor decisions for their entire life.
The only possible way to change the world in any meaningful way is by each individual human being taking personal responsibility for their entire lives and all the decisions they make. Every action (or inaction) they took, and all the resulting consequences of said actions. There is no other way.
If you didn’t choose to consciously conceive your children, then accept that responsibility. Then, in the future, choose differently. Maybe you will have other children, maybe not. Maybe your children will have children. And their children… We owe it to the future generations to break the cycle of mindlessness, walking through the world as simply a cog in someone else’s machine. To question everything. To use our ability to think logically and come to our own conclusions.
It is the responsibility of parents to fix the world we are bringing our children into. This is our task. Are you up for it? I am.
