The Answer

So, what is your answer to the question?

There's more than one, we discovered. (But then, we knew that all along.) Each one of us had a different answer.

Because the realisation that your life is your responsibility is simply too much of a burden?

(This is not intended as a reproach. Heck, life is complicated as it is, without having to bear the brunt of retrospective guilt for not having been a better "creator" when nobody taught you that you could be a creator in the first place!)

Or is it the vast ocean of apparent pointlessness that appears out of such an unfathomable possibility?

(Think about it: if we can experience anything we want... what is the point of all this?)

It's probably both: the concept of bearing responsibility for one's experience of life is a burden because of the apparent pointlessness of it all.

Here is where a transcendent - religious, if you will - mindset comes in handy and reveals its possible ultimate purpose; and positivist materialism, its limitations.

If you can conceive the idea that your experience, whatever you choose it to be, from the moment of Awareness on, is the experience of God - through one of Its facets (just one but no less important than any of the others, being, as it is, the Whole and a Part, all at the same time) - and if you are aware that being the Whole and yet still a Part (the part revealed to yourself for the time being) there might be a final, all-revealing answer to it all - then you'll probably see that your experience of life, even if you don't understand it or its purpose, if any, isn't irrelevant and unimportant, isn't pointless.

What's tragic - but perhaps also an inevitable part of the journey - is that so many people who'll read this will protest against this apparent denial of "God's master plan", without realising that they themselves are, inevitably, the planners and executors of that "master plan".

Oh, I believe there might be a "higher" predetermined set of circumstances into which you are born and over which you exert little or no control - until the advent of the moment of Awareness: that is, until the moment when you become aware that you have the power to transfigure the mirror of Reality.

"Divine imagining and human imagining are not two powers at all, rather one," said Neville Goddard (among countless others).

Think about it.

We will, too.

(And there will be inevitable edits to this writ, as there always are.)

Meanwhile, there's something closely related to this post you might want to read:

The Substance of Things Hoped For

When you're done, you might also want to read this.

Oh, and one more thing: if you're serious about trying to live like this, then predictive astrology (i.e. forecasts) - and anything that presupposes predetermined forces stronger than you - should be out of your life.

That's probably why all major religions forbid astrology. It makes sense; you really can't have it both ways. You cannot be the master and the puppet at the same time.