Rosi Goldsmith

This book is an investigation into the observation that we create the world we know by our beliefs and attitudes, as well as by the social codes and conventions that we absorb from our culture. Part of developing the ability to have new experiences of realms beyond ordinary senses is overcoming our limiting beliefs. This requires an acknowledgment of how, for example, our acceptance of our culture's attitudes towards nature limits our choices of what we can experience. The awareness that we create our experiences is also vital to assuming the role of conscious co-creator. Bruteau makes a solid and detailed case for this awareness, in a book written to the high standards of the academic world. At the same time, she holds to a spiritual tradition, rooted in Christianity and influenced by Theosophical and Vedic teachings. "...Because these beliefs, and their subsequent "observations", are unquestioned, and to this degree unconscious, the world we actually live in is structured according to their pattern. People sincerely perceive themselves and others in the social perspectives laid out for them..."