It has been known for thousands of years that man creates his own reality. That nothing ever happens to us by accident. Great minds like the Buddha and the Christ knew and taught this, though only a few people through the centuries have been able to gain empirical knowledge of such truths. One such man in our time has admitted this knowledge.

He is Dr Carl Jung, the world's most eminent psychotherapist. In the psychological commentary to the German translation of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', a Buddhist interpretation of the death experience, Jung writes:

"It is so much more straightforward, more dramatic, impressive, and therefore more convincing, to see that all things happen to me than to observe how I make them happen. Indeed, the animal nature of man makes him resist seeing himself as the maker of his circumstances."

Jung was very much aware of this power inherent within man that never allows him to be the victim of 'circumstances' but the creator of them. Further mention of this power by Jung appears in a letter he write to his friend, Sir Laurens Van der Post.

"I cannot define for you what God is. I can only tell you that my work as a natural scientist has shown empirically that the pattern which man calls "God" exists in every man, and has at its disposal the most transformative energies of life."

What is this pattern that man calls 'God'? Can we have direct, personal experience of it? We can and we do. What is the life energy that pumps your lungs so that you breathe? Where does it come from? And what creative energy grows the grass, the flowers, the trees? What is this creative energy that cannot be measured in a seed yet allows it to grow into a giant tree?

Even the seemingly inanimate rocks are vibrant with movement in the eternal dance of the molecules. An atom is a miniature galaxy. Electrons orbiting around a nucleus with space in between. The movement of the stars and planets have a mathematical precision which gives us the science of astronomy. Yet even within all this incredible order there is an allowance for the spontaneity of the individual components that go to make up the totality of our universe.

We rest within the miracle of life and we look outside our own being for signs that 'God' exists. It is, in fact your own being that best manifests the existence of that which man calls 'God' and it doesn't matter really what you call it, because until you have direct experience, you are only dealing with labels.