Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck

Do We Create Our Reality?

Recent discourse questions whether individual thoughts create reality, juxtaposing New Age claims with sociological critiques. The essay argues that while consciousness underlies existence, social structures, institutions, and cultural narratives largely shape personal psychology and behavior. It cites Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin to illustrate the reciprocal conditioning between people and their built environment, and highlights the Kogi’s indigenous cosmology as an alternative lens linking mind and earth. The piece warns that personal‑development movements that ignore systemic change risk perpetuating the very crises they aim to solve.