Guest Editorial: Life, politics and perception

& It is always said that we create our own reality. This is a commonly held belief among a large number of the world’s population. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who do not believe this because of the trials and tribulations they experience. This concept is controversial because there is so much suffering in the world and logic asks if we control our own destinies, why isn’t everyone rich; why are there poor, starving people; why do we have accidents; etc., etc.… The answer to these questions lies in personal perception and expectations. We actually influence what we see! We attract to ourselves whatever our background experiences, intelligence, gender and, most important, our expectations generate. The world does not appear to be the same to everyone. There are actually people who believe that the earth is flat! You can have 20 people in a room and stage an activity for them to assess, and at the culmination of the activity there will be at least 20 different opinions about what happened. Chiefly, life responds to our expectations and what we see. This is a concept that is being discovered in the relatively new science known...