Who or what creates that which we perceive and feel as reality? Who or what determines our fate? Is there such thing as random chance? What are the deeper causes of happiness and unhappiness? The book "The Making of Reality – How Consciousness Creates the World" offers a daring answer to these questions. In accessible and engaging language, Jörg Starkmuth presents a world view that reconciles the fundamentals of modern physics with findings of parapsychology and happiness research, human experience and spiritual traditions. The book's premise: There is no "objective reality". We all create our own version of life out of an unlimited, multi-dimensional possibility realm. And we are not alone in this, but "conspire" together as aspects of a universal consciousness, in whose ongoing creation we actively participate. Thus we have a far greater influence on the things that apparently "happen" to us than we think. But due to patterns of belief hardwired into our brains over eons of evolution, we find it hard to harness this influence. By explaining how to circumvent these thought traps, and by suggesting alternative ways of understanding how we effect our life experience, this book details how each of us can finally arrive at a contented reality built on universal values and personal responsibility.