Do thoughts Create Reality? Should we simply think Unity into being? Do we have that sort of control over what happens?

Quantum physiscist Alan Wolf, warns against such wishful thinking in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMr7Z_f0jM 

Try putting the idea that `thoughts create reality` to the test.  What did you want?  Did you get what you wanted the way you wanted it (if at all) every single time?

I tried it - and I did not win the Reader`s Digest Sweepstakes.  I tried it and the photo of the cute little house I wanted to own has remained on the corkboard for 10 years and counting. It has become a reminder to me now that I am NOT in control.

Getting back to the idea of unity, is it really enough for us to sit here, watch all the movies about unity, talk about unity, and read about unity and think about unity?  Obviously not because unity has been the desire of families worldwide and yet families still fall apart. The families that stay together are the ones that not only intend to remain intact, they somehow work at it and put in effort to remember birthdays, plan for time together, agree to disagree and they often discipline dissenters for the sake of family unity. There is a `doing`. The thoughts we have are the motivation behind the action and their consistency (or lack of) can indicate the strength of effort that we want to put in to realizing those thoughts. But even "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMr7Z_f0jM