@Lost phil,
That's certainly an interesting outlook on life. Of course, I wouldn't know how to manipulate the world, I'm only 16. Our actions of course have outcomes that change the world, but you're talking about something different. Like when we dream: Sometimes we feel that we are watching a movie, and other times we are in complete and total conscious control of everything that occurs. But... unfortunately this world isn't a dream. Though the two of us may be connected (as many physics hypotheses attempt to prove), we are at the same time two separate individuals with an equal level of conscious influence on our world. To you, you are the world, as am I to me. And my mother to her. We are in her world, but because she cannot feel our consciousness, our being, and our thoughts as we can, she may believe that she is the only
real one. Just as you do, or even I do at times. We can't feel each other's consciousnesses but we have to realize that they do exist.
I know that wasn't exactly the answer you were looking for, you wanted to know how to consciously take control of the universe and everything in it. I just wanted to give you my take. But hey, anything's possible right?
P.S. Just to clarify--I wrote this response, not you. Me. ^_^ Ok, thanks, hope it helped.