Reality - Living an Illusion? (Part 1)

The answer is YES and NO.A world is a system of reality. Systems of reality
And as Lowell Thomas would say, "Here is the restexist within different dimensions as do other worlds,
of the story".but they do not necessarily have to. A system of
Since much of what I have been writing aboutreality is a plane existing in a dimension. Different
concerns "Reality", this seems to be a good time toplanes of reality can exist within one system of
try and clear up exactly what I am talking about andreality as in the leprechauns and fairies who shared
will be talking about in the future. There are manyour world in mythological history. There was a factual
others who have written about reality in countlessbasis for the stories of such little people lost in the
books and given in lectures, yet these attempts tomists of time. Of course they still exist but are rarely
tell you about what is usually fall short because theynoticed because we have trained and limited our
usually get lost in lofty rhetoric about a "walk softlyfields of perception so much that we are only
and speak quietly with an eternal smile on your face"perceiving a smidgen of what is available of these
kind of religious connotation that everyone inherentlyother planes existing within our own.
knows deep within themselves is just someConsciousness always seeks form and on achieving
"idealistic" non-realistic way of living an unfulfilling life.form it seeks to manifest itself further by combining
Some authors attempt to equate reality withwith other consciousness to achieve more complex
spirituality, leaving the impression that following someobjects, events and identities. Identity, once formed
exterior source, they will finally be qualified to live acannot be negated, diffused, diminished or
happy life and ascend into a mindless and purposelessextinguished. You are an IDENTITY. Consciousness
Heaven or Nirvana upon physical death.(identity) seeks to be known! Identity is restless and
Most people sense on other levels of their being thatnever still, it is always striving. There is an ever
achieving spiritual understanding has very little to dodriving ache within identity to combine and become
with the way you present yourself to the world. Itmore.
has a lot to do with how you think about that world.A world is purposeful, it has meaning and there is a
Religion has played a necessary role in at leastmeaning that is unique to our world, as it is to others.
acquainting us with the possibility that somethingWe are not alone.
exists after death. Religion has always been theOur system of reality is planet oriented, (we call it
constant reminder to humanity that there is anotherEarth) organized around a sensual experience of
world existing behind, under or invisibly in a dimensionseeming solidity manifested through atomic structure
we don't fully understand, but it just makes sense toand presented to our senses for interpretation as
us, and that is why religion has always been presentsolid, hard, concrete, full with no spaces.
in some form in all civilizations. Hidden within religionsBy inference, I am saying that solidity is the result of
faults, distortions and misconceptions, there is alwaysa sensual perception, a hypnotic kind of experience
hope, hope that we can and will live again. We don'tagreed upon by every living thing that lives on planet
know where, but somewhere?earth. What that means is that if we ALL agree in
The problem is that for centuries, the qualificationsadvance to the rules of the game, agreeing on a set
for achieving that peaceful and harmonious afterlifeof parameters for the game we play, the game
are so stringent that almost no one qualifies, andachieves validity and meaning for all players.
how could you expect to convince yourself that youOther parameters we have accepted and agreed on
were good enough to go to Heaven when you haveare gravity, time, spatial dimensions and many others.
been convinced that you were born a sinner withKeeping in the same train of thought, once the
only a dim hope of salvation, and you know whereparameters or rules of the game are agreed upon
sinners go. (smile)for any particular system of reality, these unique
Realities exist! Meaning there is more than onerules are set and become intractable. The thing that
system of reality. Actually they are countless.is important to understand, is that these rules
There are then, many systems of reality, somepertinent to our game, could and would be different
occupying planets or stars, some not). There arein other systems or dimensions. No system of reality
even realities that intersect with and move throughis duplicated anywhere in the universe.
our own world and not a tremor is felt. Physical, rockThe parameters define the world view and
solid, seemingly permanent worlds actually occupy noexperience and if they had been set differently, then
real space and can pass through one another withoutthe exact kind of solidity that we perceive now
notice. The properties of solidity only seems thatwould have been far different, and is far different in
way to our exterior tuned senses. A reality is manyother similar systems of reality. (other worlds). To
isolated, interconnected chemical, electromagnetic andsay that our world is an illusion, would be to say that
psychic fields of specifically oriented consciousnessit is not real, that it is a lie, an untruth. So there is a
coming together at a precise location in time andcontradiction here, or is there? There are countless
space to explore and understand certain specificworlds that are less solid than ours and some far
challenges that could be encountered in no otherdenser and their experience is not less in quality than
way.ours.