2007-07-23 14:41:37 · 7 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have you read Jay Ingram's "theatre of the mind"? --you might find it interesting...it's all about consciousness...seriously.
2007-07-23 19:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Self is real; everything else may indeed be illusion. It resides only lightly in the brain and the rest of the human body, but can leave it for short periods and still come back, or leave it for good if the body is worn out or damaged beyond repair.
In some sense, this is the human soul we are talking about, although I believe it exists in a higher plane where it inhabits and/or controls and/or possesses quite a few bodies at a time. Or across or beyond time. And at higher levels still, is identical to the One: the "I am that I am."
2007-07-23 15:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The real self resides in eternity beyond time and space, the self most seem to think they are is actually the enlightenment of the one true self. Enjoy!
2007-07-23 14:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an illusion, but does that make it any less real? :P It resides in your head and your mother and father caused it.
2007-07-23 14:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Joe S. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Self is certainly real... don't confuse yourself by getting lost on a philosophical merry-go-round. Let the easy answers remain easy. You reside in you and I reside in me...
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2007-07-23 15:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's real, and it's the sum total of all our thoughts and feelings, just as an orange is real, and it is the sum total of all the atoms and molecules within it.
2007-07-23 14:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all but figments of the imagination of the Almighty.
2007-07-23 14:48:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋