Do You Prefers Illusion to Reality ? WHAT SAY YOU ALL?

Question

The ever-presence of God is all around us, yet we do not always see Him.

When our egos do sense His presence, His Truth is felt as anxiety, fear and guilt, a reality we are too ashamed to face.
Escaping, we reach for the security of our culture-hypnotics; friends, pleasure, church, music, drug, drink.

What are we really doing when we are escaping like this ?

Are we not escaping from the ever-presence informing reality, the Truth who is trying to set you free?

You see, our vanity does not allow us to be still and know this truth, for then we would become aware of the folly of pride, of what failures we have become at the hands of our lovers, leaders and problem-solvers.

Do you think its time to wake up from your illusion to Reality, now?

What say you all?

QuietNew..thats is precisely what I am seeking here by posting all this Questions. I want to find my own kind is certainly my intent. As to all those animosity that the question arouse are just incidental and not the objective. I often ignore than but from time to time when they try to assassinate my character or project their lies onto me , I may or may not choose to reply. Yes. I am looking for my own kind. Are you?

I usually posts my Question under R&S but by mistake some of them slipped in here.
Psychology is really to my mind ; a waste of precious time. Seeking knowledge doesn't help people but truth certainly does. Not meant to offend anyone here - just happen to be visiting. Will I see you at R&S section?

Answer 1

We all get there in our own time.
If you are used to reality, then your view of the world is only realistic, so many people who cannot see the world the way you do is totally put off by your "attitude" and "negativity". All that will be because you do not speak the "fake" or "plastic world" talk.

So, find people who think like you, and you will be a bit happier. Don't try to preach, and don't try to convert. Just leave others be the way they are. Different folks, different strokes.

Answer 2

The illusion of wealth creates Greed another illusion. Time to wake up from this one. There is belief in God there is belief in Greed the two walk hand in hand but in wars God is on the lips of Men as they war but as they kill they think of wealth. An Atheist questions both but concentrates on only one. Greed cannot be seen as an illusion unless a religion as The Atheist concentrates on just one and not both at same time. Dual Belief God,Greed.

Answer 3

You are skiing downhill, picking up speed. Ahead is a forest of big trees and boulders.
Do you depend on "God" to guide you through the forest, or do you slow down, maybe stop and pick your own way through?
Or do you pick your own way through and think of God when you are on the other side skiing blissfully down the trail again?

I do agree with Mr Psycodelic, that "God" is all around, in and through us. Maybe God is the duality, the male/female concept, the wave/particle concept, the negative/positive concept that animates the universe? But waht about other universes...?

Answer 4

Maybe you cannot see 'god', because you are spiritually blind. God is all around us....God is in the space between us. God is in the table in front of you. God is everything and everywhere and everyone. I define god as the transcendent energy in which all in existence comes from...there must be one energy that has always been. In the end all is really one..the 'self' is just illusion. I was once an atheist...but psychedelics opened my mind up to infinite possibilities

Answer 5

Reality.

Answer 6

My dear friend, we are in a delusion from dawn to dusk and day to night.

Have you ever seen earth revolving around the sun or have you seen only sun traveling or moving from east to west? Day after day.

Have you ever seen the stars moving like our sun and other planets do or you see it stationary and fixed in the night sky? Night after night.

Aren't you under illusion that what you see is what you see?

Answer 7

I much prefer reality. The illusion of god has no place in a thinking person's life.

Answer 8

Perception is at the base of your positings.

Hence, without miracles, only the sign of Jonah.

It is not necessarily illusory to perceive Matter.

It is illusory or illogical to deny further possibilities beyond material 5-sense data streaming.

In the 20th century, science and religion have moved toward eliminating dualism of Mind, God, and mind/matter.

This through a two-phase process: establishing without doubt various distinct state-specific consciousnesses; second, finding coherency in awareness, in some of those states, able to move over distances, accurately find specific data, contact Beings, and suchlike. This constitutes observer evidence for Beings, other planes, soul, etc.

http://www.tiller.org and http://www.integralscience.org are examples of the first phase. The second phase is more diffuse in terms of books written, so one has to find experiments and examples in the literature. An example is the California police commissioner's data-gathering referenced in "Penetration," Ingo Swann.

In terms of Self-evident experience, this is demonstrated per such studies as the eeg studies of TIbetan Buddhist insight meditators, who quickly move into high gamma wave states after beginning their protocol. Such wave types are otherwise associated with peak creative awareness. To parse these state-specificities only with 5-sense beta wave mentation is to make a category error, if the thinkers are presuming to include such other demonstrable states in their specific mode of consciousness. Accurate information from Dakini Bodhisattvas is part of the insight meditation state, for example, and such interpersonal "I-Thou"ness is unknown to reductionist mentation.

The perception at the base of your (or anyone's) positings may be correct, or it may be inaccurate to some degree. This is the case with all "phase two" assertions of "Being," i.e., the claiming beyond the noting state-specificities with eeg and other recording devices, and the moving into accurate types of information-gathering, which prove to scientists the field coherency, efficacy, and "Being" of the claimed state-specificities which are beyond mere reductionist mentalism.

"Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams," psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi, "Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer, "Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D., and "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, are examples of the "second phase" proof level.

For a "believer" such as yourself, a kind of "George Washington" who "holds these truths to be Self-evident," your credibility may be evident to those whose perceptions are clear and accurate. However, for materialists and scientists, it is helpful to have both the eeg and other "proof positive" of state-specificities, and the "reliable miracles" of accurate data retrieval per out-of-body, remote viewing, time travel, etc. activities, all of which are well-documented in the literature.

Somewhat ironically, some of the better, less-prejudiced, scientific documentations of such "second phase" activities are to be found in the PRC, e.g. Dr. Chang's work ("Biophotons," Chang, Fisch, and Popp), and that documented in Paul Dong's "China's Super Psychics."

cordially,

j.

Answer 9

The happiest I've ever been was merely an illusion!

Answer 10

When one is in reality, there is no god.