Mike Faff ~ Living in the Illusion

What if nothing you experience is the truth? The truth is very elusive in the illusion. You might say, “When you find the truth, you have found reality.” However, just when you think you have grasped the truth in your hands, it slips through your fingers like water and disappears again, and so does reality.

All that is experienced in the egoic world is the illusion. Although, because of our programming, we believe it is the truth and reality. The illusion is not nothing. There is something there. But it is not what you think it is, and that makes it an illusion. The illusion is magnificent. It is difficult to see until you scratch the surface and realize how thin the veil covering it is.

Here is the point. If you believe that what you experience is reality, you will never scratch its surface, and never ‘see’ the illusion. You cannot experience what you don’t believe is there to experience.

The wisdom in A Course in Miracles: “It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally impossible to see what you do not believe.” (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/151#1:1 | T-11.VI.1:1)

Your beliefs are very powerful. What you believe determines your world and the quality of your life. Any change you make will be because you changed some belief. You do not change because you have found the truth. You change because you believe that you have found the truth. Notice the subtle difference here.

In the illusion, you ‘see’ or experience nothing as it is, the thing-in-itself. You must always experience your world as constructed through your ‘lens of perception.’ You never experience the thing-in-itself. Since you experience nothing as it is, whatever you experience can’t be what you think you are experiencing.

This will seem so convoluted. But please keep in mind that everything is an interpretation of the mind, filtered through your lens of perception. As your lens of perception shifts and changes, so too will you interpret your world into existence differently. The Third Hermetic Principle for Self-Mastery, The Principle of Vibration: “Nothing rests; Everything moves; Everything vibrates.” (https://medium.com/the-mission/the-hermetic-revival-7-ancient-principles-for-self-mastery-9399e523648d). Nothing is ever the same in the next now moment.

There can be no fixed reality in the illusion. We each create our own reality on the fly. It is based on our lens of perception in the now moment. Then it is gone into the next moment, and no two moments will ever be the same. They seem to be close, but never the same.

Conclusion: There is no reality in the illusion – Period, that’s it. What you believe is reality is a map of the territory, but it’s not the territory. Now, you can follow the map to navigate the territory. Just be aware that you do not mistake the map for the territory.

Oh, there is much to talk about here in the illusion.

Peace.

Mike