The illusory perception of oneself and others

As the Masters have taught us, the life we ​​spend in the physical world at each incarnation is woven of illusion.
The forms that our senses perceive are illusion and the qualities that distinguish them, since they are directly subjected to our perceptive possibilities.

Their delusion is scientifically proven: using the tools offered by science to enhance and expand the perception capabilities of the human being, reality completely changes aspects and perspectives, unraveling complex forms into a set of increasingly smaller forms, with a very different appearance from the forms that our simple senses build, and I would almost say "hypothesize", within our minds.

But our living in illusion is, for us, even wider and heavier with consequences when we no longer observe the illusion connected to the perception of matter, but the one that covers our personal way of living the physical reality in which we are. immersed, carrying it within us and leading us to create within ourselves illusory and transitory images of what we live.

From the meeting / clash of ours Io Consequently, with the experiences we have to face, a whole complex of illusions arises that weave and condition, sometimes negatively, sometimes positively, our personal way of living and facing life.

How could all this be different, since the substratum that holds the castle of our existence is the ego, the illusory creature par excellence, which arises from our needs for understanding and our relentless need to acquire those small or large crumbs of feel which, alone, can lead each of us to come into contact, to recognize, to identify oneself to an ever greater and more complete extent with what is Reality?

Our interiority as embodied individuals is, therefore, studded with illusions.
The other individuals who accompany us along our incarnational path are practically never perceived by us in their Reality: we perceive of others what our ego most easily encodes, that is, the aspects that seem to support the conception that it has of sé or those who seem to differ, if not in ferocious opposition, from what are his desires, his expectations and even his hopes.

Others are never truly as we picture them, and it cannot be otherwise: their interiority, their feeling, certainly cannot be clear to us in a limpid and unequivocal way, since we do not know their evolutionary path, the fractions of feeling they have acquired, and the evolutionary needs that condition their action in the face of the experiences of life. Thus, our ego can do nothing but create an illusory image of others, built essentially on what are his needs, which can not be anything else, after all, that something far from the reality of what other individuals really are and what really supports their personal way of relating with the reality of life.

E no less illusory can obviously be the image we create of ourselves, a kind of schizophrenic representation of ours expectations, of ours hopes, of our suppositories quality moral but also ours fears, of our standing up as Judges not only of others but also of ourselves, of our attempt to avoid or hide from our eyes even what is most evident and glaring in the constant and useless attempt to escape the suffering that, recognizing our limits, or those of the people we are convinced that we love, it would lead us to have to face them and, even if reluctantly, to accept them and get over it.

All this makes our living life right from the start a complex illusory intertwining that often chains us and leads us to undertake actions and reactions which, not having a basis of reality - in the truest sense of the term - ends up having the only result of bringing us to the opposite of what our ego tries to achieve, making in the suffering that follows the fall of some veil of illusion is definitive, even more painful and difficult to recognize and accept.

Of course, in the economy and in the equilibrium of Reality and its evolutionary processes, illusion is indispensable, it is inevitable and, ultimately, necessary and even indispensable to provide us with the impetus towards understanding and an ever wider feeling.
However, it is undeniable that, for those immersed in matter in the short incarnation path that acts as a basis and a stimulus for the broadening of the individual's consciousness, the illusion appears as a looming wall, often apparently insurmountable if not paying the price of a enormous inner suffering.

What, then, can be done to make the interference of illusion less burdensome in our life?
My brothers, I have only one piece of advice to give you, the fruit of my personal encounter and confrontation with illusion in the course of the many lifetimes I have gone through: be careful not to add illusion to illusion, stay awake. so that you do not deliberately take your eyes off what would be evident, clear and unquestionably real if you did not refuse to see it, overlapping with the desperate will not to accept your reality or that of others, a further superstructure of illusion on what is already an illusion in itself.

How many times, in the moment in which the illusions that we have deliberately created for ourselves have miserably collapsed in the face of the now undeniable reality of the facts, we have been overwhelmed by the most acute suffering, by the most bitter despair, even by anger and rancor full of hatred ?
Do not leave alive the possibility of reaching these excesses that can only create further suffering and the birth of further defensive illusions erected by the ego, which would end up adding, in a devastating way, suffering to suffering.

Makeobjectivity your purpose, of the sincerity with yourself your weapon, of theacceptance also of what you are not satisfied with is the tool with which you examine your relationship with the reality you are facing.

In this way you will certainly not be able to eliminate the illusion from your life, since it is based on it, but, at the very least, you will be able to make this illusion less burdensome with suffering and, as such, simpler and less painful. to deal with. fabius

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