Among the most difficult points of our teaching to accept, one of the most difficult is undoubtedly the concept of illusion.
We tell you, in fact, that even only starting from your physical plane, from the physical matter in which you are immersed as awareness, you are in reality subject to illusion; and to such an illusion that nothing (or almost nothing) of what you observe around you is as you perceive it. And, to give examples to this type of reasoning, we have tried to make you understand how matter is always in motion, even what is apparently, in a permanent way, fixed.
On the other hand, there is nothing new in what has been said: it is enough to take any text on chemistry and physics to discover that, in fact, even a piece of lead which according to the individual observing it is perfectly immobile and still, inert, in reality, it is composed of moving matter.
But the illusion - we say - goes much further: the illusion reaches such a point that even what you experience in everyday moments is not what you seem to have experienced.
Without a doubt you, thinking of any day that you have lived, are one hundred percent certain that such an event has happened to you in a certain way.
But you can be sure that if you questioned the other possible witnesses of that event, their versions would be in part - or even totally - different from yours, and here it is not a question of understanding if you are right or if the others are right, but it is a question of understanding that if the same event - real in the physical world - appears different to different people, this means that at least a good part of what these people experienced was an illusion for them.
And if it was, for a good part io I say, why not think that it really was so that none of the people present at the event really, objectively, saw what happened?
In a nutshell: even experiences, everyday events are for the individual a source of illusion, as mediated by his physical perception, his sensory and emotional perception and his capacity for perception, analysis and mental synthesis.
And since these characteristics are different from individual to individual, clearly reality is perceived differently from individual to individual.
This, if you think about it, is nothing more than to say that each individual lives his own illusory reality! Scifo
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The sky is clear and the sun is shining. The mind labels it as a beautiful day. What is illusion, what is reality? The color of the sky that my eyes and my brain perceive are definitely an illusion, subjective. I will never know how exactly it is perceived by those who simultaneously look at it with me, even if we agree in defining it as blue and clear. Is it correct to say that reality is that physical matter that manifests itself in the sky and the vibration before it sustains it?
x Paul
"Is it correct to say that reality is that physical matter that manifests itself in the sky and the vibration before it sustains it?"
I must say that I find it hard to understand what you mean ... can you clarify better?
The question is not clear to me either. I find the theme interesting. Personally knowing that reality is perceived in a subjective way, therefore not real in fact, helps me to take life with a little more lightness. At least not to take me too seriously. Being able to leave a space for doubt, in which the other can enter and bring me the vision of him makes me understand how difficult it is to see the facts for what they are and how much our mental and emotional add.
In my view, Paul, if there is reality, it is only what you express in your question: there is raw material that manifests itself, then there is the subjective perception of it.
Appearance known but not easy to understand, thanks for having brought it back.
It seemed to me that the discourse on the subjectivity of reality went well beyond the subjective perception of an objective reality that exists but each grasps in a different way. So far I get there. It is different, however, when I hear that there is no objective reality, of which at least something is shared.