ILLusion-Real eyes, Realize, Real Lies
Einstein said « Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. » The philosophy and literature evoked exactly the same principle of illusion by different ways the myth of Plato’s cave (we only see projected shadows of ourselves) or “Life Is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Simulacron3 (which inspires largely Matrix)…etc.
The Hindus use the word “Mayas” to talk about our reality which means literally “illusion”.
Science, art, and spirituality are on the same page at this level to read the Great book of life in between lines.
In which extent? Let’s try to expend the limits of our perception.
Our world is based on the theory of relativity (established by Einstein) implying that everything is subjective, depending on our point of view and corresponds to the interaction between things.
We are conditioned since our childhood to consider as real the materiality and we based our modern “civilization” on a materialistic society.
However, Einstein declared “What we have called ‘matter’ is energy, the vibration of which has been greatly reduced in order to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
Our physical world represents only 4% of our reality, 27% is made of dark matter (that we cannot see) and 69% of dark energy (invisible for us).
Our universe is made of 99.99% of “empty space”.
Nevertheless, Einstein said « Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended (as fields). In this way, the concept ‘empty space‘ loses its meaning”.
Each second our brain can analyze 2,000 bites of info on 400 million we have in front of us, we are blind or for the most so-called “awakened” we see through a keyhole.
The visible spectrum of light is a tiny part of the big picture, we can only see a certain wavelength from red to blue (the 7 colors of the rainbow, 7 chakras, and 7 notes of music).
The vision of you and your dog are different but the “reality” does not change.
If you were watching reality through an infra-red mask or a scan, this porn movie would still turn you on? Does reality change?
All that you see is just retransmitted in your brain through neuronal connections. All our 5 senses are purely electric signals sent to your brain. Our thoughts are just representing the subway, the metro referring to a special location looking out onto special monuments of your city.
Our reality by conceiving that our consciousness receives, via the filter of the brain, a flow of information which it transforms by its vibrations in sensations of matter, space and time which flows.
But where does this flow come from?
The 5 senses can be recreated by a simulator but also just by activating your memories, a sound through a long wave. These are only electric copies of the observed matter.
What you perceive with your senses are encoded at the back of your brain. The pictures you think you see are pure information transmitted to your eyes through the photons given to this part of the back your brain to transcript the image in 3 dimensions as a hologram.
All the senses are just subjective. Sing a song in your head, you create artificially the wavelength that the music generates and which is measurable in Hertz. Try to shout in your head, the notion of decibels can ben also reactivated. If I put a fake hand beside yours and I cut it with a knife, you will feel a few seconds a pain.
The brain does not see the difference between the “reality” and virtual reality. When the first cinema opened, in this first movie there was a train, once it appeared all the people started to shout and fade away as they thought they will be injured. In the 3D cinema nowadays, we can have a reflex to chase a spider which would come too close to us even if we know it is just a movie. Even for feelings, two persons are watching a soap on TV Samantha who follows for 10 years is upset and start to talk “such a mother F. this John, he cheated this lovely Angela, he does not deserve her”. Her husband a bit detached looks at her “calm down it is just a soap, it is a fiction”. Who never cried by watching a sad movie? This is what we call the “mirror neurons”.
When you read this article in your room. Realize that it is more the room which is inside you. When you observe the stars, you reactivate the electric signals “in your brain”, they are within you. And even that, it is also an illusion to believe your thoughts are in your head. Believing that, would be like believing that the band with tiny little human beings are playing a song when you listen to music on the radio with an electronic device J. Just one thing, in your brain, there is never any image or light… pure data encoded and transcribed into holograms.
What are memories? Illusion too? Actually, we match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning. When the Native American Indians saw Columbus’ ships approaching the coast, they could not see them as it was something completely different from what they saw before. Why? Because they had no knowledge of any experience of their existence. The shaman (intercessor with the invisible worlds) remarked there were ripples at the surface of the ocean and step by step the image of the ships appears in his mind as he encoded the received information as a higher level of consciousness. Thus he deciphered these data allowing to become real for the community. Indeed once he saw them he described them to the tribe who trusted him and did the neuronal connections internally.
Who knows if it is not the same nowadays or these last decades with Aliens/spirits or even forever?
Rumi the great Sufi said wisely “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
Let’s take a Rubik’s Cube: which is its color?
If you look at your face you will tell me it is blue, and I will reply “no it is yellow” and a third observer will say “guys you are wrong it is green”… The Rubik’s Cube should be perceived with a holistic vision (“holos” meaning global in Greek) with an overview, not a dualist or skewed Manichean perception.
Take a look on Einstein’s face even if you understand the principle,
Your mind will be trapped after a while especially in motion:
Actually, the reality would be comparable to an infinite Kaleidoscope which Jules Verne alluded in of his remarkable books. This is the concept of the holographic fractal world presented in the sacred Hindu Holy Scriptures (Veda) for more than 5 millenniums through the metaphor of Indra’s net:
And obviously, this vision is perfectly represented by the universal greatest symbol of the flower of life (showing the entanglement and the interconnection of the reality) allowing to understand or “innerstand” the principle of “fragmented Oneness” (that the Buddhist call Samadhi):
Erwin Schrödinger (the great scientist personally inspired by the Asian wisdom: Veda…) said wisely The multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind. … is mere appearance (maya)’, in reality, they are all only aspects of the one being [….] Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
The universe seems to stand for a hologram, to make it simple, there would be a double reality one is three dimensional as we see it but which is at the origins of the bidimensional reality. If you throw an object in a black hole, the 3D object disappears but the info of it bidimensional remains around the black hole. It means we could in a certain way recreate it.
At the quantic level (at microcosmic scale), the Young double slit experience shows that the reality is shaped by the observation. Either reality corresponds to a wave of potential (the unified field, the vacuum, emptiness, dark energy, invisible to our eyes) either it is a particle once we observe it. If we use a metaphor taking back the image of Rubik’s Cube it would be one state and the wave of potentials the unified field would be something like a Rubik’s Cube in motion:
The object, the subject, and the observation are in fact not 3 fragmented pieces but the whole of a masterpiece that we call life. That’s why Einstein by provocation in an amazing discussion with Togore the great Indian philosopher and mystic (here is the link of the complete discussion) https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/) launched “I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.”
The only point he did not take into account was the collective observation.
Let’s keep on digging by analyzing the notion of Space-time. Einstein said, “The distinction in between the past, the present and the future is only an illusion although persistent”.
Actually, to make it simple, the present would be basically only the filter (of one scenario among an infinity) linked to the consciousness and more precisely at a state of the (individual) consciousness thereby the multiverse would correspond to The Consciousness in the absolute.
We receive 24 pictures per second creating the illusion of movement.
These 24 dominos of one special scenario of one of your life seem to fall down activating a motion. But in reality as I love to say it “all exists already and at the same time all ready to exist”. There are infinite superpositions of ways of scenarios of the dominos.
We just project ourselves (our consciousness) on the frequencies of the reality we vibrate. That is why Einstein said so deeply “Everything is energy and that’s all. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you will not be able to stop getting it. It can not be otherwise. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
I even not evoked this illusionary and skewed system of time we have on our planet. In between Juneau in Alaska and Auckland in New Zealand, there are 20 hours difference officially but also un-officially only 4hours. There is a line in the Pacific ocean of 1meter separating 24hours which is a total no-sense. What time is it on the moon? J
Thibault Damour one of the greatest French scientist (primed at the academic of Science) said
“Modern physics, after all, tells us that death is an illusion because time is an illusion”[…] “the notion of reality is in fact created by the human mind that creates order in the universe around it and it is the human mind and physics in particular that defines the reality and not the opposite.”
But let’s be more down to earth with a more innocent and subjective perception of the illusionary reality. When I was young I invented a story actually I was dreaming to be a storyteller… is it a real story? “Once happened a time there was a very rich, smart and happy king in appearance who was convinced he was poor, misfortunate and thereby he was depressed. At the other part of the small ball that one calls the planet, there was a very poor, simple and miserable vagabond who thought he was rich, clever and always happy.
Everybody was laughing at both of them… but the real joke was that there were shifting all the times their lives”. What was real in this story? The mockers? The king? The vagabond?… None of them, all of them…? J
Joke aside more “seriously” if I can afford let’s take a look on our economic system. Just 2 key points for which no need to be a great Ph.D. in Finance to understand it is based on an illusion and the force that people trust it and believe it and/or ignore it. 1-the physical money does not exist, only 5% of the money is physical, the rest is just some figure on computers and the trust we have in it. 2-the total worldwide debt on the planet corresponds to 225% of the real value. The planetary debit equals to 225% of the total GDP on earth. It means that we consume more than double without having it. You earn 1,000$ per month but you spend 2250$ every month.
“It is fortunate that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, because if that were the case, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford (1863-1947).
No need also to precise that language reinforces the illusion of the reality, if you see the holy scriptures with sometimes some impossibilities to transcript the translation, word plays, the context and also basically because the comprehension of these texts is at the level of awakening of the mankind.
I would like to conclude with this long and deep quote of Einstein who said: “The human being is part of a whole that we call the universe, a part that has its limits in time and space. We experience ourselves, with our thoughts, our feelings, our perceptions, as if we are a separate entity and separate from the rest. But this is an optical illusion of consciousness and this illusion becomes our prison. We build a reality in which we include, through our perceptions, our desires, and feelings, only ourselves, the beings and places that are close to us. Our task as human beings is to liberate ourselves from this prison and expand our circle to infinity to include, in love and compassion, all beings, nature and the universe in all its beauty. The true value of a human being is measured by his ability to free himself from his limits and to live the totality, the infinite, unlimited value of Being. If humanity wants to survive, a radically new way of being and thinking is needed. “
Apocalypse means in Greek “the lift of the veil”, “unveil” like taking out the filters which obstruct our reality like even inwardly with our personality (persona in Greek meaning “masks” corresponding to all our educative, social, environmental filters…) and outwardly being aware of this illusion.
No need to try to find the source of the illusion which comes essentially from our mind. The outcome is to get back to The Source and the key pieces of advice would be the following:
- To apply a holistic approach: an overview, the big picture to all situation and analysis
- To be aware of this illusion is the first step to be less and less dependent on it
- To apply empathy with people, projecting ourselves into the integrated system of the other
- To be hyper-connected to our senses and able also to disconnect of them to activate your 6thsense and enlarge your states of consciousness
- To be detached of the mindfulness sometimes: the experience of the nothingness, the emptiness, vacuum (the unified field)
- To be detached of this reality with Lightness and an inner child vision… Osho said wisely” “Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke – and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation, something starts changing in you.”
And if I can afford to quote my favorite philosopher The Little Prince “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
In Shambali you will experience in many ways and will receive a lot of tools to enlarge your perspectives of your reality to be aware. It will facilitate your infinite process of awakening through your endless inner journey. Thanks to that, progressively your vision of reality will change in your daily life allowing you to expand your horizon.
Issa ~ AM
