All our experiences—all our perceptions, sensations, dreams, thoughts and feelings—are forms appearing in consciousness. It doesn't always seem that way. When I see a tree it seems as if I am seeing the tree directly. But science tells us something completely different is happening. Light entering the eye triggers chemical reactions in the retina, these produce electro-chemical impulses which travel along nerve fibers to the brain. The brain analyses the data it receives, and then creates its own picture of what is out there. I then have the experience of seeing a tree. But what I am actually experiencing is not the tree itself, only the image that appears in the mind. This is true of everything I experience. Everything we know, perceive, and imagine, every color, sound, sensation, every thought and every feeling, is a form appearing in the mind. It is all an in-forming of consciousness.
It is sometimes said that our image of reality is an illusion, but that is misleading. It may all be an appearance in the mind, but it is nonetheless real—the only reality we ever know. The illusion comes when we confuse the reality we experience with the physical reality, the thing-in-itself. The Vedantic philosophers of ancient India spoke of this confusion as maya. Often translated as "illusion" (a false perception of the world), maya is better interpreted as "delusion" (a false belief about the world). We suffer a delusion when we believe the images in our minds are the external world. We deceive ourselves when we think that the tree we see is the tree itself.
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No. the question is,
how can you not believe.
"I don't BELEIVE that the billiard ball I see is the billiard ball itself"
I want to understand, how you can not believe a concept that you have created.
And verbalized.
Your conscious mind may not believe it, but your unconscious mind disagrees.
it recognizes the potential of its existance
It even saw fit to emphasize the word BELIEVE.
Instead of don't.
You can conceptualize something as much as you please.
the proof of it however, is in the living of it.
it is only through living a concept that you can solve the paradox that the concept is meant to solve.
And the living of it must occur in the heart.
Believe a concept? if you like.
The question, however remains.
How can you not believe?
How can you describe the existence of something, and then deny its potential?
You have described the existence of this potential.
"the billiard ball I see is the billiard ball itself"
And then prefaced it with this statement
"I don't BELEIVE that"
Belief is not a by product of a dichotomy.
Dichotomies are created the moment you choose to believe something is true. And therefore the other thing is not.
You are creating a dichotomy by precluding the above potential from the following reality that you choose to believe....
"I CONCEIVE the billiard ball itself as the billiard ball I see"
Neither is part of your truth as yet.
Because truth encompasses all potentials.
I used to believe the concept that the infinite universe we exist in contains all conceivable, and yet to be conceived potentials, be they concepts, or manifest in form.
the fact that I used to believe this did not make it my truth, or falsehood.
Just my belief.
truth is reserved for that which the mind believes, And the heart absolutely, unwaveringly, concurs with.
So now, as a result of further life experience the statement,
the infinite universe we exist in contains all conceivable, and yet to be conceived potentials, be they concepts, or manifest in form.
now forms part of my truth.
Ah, the age old endless ring around the rosy, pocket full of poesy’s. the endless bubble’s in a bubble.
The word ‘but” and all the little bubbles it blow can never see the very bubble its in.
What I do not understand is for all of eternity the human mind still denies anything outside of itself.. The term “not of this world” not in this bubble, not of any definition or concept of this world, will a human ever bring into reality, something that is not of it….”But” no there is no but in not of this world but in it.
Trying to label this,, that witch we truly are spirit, not flesh, or thinking or feeling of this world. The beast, controller’s, educator’s, Matrix is the “But” that keep everyone looking at this world instead of what is not.
that’s why what’s not of this world, will never be found by this world of the (Veil) who is it that’s silently watch you think, in a world that only teaches things of this world.
Where is the school of this not of this world, gone, because they kill the way shower, burn their writing, and kill all the indigent people’s who used to sing and tell of story’s not of this world. it’s a remembering we are not of this world but in it. Not an awakening, you all ready are, not of this world but in it.
A automobile is of this world, yet your in it. Dose not make you part of the automobile your in. the elusion you speak of is the driver becoming a corvette, or wanting to be an ambulance, trying to merge with the vehicle and all its gadgets, bells and whistles. And identifying with the manufactured man made transportation it moved into.
This is so because all the teachings, and senses of this world are controlled by the matrix of this world. All these movement , new age, religion, et, guru’s, everything is just another bubble for the mind to be trick into thinking that all there is. Who were you before you entered the vehicle of choice, tree - bird - human- et - matrix --- who before all this of the world we are driving around in, but not of………….
I wasn't questioning your ability to conceive a billiard ball, or the order in which you process information.
i was questioning your ability to not believe something that you've created/discovered a potential for, and thus exists within your consciousness.
You cannot, not believe something does not exist when you are aware of the potential of the concept.
You can say, I believe the other potential better resonates with me.
Better answers the question.
So I will believe that this is the best option.
And i can't disregard the existence of that which I claim to not believe,
I believe is a phrase of identy and power.
Be mindful f how you use it.
Because when you think I don't believe .....
the unconscious hears I believe.......
And acts upon that belief.
as a budding co creator, this matters
Lots.
When you claim a belief, that becomes a boundary of your reality.
and the boundary of your creation.
Abracadabra
In Hebrew it means, I create what i speak.
It stands to reason that we create what we believe.
So therefore we must speak what we believe.
whether we agree with it or not.
if you must conceive before you believe then you believe in the potential of conception.
To state a potential, in this case, that the billiard ball you see is the billiard ball itself, means that you have created that potential. It exists somewhere in yuo consciousness.
You can't uncreate that potential.
you can't don't believe you ever had that thought.
You can choose to nor agree with it.
Or acknowledgete that a potential exists that more closely aligns with your reality.
The fact that you choose to not believe it after the event of conceiving of its existence does not negate the recognition of the potential that brought it into existence.
Important to understand that in the language of the unconscious, you can't not. Or don't.
the unconscious does not recognize the negative
No mayyer how hard you try, you can't not think of a blue tree with a smilry face and polka dot leavess.
Your must create it in your mind first before you can not think about it.
looked at from this perspective, Reality encompasses the All.
Every possible potential,.Whether they've been realized or otherwise, are all a part of reality.
we each take a holographic slice of that reality, and that becomes our unique, individual reality.
the size and shape of the slice we each takeis determined by the level of fear we carry around.
As you start solving lifes paradoxes, and the fear in the system stars to lessen, yuor personal reality programme is automatically rewritten to include more of reality.
For me, words can cloud the way to deeper understanding. Oftentimes, people associate the word 'Illusion' with 'not real'... but when applied to the Human 'experience', it's not that are perceptions & lives aren't 'real' or 'happening'... far from it... it's just the nothing is what it seems ~InLight555
"Reality is merely an Illusion... albeit a very persistent one." ~Albert Einstein
The difference between reality and illusion is temporariness.
It is NOT that the world itself is unreal...
But that which has no beginning or end ...
the world does exist...
but it is a temporary manifestation.. that's what makes it unreal...
just like the body is not real because you are only temporarily associated with it...
same thing with the circumstances of your life
they
have a beginning and an end...they exist and have being...
but they are a temporary display....
the real life is eternal and has no birth and death..
and that's the difference...
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