by Jose Stevens
We are in the habit of viewing our world as physically stable and
firmly anchored as if it were outside of ourselves to be seen, heard,
touched, smelled, tasted, and sensed. We record this seemingly fixed
world through our five official senses that we think faithfully depict
an independent world happening to us. In many respects this is a rather
archaic and primitive understanding of the world when seen in light of
quantum physics. Yet in some of the world’s foremost religious
philosophies the world is considered nothing more than a complex series
of manifestations of the mind being continually projected as
discernable to the fiction of the senses. From this point of view the
world with all its objects and conditions is simply a projection of a
universal mind. Even our own bodies with all their apparent states of
health would be considered manifestations of the mind. In this way of
looking at reality the false personality or ego is an influential but
illusory manifestation invested in the illusion of separation. It
creates illnesses and accidents that force a preoccupation with the
body as a real entity with the consequent attention to curing the body
with pills, operations, and treatments of all kinds. All this makes it
seem like we are doing something constructive, but since the body is a
projection, totally symbolic in nature, then anything done to the body
is at best a temporary fix. Occasionally we realize temporary benefits
from these treatments but mostly these corrections are not made at the
level of the mind so the symptoms are just replaced by new symptoms and
so on until the body eventually dies.
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