c. May 21, 2008 - The Green Journey of The Spirit

The "Real" Illusion 

Is this reality an illusion or is the illusion just a concept?

To say that this reality is just an illusion is to also say that time doesn’t exist, space doesn’t exist, and matter doesn’t exist. If it were an illusion our bodies, families, lives, and ancestors, wouldn’t really exist and maybe never did.

How can this all be an illusion?

We have put so much time and freaking effort into our stories, our faiths, our experiences, and our memories. They are what makes us who we are, in a sense, by defining our Essences through our own human experiences. Not to mention that we’re right smack in the middle of it and would have a difficult time at best trying to see something else besides it when our eyes are what we’re used to seeing it with. Yeah, it’s a crazy circle that isn’t easy to move beyond, and, I suppose it’s that way for a really good reason, or everybody would have been able to see beyond it and we’d have left this human experience long ago.

To have "It’s all an illusion" as a concept is great, especially now when what we see in this reality seems pretty harsh at first glance. By having and utilizing this concept, we can sprinkle a little sunshine on the harshness by firmly attesting to ourselves, "It’s an illusion!". This makes it so much easier for us to give ourselves a break and return to the breath and our own Essence in the midst of confounding circumstances. We can utilize its benefits in our Relocation Therapy (Moving from feeling the victim, to the freedom of it all just being an illusion), Quality Time Therapy ("It’s all just an illusion anyway, so I’ll just do what brings me the most joy!"), and Pain Therapy ("It doesn’t hurt if my body is illusionary".)

A concept only remains a concept for so long, however, and then it evolves.

The evolution of "it’s all an illusion" to the conscious awareness that it really is all an illusion might seem to be a tricky one to see clearly, but it’s an easier jump than you might think. And as usual it merely requires a simple shift of perception, a clear awareness of Who You Are, and a conscious breath created by You.

To shift a perception, the perceiver needs to be aware of what the perception actually is in order to move beyond it, and as this is a very conscious process, the illusion can now be seen for exactly what it is without too much confusion. The illusion is first and foremost structured. It may seem like complete chaos at times, but the chaos is simply structured to our own belief systems. In other words, we’re told that we create everything, but are usually not exactly sure of where each of our creations come from since a time lag is involved. Our belief systems say that it takes "time" to create anything, and so we’ll tailor our creations to the amount of time that we’re comfortable with in receiving them. Our minds, however, haven’t historically been aware of our belief systems and so, have become confused when things do or don’t show up when we were or weren’t mentally expecting them.

The structure is set in stone, so to speak. All matter is charged with positive and negative attributes automatically to keep it structured and self-validated so it will always continue on on its own simply by having consciousness exist in it. It takes on many, many forms, shapes, sizes, and details but always remains comprised of the same thing...tiny sub-atomic particles that have certain positive qualities to them and certain negative qualities to them. It is duality at its simplest and most profoundly grandest and always can be measured in time, space, or matter.

Do you remember some years ago, there was a movie called "Groundhog Day"? Bill Murray plays an arrogent weather reporter sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to do a report on the coming out of the groundhog. A snowstorm traps him in Punxsutawney that first night and he wakes up the next day to find, to his bewilderment, that it’s the same day all over again. All of the same people are there and the same snowstorm is once again heading into town to keep him "trapped" there. The same "day" happens over and over again every time he wakes up and he finds himself in a "time loop" continually becoming more frustrated that he can’t escape it. As the "loop days" continue on, he continually responds the same way to people and events, keeping himself stuck in that same place. But then he eventually comes to the great understanding that if he responds differently to his environement, people respond differently to him which opens up all new possibilities for him and the enrichments of his life that he never would have seen before.

Yes, it is but a movie. A movie created by the collective consciousness to entertain, but to also give a hint to the unrelenting structure of time we find ourselves "trapped" in. I cracked up when I thought about it, and then I had to pay attention. We have the same amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days. weeks, months, and years over and over again. The people in our lives are there over and over again and the small details change from one "day" to the next, but the amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years always stays the same. Over and over and over and over.

You might take a different route to work on a different day, or have lunch at a different restaurant, cook different food, meditate at different times, talk to different people, or look at different sites on the internet. And every once in a while you might allow something totally new into your life. The details of life may shift and change, new people or things may come in every once in a while, show their faces and exchange words or thoughts, but as a rule the same people, circumstances, emotions, thoughts, and perceptions continue to play a part in daily life in one form or another day after day. In these small differences, you might take some sort of comfort in knowing that you’re doing things "differently" now and then. But all the while even though the details change themselves, you still find that you have the same set of rules to play by.

Can you see yourself here?

Now take a breath. Take a deep breath from the core of your being...Your Essence. Feel that breath and receive Your True Self Essence for a moment. Feel your belly rise as the Christ Seed grows with your acknowledgment of it. Receive your true self that is beyond time and space and allow yourself to bring that into this illusion. There is no past and no future here. It is only You - and you know that you exist because you are your breath. You are not your body that has a sturctured form or your mind that has structured thoughts. You are self-aware of the Essence that comes through the breath and caresses your structure that sits in this illusion.

Take a look at your surroundings and see that they are there day after day, doing the same thing or being the same way (with slight detail changes) so that you can see that they are structured. Simply acknowledge your groundhog day for the beauty that it holds for you and the structure that has been held in place for you for so long.

We’ve been in somewhat of a dreamstate for a very long time and are beginning to rub our eyes and wake up from the dream. The dream, however, is challenging to release. Have you ever, while you were sleeping, had a dream that you were trying to wake up from but weren’t able to? You were semi-consciously aware that you were dreaming, but your eyes wouldn’t open and you couldn’t pull yourself away from that state you were in? This is very similar to what we’re experiencing right now. Many of us are kicking and screaming to wake up from this dream but we’re only semi-conscious of the fact that it’s a dream and can’t really figure out where the dream begins or ends.

See the illusion. It’s really easy to see because it’s everywhere. If we get all caught up in our own agendas, emotions, attachments, or dare I say personal charges, the first thing we do is to continue validating the illusion! The illusion will still remain here whether each of us chooses to move beyond it or not. It doesn’t care because it’s all just a big dream that has been categorizing and responding to our illusionary thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. Therefore, it is totally up to each and every single one of us to personally see it for what it is and to bring ourselves into it in a new way that isn’t a part of our old structured responses, reactions and perceptions. It’s up to us to breathe ourselves, our true selves directly into this illusion from where we sit right now and make our new "points of assemblage" be whereever and whenever we are.

Happy Reality Hunting!

Love

Ornesha 

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The O.A.R. Ascension ~ Downloadable booklet to assist with the human enlightenment process

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