Dreams Are Another Reality

DreamRealityStairsSkyWaterE. Parkinson – Do you have dreams? Do you have nightmares? Are they real? Think about their reality for a minute.

When you are in the dream they are real and when you are in a nightmare the situation you are going through is all too real. Very often in a nightmare we are struggling to escape from the reality because it can be so painful, sorrowful, horrid or frightening. When we do get out of that world and back into this one we are very happy to have been able to escape from the nightmare. Continue reading

Reality: It’s The Starting Place of Progress

Whoever swerves from the path of reality is irrevocably lost in the emptiness of illusions. – Zoltan Kodaly

 Reality: It's The Starting Place of ProgressAnthony J. DeBlasi – Radical progressives – not all of them are leftists – can’t admit, even to themselves, that beneath their professed ambition to improve the world is a passionate loathing of reality and grudge against nature.

How, according to an argument they would agree with, can anyone tolerate such a cruel and unpredictable master as nature, doling out pain and pleasure with equal indifference and treating health, the means of livelihood, life itself, as playthings?

The answer becomes clear when it is discovered and acknowledged that the givens of reality, including nature, are in fact the beginning of any journey toward progress, a beginning that triggers a release of freedom of action and of creative ener­gy that swings open doors of possibility perhaps never dreamed of. Continue reading

Why the Army of Reality always needs more soldiers

Jon Rappoport – What we call Reality is a hall of mirrors. It reflects itself back and forth and builds up a consensus.

People do the same thing. They confirm with one another that the reality they believe is real is, in fact, real.

And having established that, they live out their lives and make the best of it.

But what happens if you defect? What happens if you’re not satisfied to live out the rest of your life inside the space of what everyone assumes is real? Continue reading

Understanding Maya

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear. – Isa Upanishad, Hindu Scripture

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Elva Thompson – The above quote from the Buddha is enlightening when viewed from an esoteric viewpoint. We may understand the world is an illusion with our intellect, but mental understanding is a very different state of affairs from listening with the heart.

The Buddha’s words allow an understanding of a simple truth that is contrary to our programming, in fact, to say the world is not real could be called counter-intuitive, but never the less, truth can so easily be misconstrued by our counterfeit ego self. Continue reading

Questioning Reality Like Never Before

“Has our existence been hijacked eons ago by higher dimensional entities and we are now prisoners within a matrix of deceit?” – A. Light

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If so, then this prison of minds has the door wide open and we can choose to exit it, whenever we desire. All that is required is for us to wake up from the dream, so that we can see the door… and to actually want to go out and “disconnect.” Continue reading