Is There A Real World Out There?

For some reason, I have always sought and loved Truth. I have had a few people that I could discuss Truth with in a manner that helped Truth reveal itself. On these rare occasions, there would be a "racing," rushing" feeling of heightened expanding awareness triggered by the momentum of the discussion - a feeling that felt like I or we were "going" or "arriving" at a higher awareness, but usually plateaued at a calm peaceful point of Awareness. One time however, I was on the phone discussing Truth with a good friend when that "racing" feeling started, I ended the call to allow the awareness to expand and this time, for the first time, found I had actually "arrived" at a very surprising Awareness I had never had, seen or even suspected might be true. In that moment and awareness, I saw how everything, and I mean utterly and literally everything you see and perceive in your world is all created by You. You put it all there. Every person, every event and every experience that has ever happened, is happening or will happen is created by you within your own mind by what you hold to be "true." This was a very lonely place. There was no God, and there was no other "real" person. There was only me and a world I had made up in mind while believing I actually lived in it. Everything that exists in your world is your creation, but you do it on a lower level of awareness where "the world" can seem real, and where your thoughts are interposed with time and space so as to seem disconnected and disjointed from you. I was at once thrilled to arrive at a solid awareness but dismayed by what I was seeing/aware of. I was utterly alone living in an illusory world created by my own personal truths that I made up as I went along according to the experiences I had created. It was by every definition, insane. Everything I perceived existed solely in my own mind. No one else was there. No one was even real. Not my wife, children or any other person. I put everything there and there was only me perceiving my own form of reality. I was a bit shocked and kept "staring" at this world and "knowledge," but it was there, with all its simple parts in full display, and undeniable. Even in the moment, I reasoned this had to be the same for everyone else, but I must say in that awareness, there is no one else. There is only You, and what you have made. I held to this vision awareness for a while, but it did not change and I could make no real sense of how or why this could be true, Slowly, I let it pass because there was really nothing else to do or be learned. For the next few days I saw how every thought I had, played out in my "life" and "world." I saw every connection to every event to my own thoughts. While showering I had a thought about something I thought should happen in another country and within a few hours I heard announced on the radio exactly what I thought should happen, did. I was at home and suddenly knew a casual friend was coming over. In less than a moment his car pulls up. I knew he was going to come to the door and wanted to come inside, so I went to the door and stepped outside just as he was about to knock - I did not feel like being in the enclosed house space in this state of awareness. I walked out the front grass and was fully aware of what this person wanted , their full reasons for being here and everything the were going to say. As I listened to him say exactly what I knew he was going to say, I became aware he was going to spit, then he turned his head and spit even as he spoke. I responded appropriately to the conversation, but felt like I was 5' behind it all watching it all happen even as I participated in it. It was difficult to tell if I knew what was going to happen or was causing it to happen. The friend left right on que and I returned to the house. For about 3 days I remained in this weird halfway world of this seemingly real world and having all my thoughts play out before me, all the while fully aware I was making all this happen. For lack of a better term, I called the world I had seen "ego land." as it/this was the place where you create your personal world, but you are the only one it. Previous to this, I had an experience that demonstrated to my own satisfaction God was Real and Existed, but I could not reconcile this "personal" world with God, or His Realm or world. In fact, God did not exist in this world, yet I KNEW God was Real. Eventually, I came to understand the following things: God Exists. Minimally, God is Intelligent Awareness with the attributes of Infinite Imagination (to source ideas so to speak) and Will (to serve as the motivating force to move a concept from Imagination to Creation) however, everything that exists, Exists within the Mind of God, as there is no other place. Only God Exists. There is no above, behind or "outside" of God, Only God Exists. God Creates by a Statement of Truth. God IS Truth, so his very "word" carries the full weight and power of Ultimate Truth. What God says is, IS, within His Own Mind, and there is nothing but God's Mind. We Exist Within God's Mind. There is no other place or thing but God's Mind. God is Perfect and only Creates out of Love, as only Love allows for Perfect Creation (and this is demonstrable in our own lives when we maximally apply love as a solution.) We are created in God's Likeness and Image. We too are Intelligent Awareness with the attributes of Infinite Imagination and Will. We too create by a "statement of truth" and it is the Nature of God's Mind that He Shared with us that you can "experience" anything held to be "true" within mind. We differ from God in that we do not create solely out of Love. We create out of fear and we create without being fully aware and responsible for our creations. We do not maintain cognizance of the power and ability of our own mind. We do not align our truths with God or His Truth and we mistakenly believe separation from God is possible. We believe an "outside" of God is possible and "might exist." It is not possible of course, but we have chosen to believe that it is. When trying to envision an "outside" of God, one is invariably lead into a consideration of "not God" or an opposite of God. There is no opposite of God as God does not Create in opposition to Himself, but that does not mean we cannot believe in such things utilizing the All-Powerful Mind of God that He Shares with us, and thus experience the effects of our beliefs. This belief in "separation" from God is observably the foundation for the concept or belief in "space." The idea of "separation" begets the idea of distance and/or space. The moment one believes separation from God is possible the concept of "individuation" and "separateness" comes to mind, which is why we perceive this world as separated individual forms. With "space" in existence one can imagine forms, objects etc. to exist in this individuated space and when we imagine or perceive change of position between forms we have the apparency of motion. Motion begets the apparency of time. In very short order then, and merely as a result of belief in untrue, impossible and illusory things, all the mechanics for this "world" seem to exist, but we have forgotten we have the ability to experience that which we hold to be true, even if what we believe is untrue. This is called "projection." All we are doing is interposing space and time upon our own thoughts to make it seem like there is an "outside world" where events seem to happen of their own accord. The world itself appears to be or have causative agency, but does not. Your world is always and only a "mirroring back" of your own thoughts, beliefs and "truths" in your own mind. It is a dramatization f what is going on in your Mind, The belief in other than God, or "outside" of God, is the basis for the apparency of this world. We "project" our thoughts "into" this world in seeming "separated" space and then interpose time upon these projected thoughts, so the thought "mirrors back" not at the moment of origination, but in apparent disjointed time. This create a seeming "reality." Your thoughts play back to you in "separated" space in disjointed time and by your inability or unwillingness to see the connection between your thoughts and the events you experience, it seems a "real world" exists outside of you, but is all occurring within your mind, which again, is the Mind of God shared with You. All phenomenon of quantum physics is explained in this. All phenomenon of life becomes understandable in this. Because any concept or belief in an "outside" of God must necessarily include things that are not "of" God, you allow for the phenomenon of fear, evil, pain, suffering, loss, guilt etc. to exist. These things are not of God and He did not Create them. God is Perfect. These "negatives" are the logical result of considering something may exist "outside" of God which perforce must infer and include opposites of God. There is no other place to go when considering what "might exist outside of God" - you must individuate and move into a realm of opposites and that is why this world seems to be a world of opposites, and individuated forms with no apparent connection to each other or a Source. You are the author of your thoughts and of your world, not God. You are the author of your own reality. You are ever and always merely experiencing your own self-created truths. There is no "outside" of God thus there can be no "outside" world. In truth, this is all an illusion. It is based on a belief that is not True, is not Real and is not Created by God. It is the result of the exercise of the Most Powerful Force in Existence, the Mind of God that He Shared with You. This is at once the problem and the solution. You are ever free to correct this. Your own salvation has ever been in your own hands simply because it is your own beliefs and "truths" that create this situation and that you "experience." This is the Truth that makes you free, This is not something you did, it is something you do in present time on a moment-by-moment basis. You hold something to be true that is not and in that holding, you obviate your own awareness of God and Real Truth. You cannot Know Truth and believe in illusion at the same time, one must prevail and the one that prevails is the one You choose. When you choose illusion, it is as if real Truth and Knowledge never existed and when you choose Real Truth and Knowledge, everything pertaining to illusion begins to fade much like a (bad) dream. This is the Truth Yeshua (Jesus) spoke of. This is the Truth that makes you free. This is the Truth no one here wants you to know, least of all your own ego. This world is a projection of your own thoughts, The egoistic psychopaths running the world are merely projections of your own ego. The ego is the opposite inverted being You imagine into existence to people your world of opposites. There is no "outside" of you, there is only Mind. And you are God's most Magnificent Creation. God Created You out of Love. He gave everything He Had to Give to You, He Gave You HIMSELF, and He Gave You His All. He cannot Create anything Greater than You and He ever sees you as His Most Perfect and Magnificent Creation. You cannot sin because you cannot harm God or his Kingdom. You have done and are doing nothing wrong. You are free to Imagine what might exist outside of God and God Knows, and Wills that You will complete this thought and turn your face back to His. Time means nothing to God. In His Realm, you are only momentarily lost in thought fleshing out an imagined but impossible thought the end product of which will demonstrate to You, the True Nature of Reality and Where Your Rightful Position Truly Exists. You will "wake up" to God and Truth, and if you observe your world, you will see this "waking up" process is in full play. You have "rounded the corner" on this thought and are on your way back to God. As you have "rounded this corner" you will see the illusions you have been living under, see them for the illusions they are and it may seem a little confusing and messy as you sort Truth from illusion. Only God Exists. God IS Truth. There is only one happy end to how all this turns out because, ONLY GOD EXISTS. As you choose and realize real Truth, this world fades and to that degree, your experiences change to reflect Truth, Goodness and "Godliness" rather than the seeming horrors of opposites to God. To the degree you embrace God and Truth, this world cannot negatively affect you. Do not look at this world as real or it will be for you. Seek and see Real Truth, and this is your choice and freedom. It is difficult to speak of such things in this format, but I was moved to try. Everything is going to turn out fine because everything already is fine. Truth and God Exist. God is Real. God is Sane. God is Logical. God is Perfect. God is Love. Illusion is not Real and ONLY GOD EXISTS. How else can this all turn out? You cannot obtain something from nothing and you cannot obtain order from chaos, therefore you know at the source of everything you can observe has to be "something" and that something has to be sane, orderly and intelligent for Creation itself to Exist. This is my reflection, as best I can word it in short order and in this format. Thank you for the opportunity. (Please excuse any grammatical errors as, I have to "go to work ;-)" Hide full comment

Thanks for awakening our need to rethink the "dynamics" of perception. Alas, most of us are still within the realm of perception in terms of the world of SPACE, with our five senses. As you well know, ibn al-haytham, about 1,000 years ago (Egypt) helped us to understand our perception of light, with his Camera Obscura model - and his book on Optics that was a treasure for over 500 years. It would be nice if he could return and help us with our big problem of "Life Obscura." And here it is not objects in SPACE, but the dynamics in TIME. Here he, or maybe your next book, would be on the Optics of Insights! SPACE we understand, but, alas, TIME is still a mystery. We are so captive to the "Linear Clock Time" model, Greeks called it Chronos, that we can hardly even imagine Kairos, the Meaning Enriching dimensions of time. As you will easily remember, using the OM symbol, we need to move from the lowest level, the Jagrata, to the forth level, the Turiya, where wisdom (Satvic) comes alive. Perhaps this is connecting the Turiya, ths Satvic and Ananda in a venn that reveals the larger richness of life and its ever changing dynamics. We have so much more to do to understand life's enriching dynamics - so thanks for the help so far. Charles (born on Maui) Hide full comment

How do we perceive reality, the things as they are or the people as they are? Is my perception of things and people changing or remainnig the same? This is a profound existential question. According to me, my perception of things and people changes depending on the condition of my mind. When my mind is quiet, clear and open, my perception of the external world of things and people becomes clear. But when my mind is clouded by my past experiences, biases, and prejudices, my perception and understanding of the external world changes. The past has an impact on the present. As is my vision, so is my vision of reality. If my vision is blurred so is my vision of reality. If my vision is clear like the clear blue sky my perception of realty is clear without any distortion. Letting go of my biases and prejudices is very important for me to see the truth. Clearing up and quieting my mind is very important for me for my mental and emotional health, for my relationships with people in my life. It took time for me to have clear perception of the external reality. One of the barriers to seeing the external reality as it is had my own insecurity. My relating to my beloved wife was affeced by my jealousy which had an adverse effect on our relationship. It causes deep wounds of hurt and pain in both of us. Learning and practicing meditation helped me immensely to clear and quiet my mind. Our realtionship began blossoming and continued blossomimg until she passed away. I learned many important lessons from working on my self-created emotional wounds and creating emotional wounds in others close to me. I grew from my deep suffering. Understanding and working on my own suffering has taught me to live fully and help others going through emotional suffering. As mentioned before knowing and accepting the cause of suffering and diligently working on it has opened the door of empathy and self-compassion, self- hopefulness and self-kindness and forgiveness in me. That is my inner wealth, inner happiness, and inner peace. May we all learn lessons from our own suffering and fill up the cup of our life with joy and happiness! This my prayer. Amen! Namaste! Jagdish P Dave Hide full comment