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Focus Determines Reality
Focus determines your reality. Your reality is more than what you see with your eyes. Can you recall a time when you really only had one thing on your mind? When you’re doing a task that you’re really absorbed in? Have you ever been in that state where you desired companionship and didn’t perceive yourself to…
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Perception of Reality
You never perceive reality directly with your senses. It isn’t how it works. And how and what you perceive is determined by your focus, often subconsciously according to conditioning. If you can see what you don’t see, then your perspective isn’t a trap, it’s an incarnation. Many schools speak of a mental body in one…
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Narrow View of Reality
How can we trust our senses when they are so limited? Yet people do. But in fact there is something that makes you trust your senses and lies underneath the senses. Experience? No. That comes after and often leads to some cloudy thinking. The lack of alternatives? Also I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Emotions?…
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Truth in Virtual Reality
We live in one world. This world as we make it isn’t false. The flesh and blood world is out of flesh and blood, but we didn’t make those. We didn’t make the world. We didn’t even make our real nature. But it’s funny that it takes virtual reality to show us what’s real, and to…
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Meaning is Your Reality
Tell me what you think anything means. I will describe your world. Sound boastful? Any takers? Our meaning is our reality. “I’m living, breathing. With each breath it’s a new world. How can I grasp at that? I try and try to grasp a meaning, but all I get is more questions.” You grasp it…
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Grow Your Reality
Ever witness people arguing over what is ultimately a matter of syntax? And in fact they were saying the same thing? It even grows very negative. I would say in a sense it’s the rule with few exceptions. The evil of semantics. Would you rather be right, or happy? It seems people would rather be…
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Reality of Image
Image magic is another one of those so simple it’s complicated topics. The basic premise behind image magic is that any image cannot be imagined or created without a connection to the object, place, or person being involved. That all we see stems from the same source as our ability to create images. Image magic…
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What is Reality?
With regular meditation practice, insight just comes. It isn’t from thinking, but it is hard to ‘understand’ with the thinking mind that insight can come from elsewhere. You’re using the ‘thinking’ to understand ‘not thinking‘, and this is why the spiritual practices advocate meditation to get out of the thinking to understand ‘not thinking’. There…
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Fabric of Reality
The negative impact of the human mind on the fabric of reality. Thought is viral. Human thought tends to be negative so it is self perpetuating. Someone gets a pessimistic attitude about their life or a business, and that has a subtle negative impact on other peoples views. They will be second guessing, and eventually…
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Reality Checking
How is not being lonely due to a correct identity superior to a conditioned sense of existing where one does not question and find they are alone? Is a suspicion of false identity necessarily present? Ok, let’s get reductionistic. The brain has been shown to engage in a process of reality checking without you choosing.…
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Reality to Experience
Maybe nations are the gullible ones? An old acquaintance of mine once said, and you might recognize this from ‘Men in Black’ also, one person can be smart, crowds are stupid. So, yes. Just last Christmas, there was no emergency, no natural disaster, but three people were trampled to death. You can avoid accountability in…
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Virtual Reality Freedom
Are we more free in the virtual world of Second Life (SL)? Potentially, and there have been real social/political movements that took place in Second Life that had a very real First Life impact. Second Life does allow another level of expression. I can make a statement in my very form here. Freedom of imagination.…
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Gnostic Reality
The different schools of Gnosis have differing attitudes about reality and the creator. From Jehovah being genuinely evil to just being fallible, and from any partaking of reality as being damning of yourself to the problem being misperception of reality. Asceticism? Yes. To a most meditative attitude, mostly. Some say you can’t achieve gnosis without…
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Reality Checking In Conflict
I’ve noticed how some things I’m fine with, and others will drive me nuts, and I’ve wondered what’s the difference between them? The things you are fine with though you don’t know why, are consistent with your brains “reality checking” mechanism. All of our minds engage in this process. It’s a necessary behaviour for survival.…
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Why Of Reality
Metaphysics is the body of wisdom not related to the “whats” of reality. That would be science or art. Metaphysics is about the “whys” which means there is a metaphysics of both science and art. They have said the world is a stage in a great many metaphors, and the assertion reflects a very deep…
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Basis In Reality
Everyone familiar with the tarot? The imagery on those cards is archetypical, and archetypes are memetic presences at the very least, if not spirits. The “words” behind the tarot were an oral tradition. The images were crafted on buildings and any kind of sheltered structure in one form or another, and the only markings to…
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Reality Is Focus
Your center is a place. Center is a noun. Focus is an action, or body of actions, and well… Your focus literally is your reality. Everything that has your attention is part of your focus, and you have a focus whether you have knowingly chosen it or not. You cannot avoid having a focus, because…
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Awareness Is Reality
Human thought is a contagious disease, and some people are an “immune” system. Those who are the immune system to dysfunctional thought patterns are like, “umm, that’s not quite right.” They point out the errors and seek to destroy them? Illustrate why they can’t be lived. How do we “disarm” the dysfunctional patterns? Take our…