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Back to the Forum 2006
Archives There is a kind of nonsensical hocus-pocus in some Eastern philosophies about the world being an illusion. That's simple ridiculous on the face of it. The Easterners are wrong. The temporal world is not an illusion. I an sure it is nothing more than energy in form. The world we see is energy in form. Our bodies are energy in form. It really is all one. It's not an illusion and you don't have to deny it. You don't have to give it up or throw it away. There is not just one form of energy. It can assume any form necessary. While energy in temporal form may someday become unnecessary, it is real. There is no dichotomy. There is no contradiction. I personally believe the temporal world exists for a purpose. It exists to an end. It might be nice to know, but it is not necessary for me to know what that end is. The world is still very real. It is energy in form and it will continue in form so long as it is necessary. To be sure, each of us sees it a little differently because of our own emotional and spiritual condition. The fact that we do not see it clearly does not make it an illusion. That's just our baggage interfering with our perception. To deny the temporal world is simply insane behavior. Our perception of the temporal world is controlled by our own emotional filters. There will be differences and disagreements, but these are about perceptual variances. They are not about existence. The temporal world is not an illusion for goodness sake. Any fool can see it is real. I believe there is some level of misunderstanding which causes some people to think they must deny reality. I was confused by that for a number of years. These gurus and teachers kept telling me I had to let go of everything to see God. I simply didn't understand the real intent of that concept. The idea is, you must let go of your emotional attachment to things if you want to realize God Awareness. That's all we mean by letting go of everything. We don't mean throwing out what is obviously real. It simply means accepting what is instead of wanting something different. It means giving up dependence on the outcome and needing things to be a certain way. That's all. Energy in form is reality and we can't let go of it. It's here. Where would it go? There is no other. Perhaps as we evolve, we will see it as it really is. I think, when we completely realize our God Awareness, we could change the form if we want. I recall a biblical phrase, "Had ye but faith, ye could move mountains." Could it be true? I believe it. Energy configures itself such that it comes into form. It also goes out of form, but it does not cease to exist. It simply changes form. It comes into form and goes out of form. Temporal form is nothing more that eddies and concentrations of energy. The only constant is energy, be it in form or not in form. Energy is power, ultimate power. We may be able to control it, but we don't need to do that. When we understand how it is, we can align our lives with it and feed off of the power of it. We can let it do everything and know it's alright. We can let it heal us and flow with it to our real goals. We can still plan and execute impeccably. Then we can let go. We don't need to own it. We let go of emotional attachment to the past. We let go of emotional attachment to the future. It's all right to want it all. that's why we plan and execute. Then, when we let go, we realize God Awareness and we can shape it. Then, we have it all. We can make it happen, but we need not be emotionally attached to it. That attachment is what blocks our God Awareness. We can let go of the past and the future. It will come around. What's past cannot be changed. Even if you could change it, why would you want to? It's done. Leave it! Just let go and let the future unfold. It will be new and beautiful. We must ever remember that we are temporal beings – humans. We should not try to deny that fact. Denial of the physical body is the greatest weakness of the major Eastern spiritual philosophies. They attempt to deny the obvious. They attempt to transcend it through various kinds of internal mental gymnastics. I am human. I cannot ignore it or deny it. I have sensations. I have emotions. I eat, sleep, fornicate, and excrete. I get tired and ill, and I age, not too gracefully at times. I have needs. I need other people and I need to love someone. Denying these things does not make them go away. It can only cause emotional dysfunctions. You can't stop being human, but you can let go of the emotional attachment to temporal things. You don't do this by denying those attachments. It's really a gradual process of awareness. You gradually realize that temporal things are very real. They will not go away. You don't need to cling to them. You don't need to own them. You can still thoroughly enjoy a glass of wine, a crisp apple, or an intimate encounter. But, you do not need it to happen in a certain way. The idea does not own you. You simply go with it rather than trying to make it happen. You can accept whatever happens and enjoy it. This is what the perfect simpleton does. Of course, I have never encountered a perfect simpleton. I surly do not qualify yet. In our journey, we must continuously combine both universes, the spiritual and the temporal. They must always be in balance and merged. There is no separation. There is only one unified field. Let go of everything and embrace everything because it's all one. Embrace it, but don't own it. Emotional attachment is unnecessary. It can't go away. I can't be lost. It's all one. There is nowhere it can go. The two universes are really only one, merged and balanced.
It's all energy, very fine energy. Flowers, dirt, dog poop, Shinola,
and the super conscious, it's all one. Embrace it all. It is
a unified field of energy which takes many temporal forms. It's
the world we live in. We don't have to own it. It's all there,
always, beautiful and dirty. It's alright to let go of everything
because it can't go anywhere There may be some variance in how
we perceive it, but to say it's not real is the height of silliness.
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