There is a strain of thought that our worldly existence is an illusion. The idea goes that we are only traveling through this life, but that our real beginning and end is from eternity to eternity. This is a mere blip in our existence. A cosmic hiccup from which we will soon wake. Am I home dreaming of heaven or is heaven home and I am only dreaming that I am here.
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Latter Day Sinner 
16 responses to “Illusions”
I think there is more purpose to our presence than an illusion implies.
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Human beings are incredibly good at seeing patterns in the chaos that we think mean something but are actually just projections of ourselves into that chaos.
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If we were ancient cosmic deities residing in illusionary mortal bodies, then we’d presumably be smart enough to leave our illusionary bodies before they self-destruct. Without a purpose to fulfill, I would not still be here.
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My ancient cosmic deity needs your ancient cosmic deity. Or at least it seems that way. Need isn’t an illusion which is why I project mine onto you, Lover.
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That’s my point: Need is not an illusion. The need to exist is real. I believe that need is motivated by purpose.
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Many people feel the need for God and very often it is a very specific god. That doesn’t mean that specific god exists. People believe in grace and that probably doesn’t exist either no matter how much people need it.
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The need is not for a specific god. The need is for divine connection. The self insisting that divine connection should come from a specific god is a learned distortion of that need.
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Fair enough. But we both suffer from that distortion and that is the product of a localized illusion.
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That is no longer the distortion I suffer under. My attempts to contextualize my divine connection is a different sort of struggle.
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I am looking for divinity in the physical world. I have “contextualized” this home fairly well, but the rest of the universe is getting fuzzy. Indiana was a long way from home.
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I have found divinity in the physical world. I have found divinity in the emotional world. I have found divinity in the mental world. I made a world of my own in my head and divinity populated of their own accord.
My difficulty is translating my experience so that others may learn from it.
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That has been my position for a long time. Human beings are bad at finding the truth, worse at holding on to it, and worse still at explaining the truth to those who have not found it themselves. But the original question was whether there is a truth to find in the first place or whether instead we create it in our heads and rationalize what we have created. This brings us full circle.
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If there is no Truth to find, then I am hopelessly insane.
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We all are Dear.
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See, if there is no purpose to our existence, then nothing matters. Human beings can destroy their entire biosphere without consequence because life or the absence of it does not matter.
If life doesn’t have a point, then abuse doesn’t matter because quality of life does not matter. If life did not have a reason to be, then it would be absolutely insane for me to choose to survive what I have endured.
I admit that it is possible. But to acknowledge that possibility as my reality would be to acknowledge that suicide is a perfectly rational response to a chronically painful existence that serves no purpose.
Intellectually, I recognize the possibility you propose, but to accept it would be to relinquish my reason for living.
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“And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.”
2 Nephi 2:13 (BoM)
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