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The Illusion of Reality
With all the usual chaotic commotion of Christmas and New Year’s (and each year I say to myself that it won’t be like that this year), I could feel my old paradigms playing in my subconscious mind, back at their old tricks again, trying to convince me that it is stressful, filled with anxiety, and that it would be natural for me to become impatient and frustrated.
On the other hand, I could feel my conscious mind coming to the rescue, reminding me of all the tools I had gathered over the years, pushing the old paradigms to the side. I could hear the soft voice and the gentle loving push of the Divine, reminding me to pay attention to the present moment, to take notice of this space and my existence’s being a part of it.
I was reminded to do a quick mental assessment of all that was here for which to be grateful. The voices of the old paradigms can be quite loud, almost drowning out everything else that kept telling me everything was good and temporary. I was being reminded that anything other than peace bouncing around within my psyche was just my egoic mind preventing my old stories from shedding, keeping me from the unfolding of subsequent new versions of me.
So, in any given moment, what exactly is real and what is illusory? Were the feelings of stress and anxiety the reality of the situation or was that the illusion and the reality was just what it was at the moment, not bad, not good, but just was? And, if we felt stressed but we told ourselves that this was “what-is” in the present moment and through an exercise of gratituding, we switched our negative emotion to a positive one, would the resulting positivity be the reality or the illusion?
In order for me to determine if a situation is real or illusory, don’t I have to judge it somehow? I asked myself. And, if I am passing judgment, then I am allowing the 5 senses to be involved. Messages from higher intelligence, our higher self, or commonly referred to as our intuition, do not originate from the 5 senses but from beyond what we consider the physical or material world. These messages when served as solutions to issues we may be having arrive as a sense of knowing, for which we frequently may not have a logical explanation. You find yourself saying something to the effect of,
“I don’t know how I know. It sounds illogical. It doesn’t make any sense. But, I just know.”
Since the preparations for the holidays began, I reflected upon the above. Some of my studies taught me that anything positive comes from energetic vibration from the heart, my innate passion, that aligns with me is real if you just be open and let whatever it is flow to and through you. If you have to put too much thought into it, then it is no longer spontaneous but heading toward the direction of being contrived. And on the contrary, anything negative comes from energetic vibration from the egoic mind, the old paradigms, the preprogrammed mindset of habitual behavioral patterns that have been placed long ago before birth and possibly even preceding that, thus belongs in the category of illusion.
At some point for me, reality seemed to blur with illusion. I couldn’t tell what was real and what was not. Then, I thought, reality is different for everyone because reality for most of us depends on our subjective perception of any given situation. True reality is experiencing “what-is” right now, unfiltered, in the present moment. It is exercising presence, just “being” without labeling, just pure awareness without describing or judging the moment. However, the majority of us are quite “judgey.” So, does that mean that we all live a life of illusions except for extremely brief moments?
We were taught and most of us believe and have come to accept that what we can describe and prove with our primitive 5 senses makes it real. Yet, there is much literature dating back to the early 1900’s and even earlier, that if we are indeed spirit, energy, light, pure consciousness, what-have-you, in a physical human body, then that makes us much more than what meets the eye, which would indicate that our 5 senses lie to us every minute of every day; and that the only truth is the information we receive from any of our higher mental faculties, the main ones being intuition and imagination.
So, do you believe that reality is merely an illusion? Does it really matter one way or another? For years, I have lived a reactive life, where there was always something or someone to blame for my variety of unhappy times, disappointments and failures. I only knew to play the victim because that was the way I saw the world around me. I was taught that as long as I did my best, then it was my fate in the hands of the external that determined my results. Then, over time, through studying and speaking to mentors, I realized that there was more to this existence than what was obvious to the 5 senses.
It used to bother me when others thought badly of me, whether they blamed me for their unhappiness, accused me of harming them in some way, or they thought I was this or that kind of person, and so on. Then, I learned that they saw in me what they possessed within themselves and that I was not responsible for their dissatisfaction in life. If other people say to you that you are the reason for their unwell-being, it is because they see something in you that is triggering some event inside of them that occurred in the past and had not been resolved.
We all have the freedom to choose to feel joy, to feel love, to feel peace, to feel grateful, no matter the circumstances, because that ability is innately within us if we just let it through by increasing our practice of awareness. At first, I didn’t understand this, but then, I realized, right, they would have to harbor those intentions themselves or perhaps commit the very thing of which they were accusing others, in order to point fingers at others.
Knowing this was very freeing. It doesn’t mean that what others say and do to you won’t sting a bit initially, but in time, you realize you control everything you are and feel. What it does mean is that ultimately, you are not responsible for how others decide to feel nor are others the cause of how you feel. It took me some time to understand that nothing is ever personal at the core. I am the only one responsible for making me happy and I am the only one responsible for making me unhappy. No one else can have that pleasure. Another aspect of life to consider is that in the whole grand scheme of things, we are all part of a bigger universal plan. Shakespeare stated,
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances…”
And, taken from Hamlet,
“…There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I don’t know how many of you out there ever think about seemingly random things, like why you’re here, why you exist, what your purpose is and if everything you see around you with your eyes is all that there is. When you’re just sitting there with the stillness with no particular agenda at the moment or if you are lying there in the quiet of the dark, do you sense that there is something much more?
I do. The more I read and study, the more I realize that every little moment is just a tiny part of our life, but if we build little moments that are meaningful, then our performance will be brilliant and our stage, magnificent, not only for us but also for others. And, if some of our little moments seem less than ideal, then we must remember that they were little anyway and that we will have other little moments of every day to change our story. There will always be people who don’t care for your story or how you’ve decorated the stage. That is quite all right. You know why? They will find their tribe and the right ones will find their way to you. The natural laws of the universe, the laws of vibration and attraction are always in action.
I believe that the concept of questioning the reality of what is in front of us is meant to guide us in this life journey. Unfortunately, we tend to pose the question whenever we feel something is “too good to be true” and that stems from living in a state of lack and limitation, feeling that we don’t deserve more or better. The only time to question reality is whenever you feel anything but peace, love and joy, because these are our natural states of being that live within us. They are available at all times.
Is reality ultimately an illusion itself? Does it matter? Does it matter whether your current situation is real or not? How would you define real anyway? Whether you can see, smell, taste, touch and feel it? Currently, the newest thought movement finds that reality is defined by increased conscious awareness that goes beyond what the 5 senses can tell us, that there is no separation amongst all people and nature, and that we are “one.”
Or, is reality simply the way you choose to experience the world at the present moment? What if you were not consciously awakened? Would you then still be able to “choose” how to experience the world at this very moment or would your egoic mind choose for you? But then, you would only know if you were—awakened.
And at this moment, the answer arrived via a post by Aaron Abke (spiritual instructor) popping up on my Instagram feed on reality. The quote he shared was,
“Whatever you believe the World is withholding from you is what you are withholding from the World.”
He observed that while he was in the Bahamas, admiring the incredible feel of the sand, the beauty of the ocean, and just the gorgeousness of the beach, he noticed that many of the people there were just focused on their iphones. He goes on to say that he never thought that it was a shame that “reality” was so dull and boring that people preferred their phones. Instead, he explained that their state of consciousness prevented them from realizing how stunning the world around them really was.
Finally, he adds that if we believe that the world is withholding from us love, kindness, righteousness, beauty, and so on, it is really that we are withholding all that ourselves. He states,
“We can never perceive Reality as better than it actually is. The perfection of the world is always there, but we choose to overlook it in favor of shadows and darkness. To see the light in the world is all we need to do in order to heal it. Hence the saying, ‘You are the light of the world.’
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Until next time, may you see reality as truly abundant and that you have much to be grateful for!
With Love and Gratitude❤️🙌
Dr. Celeste Amaya
