The Maya of Science 4
One of the great disappointments of esoteric practice is that discovering reality is your own creation does not give you the power to change it permanently. However much physics you read, however many mystical writings you study, the world remains stubbornly solid. In theory, you should be able to build your next home by thinking it into existence. In practice, you still have to lay the bricks like anybody else.
What creates such an enduring semblance of solidity? The answer seems to be consensus. The world is what a majority of its inhabitants agree it to be. The consensus view is taught from earliest childhood - babies are literally trained to see their environment in a particular way. This 'consensus' view is reinforced throughout the remainder of your life. The mechanics of maintaining the illusion quickly become unconscious. Before you know it, you are trapped in a dream that will last until the day you die.
All the same, the insight that the world is a dream state can be useful. It indicates that, at its most fundamental, the universe doesn't obey the rules of rational physics - as the physicists have now discovered.
It obeys the laws of psychology.
Magical use of Thought Forms
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J.H. Brennan
What creates such an enduring semblance of solidity? The answer seems to be consensus. The world is what a majority of its inhabitants agree it to be. The consensus view is taught from earliest childhood - babies are literally trained to see their environment in a particular way. This 'consensus' view is reinforced throughout the remainder of your life. The mechanics of maintaining the illusion quickly become unconscious. Before you know it, you are trapped in a dream that will last until the day you die.
All the same, the insight that the world is a dream state can be useful. It indicates that, at its most fundamental, the universe doesn't obey the rules of rational physics - as the physicists have now discovered.
It obeys the laws of psychology.
Magical use of Thought Forms
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J.H. Brennan
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