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Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

148.0. "Personal reality vs. personal illusion" by MILRAT::KEEFE () Tue Jun 10 1986 16:05

 [Found this in some reading I've been doing and it was suggested that    ]
 [others here might find it meaningful. It's related to the discussion in ]    
 [note 131, but I felt it deserved its own note.                          ]

         If the difference between "personal reality" and "personal 
    illusion" were obvious or easily found, there would be no Earth 
    school. For the Earth School experience that each is now living is 
    the illusion known as "life," the all encompassing preoccupation 
    with physical existence which steals one's waking hours and leaves 
    behind a blindness to the more subtle reality of understandings 
    which transcend physical death. Earth school is the living medium 
    within which man struggles to understand and evaluate his motives 
    and actions in light of more subtle awarenesses.
    
         Illusion and reality are deceptively general terms for they 
    have specific applicability to the individual. Illusion is that 
    which appears to be true or real, but which, in fact, is a sham, a 
    pretense of the real. Reality on the other hand connotes the 
    authentic, the genuine foundation of unlimited understanding. 
    Personal illusion is, therefore, any part of the human experience 
    or belief system which negates a spiritual/universal core and 
    interaction with life. Personal reality is any phase of 
    understanding which shows man's physical presence to be a mirage, 
    a momentary consciousness soon to be altered in light of a far 
    more expansive form of life.
    
         There can be a starkness to finding personal reality, for 
    reality is Truth. It is facts about who one is and what one's life 
    is about. The quest in search of reality calls to each to seek 
    beyond the immediate, the illusion, to find the irrefutable, the 
    non-negotiable reality of who one really is. This search for 
    personal reality begins on one level, usually hinging on one 
    suddenly unsupportable life myth or belief system. When this is 
    shattered, it begins a chain reaction shattering one illusion 
    after another until false myths and barriers are destroyed, and 
    one stands whole and complete - but alone.
    
         This can be a most painful experience to truly see oneself, 
    one's environment and one's belief systems in the pure white light 
    of "what is." The human conscious mind does not easily accept 
    drastic changes in programming, but it is possible to influence 
    the "program control center" of the mind in order to find the 
    reality of all things.
    
         The place to begin discovering personal reality is within the 
    confines of your own nature. The truth which you find revealed in 
    your own life should be the guide in dealing with areas of 
    illusion. Take a long, hard look at your personal reality. Many 
    years may be spent trying to separate what you want to see about 
    yourself from what you are afraid to see or are simply uneducated 
    as to how to see.
    
         The process of looking inward is valuable in learning to see 
    the seemingly impenetrable depths of your own being and in 
    providing you with a fixed center, a place of triangulation upon 
    that which exists beyond the conscious mind's fickle 
    interpretation.
    
         Consider this thought, light which shines from without 
    reflects only the human illusion, while light which shines from 
    within radiates the Infinite Reality.
    
         People are all masters of skillfully covering up who they 
    really are and what their true connections are. It is a difficult 
    struggle to reach inside and find the "real you." Of course, that 
    truly beautiful essence that exists as one's pure spark of 
    creation resists being hoisted from tranquil oblivion of the inner 
    self into the arena of painful combat in the conscious mind. But 
    once one has sensed personal reality and one's interrelatedness to 
    the Universal God, then true knowledge and illusion go separate 
    ways, for when one had gained personal awareness nothing else has 
    force to prevail. Identification of one's true self is the 
    beginning of the search for reality in all things.
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148.1References please?SHOGUN::BLUEJAYDo not attempt to adjust your set...Tue Jun 10 1986 18:227
    Sounds interesting - what have you been reading? (Reminds me of
    the writings of Richard Bach.)
    
    						- Bluejay Adametz, CFII
    
    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
    away."
148.2MoreWFOVX3::ESCARCIDATue Jun 10 1986 20:504
    Would like to know more of what you have read.  Source?  Where and who
    from..... minor things like that.  :-)                 
       
    Addie
148.3MILRAT::KEEFETue Jun 10 1986 21:0122
    
    re .1 and .2
              
          
    Title is "Agartha - A Journey to the Stars" author was Meredith Lady Young. 
    The book is published by:

	Stillpoint Publishing
	Box 640
	Walpole, NH   03608

price was $9.95 shipping/handling is $1.75.  They'll send you a 
catalog upon request. MC and VISA accepted.

Or you can call 1-800-847-4014  from 9 to 5.

in NH the number is 603-756-3508

	- Bill



148.4A bit about the astrology of personal truthNATASH::BUTCHARTWed Jun 11 1986 12:4429
    The illumination of the light of truth on your life has an astrological
    manifestation in the "person" of the planet Uranus.  An astrologer
    friend of mine calls Uranus "the light that we hide from".  As the
    wonderful text of the original note observed, this light is painful
    when it shows up our illusions, our real patterns, our selves. 
    This is why many would _like_ to hide from it, and possibly why
    many people dread their Uranus transits.  I myself, watching a
    particularly potent transit approaching, have often first wanted
    to figure out if there was a place I could burrow into until it
    was over.  Mythologically, however, Uranus was kind of a merciless
    character; astrologically, it seems to be interested in showing
    me my personal truth whether I like it or not.
    
    The quality of someone's Uranian insights seems to be influenced
    quite a bit by the sign it's in.  People I've known with Uranus
    in Gemini, for instance, attain their best insights when they register
    them consciously through communication with others.  People with
    Uranus in Cancer (of which I am one) seem to feel that the insight
    does not ring true unless it registers in the gut, on a feeling
    level.  People I know with Uranus in Leo seem to find that this
    light of truth can radically alter their definition of who they
    are.
    
    The nice thing to contemplate is that we all have Uranus somewhere
    in our charts.  Therefore all of us have a capability of illuminating
    (and then living) our own personal truth.  But it does take courage 
    to look at it.
    
    Marcia
148.5Healing and Being HealedMILRAT::KEEFETue Jul 22 1986 11:45117
   [ This is from the same source as noted in 148.3  ]
                                                     
                         Healing and Being Healed
    
    There is a thought I would like to share with you and that is:
    
                You never lay your hands on someone in love
                        without a healing occurring
                         on the appropriate level.
    
    Healing integrates so much more than just the physical presence. 
    Healing is altering total reality, opening the window to a 
    comprehensive understanding of one's true appearance that any and 
    all compromise may be negated and the archtype of perfection 
    embraced. One's natural appearance is after all without physical 
    adornment of accessories or clothes or for that matter even a 
    physical presence. One's true appearance is as light, a 
    transmutable, multi-refractive presence which simply exists as a 
    reuseable force within the universe. 
    
    Is it possible to be "cured" of a physical malady without first 
    gaining a new inner perspective? The answer is "no." The 
    understanding, conscious and superconscious, precedes or is 
    simultaneous with any healing. When someone moves past physical 
    trauma in a matter of moments rather than years, it is because the 
    awareness of healing has occurred simultaneously with the physical 
    alterations. In other words, Stages I, II, and III have been dealt 
    with simultaneously. There is no rigid sequential time limitation 
    to healing, yet there are usually natural progressions, a step at 
    a time, leading one toward a goal of health through 
    self-awareness.
    
    Perhaps the term "self-awareness" seems too vague. Physically 
    embracing one's divinity is another way of seeing self-awareness. 
    Healing involves the sorting through of one's emotional and 
    spiritual baggage to see what is still in one's present life 
    suitcase. Much can be discarded; a small percentage can be kept. 
    This sorting is self-awareness. Healing through self-awareness is 
    the only honest healing, since it goes beyond physical alteration 
    and most importantly changes one's preconception of cosmic 
    confinement. One's view of reality changes as one grows toward 
    health, opening up new vistas of physical and spiritual life. The 
    individual can more appropriately define healing as he lives it 
    and struggles to find acceptance of his own perfectness. There are 
    no "do nots" and "can nots" in healing. Everything in physical 
    reality is transmutable through love, or you know it as "energy." 
    Healing is a freewheeling, continually perpetuated journey. The 
    personal "sorting out" process is always at work within the 
    individual psyche. So the healing process can likewise be invoked 
    into everyday experiences in case of major disease and trauma. 
    Accordingly, each day in Earth School requires healing of the self 
    through awareness and acceptance of the human connection to love.
    
    All people are healers, and each is capable of healing not only 
    his own presence, but his children, parents, close friends, 
    distant relatives and total strangers. Every man, woman, and child 
    on Planet Earth is a healer. Every physical life situation has the 
    potential for healing, for causing transformation. Life does not 
    exist as a prerecorded message of either plodding drudgery and 
    misery or carefree escape. It exists as a learning - a lesson in 
    the art of healing oneself, each other, the planet and beyond. 
    The purpose of physical life is to learn to heal: heal the pain, 
    anger and frustration, channel the vast resources of love and 
    learning to where they can do the most good, to the heart of 
    mankind.
    
    There are no limitations to the vibrations of empathy and love. 
    Love is the vibration which when expanded through cosmic 
    attunement produces "miracles." I realize when I say there are no 
    limitations that this is difficult to comprehend when one seems 
    constantly hemmed in, limited by the physical. But in the world of 
    healing, in the world beyond the physical presence of stars, 
    planets, and galaxies, exists a force of such enormous intensity 
    that even a vague alignment with its presence produces changes 
    beyond knowable limitations. So in thinking of oneself as a healer 
    involved in the giving and receiving of love, one should feel  
    buoyed by the notion of nonlimitation in which all that is sought 
    in the name of "love" becomes appropriately manifested.
    
    There is more than healing through traditional medical routes; 
    healing occurs through the creative process. The artist, the 
    dancer, the musician, the architect, the teacher, business 
    executive, lawyer and politician can all heal through their own 
    creative approaches to and interpretations of their fields. Just 
    because one is not interested in physically touching another or 
    palpating another's spleen does not mean one is not a healer. Men 
    and women can heal each other through their own individual 
    expression. Certainly audiences and individuals alike are healed 
    through interplay, acceptance and understanding of creative 
    interpretation. The everyday creative motions one goes through can 
    be one's mode of healing. These potentially viable healing 
    abilities unfortunately often become blocked by the individual's 
    own inability to translate perception into response or interpret 
    one's true self in terms others can understand.
    
    Healing oversees the field of individual creative archtypes. It is 
    the term used to cover all the forms of creative expression and 
    interplay which cause joy and wholeness to surface in the 
    individual. For example, the architect who lovingly creates the 
    designs for a building is then faced with the problem of selling 
    the designs to the customer. Creative perception turns to thwarted 
    response when the customer remains unimpressed, and the potential 
    joy and healing through creative exchange is lost in the dilemma 
    of response. When personal ego replaces love, dilemmas can never 
    be dissolved and resolved, and thus healing never takes place.
    
    When an actor plays to an audience, becoming sensitized to its 
    collective energy, he loses himself in the act of playing out his 
    own creativity. There is no singular ego directing the audience or 
    actor - each is healing the other through the understanding of the 
    shared creative experience. Each moves in response to the other's 
    subtle cues. The individuals within the audience are being healed 
    through the release of themselves as separate entities and their 
    acceptance of themselves as part of the whole. The performer is 
    being healed through the infusion of energy projected from the 
    audience, allowing him to flow within his own creative 
    performance.
148.6NATASH::BUTCHARTTue Jul 22 1986 12:413
    Thank you, Bill.
    
    Marcia
148.8Each still owns his own responsibilityMILRAT::KEEFEMon Sep 08 1986 14:2913
Where/why does it imply "need" ?  Healing oversees the field of individual 
creative archtypes. It is the term used to cover all the forms of creative 
expression and interplay which cause joy and wholeness to surface in the 
individual. There is nothing wrong in offering someone knowledge and allowing 
them to go forward with it. It then becomes their responsibility as to how 
they use it - to heal themself or not. Life does not have to exist as a 
prerecorded message of either plodding drudgery or misery. It can exist as 
a learning - a lesson in the art of healing oneself, each other, the planet 
and beyond. If you believe that the purpose of physical life is to learn to 
heal: heal the pain, anger and frustration, then channel the vast resources 
of love and learning to where they can do the most good, to the heart of all 
mankind. I think you set your own limitations when you say it doesn't fit into 
your reality.
148.9Thank you so very muchNETRIX::"kots3::taillon@dec.com"ChristopherFri Aug 02 1996 14:4511
Where were you about four months ago. I'm only 20, and I have been
wandering around life getting real nervous that because I had no idea who I
was that I would turn out to be a terrible person. You think anyone
sat down and helped me out? No of course not. Most of my friends
are to wrapped up in the "norm" that I don't think they will ever
undergo "self-realization". Anyway what you said was exactly how I
feel. I thought I was "in for it" untill I read a book called "I'm OK
youre OK. I think I'm pretty blessed to have figured out what I
have at such an early age. Well its back to college for me.
Peace and all that good stuff that comes with it!!!!!
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