Right since my childhood, I have been fascinated by the charm – a magician or an illusionist exudes into making us believe that you see is indeed magic. A thought you would want to come true. Your search for the world of magic – a world where you rule, where things happen because you wanted them to happen, where people behave the way you want them to. Aaah!! - A world which all of us want in our dreams. If it were only for magic to be real!!! But the eternal human quest to understanding reality has always been constricted by one’s perception. It is this inability that an illusionist uses to alter your perception to weave an illusion, which you buy as Magic.
One of the strongest pieces that remains entrenched in my mind forever has to be this – “Be ready to show the world, what you want to see for yourself”. Meaning all that you see in the world, is nothing but what you are showing to the world. So, reality is as you see it. More truly, what your mind wants to see. Reality is something that, we choose to see.
Our human mind is extremely potent in adjusting itself to becoming the way we had always wanted to be. So, if you are blown away with the style of a particular person or a character, it so often happens that you end up behaving like they do. It is this, internal desire that your mind caters to – of making you the person you had always wanted to become. Of seeing things, we always wanted to see. Of making a reality that, you would fit in.
This leads to the further question, as to, if this were true, everyone in this world would be having things his or her own way. No, it always doesn’t. The extent always depends on your degree of craving or simply put your degree of madness. So, your-real-world would come closest to the actual world; when your mind is strong enough to change the actual world.
How often we have heard people say, that if we want something badly, the whole universe helps us in achieving that. But things might be slightly on a higher plane. It’s just because, your carving for your goal is so strong that the universe comes out of its way to accommodate your goals and desires. Thereby, your-reality is now reality for others.
It’s a big mesh between the interchangeably used words reality-illusion. It’s just perspectives that people choose to place their feelings. While I see it as a changing-reality-with-a-change-in-perception, others might see it as change-in-perception-with-a-constant-reality. But then again, we are back to square one. Who sees the true reality? Some third person who can see all these things devoid of any perceptional imbalances.
Whatever be the case, all that we see in this world is a reality out of perception. The way we want to see it. And as far as the third person goes, we probably refer to HIM as GOD - an unbiased, impassionate, adjudicator of truth and reality. Really, reality is stranger than fiction.
Pic courtesy: Heikenwaelder Hugo, Austria, Email : heikenwaelder@aon.at, www.heikenwaelder.at
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