Quote from: zareste on October 25, 2009, 02:00:25
Heh, I was just reading a quote by Einstein. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Well, I contest that there is no physical reality, not even an illusion. What we have are intelligent life forms within the universe, viewing it subjectively, each constructing their own model of what the universe is. This means one person's physical reality is not another person's physical reality, even if the two realities can communicate and become similar. No two parts of the universe can view it exactly alike, therefore, one person's reality can follow rules different from another person's reality.
That's why I say dreams are as real as the physical. Some sorcerers in history have 'dropped out' of physical reality to go live in dream worlds with other people. You wonder, how is it possible to leave the physical and live in a dream, if dreams are just a psychological construct? Simple: Because the physical is a psychological construct.
But hey it's a fun construct sometimes.
What if the astral realms etc are also a fantasy?
The other day I finished reading a book about Remote viewing. The author says that he Remote viewed the creative source etc. Basically, he said that God was feeling lonesome so he created the Universe, the other souls etc etc. So I was thinking. If God is convinced by someone to go back to the point in time nothing was there except him, everything never existed thus, Immortality is also an illusion.
Besides, the idea of having my immortality always on the line(the author says God will never return to the origin point because he would feel lonely again)lingering in the moods of a God...nah. what I want is to become my own God; independent of the Source so when God changes his mind, I am not destroyed.