RE: When people stop being what you thought they were…
Nice. Ah truth and illusion. This seems to be a primary topic of discussion for thousands of years amidst every culture in the world. The great cosmic mind that we are is pure truth, but as the mind will do, if we imagine truth we then must imagine illusion.
This is really the basis for the whole "God and the Devil" concept. There is truth and there is illusion. All part of the cosmic mind discovering itself and deciding what reality to create for the whole.
In fact the very nature of encountering the "New" is to firstly make "mistake". All natural, all part of the process. It seems the true cause of suffering is clinging to the illusion regardless of what reality keeps expressing.
Many indigenous tribes worldwide share a concept that the "Creator" first dreams of itself and then becomes the reality. So we have this amazing ability of IMAGINATION. In essence we 'practice' creating before we create.
Of course, if we believe the illusion is the reality we will get to experience the consequence.
This is how it goes in "God School".
Very cool.
Much love Atmos
Absolutely, and for me there is no difference between "dreaming up the universe" and "creating it". The one thing is imagination believed to be a dream and the other is imagination believed to be reality.
As A Course in Miracles tells us: There is no hierarchy of illusions.
So whether you call it a dream or reality doesn't matter - it's still the same illusion. 🙏
I resonate much with the way you describe imagination leading into creation. That's why it can seem like different people's lives are running by different rules. It's because they have different beliefs, which lead to different expectations, which are just imagination mixed with faith in what is imagined. Basically, we all create by buying into our illusions. And some of those illusions serve us in terms of a pleasant life experience, and others undermine our ability to experience pleasantness. But in the end, it's all illusion. Just happy dreams leading to happy dreams, or bad dreams leading to bad dreams.
Nicely said indigoocean! The illusion seems to be, in part, the nature of change. All things are temporary and transform. What is true one day may not be true the next.
Each person is really the center of their universe and as such are the true creator of their reality. I suppose we are as diversified and unique as we the cosmic mind can imagine.
What a strange, beautiful and fascinating universe we are making! we gotta Love it.