Beliefs, Delusions, and the Mind’s ability to Perpetuate its Own Experiences
I’m not going to approach this idea from the conventional standpoint of attempting to describe the nature of beliefs, how we form them out of our conditioning, and the psychological process necessary for changing them, because a great deal has already been written on this subject. What I’m going...
How We Unknowingly Create the Reality of Our Beliefs as Personal Delusions
There’s an interesting thing about beliefs that make them hard to realize as not being true. Anything that we belief to be true, and therefore real, we create through our ability to see it in any situation. We see it not as an actual reality in and of itself,...
Learning how to Understand the Illusory Nature of Reality
Definition of reality: a thing that’s actually experienced or seen as a physical existence: A state or quality that exists or has substance. The idea of reality is one that has eluded many throughout history because we’ve been taught to think of it as a solid, fixed, objective, and...
Meditation, Self-Realization, and Transcending the Illusion of Reality
While many people approach the idea of meditation as a method of some kind that’s designed to produce a predictable effect, and believe there are only certain ways to truly meditate, the fact may be that it’s a process through which we train our mind to step outside of...
Understanding the Nature of Emotions and How We Create Reality Out of Unconscious States
We can gain a clear understanding of the nature of emotions and how they work in our life to control us by simply observing what happens when we experience an emotional charge and have a reaction as a result. Emotions are the natural forces of the material world that...
Self-Mastery: How to Master Your Emotions and the Delusions they Create
Very few things have a greater impact on our life and cause us to traverse the extremes of pain and joy more than emotions. Yet at the very same time, very few things are harder to truly manage and bring under the control of our will. This is because...
The Art of Detachment – Freedom from Illusions, Transcendence, and the True Nature of Compassion
The idea of what it means to detach from something can seem confusing because, like most ideas, it has both positive and negative connotations, based on how it’s being looked at, applied, or done, or how it comes about naturally. In all forms of spiritual development, detachment from the...
How to Not be Affected by Others – Learning how to See Things as they Really Are
All Perception is Self-Perception as an Outer Reality One of the greatest powers we can learn in life is how to gain full control over ourselves and our perception of others. By becoming aware of how we form perceptions, and act to create our experiences, we can simultaneously realize...
The Nature of Personal Illusions and the Minds Ability to Shape Reality
Our Mind is always Generating our Personal Reality . . . . While many people have heard of the spiritual concept of Maya, or the mind’s ability to make up false realities that it then “lives out of†as though they’re real, we tend to think that this idea...