13 Illusions to shake up your awareness

Illusions are self-created obstacles to a clearer view of things. Illusions are destined to dissolve as part of learning and unlearning.  This is part of a personal journey that is guided, diverges and finds its way home. Each stage is ultimately a choice. You decide when and where to pause. Your unique view of life is yours alone. You are invited to shatter your own myths.

When a person is ready to question or explore his own deeply entrenched ideas, he may awaken to acknowledge the rigidity of ideas and also shift positions or attitudes. Consider these 13 concepts to ponder and reframe;

1) Ego. Part of the psyche experiences and reacts to the outside world and imagines your self-image into being. To separate yourself from the selves of others and from objects of ego, thought causes you to forget or repress the truth. From the moment ambition is born, you are prompted to quantify it.

2) Money. This takes shape as a piece of paper with random value linkedto numbers. Virtually everyone buys into that idea and allows it to control how they think: what is affordable, enough, desirable, feasible, doable, relative and inconceivable. Currency is a human invention that arose with human motives.

3) Duality. To separate concepts into two parts is a gradual denial of unity or oneness with everything. To envision poverty distracts you from wealth and abundance. Polarities of positive and negative such as good and evil fragment underlying wholeness. As one concept exists, the opposite also exists, even if you do no choose to acknowledge it at this moment.

4) Consolation. From birth, part of you is consoled when you are fed, clothed, and loved. When was the last time you fully trusted all of your needs are met from outside yourself? Faith becomes consolation during trouble. Yet, you imagine issues where none exist and imagine what you require to dissolve it.

5) Comfort. This zone is a view of a degree of tolerance for mediocrity, anxiety, worry, and stress. It also denies what soul whispers. Some people view this as an excuse to stay put, to continue fooling self and everyone of what you need. To lose what you thought you needed shifts focus to what matters. You move away from tangible things that are bought, sold, stolen, burned or bequeathed to uncover other priorities.

6) Form. Your view of the physicality of things is grounded in beliefs. You envision or hear about objects, infer about density, texture and viscosity, without necessarily touching or experiencing them. You visualize shape without seeing and create interpretations of your sense of reality.

7) Beliefs. The focus of your devotion is hidden. It has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness or, level of conscious awareness and deliberate intent. To work in the realms of expectation and assumption creates layers of illusions you come to accept.

8) Fear. There is nothing to fear except your ability to create it. What you anticipate you will gain or lose goes deeper than ideas you access in the mind. This invokes fundamental views about what makes you who you are.  What can you live without? Few people recognize your own misunderstandings.

9) Pride. A high opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority is a view that grows from fears like inadequacy and insecurity. What you think you have or not does not change who you are.  Thinking without complete awareness explains many human issues.  People reflect each others issues, differing only in degree and level of awareness.

10) Effects. Reality is something other than perceived effects, for it is part of the Cause. Beside, over and above, under and behind, all forms of Being, Matter, Energy, Force and Power, is the ever-calm, contentedness. Reconnect to inner knowing grows into absolute trust. This translates into confidence in the goodness and justice of the only Reality that exists.

11) Crisis. When old ways of thinking and doing fall short or no longer satisfy perceived needs, a person may imagine the self is threatened. Behaving as you have done is not necessarily aligned with the natural flow of energy to start with. If you take too much without giving back, this creates imbalance. A sense of urgency draws attention to issues of survival.

12) Armageddon.  It is said a final battle involving good and evil will occur before the end of the world. Another way to view significant energy movement and upheavals is to concede former consciousness is dissolving on a wide scale. Such a view helps explain geographic, environmental and climatic shifts that might otherwise be viewed as a domino effect toward catastrophe.  Life-changing transition is imminent. How you understand it is grounded in perception.

13) Perception. If you agree your outer reality reflects your level of inner understanding, then indecision or turbulance speaks volumes.  How you come to recognize and grasp each experience is based not on superficial human senses, but on deeper awareness.  Answers do not always emerge in the form of words.  Letting go of ways you sense the world is an act of growth that dissolves dogma and resistance and brings you face to face with something indescribable.

"If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction." -Eckhart Tolle

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1) Ongoing Unintegrated Knowledge (Possessed by Knowledge Instead of Natural Knowing) bolsters and allows the ego to grow Uninterrupted.

2) One can say that money is an invention that tries to substitute for Currency which is free in nature. Money is not free and is taught to be created through work. Therefore money often is experienced as anti-currency.

3) Also, within duality one works to get what they want because they see themselves separate from what they desire. The working then often creates stress and strain which then further separates one from that which they would like to reunite with. However, like letting go of the idea of having to find your lost keys, they suddenly appear before you without effort. Ask and it shall be given because the two are one in the same. See it as here and whole and one and complete, and it becomes true because reality is already complete and together as one.

4) If one believes they are always a winner, then there are no consolation prizes. The heart already contains all the gold medals imaginable.

5) There are two kinds of comfort. One sense of comfort comes from avoiding the moment. This comfort feels like a slow death because it lacks connection. Its as if one is slowly getting sleepier and sleepier till they pass fully away. Many people are addicted to death and to its associated comfort and avoidance zone. Real Comfort comes from being connected to and within the zone. Its the sweet spot of life which takes no effort to live. To be alive takes no work.... Everything is allowed and feels comforted and blanketed fully by the power in god or source.

6) People often describe experience and things from a distance. They are removed from the life of the subject. When one joins their vibration with the vibration of the form focused upon, a real connection is established allowing for real information to flow forward based on actualized experience where someone fully participated in an event. There's a saying... if you don't do or rather become... you teach. Many are teaching emptiness and passing along separation anxiety because they are afraid to be touched. They are shy because they bit themselves in their own ass.

7) Be-lieving is likened to leaving a state of being. Beliefs vanish when opposing points of view come together to cancel out the illusion.

8) People often fear Life because they unknowingly worship death.

9) Pride is a vanity ride upon the back of ego. It has to do with not being able to let go of a creation or innovative point of view. A sense of self worth is created because they accomplished something and are afraid that the next accomplishment may not come soon enough. If one holds on to a creation that is supposed to be a gift to the world, then pride gets in the way of creating the next best thing in the next connecting and inspirational moment. Again, with many words, we can switch it around and take pride in our Higher Self or in one's alignment to any given moment. The pride then is akin to standing tall and proud in a world of consistent connection.

10) Trying to establish a cause or looking for an effect then blurs one's vision of this Reality that is always available in between it All. Seeking leads to more seeking until one gets bored of non-reality and stands still.

11) Take everything instantly without possessing it in time and you automatically give it back without restrictions, although changed and yet still the same.

12) Each Moment has the potential to be Armageddon or Rapture. Rapture occurs when one fully accepts the death of the previous moment making them fully come to life in this Moment. One then is looking to let go and sees the benefits of non resistance. In a state of Armageddon, there is a resistance to change and a fear of death. People sense Armageddon when they can't keep the solid foundations of the world they artificially built up anymore. Change in the world and in affiliated people are then too rapid for them to control. If someone or something else around them changes... what they sense as home has to be changed or renovated as well since everything is connected. If mass amounts of pent up energy are released, then this blows the very foundations of how people live their lives. Their associations and feeding tubes into others suddenly break and they can no longer feed the ego.

13) One can however sense and then enter into excitement over the notion of entropy and decay.