#JustAThought … Our Lives – OUR Illusions

Each life is an illusion, an illusion created by everyone. Whatever we experience, hear, or witness, we put in context with our current way of seeing life and our opinion about everything in and around it. Everybody does this individually. I often mentioned that we all create our personal reality. But it is more than that. Life must be an illusion in which we forget the truth. Because the only reason we live life over life is to remember this truth piece by piece. With every small insight, we gain excitement about discovering more about ourselves and the universal laws. The interesting thing is that it is not new to us, but something we might only have forgotten. We don’t need to grow into this “new” truth, but we open the door to a room we have not visited in a very long time. It may appear that what we gained through the insight is new. However, deep down, we only solidified the ground and the joy about remembering a truth that has always been there, which makes the insight so much more impactful.

We need to forget who we are to remember our light and glory and the love that encompasses it all. When you stay in the sun at noon on a hot summer day, a candle may not have any impact. But once the sun had set and everything became dark, a lit candle would become the most precious thing to have. The light of love is always there, always around us, and, most of all, always within us. But through the tool of illusion, we forget about it. By rediscovering the magic and power of love through dropping layer by layer of this illusion, we have an even stronger connection to what we were aware of before our incarnations.

Let’s come full circle: We come here not to be thrown into a dark place in which we must fight for our lives. We have come here to find ourselves again by realizing that darkness is an illusion we built up to remember our light in all its brightness. Since every illusion is individually created, our path to remember is as individual. The wonderful thing is that we all help each other to move forward on reaching our life goals. We do this by pushing and pulling, by hurting and fighting, and by hugging and helping. However, each of our actions or reactions will again be put into that personal context that feeds each one’s unique journey to themselves.

That leads to one crucial question: How much is God involved in our illusions, or what is His part in them? To me, God is another word for THE energy of life and the all-encompassing love. God lets us run free and grants us unlimited individual tools to explore ourselves anew and remember who we are. We learn through good and bad things with the sole purpose of making us see and experience AGAIN the unlimited love we are. How fast are we to blame God for all the bad things in this world? For war, hunger, murder, terror, and diseases? Now, if everyone is granted to create their personal illusory story to remember who they are, how can we ever blame God for anything that happens within that illusion?

In Love and Light


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The purpose of my blog is to inspire and shine a light on the beauty and power of the wonderful being inside your body. You came into this world to share what only you can give. Remember who you really are, conquer the world the way you always wanted to, and become the blessing to us all that you were meant to be.

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Ah yes …………. perspective is everything.

I remember reading some time ago (cannot recall the author) the following:

“At the end of a war, the heroes and the villains are dictated by who won and who lost.”

The more I dwell on that statement, the more profound it becomes, and scarier it is to realize the ramifications of such a statement.

As for blaming God? Totally understandable when one considers that “laying blame” (also known as “playing the blame game”) is simply abdicating one’s own responsibilities. The logic is very simple in that if I can lay blame elsewhere, then I don’t have to take any responsibility for my actions.

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Oh, yes, that statement holds a lot of (terrifying) “truth”. Unfortunately, too often it was already confirmed.

Yes, here we are again at the resposibility of the individual. How can God let this or hat happen? It is us who (don’t) do “it” and who have the choice to change.

Thank you very much for your comment, Colin!

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Erika, well done. You reminded me of the series “Finding your Roots” hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. where they do a deep dive on two public figures each show. It is not uncommon for ancestors who faced severe trauma – the holocaust, WWII battles, Jim Crow, adoption, abuse, etc. – to avoid telling their children of what they went through. So, descendants do not know very painful truths until they start digging. For example, some of the Jewish people are only alive today because they survived or escaped tragedy. Their entire family may have been decimated by the Nazis but their forebears got out.

Similarly, war battles are so traumatic, many veterans did not want to talk about it. So, ancestors never knew their horrible truths. Truth can be very elusive.

Keith

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Just a thought? Wow! Such a precious and powerful realization Erika, each word touching that piece of truth within us of what it speaks. The ‘knowing’ is touched each word you spoke kind lady, gifting us even more of that love you share from it.

A very beautifully spoken wisdom dear lady, and truly feeling so comfortable as I read it. Thank you for sharing something deep, a place in my heart of memories met, a time gone by, even a time to come…and a destiny called home in daring its path 🤗❤️🙏

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Isn’t it amazing to follow that path of “truth” or “inspiration”? It feels so comprehensible to me and – yes – true! A beautiful, encouraging truth that makes me explore life and myself without being afraid of what to find – because I can only find the beauty of divinity. Thank you very much, Mark!

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Indeed Erika. To slowly have that awareness open and ‘feel’ the truth of that love, that journey of understanding and see each step, literally, is doing just that. Very profound kind lady, thank you 🤗❤️🙏

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I totally agree with your comment, however, perspectives will always factor into any situation. Is it showing love to terminate a painful existence? Are we demonstrating love by ignoring the future health of our planet in order to provide food and homes for an expanding population? Are we showing our love when we justify killing our neighbours?

There are so many situations where we can superficially label them as demonstrations of love, but there will always be others who interpret the circumstances quite differently.

“Perspective is reality” is so true. What I perceive to be the truth is, to me, the truth. What somebody else perceives to be the truth is, to them, the truth. So what if my perception is different from somebody else’s perception?

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I am not sure how one can separate perspective from reality. What I believe to be true will always be my truth, until I believe something contrary and then that becomes my new truth.

I do agree with your final sentence, in that our perception will be based on what we know “today”, but then we must be open minded to the possibility that “tomorrow” may present us with a new understanding which will then change our perception = change our truth.

This does not change my question in my earlier comment, being that (e.g.) you and I may have a different perspective of the same situation. i.e. We have different truths. So how does one define the “real/actual truth”? My response is (quite naturally) based on my perspective, which is simply that there is no “real truth” simply because a truth is based on a perspective!

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I don’t think we have different truths, I think we have different perspectives of a much larger truth. Hannah Whitehall Smith explains it like this…two people describe a skyscraper from two different vantage points. One sees the skyscraper raper from the North and describes a glass facade with tall flagpoles out front in a sprawling courtyard with a fountain. The other person sees it from the south and sees three loading docks at the base of long sloping drive and a parking lot that can fit 100 cars running up to a 15 story concrete building. They are both right and speaking truth they are just positioned differently.

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“Hannah Whitehall Smith explains it like this…two people describe a skyscraper from two different vantage points.” etc. etc.

Yes, absolutely the two vantage points will create two perspectives and both are the truth but then, both are describing a physical object which can have many perspectives, all of which can be true. However, the term “perspective” is versatile and can certainly cover describing a building that has fixed dimensions as viewed from a chosen angle, but it is also defined as expressing a particular attitude toward something (expressing a point of view).

It is the latter definition that has been the focus of my responses.

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Yes, I agree! Everything is real that we perceive as real or which we make real. There is everything and more in this world. Good and bad and inventions we may had never thought could be invented. We create our reality which is an individual reality. I would call evil what Putin does. I don’t think he agrees. Still, if this is all illusion, we have the chance to create a wonderful world right now -and if it is only our own little world.

Thank you very much, Joseph!

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I do think though that there is objective reality that lies apart from our perception. I think perception is a narrow view of something much larger. Much of our difficulty today comes from thinking our perception is the whole of the objective reality we live in.

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Absolutely! We wear so many filters because of what we are taught, like or dislike, experienced, … Therefore we only see a fracture of the whole. And I think we can never be sure how much of the whole we really see AND in which context we see it.

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