That's all we have. Enjoy.
Maybe so. Maybe not neiljung (by the way I love your music, especially the mid-seventies stuff).
For me everything *is* an illusion, save for the being (called Consciousness) observing everything. Notwithstanding my sympathizing with those whom imagine *reality* to be that which appears and disappears, but does so *constantly*. Lol.
I've sometimes wondered why I've met so few scientologists whom have had the cog about the meaning of being a thetan that I seemed to have had. Which is: Being that which is higher and prior and after (with laughter?) of every appearance of thought, emotion, sensation and form. The infinite Emptiness behind the Form. The Eternal Silence behind the Speech. The Nothingness from which the Everythingness (is that a real word? lol) springs forth (and vanishes back into).
Perhaps its because the idea of actually being Empty, Silent and Nothing (i.e. a Thetan) is fundamentally unappealing and arguably unattractive. Lol. Nonetheless it is why I am somewhat fond of Ron's first and tenth axioms.
Which are (for any non-scientologists here):
Axiom #1:
Life is basically a static.
DEFINITION:
A life static has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive.
And:
Axiom # 10:
The highest purpose in the universe is the creation of an effect.
The philosophical issue I take with Oracle (great nick/name by the way) in lightheartness, is that dispensing with (or lessening the attention to) the present in the interest of a contemplation/creation of a future implies an essential distinction between the two that simply doesn't spiritually exist. As both are essentially effects. Essential as both may be to the game. Lol.
For me Time is only a production, and Now alone is Eternal. Thus Time is a Production of Now for me. Always was. Always will be. Lol.
Mojo
P.S. the inability
to be an effect simultaneously with being a cause has always struck me as an odd consideration which consideration has seemingly produced some rather remarkable pain in the experience of those whom imagine it as so.
