It
isn't
just money that isn't real. In truth, nothing is "real". That
is, there is no objective physical reality "out there" that is
exactly the same for every person. In fact, there are 7+ billion realities,
because every person lives in their own subjective universe.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying there is no objective reality. Of course,
there is a real reality in which we live. I know I'm delusional, but I'm not
that delusional. But our experience of reality is created by our
interpretations of reality which are in turn created by every experience we
ever have in reality. And since every person lives a different experience, and
interprets that different experience differently, every person lives in a
different reality. Does that word salad make any sense? Not really.
The
ancient proverb says it better: "20
people crossing a bridge into town are 20 people crossing 20 bridges into 20
towns."
Science
says
the same thing in a few more words:
'Out
there' there is no light and no colour,
there are only electromagnetic waves. 'Out there' there is no sound and no
music, there are only periodic variations of air pressure. 'Out there' there is
no heat and no cold, there are only moving molecules with more or less mean
kinetic energy, and so on. -- Cyberneticist Heinz von Forster, quoted in Mind
and Reality, by Wolfram Schommers.
Michael Talbot, in his book Mysticism and the New Physics, visualized it like this: If a baseball were expanded to the size of the Earth the atoms that comprise it would be seen as roughly the size of cherries… Remarkably, if we had an atom the size of a cherry we still would not be able to see the nucleus with the naked eye…
With this image, we begin to get a small taste of the strange atomic structures that create our material world. An atom is so small that it is invisible even when expanded to the human scale of, for example, a cherry. But we can continue to magnify the atom and still it would appear empty. We would need to increase the size of a single atom to that of a football stadium before we could see the nucleus, and it would still be only the size of a single grain of salt. The electrons would still be invisible, spinning around this tiny nucleus over a hundred meters away.
Several thousand people would now be able to sit in the empty space of the atom and watch a football game without disturbing the particles of our now immense atom. If we wanted this crowd of people to be able to see the nucleus of the atom we would have to continue to expand the atom to the size of a large city. Now the nucleus would be about the size of a football, the atom would still consist of almost entirely empty space, and the pea-sized electrons would be spinning around this nucleus 20 miles away.
This is the image James Trefil used in his book From Atoms to Quarks: Imagine putting a bowling ball in the center of a city and then scattering ten peas around the rest of the city and you will have some idea how empty an atom really is.
In terms of actual volume, the nucleus occupies only 0.00000000000000001% of the atom. In material terms, the rest is empty space. The material reality we perceive seems to be an optical illusion created by our senses. Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans went so far as to say, "The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter..." My sentiments exactly.
The atomic world turns out to be a pulsating, vibrating, continually shifting and changing dance of energy. And so is our everyday world: a pulsating, vibrating, continually shifting and changing dance of energy.
So what creates the seemingly solid world we all experience? Consciousness. It is your brain that collapses the infinite probabilities of the quantum field into the one consistent world which you experience.
Specifically, it is your beliefs that create the reality you experience. This has been explained much better than I can by dozens of philosophical and psychological writers, so I'm not going to get into it here. If you wish to understand the mechanics by which this happens, by far the most insightful and mind-expanding book on the subject is The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts. The fundamental theme of that book is "You create your own reality." And it explains exactly how you do that, and how you can create a different physical reality if that is what you choose.
Simply put, you do this by projecting your energy into the "outside" world and attracting to yourself whatever is aligned with whatever beliefs you have accepted from your parents, friends, society, and everywhere else throughout your life.
Generally, we are all brainwashed into accepting as real whichever "reality" we are experiencing.
The good news is that we can change our beliefs at every moment. We are always free to believe whatever we wish at any time.
MAY THE SPIRIT GUIDE US ALL.
ADIOS.
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