I see how quickly I have dismissed the imaginary faculty in others. When another tells me of their extraordinary experiences, I have dismiss them as just imagination. I see that just imagination is actually reality. It may not be mine but none the less it is reality for I can never experience another’s reality and vice versa.
A friend tells me about her encounter with Archangel Michael and my initial thought is how could that be real? Jokes on me. Reality is not what can be sensed materially but is in the creation of a manifestation whether externally or internally. How can I say something is not real when it is unseen? Electricity is a fine example. Someone is ill in the physical body, nothing can be seen with the physical eyes, does this mean it is not real? Can love be seen or is it felt? Can energy be seen yet the body is powered by an unseen force? I must reexamine my quick judgements about the fact that there are experiences that cannot be seen. As a matter of fact I would wager most of them are unseen. Which I would surmise would be the greater reality.
I see how quickly I have dismissed others experiences as not real just because they are not tangible, yet I experience not tangible continuously. I cannot see the cool air coming out of the air conditioning, yet there is cool air. Are the eyes a reliable source for determining reality? How could they be if they are designed as a lens that eliminates most of what is going on around me. A finite optical illusion which refracts light particles to make objects appear solid and under a microscope this same object disappears.
Even a fictitious story has a reality to it for it exists and is perceived by another’s mind as a fictitious story. The question is not that something is unreal, the question is will I include into my reality? Will I accept the thoughts and beliefs of another as true for me? And who is me? In this analysis I can observe that I, Susan, am not real and the only reality she has is the belief that she is real. So in essence she is real because she is believed to be real. What is real then? What can one sincerely claim is real? The only thing that I can claim as real at all times is that I am because I observe this is so. There is an active observer of experience. Yet all experience changes and “I” (the observer) does not. Can one actually see the healing of another or does that take place in the mind? Wouldn’t one conclude that mind is the reality creation component? Is then mind actual? What is it? Can it be seen? No. Then what is actual? What is believing something to be true? Is life just one big belief in a something for without belief in something is there anything at all? One must believe they are in order to believe something. Are there any real answers? I understand not at the level I am asking. Will knowing anything change anything? In other words will knowing the greater reality change this experience or is the greater reality experiencing this?
And I sense great laughter around me as I wrap myself into a loop of unending questions. I too must laugh for the mind trying to figure this out is the very mind that is limited in its understanding. Yet there is a greater mind that feeds it. It cannot be said that there is nothing here because I am here. The limited lens I perceive through, is the lens that cannot see another’s reality and therefore dismisses it. That lens is finite and has not the ability to see the larger perspective. Ok, I accept this and let go of assumption. I see the futility in this conversation.