Concepts of Reality

Tony — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:30:56 +0000

Is personal awareness of reality a physical, a religious or a spiritual experience? One’s personal awareness of reality is at the same time, personal, societal, religious and a spiritual experience. Personal awareness of reality starts at one’s particular situation of birth and with one’s social capabilities received at birth. At birth one’s senses start operating. The sensation of touch and pain starts while the new body is progressing through the birth canal, followed by sensations of chill, hearing and sight. The sense interaction of one’s body with others starts while it is handled by those assisting in the birth or by the mother herself. It is a fairly common sensation for all creatures of the mammalian variety; but after birth one’s interpersonal activity begins to rapidly change and become more individual through interaction with mother, father, family, friends and the social and cultural climate in which one is born. This individualization is strongly demarcated by association of the parents to special groups such as religious groups, ethnic groups, and or humanist groups, followed by cultural and societal groups that include basic, intermediate and special and/or advanced training.

Each group of contact a child is immersed in makes the person’s reality more special and individualized from other children in other regions having different social, religious and cultural standards and settings. It makes a big difference whether one is born on a boat that is not only one’s house but also the family’s means of transportation and business or whether one is born and brought up in a mountainous region or in an inner-city social climate. Therefore, the reality each person envisions or is aware of as an adult is uniquely personal. We can thus be fairly certain that one’s personal reality is of a physical, religious and cultural kind.

Why does one’s awareness of reality have a physical component? That is easy. Say, a child is born numb, blind and deaf. The child is not even aware that it has entered a physical realm of being. It cannot ascertain that it has left the birth canal. It does not know whether it is a fetus or a child. It also makes a big difference if the child misses just the sense of sight or the sense of hearing. Its overall sense of perceiving its environment is greatly inhibited by the inability to hear or see, and maybe, because of it, some other senses are heightened in sensitivity.

The components of religion and culture in awareness of reality can also be easily verified. Religion is most of all forced indoctrination into a certain belief system. The religious setting is thus of a purely virtual kind. One cannot get physically in contact with the main premises of the belief system. They must be accepted as belief systems. Though religious belief can have physical consequences. Christians may happily be enjoying a ham sandwich, but Muslims, and maybe people of the Jewish and Hindu persuasion, may dump such a sandwich in the garbage when received–the taste of ham and pork in general is never realized and is missing in their understanding of reality. General education also is a system of severe indoctrination. One learns things in school that may be true or not, physically or spiritually, depending on the cultural, scientific and religious misconceptions of the authorities on topics learned. One’s indoctrination into a national setting is also mostly of the fictional kind and in America this indoctrination changes from generation to generation (every five years or so). Most of what a grown person knows consists of clever schemes of fictional indoctrination.

Our knowledge of science finds its beginning in mere suppositions/axioms on which the proofs of other suppositions rest. These suppositions are accepted as truth because they almost always work according to the laws defined on the basis of such suppositions. The more one knows it seems the more one is harnessed by laws, demarcations and regions where things will work and where not. All implements of use we manage to fashion are defined by inquiry, deduction and philosophy. These implements are not part of our natural understanding of reality but are forced into our awareness of reality through indoctrination. Whether these implements consist of the heaviest materials or are mere gossamer path of mental thought, they all are of the type of virtual reality that we have adopted as if part of the entire sphere of physical reality–and in such topics of science and religion, the adopted sense of reality is different for a doctor in science or theology and a housekeeper forced out of school to earn money for the family. So everyone has a different understanding of reality. Yet, we all accept a huge part of reality as integral: the physical universe. It can be observed and measured, analyzed and modeled. But is what we understand of the physical universe real as seen from a spiritual point of view?

As human beings we are forbidden to look into this matter because our senses and our brains lock us tightly in the physical arena. My sense of touch and sight convince me that a drinking glass is for real. Is that a correct conclusion of a sense-oriented observation in spirit? The existence of the glass is merely verified by senses that can only get in touch with or observe material things of a physical nature. Could it be that the substance of the physical universe and the substance of our senses were designed in a virtual setting to interact with each other in such a manner as to give these virtual physical creatures the idea that the things they observe seem to have a basis in a real-like physical universe? Could the entire interactive setup of creatures and physical universe be a working, interactive spiritual model or interactive display into which our souls, for some unperceived reason, have been mentally wired or cast? If so, are these souls aware in spirit or are they in some hypnotic state? Is their attention in the physical universe of a purely unconscious mental nature? Believe it or not, the Bible, and in particular, Jesus gives us the correct answer. If our understanding of physical reality is nothing more than a virtually perceived spiritual scheme may we then also presume with a high level of certainty that the kind of spirit that designed, created and continues to suspend the universe is of a virtual type also? What is the criteria of a virtual reality? Is a virtual reality not based on certain make belief supposition, like the suppositions we needed to materialize the physical realm from certain sense-derived perceptions of the body? The sneaky thing about our perceptions of our environment is that they are generally shared by all other creatures. I like to compare that with an instrument we are all familiar with, breath analyzers. Every breath analyzer is calibrated to sense alcohol or a drug in exactly the same manner. Analyzers are fabricated things. Since our bodies all produce, more or less, the same interpretations from sense detections received, are not our bodies a mass produced kind of virtual machine just like a breath analyzer? The analyzer does not naturally belong in the physical realm, but it always just has had a potential to exist in the physical universe.

My next question is: Is the potential for a manufactured material object in physical reality for real or is it of a virtual nature? When does a virtual concept of the implement seem to convert from a virtual apparition to a solid working physical object; or, was there an actual conversion at all? Can the working analyzer still be considered a virtual object? Is the conversion from virtual potential to real object just caused by a wrinkle produced in our brains? For similar reasons I question whether hetero- and ********** attractions in humans (and also in animals) are virtual or real experiences. They are actuated by the mere flow of hormones in the animal-type body. The hormone flows are triggered by mere virtual control mechanisms that are part of the growing and functioning body (like the functioning of the breath analyzer) We cannot help but to smell, see, hear, touch and taste. We are forced to do so. We lack the ability, unless we forcibly disconnect our senses like receiving drugs, pinching the nose, etc. to have a choice. Sexual attractions and aversions are caused by some biological clock that is differently programmed but operates in the same manner for each species and race. These time clocks must be of a virtual nature like programs on our computers that control functions in the computer but also beyond the confines of the computer like keeping the temperature in a building or a swimming pool constant.

If human animals are mere spiritual virtual perceptions in a virtual spiritual display, so must be all creatures on earth and so must be the system of physical reality itself. All animal and plant creatures must be animated by exactly the same kind of souls as in humans. What criteria are the same and what criteria can possibly be different between human souls and animal souls? It seems to me that human animals are of a higher order, a newer order, than creatures in raw nature. What can newness of soul have to do with the difference between souls associated with humans and those associated with creatures in brute nature? I believe that all (identical) souls are associated with creatures and things in the physical universe because they were cast out somehow from spirit. Spirit is the true reality. Souls in spirit must have believed a lie about the realm of their native truth, so they lost interest in their native god and also in the realm provided to them in that realm of native truth. Souls having believed a lie have no place to be, so they can only exist in a virtual reality constructed while souls lie in a spiritual type of lie-induced coma. They cannot be aware of the spiritual environment because of a system of lies believed about it.

A physical person in a coma is in a state of mind adopted by that person after it went through a very traumatic event and it refuses to be mentally present again in physical reality; so it adopted a state of a permanent dream environment as an alternate reality to be in. The person refuses to wake up although all the systems in the body indicate that there is no reason for it not to wake up. The traumatic trauma that caused the coma is only an isolated event and can be considered an anomaly or a mere virtual event in the ordinary existence of human life. The souls in comatose humans have made a choice based on an isolated incident and refuse to take into account the general situation of life. It believed a lie about the reality of which they were a part. So the dream state it now mentally adopts is a state based on a lie believed.

If a spiritual lie believed can tumble someone away from the normal state of awareness in one’s native spiritual realm, many lies believed will tumble the believers of such lies into ever deeper states of virtual existence.

From the natural progression of things I can thus conclude that reality as perceived by physical creatures is based on the amount of lies absorbed in the mind of soul. The more systems of deceitful propaganda a soul believes the deeper it tumbles into the reality of the physical universe. The longer a soul is associated with the physical universe (and thus the more deceit it holds as truth), the more degenerate the state of the soul. It can only accept a physical existence compatible with that spiritual state of deranged mind–the mind of simpler construction such as those in animals that have lost all contact with their spiritual aspect as souls in spirit. Since there is an untold number of species and their associated races in earth, there must be an untold number of events of lies believed that correlates with each class of animal and plant life. The more lies believed and held in soul as truth the more brute type of animal is associated with that soul.

I like to bring up the nature of creatures that exist thousands of feet deep in the ocean. They can be blind or have the ability to see by the luminance of their own body. We have moles who have eyes but are blind as bats. We have moles and bats that are blind yet have eyes. Have the eyes adopted another means to sense the environment in conjunction with the ability to throw channeled beams of vibration ahead of them to locate and catch insects in flight? Are blind creatures, yet still having eyes, in a spiritual mental state of moving from that state into states where sight has become unnecessary because due to spiritual mental atrophy the eyes are eliminated altogether? Are they, henceforward, limited to only experience their surroundings and thus be aware of reality, absent the capability of sight? Is their sightlessness a necessity placed on them because of lack of light in there realms of darkness or is it a spiritual necessity because of the systems of lies believed by souls inhabiting such types of bodies? We can thus presume, by an alternate means of analysis, that a certain kind of spiritual atrophy occurs in souls when it has entered into association with the virtual physical display of reality that omits the absented sense of awareness because of lies believed about it previously held state of awareness.

The more the soul atrophies the more brute type of virtual existence it can have in earth. This atrophy probably will cause a soul, eventually, to enter the state of accepting inert material as habitation. I believe that Hindus understand that principle also, but mine comes from a place of spiritual philosophical origin. It does not come from association with belief systems that are part of the heritage of the earth. Reality in the physical sphere is a commonly accepted understanding among a set (and all kinds of different sets) of creatures as to what constitutes the environment in which they experience life.

Reality does not furnish a reason and a purpose for being. It forces from creatures an urge to continue to be. The thing that appears basic for any creature is the undefined, compelling drive to be (exist) and continue to be, at whatever cost and effort to oneself and/or others. This drive is a consequence of experiencing reality from one’s spiritual place determined by the number of systems of lies believed. We do not seem to know the reason for this drive other than that it has its origin in anxiety and fear. In order to be we must exert, channel, reflect or absorb (imbibe) power (energy of some sort). I claim that the need to manipulate power over others, and even just to elements in the environment is an expression and outworking of evil. It seems that we experience environment as given to us; but I assert that environment and all things in it, our common sense of reality, is a false belief system enforced on us from an evil spiritual source on high (the god of the universe) which sense of reality we also must enforce on each other. We enforce this system of deceit on each other simply by being a part of it and interacting with each other in it.

We, the unaware, are in effect of an enveloping virtually designed reality and we are the cause of its acceptance among other member of our society and of general nature. The source of that belief system is what we refer to as god or higher power (power is proof of evil). Belief in truth comes to souls naturally, but a belief in a system of lies is forced on us through deceit in the form of propaganda issued to us from a source we consider authority. Where there is effect there is a cause. The cause of the universe always seems hidden or is shrouded behind a cloak of respectability. When stripped from its cloak, the cause, again, is evil–a malicious system of deceit that some power of mind exerted and we adopted. Evil always comes in the disguise of an angel of light–a person just had to believe the deceit because it seemed so good and wholesome. The way I understand physical life is that it is the outworking of a curse, the reason and purpose for the curse is not any longer known to us. We seem to be thrown together by an unseen hand or power and made to compete, deceive, kill and exploit each other in the undefined compelling force to just be, and to do so with the least effort, in the greatest of comfort and at the expense of other creatures. In one way or another, we all want to be king of some small or greater hill.

I want to summarize that all truth (believed about a soul’s native realm paradise) constitutes true spiritual reality, and that lies believed about one’s naïve spiritual reality reconstitutes personal reality into a physical type of perceived virtual reality; that reality is also determined by the severity of spiritual atrophy of the soul due to the total amount of all systems of lies believed.

By: Hans VanKrieken

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Hans van Krieken, author of “The Truth About Reality- -Beyond God and Religion

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