Truth vs. Illusion

Actually, this post isn’t about Santa Clause, or at least, not directly.

As part of my effort to understand truth, I had to learn to discern what was real and what was not. And I came up with this:

“If it has influence, it is real!”

Wow! What a hopelessly overwhelming idea. If something has an effect or influence on something else, in a Clock Work Universe, then that thing must be real.
As I grew up, I remember being greatly intrigued as scientists discovered
invisible objects by observing the effects they had on other objects. Especially, Black Holes, planets, dark matter,
etc, are objects that can exert influence without being seen.

But in the realm of consciousness, what about invisible objects that cause effect? Excuse my imaginative example, for I’m a little morbid, I think: But consider that your distant Aunt Margaret is walking down the street one day and suddenly, she sees a ghost of her dead
husband Frank on the other side of the street.
Startled, she attempts to cross the street without looking both ways and
is hit by a bus. We’ll leave her fate
open for now.

Now people can argue all day long about whether or not she actually saw a ghost, but the fact that Margaret (hypothetically) crossed the street because she “thought” she saw Frank remains real. The source of Frank’s image could have been a thousand different possibilities, a look alike, a longing desire, a failing
mind, etc. In a universe where truth
happens, some where stimuli triggered a reaction and the levers of the universe
caused a reaction.

This lays a foundation for my idea of who God is. The source of consciousness could be so weak, that we might never find it. But if a spirit can influence a thought, which could influence a body, which could influence a nation, which could influence a planet, then God could indeed be an
invisible influence.

When I think of the magic of my human condition, I am amazed at my ability to defy a Clock Work Universe. Even though my brain is a type of Artificial Intelligence, programmed to respond to countless situations that I cannot even begin to understand or
control, there is a still a small part that get closer to freedom of thought.

I understand that most of the things I want are actually things my body is programmed to want, or to respond to when seen in others. The magic of Mirroring Neurons means that most of what I want is actually just things that I’ve observed in
others and that my brain has reproduced in my own consciousness. So the fancy car, the nice home, the big
muscles, etc, are more then likely just my brain responding to stimuli.

The ability to respond is based on a series of cosmic levers, which are also based on truth. The levers, must work as the Clock Work Universe dictates. So if my brains responds to the story of Santa Clause, whether or not the story is an illusion or not, the effect is
real.

This system of stimuli and response brings into question what is actually real? How deep does the stimuli go? How many systems of levers does it take for consciousness to utter a single word? Can a nation respond to a spirit such as
compassion? Is compassion real? Are the stories that spend its power just
levers? Are the experiences that
condition us to respond to it just training programs?

Though my understanding of deeper dimensions is lacking, I find the 4th dimension (time) to be a massive lever for creating change in the universe. Even though I might not be able to do something in this instant, I might be able to do it over several
days. My consciousness first leverages
the tool of my mind, which then leverages the dimension of time to make a plan
and then leverages the tool of my body and motor planning to achieve something.

The universe has turned into an infinite mess of levers, influences, responses, illusions, and truths for me. Illusions can become real because the truth can create responses to them. For example: If I concoct a story,
aimed to stimulate systems attuned to compassion, I can trigger a response. The story was just a tool to a push a button,
but the pushing was real, the response was real, so in a sense, the story was
real, even if just an illusion.

If it has effect, in a Clock Work Universe, then it is real. The truth is in between the levers and organization of functional systems, but the truth gives power to illusions. Truth is in the spirit. Ultimate truth is invisible. Those things that we see are illusions assembled
by consciousness leveraging truth. If it
happens, it had to follow the laws of truth, even if what happens is an
illusion.

Truth happens.

My mind cannot reach so deep into the truth as to understand all of the pleasures of being. I know that our existence is built upon layer and layer of illusion, though the effect is real, because our consciousness experiences it. We can twist things, but even the twisting
must follow the truth. We can twist
truth into such painful images if our illusions are not in tune with truth. In other words, there are illusions that
compliment truth and there are illusions came be terribly painful.

The Truth of a Clock Work Universe supports the idea of “do unto others” because everything you do affects everyone else. However, if you choose to “ignore” that truth, then pressures are still applied to your existence, they are simply a part of your ignore-ance. Our ignore-ance
is a sum of cosmic pressures and influences that are real, but outside of our
consciousness. In my case, that is a lot of pressure and influence.

Conscious Creativity is the process of unraveling our ignorance and learning to understand the influences upon us and the influences that we have on others. If metaphor, story, or other formless influence can cause an effect, it is real. To ignore those things we consider “unreal”
is to miss 99.9% of the influence in our lives.
Every event is surrounded by a series of Clock Work laws, yet when consciousness
is presence, an simple event could trigger countless different reactions, those causing the Clock Work to react differently, because our consciousness is interfaced with the Clock Works differently.

How consciousness responds to stimuli might be predictable, to some degree, but consciousness can be configured in an infinite possible ways. At some point, all consciousness is the same, but how it is configured is what makes our soul. How we respond to the world around us, is a
process of ownership, and learning how to work the levers of the universe.