You may all remember a few years ago in the news there was a story about a boy who had to live in a bubble because his immune system broke down and he could not take interaction with the atmosphere the way it exists ordinarily that we all walk through. He couldn’t walk through it because it affected him. It would somehow make him ill. Well, illusion is like that. It can make us ill. The difference is that not only don’t we notice it, the illnesses that it creates, the world tells us are not illnesses. They’re normal. So, we walk through this illusion along with other people who walk through this illusion. We’re affected by it.
Now, the people in our society who establish what’s appropriate behavior, what’s normal, what’s not normal, walk through this illusion the same way we do. They’re the ones, the PhD’s, who inform us of what’s correct and what’s not correct, yet they’ve been susceptible to the same karmic influences and illusion that everybody else has. They determine what’s OK.
A lot of what is not OK, they’ve determined as OK.
Here we are with the leaders leading the populace and indicating that certain abhorrent behaviors are not abhorrent. They’re OK.
How did this happen?
Well, it happened because somehow we have continuously moved away from a divine understanding of law to an understanding of law as created by man. The divine understanding has been done away with, undermined, undercut and put into a corner as if it had no relevance.
If law is discussed, they don’t discuss divine regulations, they discuss previous regulations set by man, and how those regulations create the ability to have an imagined equality in existence among people.
It’s almost as if to escape from this, we have to create a bubble around us, in the same way that the boy in the bubble had to escape from that which his immune system couldn’t handle.
We need to somehow develop an immune system that handles illusion. How do we develop an immune system that handles illusion? How do we handle illusion?
It’s a difficult process, mainly because we’ve been taught since childhood that there is a reality in this illusion. We continuously get messages over and over and over and over again reemphasizing the reality of this illusion.
What has to happen for us to create an immune system for this illusion? What do we have to do? What direction does our life have to take? What kind of conclusions do we have to come to? What kind of understandings do we need?
