Illusion/reality/delusions

[Shin'Ar]

Ra speaks much about illusion, but it doesn't seem in a bad or good way, but rather just it is without connotation.

So illusions and reality seem to fit together in my mind as two sides of the same coin.

Now onto delusions. Delusions seem to be creating illusions that are not based on truth.

Hey Marc,

I think that many in this community interpret Ra's use of the word illusion, or should I say Jim's use of the word, as meaning what illusion usually means when most of us use it. Something that does not really exist.

As in optical illusion. It seems to be there but it is not really there.

But from what I have studied so far of the material I don't think that is how Ra means to apply it at all.

I think that Ra speaks of illusion as being the formed opinions and thought processes of each individual field based upon its personal interpretations and evolved understanding.

What I manage to acquire as understanding would be my illusion because it is what I perceive in that desert of many optical illusions and vibrations.

It does not attempt to suggest that creation is all an illusion. It does not imply that we each create our own illusions as some separate creation.

It simply points to the fact that every thought process is a victim of its own comprehensive capabilities and limitations.

I think also that Ra has referred to this illusion in other quotes when It speaks of the difference between the actual state of a creation designed by vibrations, and the creation as we perceive it through physical eyes.

In other words, when we look at our environment we see light reflecting off of forms. But minus the physical 'illusion' created by the brain and the eye, what is really there is just a bunch of vibrating light and sound waves.

Now as for delusion, that is very different from illusion, and many times members here will use them as though they are interchangeable which creates a confusion in interpreting the Ra material.

Illusion and delusion are very different.

Illusion is something which does not exist.

Delusion is a deliberate or ignorant understanding based upon misinterpretation or inaccurate information.

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Another way of looking at this (and all illusions/delusions) would be on a spectrum where the only variable that denotes between the two is a measurement of the distortion that either have from reality.

An illusion is the complete and utter lack of reality.

How does one measure a factor between the two?