Mastering the illusions of Life

In preparation for your meeting with the Creator, it will serve you well to step away from your illusions – including the illusion that you and the Creator are separate.

That is what you are doing here. That has been the purpose of the entire conversation with God. For you seek now to live with the illusions, and not within them. And it is that honest seeking which has brought you here, to the communication.

It has been clear to you for some time that there is a flaw in the illusions. This should have revealed all of them as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the illusions, or something very vital would come to an end.

And, they were right. But they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the illusions as illusions, and using them for the purpose for which they were intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.

The answer was never to fix the flaw but merely to see it, and thus to remember what you knew at a very deep level. And that is why you could not give up the illusions without something very vital coming to an end.

The reason for the illusions is to provide a localized context field within which you may re-create yourself anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are.

The Universe itself is a contextual field. That is both its definition and its purpose. It provides life with a way to be expressed and experienced physically.

You are a localized version of that same contextual field, as is everyone and everything else around you. In other words, localized God.

Outside of this localized context, you can only know yourself as all That Is. And All That Is cannot experience Itself as what it is, since there in nothing else.

In the absence of that which you are not, That Which You Are is not, it cannot be experienced. It cannot be known.

This you have been told many times.

You have been told that in the absence of fast, “slow” is not.   In the absence of up, “down” is not. In the absence of here, “there” is not.

In the absence of the illusions, then, you are – quite literally – neither here nor there.
And so, you have collectively produced these magnificent illusions. A world - and indeed, a Universe - of your own creation. This has provided you with a contextual field within which you may decide and declare, create and express, experience and fulfill Who you Really Are.

You have all done this. The lot of you, Every one of you who are the individuations of the Divine Whole. You are each of you, seeking to know yourself, to define yourself.
Who are you? Are you good/ Are you bad? What is “good”? What is “bad”? Are you big? Are you small? What is “big”? What is “small”? Are you any of these things? What does it mean to be these things? Are you wondrous indeed?

This is the only question God ever had.

Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?

And who do I now choose to be?

This is the only question that matters, and this is what your soul is using your life to decide, every moment.

Not to find out, but to decide. For life is not a process of discovery, it is a process of creation.

Every act is an act of self-definition.

God is in the process of self-creation and self-experience in every moment. That is what you are doing here. And you are using the experience of that which you are not in order to have the experience of That Which You Really Are.

There is nothing which you are not. You are all of it, you are everything. God is All Of It. God is everything. Yet for you (God) to know the part of it that you are now expressing, you must imagine that there are parts of it that you are not. This is the Great Imagining. These are the illusions of life.

Therefore, use the illusions, and be grateful for them. Your life is a magic `trick, and you are the magician.

Expressing the glory of Who You Are in the moment that you are confronted with an illusion is what the journey to mastery is about. Within this context, it is important to acknowledge that the illusions can seem very real.

Understanding that the illusions are illusions is the first step in using them for their intended purpose, but it is not the only step. Next come your decision about what the illusions mean.

Finally, you choose the aspect of Divinity (the part of your self) that you wish to experience within a localized contextual field (what you would call “situation’ or “circumstance”) that you have encountered (created).

Here is that process in brief:

          1.See the illusions as illusions.
          2.Decide what they mean.
          3.Re-create yourself anew.

There are many ways to use The Ten Illusions, and many ways to experience them. You may choose to experience them as present-moment realities, or as memories from the past. The latter is how the illusions are used by advanced cultures and beings.

Highly evolved beings remain aware of the Illusions, and they never end them (remember, to end them would be to end life itself, as you know it), but they experience them as part of their past, rather than part of their present. They encourage each other to always remember them but never to live them as if they were here-and-now realities ever again.

Yet, whether you experience them in present time or as reminders from the past, the important thing is to see them for what they are – illusions. Then you can use them for what you will.

If it is your will to experience a particular aspect of you, the illusions are your tools. Each illusion may be used to experience many aspects of Who You Are, and you may combine, illusions to experience multiple aspect in multiple ways.

For instance, the First and Fourth Illusion – Need and Insufficiency – may be combined to experience a particular nuance of your true being that you might call self-assurance.

You cannot feel self-assure if there is nothing to feel self-assured about. By using the illusion of Need and Insufficiency, you can first entertain the idea that there is “not enough,” and then overcome it. By doing this repeatedly, you produce the experience of self-assurance, confident there will always be enough of whatever you need. This experience will be verified and validated by Ultimate Reality.

This is what is meant when it is said that one is “entertaining an idea.” You are in the process of re-creating yourself anew – and this is true recreation!

To use another in an infinite number of examples, the Second and Sixth illusion – Failure and Judgment – may be combined for a particular effect or experience. You can allow yourself to imagine that you have failed then you can judge yourself for it, or accept the judgment of others. Then you can rise above your “failure,” raising your fist to the sky with an “I’ll show you” attitude, and triumph in the end!

This is a delicious experience, and most of you have given this experience to yourself many times. Yet if you lose sight of the fact that Failure and Judgment are Illusions, you could find yourself stuck in those experiences, and they will soon seem like harsh realities indeed.

The movement away from the “harsh realities” of life is to step away from the illusions, and to see them for what they really are.

Any of the illusions may be combined with any other- Disunity with Need, Condemnation with Superiority, Ignorance with Superiority, Insufficiency and Condemnation with Failure, and so on. Standing alone or combined with others, the illusions exist as magnificent contrasting contextual fields, allowing you to experience Who you Really Are.

It has been said to you many times that, in the relative world, you cannot experience Who you Are except in the space of that which you are not. The purpose of the illusions is to provide precisely that – a space, a context, within which to experience every aspect of yourself, and an opportunity to choose the Highest Aspect of which you can then conceive, in any given moment.

Let’s look at the illusions one by one now, with some example of how they may be utilized to re-create yourself anew in the way that has been described here.