Illusion And Delusion

If we wake up feeling ‘grumpy’ in the morning, even if the day goes smoothly, we will still see (create) the day and everything in it in a ‘grumpy’ light! If we awaken feeling positive and focused we can handle any adversity the day throws at us, and still see (create) it all in a positive light. As we perceive the world so we create the world so we project into the world and so it is likely to reflect back our projection. When we fully see and understand this dynamic process, both within ourselves and within our interactions with others/world, we might recognize and develop our capacity as ‘magicians’.

In the ‘physical dimension’ a magician is revered for creating an illusion that seems to defy logic. The illusion triggers the suspension of belief, hides the truth and ‘appears’ to create a new reality. But we know it’s just a trick. In the ‘spiritual dimension’ a magician has the capacity to dissolve an illusion, exposing what was previously held to be true as another false belief, thereby revealing the true reality.

It’s as if we realize we have been tricked but didn’t realize we had been tricked … but no longer! Ultimately good magic, in a spiritual context, will dissolve both the belief and the necessity for belief itself.

Spiritual magic is liberation from illusion. To put it another way, spiritual magic, which takes place entirely within consciousness, is exposing an illusion by annihilating the belief upon which it the illusion depends, and restoring a direct personal awareness of the truth. In so doing it is as if the spiritual magician is able to create a whole new reality, where in fact they simply take away the curtain of unreality (false beliefs) to reveal what was already there!