The Search for Reality

The Search for Reality 1

Where does reality end and fantasy begin? Or, conversely, where does fantasy end and reality begin? Can it be judged, just by how many people share a belief, that it be truth or delusion?

Looking at society as a whole, is there really a ‘War on Terror?’ Is there., in fact, a ‘War on drugs?’ I’d wander how much crime is in fact linked to the drugs trade, the substances people turn to when they just can’t cope. Without demand, as they say, there is no supply. Which means that any real war would be a ‘War on Misery’. Yet, instead, we are stuck with phonies in command that baulk whenever asked to confront fundamental causes.- which is not to excuse the behaviour of the ‘enemies’ in such wars, wither, just to say that there is something deeper at stake, which are lead by the nose to conveniently ignore.



The Search for Reality 2

Did you ever notice the way in which what actually happens can be so opposite to our expectation at times, however often it conforms. Of course, this exposes certain flaws in our understanding of the situation. Yet, at times, it is almost as if something else is happening, that as we live, imagination carries on it’s own life and reality another one.

This may sound crazy at first glance, but such mental events can be the very bedrock of sanity, allowing us to cope with compromised surroundings. A life fed by ‘wish-fulfillment’ dreams, which is the stuff of fantasy everywhere.

Yet, there is no disjunction as the two lives carry on, each invested with our passionate energies, sometimes our fantasies the more so. There is a continuity, even if at times it produces ironic contrasts- that girl we like being cold to us, the one we have less interest in being warmer. Yet, we can have faith that the ‘real’ reality is ultimately the more positive one, even if we don’t really know why.


The Search for Reality 3

With ultimate reality, simple is best- bathed in the bright light of God.

With projected, insubstantial realities, things can get very complex, as mortal beings project their attempted organization of things onto their environment, seeking personal benefits. Such ‘personal’ benefits can include their families, or other groups, yet ultimately all such projections are of individual identities. It is good to seek for the best. Yet, it is wrong to see this as in some way ‘exclusive’ and in ways that might deprive others- the abundant universe has enough for all. Power plays, lust for power over others, are all ultimately delusions in a free-will universe where we should in fact practice universal love.

God can help with his love and grace even in such dark labyrinths of illusionary limitations. Indeed, encountering such possibilities may even be part of the divine plan.