09-03-2015, 08:54 AM
Just speaking personally, I've moved towards an "Everything is Real" model, rather than the "Everything is Illusion" attitude of Buddhists and such. In an infinite universe, where pretty much anything that is even remotely possible has\will happen, I just see less and less reason to bother trying to define some things as real and others as not-real.
After all, Ra speaks of distortions rather than illusions. Distortions are real-as-in-beer. They happen all the time, in wide variety of materials, media, and settings. Whether we're talking about a funky-sounded distorted vinyl album that's gotten warped, or funky beliefs stemming from a distorted worldview, it's pretty much the same thing vibrationally speaking.
More or less, I say that something exists if its impact can be measured on other extant systems. Beyond that, it's really just splitting philosophical hairs debating where something comes from, or how "real" it is from whatever points-of-view you want to look at.
After all, Ra speaks of distortions rather than illusions. Distortions are real-as-in-beer. They happen all the time, in wide variety of materials, media, and settings. Whether we're talking about a funky-sounded distorted vinyl album that's gotten warped, or funky beliefs stemming from a distorted worldview, it's pretty much the same thing vibrationally speaking.
More or less, I say that something exists if its impact can be measured on other extant systems. Beyond that, it's really just splitting philosophical hairs debating where something comes from, or how "real" it is from whatever points-of-view you want to look at.