Reality Depends on the Power We Give the Illusion

While in my first year or so of studying the mechanics of astrology, a coworker approaching her retirement asked to be a practice subject.  Her name was Karen and she was “just curious”.  She wanted it done accurately so she wrote to the Vital Records department in her home state for her birth certificate.  She came to my desk a week or so later looking pale, puzzled, and dazed.  She had just received a call from Vital Records to verify some information that was a little different than what she provided.  Long story short, it was eventually discovered that Karen was not “Karen” at all; the name given her at birth was “Susan”.  She also discovered that the man she thought was her father all the 63 years of her life was in fact not.  “Susan” had been born in what was referred to in her mother’s time as a “home for unwed mothers.”   Karen/Susan confronted her mother, who by that time was 84 years of age.  At first, she tried to evade Karen/Susan’s questions but eventually told her the Truth. 

Karen/Susan was suddenly in a reality crisis.   By not telling her the Truth early in life,  her sense of Trust in her mother at all was badly shaken.  She started questioning everything in her life.   The man she helped her mother to bury just a few months before was in fact not her father; her siblings were now her half-siblings; even the name she identified herself by was a lie and she felt her trust betrayed .  Karen/Susan felt all the emotions of wondering what life could have been like had she known the Truth.  In this, she was trying to shift her power to a new illusion.  In short, reality is relative. 
This antedotal event illustrated for me how our personal reality depends on the power we give the illusion.  Karen/Susan is not alone in coming to terms with having her comfort zone shattered.  

I look back on that experience and see a similar mind split occurring on a collective level in America.  We are slowly awakening to the fact that what we assumed to be a free society and open government in America has in fact NOT been the case since for many, many years.  We have been so attached and enamoured by our collective self-image of being the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, it has been very difficult emotionally to suddenly be confronted with the knowledge that we have been living The Great American Illusion.  We thought we were secure in believing our best interests came first in Washington D.C.   We got too comfortable, too trusting—remained in our Dream sleep—Ah yes, the American Dream with two cars in every garage, a chicken in every pot, the ideal family of 2.5 children (?), TVs in every room, and endless sales at discount stores.  This is what we have been led to believe.  Sounded good.   Things didn’t always turn out so good but it was a familiar “reality”. 

What a shock to discover that We The People have all been lied to.  The only Constitution we really have left is held within our minds.  While some of our sisters and brothers actually had a clue that our current government is not the government that fathered this great nation, most of us have simply been lulled to sleep with an illusion of trust and security.   Now that we ARE AWAKENING, it is so vital to our future that we do not try to give away our personal power to another set of illusions.  By this I mean that the only way that power mongers become power mongers is when we give our power to them.  They can receive it no other way.  From my perspective, once we collectively take back our power—and stop idolizing the “Trumps” of this world and cowering in fear to the “Dictators” of the world (political, religious, or otherwise)—they will simply disappear.  Poof.  Gone.  Reality is relative.  Isn’t it time for us to face the Truth and truly bring power back where it belongs?  To You?  Empower yourselves.

I wrote in my journal entry on the evening of on 01/30/1998  about an interesting occurrence at the CNN weather desk that night.  When the meteorologist walked to the Doppler screen, a message came on screen stating:

“Current object does not exist.” 
Imagine that.

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 Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals. Kahlil Gibran