Why Is Anybody Convinced There Is A God?

Why Is Anybody Convinced There Is A God? Aug 21, 2017 12:14:56 GMT

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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 21, 2017 12:14:56 GMT

Aug 21, 2017 12:08:25 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Aug 21, 2017 11:53:11 GMT Terrapin Station said:

You're further fleshing out your view here, but that's not what I'm asking you to do. I'm asking you how do we know what that view is claiming?

"It is a projected illusion of the power of the ego mind" is your view. I'm asking you "How do we know that the refrigerator is a projected illusion of the power of the ego mind"?

Or "How do we know that it is a projected creation of a refrigerator that you have manifested into your life"?

I'm not asking you to further flesh out your view. I'm familiar with your view, or at least with views very similar to it.

I'm asking you to support that it's the case over competing views. How do we know it? In other words, in the sense of why would we believe that? What's the support of it?

It's about self-awareness. I can only speak from my own truth, or authentic nature of being within that awareness. My truth may not be your truth, and the proof is only in the projected illusion of the life I lead on this plane. I can't support or change anyone else's beliefs or attitudes, as that is their journey. All I can do is contribute and perhaps even inspire within my own being and that goes for every soul on this planet. In other words, the proof is in all our lives within our individual experience and each have to do the work ourselves to realize that what we see as reality, is really all just part of our dream.

Note that I wasn't asking you for proof of anything, by the way. Proof is a different sort of idea.

But okay, it sounds kind of like you're saying that how we know that something is an illusion, why we'd believe that, is because different people experience different things, they disagree with each other, etc.--is that basically it?