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The Question What if you
woke up tomorrow and discovered that everything in your life is a lie.
That everything you've been taught, everything you believe in, every experience
you've ever had was simply not true, an illusion, a world that has been
pulled over your eyes like a pair of blinders that has hid all that is
true from you. A grand illusion that has made you a slave to a false reality
which doesn't have a shread of truth in it and whose main purpose is to
keep you from every recognizing that none of this is real. What would
you do? Would you rage
against the creator of this illusion? Would you fall into hopelessness
and despair? Would you try and erase this new knowledge and go back to
living the lie? Would you rebel and try to create a new illusion that
you liked better? Would you go into confusion and just stare off into
space? Or would you find a deep place inside yourself that burned to know the Truth, that yearned to find what was outside of the illusion? Would you have the courage to scrap every bit of knowledge you possess, assume you know nothing, and start anew? Could you open to something totally new knowing that you would have to give up every bit of identification with the illusion? Could you give up your sense of self, your personal identity, your worldly possessions, your beliefs about your society, your culture, your morals, your sense of what is right and wrong? Could you surrender everything to the Mystery of your existence and begin the process of finding out what this life is really about? Or would the Fear overwhelm you, would you decide you were happy with the false sense of security the illusion was providing you? What would you do? This is the
question that drives those on the spiritual path to True Awakening. It
is the unceasing questioning of the illusion that gives us the will to
continue. The deep understanding that everything we know is a false reflection
of the Truth is the fire that keeps us on the path toward truly BEING
the Mystery that stands at the core of our being. Without commitment to
questioning what is real, the illusion soon begins to creep in yet again,
pacifying us with its boring substitutes of drama, stimulation, and knowledge.
These substitutes hook our attention and keep us from BEING the experience
of The Great Mystery that is our birthright. It
is the questioning that keeps us on the narrow path toward the Truth,
without it we become lost and confused by the myriad of false comforts
offered by the illusion.
Read this Moon's
astrology article by Isis Ward, Past Moons' Articles by Heather Ash, Isis Ward and Spiritweaver's Circle Guides
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