Illusion

*ILLUSION - also see LIE, IGNORANCE, IDOLATRY

Antonyms: REALITY, TRUTH,

Optical illusion like the 2 vases are actually 2 faces.

Attractions of earth are only illusions. To the comtemplative mind, they are keenly conscious of unity in multiplicity - of God in the world. (p269) The struggle of the self to disentangle itself from illusion and attain the Absolute is a life-struggle. (p275)(Mysticism)

Give up belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless Light of this true Reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved! If you still continue to feel a desire to exist an an individual, then you are now doomed to again re-enter the wheel of becoming (rebirth). [Fear] is just an illusion which you create from the forces within you. Know that apart from these karmic forces there is no Judge of the Ded, no gods, and no demons. Knowing that, you will be free! (Wisdom, Buddhism, p88-9)

Belief in God is an illusion that mature men and women should lay aside. The idea of God was not a lie, but a device of the unconscious which needed a personal god like an exalted and protective father-figure. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race, but now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. Science, the new logos, could take God's place. It could provide a new basis for morality and help to face our fears. (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Hist, p357)