Before I start I will mention that this explanation has been
simplified into common sense (naïve realist) language hence it
doesn't accurately convey what I think but it is adequate. The points
are not random but develop in sequence.
What I think in simple terms:
Reality “is what it is”.
All that exists is reality "in action".
We are not what we think we are.
The world is not what we think it is.
Due to naïve
realism we succumb to persistent false interpretation
(delusion).
Delusion leads to dysfunctional participation in reality,
which leads to a self-perpetuating spiral of delusion, suffering and
destruction.
How we think creates what we think, and there is a feedback
loop whereby what we think influences how we think.
Delusional beliefs produce delusional thought processes and
lead to a spiral into ever deeper delusion.
Corrective beliefs and “inner work” clarify the thought
processes and lead to a spiral into clarity.
Whilst what we think programs how we think, if the thought
processes themselves are riddled with dysfunctional habits such as
naïve realism it is futile to just clarify what we think because
the dysfunctional thought processes will constantly distort what we
think.
It is important to focus on correcting how we think because
if the thought processes are clarified, by overcoming naïve
realism, then delusional thoughts will be recognised as such.
Words symbolise concepts, which are the content of 'what' we
think, hence it is impossible to speak directly about 'how' we
think, the closest we can get is to say what we think about how we
think, which is what most of this is.
That which we think we are becomes the central character (the
ego) in the 'story' that is accumulated in memory.
An ego dominates, controls and identifies with the organism
(cellular society) in an analogous way to “the state”
(collective ego) dominating, controlling and identifying with a
society (collective organism).
All that we interpret, experience and know is given meaning
within the context of the ego, and its desires, fears and agendas.
That which we think of as our lives is the story of the ego
woven in memory – that which we call 'history' is the story of the
collective ego woven throughout the collective mind (culture).
The ego maintains a self-image that it projects as its
'persona' or propaganda front and when egos agree to treat the
persona as the whole being what results is a 'person'. Thus a
'person' is a socially constructed mythological entity arising from
mutual self-deception.
The vast majority of our evolution as a species and as
civilisation has been founded upon delusion that is cultivated by
the ego, both individual and collective.
Mind (culture) can be a useful faculty but only when it is
not infested with delusion, otherwise it is a great danger.
Liberation is never 'of' the person (state) but 'from' the
person (state).
Delusion can be overcome however the ego (both individual and
collective) is entirely "woven out of" delusion and will
fight for its imagined 'life' to maintain and deepen the delusions.
The greatest weapon of the ego is denial, which destroys
truth, love and reason, resulting in cynicism.
The ego's armour is made of an alloy of ignorance and
arrogance, which is impenetrable to truth, love and reason.
The habit of naïve realism can be overcome and by doing so
the capacity of the mind to entertain delusion is lost – the ego
evaporates and harmony naturally arises.
Regardless of how deep and entangled the delusions are,
liberation is possible so long as the will is capable of 'seeking'
it - attainment may require persistent and arduous 'seeking' or it
may be instantaneous.
There is no one 'method' for attaining liberation but all
methods have the same general principles – to weaken denial,
ignorance and arrogance so that truth, love and reason can penetrate
and permeate consciousness.
Some false ideas deepen delusion and some lessen it - for
example the idea that "I am the body" will lead to
worsening delusion whilst the idea that "I am not the body"
will lessen the delusions up to a point, however both are false
ideas that only have meaning within a delusional paradigm.
Ideas of existence or non-existence, I or other, space or
time, bondage or liberation, pain or pleasure, doing or not doing,
being or not being, creation or destruction, dualism or non-dualism,
this or that are all false ideas.
It is possible to develop a rigorous 'science' of the
overcoming of delusion by utilising false ideas appropriately, to
'disentangle' the delusional paradigm within the mind of an
individual and within the collective mind (culture) of a
civilisation, to bring to light and rectify the dysfunctional
thought processes and thereby 'liberate' consciousness.
By overcoming delusion reality is no longer obscured from
awareness - analogous to a society that is liberated from the state
and its propagandist manipulations.
When delusion is overcome the mind can 'reflect' reality
clearly.
Full participation in reality is then possible - not as an
'actor' within an imagined story but as a 'motion' of all that is.
Reality is not inanimate and that which we imagine to be our
own consciousness is a "drop in the ocean" of universal
consciousness.
Systems at all levels of complexity such as a particle, an
atom, a cell, an organism, a civilisation, a planet, a galaxy,
etc... all experience themselves and their world according their
nature.
Existence operates at all levels of system complexity and the
system boundaries that define the levels of complexity and the
systems that exist at those levels are artefacts of perception –
thus the systems we perceive ourselves to be, both inner (mind) and
outer (body), are artefacts of our own perception.
A cell within our bodies experiences itself as an individual
and we are its civilisation. Civilisation experiences itself as an
individual and we are its cells. These perspectives are no more nor
less real that our own perspective and all perspectives are just
'views' of reality and cannot perceive reality itself.
Anything that can be perceived, seen, touched, thought, felt,
spoken, etc... is not reality but an experience (a movement of
consciousness).
Reality is imperceptible in every sense.
The 'universe' is analogous to a virtual reality that is
animated by an imperceptible reality generative process – it
cannot be seen because it is the seer of every sight.
The inner most 'self' (animating principle) of all that is,
is the reality generative process.
Every 'thing' is an object of perception which is both
produced and experienced by the reality generative process as it
animates the virtual reality.
The reality generative process has neither beginning nor end
because 'time' exists only within the virtual reality. Neither is it
infinite or infinitesimal because 'space' exists only within the
virtual reality.
The nature of that which I call the "reality generative
process" is beyond all concepts and cannot be known, however
all else can be known - keeping in mind that all knowledge is a
'reflection' that depends on the quality of the 'mirror-like' mind.
The reality generative process is not in any sense a 'thing'
as there is no 'other' to perceive it and it does not exist within
any context but is the foundation of all existential contexts.
The reality generative process is not random but is
self-ordered.
The orderly processual emanation of existence can be modelled
mathematically.
This mathematics can provide a conceptual foundation for a
unified science that can help to liberate consciousness from
delusion.
The mathematics of the reality generative process is a
non-naïve realist language with which to enquire into and
communicate about reality.
Aside from all these metaphors woven out of false ideas,
reality "is what it is" and all that exists is reality "in
action".