“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You can experience the illusion, but when you experience the illusion as an illusion, you no longer experience it. You are running ahead of yourself.

You do not know it now. When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any “Reality-Illusion" at your will, but the self who experiences these “reality-illusions" will know itself as reality. There is no place for it to go, because it is the only reality and will create its own environment.

([Gene]: “Of course. Think of the classical statue of Shiva standing on the crushed baby—a loving participation in the illusion of tragedy. Even in the illusion of self-delusion.”)

Two points. The joke is highly relevant. If you realized thoroughly that your physical world was an illusion, you would not be experiencing sense data.

“You can experience the illusion, but when you experience the illusion as an illusion, you no longer experience it. [...]

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any ‘reality … illusion’ at your will, but the self who experiences these ‘reality … illusions’ will know itself as reality. [...]

[...] “Think of the classical statue of Shiva standing on the crushed baby—a loving participation in the illusion of tragedy. Even in the illusion of self-delusion.”

[...] If you realized thoroughly that your physical world was an illusion, you would not be experiencing sense data.”

[...] Remember also that if physical reality is in a larger sense an illusion, it is an illusion caused by a greater reality. The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning.

[...] Not only is the illusion of space caused by your own physical perceptive mechanisms, but it is also caused by mental patterns that you have accepted — patterns that are adopted by consciousness when it reaches a certain stage of “evolution” within your system.

[...] Basically, however, this is an illusion. [...]

[...] On the one hand you can indeed call them illusion. On the other hand, these illusions are quite real. [...]

[...] Infinity has to do with value fulfillment, and the unfoldings of ever new possibilities, the exploration of moment points, the traveling through dimensions that ever creates the illusion of time. [...]

The basic reality is indeed within the illusions. [...]

[...] This gives you also the illusion of past and future, and to you it appears that the present is a fleeting, almost ashen illusion in itself, beyond any true remembrance and beyond the reach of any but nostalgic recall. [...]

For the same reason you are also obsessed with the idea of cause and effect, with the illusion of successive time bringing forth the other. [...]

The distortive illusion of successive moments, and of the resulting conception of cause and effect, are both on your plane the result of the observation by the outer senses, and are practical and useful on your plane and therefore have a certain validity, if for you only.

[...] There is no beginning and no end; only your camouflage idea structures give this illusion. [...]

[...] The unitary self is basically an illusions and yet individuality is no illusion.

[...] The limitations are illusions. And yet the extent to which the illusions are shattered represents on your level the sparks of the expanding consciousness.

[...] (Long pause.) For those who may seem like gods to you, killing is no crime, for there is no such thing as even the illusion of death. On one level then it is true that death, like life as you know it, is an illusion. You cannot rid yourselves completely of the illusion while you are within physical bodies.

[...] That is, it would not exist even as an illusion.

You have only to let your fears go to discover that you are hardly alone, and that any aloneness that you feel is an illusion cast by your own mind even as the seeming divisions in time are illusions cast by your own mind. Your inner selves deny the seeming illusion for in dreams you are reunited with yourselves, and as you listen to me speak you are reunited with yourselves if you only probe within my words and feel the reality that they invoke within you. [...]

[...] I know, for example, your great identity with all the other selves, in your terms, that you have been and will be and know that your feeling of isolation is an illusion and yet, you (Valerie) must know it. [...]

The well-advanced personality then is aware of nontime, but can use the time illusions of others and can enter the particular camouflage structures. [...]

[...] It’s illusion is far too apparent to him. [...]

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. But why call our generalized awareness an illusion, instead of regarding it as one of the innumerable manifestations that reality takes? [...]

[...] You will discover your whole selves, peeping inward and outward simultaneously, and know that all divisions are illusion.”

[...] The change in it that you seem to perceive is illusion.

[...] The illusion of rigidity is the result of your own outer senses, a perception which is too slow to catch the constant pulsations, as bits of energy that compose material constantly disappear entirely and are replaced.

[...] They are illusions. Even the boundaries that you set about your own identities are illusions. [...]

[...] By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

[...] The geese looked very vulnerable against the massive roll of the earth beneath them, but this was an illusion: Like every other entity on earth, each one of those birds knew very well what it was doing. [...]

There are many illusions, but the illusions are also real since they are created and since they exist. [...]

[...] You have chosen your own illusion, and so you must accept it, and from its viewpoint must you try to understand the realities that exist beyond it.

[...] Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. [...]

[...] The time you seem to spend within the dream, within each life, is only an illusion, and to the inner self no moment has passed, and to the inner self there is no time. [...]

[...] Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. [...]

[...] The time you seem to spend within the dream, within each life, is only an illusion, and to the inner self no moment has passed, and to the inner self there is no time.

Now to some extent, to some large extent, time as you know it with its continual moments is a highly specialized illusion, even within your physical system.

[...] They do not share the illusion. [...]

[...] The past, the present and the future as you know them are illusion, and yet they exist now. [...]

[...] Your dreams appear as illusion to your normal waking self. [...]