The Image of Reality

Have you ever pondered on the distinction we make between the reality of our mind, which we characterize as an 'internal' reality or 'imagination', vs. the 'external' reality of the world we live in?

One we describe as 'real', the other as 'fantasy', one we do not fully control, the other is a world we can create to accommodate whatever wish we may have.

But how real is the 'external' physical world?

Does light enter your Brain and project itself into neurons?

Does sound travel through your head until it arrives in a special place in your brain reserved for the processing of sound?

Does odor travel through the channels of your brain to its destiny?

Of course none of this happens.

We receive information signals which translate into sensations of smelling something, seeing an object, hearing a sound.

So our entire experience of living in this theater on the stage of Life is based on information signals we receive which project an image of an 'external' world to our Soul.

It is a process which resembles wearing a helmet which allows you to enter a virtual software world of a game or a simulation.

And that is the nature of the play of Life: a simulation designed to allow us to experience Dualism and relate to YHWH's reality from that perspective of Dualism.

Dualism serves to bring out the one choice which matters: the choice to love YHWH and His Truth, or to hate YHWH and thereby 'love' the Lie.

Dualism allows for the manifestation of non-existence, Evil, as if it is real.

To make the choice against YHWH in the metaphysical dimension is permanent and lasting.

It changed the angels who made that choice dramatically because they flipped from a '+' to a '-'.

They are not like us who abide in the reality of a physical dream world.

We are allowed to build upon the choice for Evil and be saved from that choice.

For this purpose we retain a conscience which allows our Soul to identify with it.

Yahshua is the One who came to set us free from our imprisonment in this physical dream world, so that we can be drawn back into the real metaphysical world.

Those who reject His salvation cannot return to Heaven, but they fall all the way into the dream within a dream within a dream, which is the realm of the 'outer darkness', Gehenna, the fantasy world designed to experience the absurdity of a Creation without YHWH, a dream world which is anti-YHWH and which expresses this reactionary existence in the form of a reality which is the reverse of YHWH's character, a realm of horror.

So what is 'real'?

Everything we see around us is the result of electrical signals processed by our brain, everything we hear is nothing but electrical signals in our brain, and the same is true for everything we smell, everything we touch.

Our entire perception of an 'external' world rests upon the way our brain processes electro-chemical signals, or rather, the way we digest information streams fed to our Soul.

And the entire world of fantasy rests upon the same principle: a world we construct by means of processing the information carried by electro-chemical signals.

The only reason we distinguish between the two is because the world we refer to as the 'external world' is capable of overriding our dream world of fantasy, and furthermore, we can shape our fantasy in whatever image we desire but we cannot shape the 'external world'.

But imagine that our 'external world' CAN be shaped in the same way as our imagination, only, we are prevented from doing so because this option is disabled?

Imagine that this option is available, yet only to the ones with the proper authority.

Then the distinction between the 'inner' and the 'outer' reality becomes less distinct and less pronounced.

It becomes a matter of different reality-environments which we would refer to as one residing on the outside and the other on the inside of our eyelids.

And even the presence of our eyelids is the result of information downloaded into our Soul.

We tend to take it for granted that we can indulge in whatever fantasy we seek to create.

As a kid I used to fantasize about flying away in a spacecraft through the universe, exploring uncharted planets, imagining how exciting it would be if I were to dive through a deck of clouds on another planet far away only to discover the presence of a city I had never seen before.

Creating this fantasy or daydream did not require much effort, because we can instantly create realities in our mind as if it is the easiest and the most natural thing in the world.

But that is EXACTLY what we are doing when we fantasize: we literally CREATE a world within our mind where we determine the rules for reality.

And THIS is exactly how our reality is related to YHWH: He is able to create the rules for our reality any way He likes, and there is nothing which is impossible for Him just as there is nothing which is impossible for us when we create worlds in our fantasy.

We can step into entirely different worlds instantaneously when we want to.

In our imagination we can construct any world which we desire, and we can do whatever we like in that world without anyone in that world being able to hold us accountable.

We become little gods ruling over the private universe we created.

In our private worlds we are the heroes succeeding where we fail in the 'external' world we do not control.

We always do the right thing and become like Mighty Ones parading on the stage of our imagination.

But, consider the distinction we make between our 'inner' world and the 'external' world, the 'inner' reality and the 'outer' reality.

Is the distinction just a matter of that which is separated by our eyelids, is it the fact that the 'inner' reality is something we can create as gods while the 'outer' reality all too often is beyond our control, is it because we classify one as 'real' and the other as 'unreal' and of no importance?

The Truth is that both the 'inner' and the 'outer' reality affect us, and in both domains we express ourselves.

These private 'inner' creations are not separate from the 'external' world we are part of, the stage of Life here in the theater.

Everything we experience in our private world is reflected in our feelings and emotions.

If we create a mental image of becoming angry at someone, our Body accurately reflects this state of emotions.

The Shadows know this all too well, and that is why they seek to infiltrate our imagination in order to create patterns of emotions, chains of interconnected neurons which create the chemical imbalance in the Body we experience as the rise of emotions.

The Dark Shadows attach certain suggestions and thoughts to this rise of emotions so that the emotions end up serving the purpose of creating a Shadow world of manipulation within us just as they engineer our 'external' physical reality to drive us into the arms of the Shadow world.

As easy and effortless as it might be, have you ever stopped to wonder what imagination really is, and how miraculous it is that we are able to create any kind of world we like within us?

We tell ourselves it is not real and therefore it does not matter, but the contrary is true: this 'inner' world influences us and the way we think, and it expresses itself in an 'external' physical reality by means of emotions.

Furthermore, this power of imagination is used in magic as a means to summon and channel energy towards the intended objective, so it is far more than just 'something unimportant'.

Fantasy is the result of our Soul willfully projecting an image into the faculties of the brain, and the Mighty Ones know very well that this is a powerful way to influence us.

They too have the ability to project images into our minds which our Soul may not even want to have.
By linking these images to emotions and feelings they have a powerful battery ram aimed at the door to our Soul at their disposal.

Their purpose is to draw the Soul into identifying with the images and succumbing to the scenery which they depict.

When we thus agree and consent with the manipulated reality of our mind-image, we invest faith in this Shadow reality and give it a place in our hearts.

It really makes no difference for us whether we succumb to temptation present on the stage, or whether the temptation is presented to us in our 'fantasy' world.

Our interaction with both makes the 'internal' fantasy as real as the 'external' world.

And what is the 'external' world?

We can sense the 'external' world through our physical senses, but this process avails itself of the same method of information transference and processing functions of the brain as our involvement with a fantasy world, and both affect our state of mind through the way they are able to give rise to emotions and feelings.

The physical world is the stage of Life, a theater production in the greater scheme of the spiritual reality of 'the world outside'.

We come from the 'world outside' to experience the play of Life as actors in the play, and yet, just as our fantasy world becomes real because it is linked to the emotions and sensations on a physical level, our physical experiences are linked to the metaphysical world through the sensations we experience in our Soul and Spirit.

Because most people make a very sharp distinction between the 'inner' and the 'outer' world, they tend to believe that whatever they do in their fantasy world does not matter, as long as they do not act out forbidden fantasies in the 'real' world.

You can fantasize about killing someone you do not like, but that does not hurt anyone as long as you do not turn it into a reality.

Is that true?

Did not Yahshua say that whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her?

Didn't He refer to the inner world of fantasy, and how whatever we do in an 'internal' fantasy affects us in spiritual terms just as much as whatever we do in the 'external' world?

Are we not a Spirit and a Body, and does not our identity reside in our Soul which is merged with the two?

If our brain processes electrical signals of the senses, does this process not produce an image of reality to our Soul?

When we fantasize about something, we employ the same processing functions, and the result to our Soul is exactly the same as when we perceive an image of an 'external' reality.

Memories of fantasies and thoughts occupy the same real estate in our brains as memories of 'real experiences'.

To our Soul BOTH are real.

So, if the image of an 'external' reality is bad for us, the same is true for the image of an 'internal' reality.

For us personally THINKING about having an affair with a married woman is just as bad as HAVING an affair with a married woman.

There is a difference when you act out such a fantasy because you end up affecting other people in an Evil way.

But other than that, the effect of OUR thoughts, OUR fantasy remains the same for us as the effect of the 'external' world has on us.

THINKING about how someone upset you causes you to experience the same emotions again, a principle upon which trauma is founded.
In terms of the effect they have on our Soul, the 'internal' and 'external' world are just two different realms of reality capable of having an equal impact on our Soul.
As a matter of fact, both realities create their impact by means of the translation mechanism of our mind and the emotional states it is able to generate.

In learning to overcome Sin this is probably the most important principle of all: learn to become masters of your thoughts instead of slaves acting out the thoughts.

One is a gift from YHWH, the other is the result of falling to Evil.

As long as we live in this obstructed and manipulated physical Body we will continue to experience obstruction rising through this Body in the form of thoughts and feelings which are contrary to the identity of the Spirit, and as such the conflict we experience will only be fully overcome the moment YHWH releases us from this Body, either through transformation, or by lifting our Soul and Spirit out of this Body.

And by the way, this physical Body is nothing other than OUR perception of a vessel engineered to experience a certain facet of a reality fashioned in the image of the wishes of the Creator of reality.

Because of our 'internal' duality, which also manifests on the 'outside', we are subjected to obstruction rising from within and without.

It is important to learn to have a little distance between ourselves, our Soul, and our thoughts and feelings, a little buffer which allows your Soul to tag the thoughts and evaluate them instead of being dragged along with them.

Because, our thoughts can be manipulated by forces beyond our control as part of an assault on our Soul.

The distinction between an 'internal' world and an 'external' world is a very thin and even artificial wall separating two realms of reality which are of equal importance in terms of the way they affect us
Both worlds are derived from processed information.

In spite of the distinction we make between our 'inner' world and the 'outer' world as if they are two separate realms which do not affect each other, the reality of our 'inner' world is able to affect the reality of our 'outer' world.

Does not the Bible inform us that as a result of the changed 'inner' reality of Adam and Eve after they had fallen to Sin, their 'external' reality changed to reflect their new 'inner' reality?

So, their inner Dualism which divided their Spirit against their Body now manifested in their environment as well, where next to the blessing the curse could be found, Evil next to Good.

The 'external' reality is an extension of the 'internal' reality, like a projection screen where we can behold an image of the result of our fall into the dualistic paradigm.

So, when we talk about realities and the 'internal' world vs. the 'external' world, we refer to a certain PERSPECTIVE and ORDER of realities, and our AUTHORITY over those realities.

The classifications of 'real' and 'unreal' do not exist for the Soul, because both worlds have an equal impact on our Soul.
Our dreams seem extremely real when we are asleep.

Yet this dream reality is shattered the moment we wake up, and we abide again in a different perspective of reality.

When Adam and Eve made a choice and acted on that inner choice, the 'outer' environment changed in the image of their 'inner' reality.

Didn't Yahshua say that the Kingdom of Heaven, YHWH's reign, is within?

If the inner world is 'unreal' as opposed to a 'REAL' outer world, then this would imply that the Kingdom of Heaven is 'unreal'.

Yet the Kingdom of Heaven is MORE real than the 'external' physical world, spreading from the 'inner' reality into the 'outer' reality.

The Kingdom of Heaven begins as a change in the restored Spirit of Man, then a changed Soul, and then this changed 'inner' reality will spread into the 'outer' world, the dream world of this physical realm.
The 'inner' precedes the 'outer', the opposite of what this world teaches us, which is that the 'outer' is 'real' and the 'inner' is unreal and therefore the 'outer' precedes the 'inner'.
Again evidence of the fact that we live in a reversed reality.

The problem with Satanic oriented minds is that they seek to reverse YHWH's order, as if a new Socialist or Fascist totalitarian system will be capable of bringing about a paradise, and that by living in this paradise man's 'inner self' will be changed for the better.

It will NEVER EVER work, because YHWH created the flow to move in the opposite direction, from the inside-out, not the outside-in.

The Satan reverses this flow and seeks to dominate man by means of this reversed flow.

This world was created as a dream hosting a reality which is the opposite image of the reality of Heaven.

In this dream, corruption and deception have been institutionalized, so that those who conform to corruption and deception are rewarded while those who adhere to Truth and purity are punished.

The greater the degree of deception and corruption are able to manifest due to Man investing in Sin, the greater the adversity YHWH's children will encounter.

The conflict with the reality of Heaven causes the Earth-dream to exercise a gravity pull on our faith.

Do we believe the Earth-reality which punishes us for believing in YHWH's Word and His promises, so that we no longer believe YHWH and reject the validity of His Word and promises, or do we hold fast in belief in YHWH and disbelieve the Earth-dream because we can see through it, realizing that it lies to us and wants us to abandon our faith?

This is why YHWH wanted this Earth-dream to become the host of a reversed image of reality, so that it might produce the gravity-pull on our faith which allows it to learn to spread its wings and fly towards Heaven.

A beautiful illustration of faith is found in the story of the disciples seeing Yahshua walk on the water towards their boat.

In faith Peter stepped out of the boat and walked on the water towards Yahshua, but the moment his eyes strayed away from Yahshua and his belief began to focus on the strength of the waves of the sea and the wind instead of keeping his eyes on the strength of Yahshua, Peter began to sink.

When he cried out to Yahshua to help him and his eyes focused back on Yahshua, Peter was pulled back up again by Yahshua reaching out His hand and lifting Peter out of the waves.

When we encounter adverse circumstances we are given the opportunity to learn to keep the focus of our faith on YHWH, because we understand how the waves of our circumstances have been engineered by forces beyond our control, forces which seek to drag our faith down into the waves.

These forces are nothing but manifestations of something which in essence can never exist, and so we should learn to see our manipulated circumstances as expressions of something which is not but which can express itself temporarily as a reality because of the energy which it appropriated for itself from others.

In their attempts to bury us in the waves the forces of Evil actually end up becoming instruments in YHWH's hands which allow us to grow and learn to fly in faith.

Just as the impossible path became possible for Peter because he focused on Yahshua, YHWH will open up His 'impossible' paths in Life for us if we keep our eyes focused on His Yahshua.

Recognize your manipulated circumstances for what they are, temporary and illusionary clouds, and keep the eyes of your faith focused on the Son beyond the clouds.

We are on the verge of entering into a nightmare which will host a Satanic nightmare for YHWH's children and a Satanic blessing for his own seed.

This nightmare will be the embodiment of the highest degree of deception and corruption, an ultimate reversed image of the reality of Heaven.

Just as it became impossible for Jews to live in Germany during the second world war it will become impossible for Yah's own to thrive in the Satanic world dictatorship waiting in the wings.

Only, whereas the Satan has planned, plotted and schemed to cut off YHWH's own, YHWH will interfere with his plans and they will not work out as planned.

The Satan may be a genius when it comes to manipulating Man, but he is an utter failure when it comes to anticipating YHWH's moves.

Man as YHWH created him will not be exterminated by the Satan, nor will he be able to rid this world of YHWH's own.

Quite the contrary, YHWH is about to make His big move which will open up this dream so that it will come to reflect the greater reality of Heaven.

YHWH will cut off the powers which exploit and victimize Man, so that Man will be free to live according to YHWH's plan, the Shabbat season for the Earth-dream.

This period of the ultimate Satanic assault will become the greatest test of our faith because of the intense gravity-pull it will produce in the form of circumstances contradicting YHWH's Word and His promises.

Many WILL fall away, but YHWH's own will prevail and endure, holding fast to their faith in YHWH's Words and His promises in spite of the contradiction of their circumstances.

You see, it never was about the blessing which would come to those believing in YHWH, but about learning to spread the wings of your faith.

This process of learning to fly is activated when YHWH tells us He will bless us, and the Adversary comes along to engineer and manipulate our circumstances so that they embody a lie, the Lie of the curse which in fact is the curse of the Adversary.

The tension produced by the contradiction between the promised blessing and the temporary manifestation of the curse is the gravity pull we experience in our Soul, and we either fall to the ground or we learn to fly.

You understand now how the denominations which teach you that you will prosper in all ways in Life if you confess their Jesus are setting you up to fail?

They install an expectancy of blessings in your mind, and if it fails to materialize that faith, -which they seeded-, falls to the ground.

People may end up rejecting Jesus because of the misrepresentation of the prosperity teachers.

You understand now how denominations which teach you with infallible certainty that Yahshua will come to rapture you out of the end-times scenario are setting you up to fail?
They install an expectancy of a specific form of Yahshua's rescue mission in your mind, and if it fails to materialize, that faith, -which they seeded-, will fall to the ground.
'Yahshua did not come to save you in the way you have been told, so He let you down'.
People may end up rejecting Yahshua because of the private interpretations of those who adhere to a rapture idea.

Don't reject Yahshua, because He is true.

It's just that those who misrepresent Yahshua are instruments used by Evil forces to cause your faith to fall to the ground.

Don't reject Yahshua, reject denominationalism, reject religion, but stay faithful to the Man in Whom our Creator dwells.
Then the purpose of the forces of Evil is thwarted, and they end up becoming instruments in YHWH's hands producing a strong gravity pull on your faith so that it can learn to fly.
Put your faith in Him, not in a theory or dogma.

So be glad when you meet various trials and temptations, me brethren and sistren, because it means your faith is given the opportunity to learn to fly away from the manifestation of deception.
It means you are noticed and loved by your Father YHWH, and He is giving His undivided attention to you, teaching you how to spread your wings and fly like a bird in the sky.
TRUST Him, LOVE Him, and keep your eyes fixed on Him.

Life is but a dream, and we the actors within this dream, fooled into thinking it to be our ultimate reality.

On the stage in this dream theater we see the projection of what we became, the 'inner' preceding the 'outer'.

In YHWH there is no 'inner' vs. 'outer', 'real' vs. 'unreal'.

All the realms of Creation are interconnected and have a rank in terms of reality.

Our physical world ranks below the metaphysical reality of Heaven, yet it ranks higher than the realm of Sheol where the souls of deceased human beings reside if they are not saved by Yahshua.

Sheol in turn ranks higher in terms of reality than the realm of Gehenna, or the outer Darkness.

This is why Sheol is depicted within the bowels of the Earth, and likewise you could depict Gehenna as residing within the bowels of Sheol.
The Spirits in Gehenna are part of reality which is like dreaming that you are dreaming that you are having a nightmare, and you cannot wake up ever again.

But, if this entire world is but a stage of fools acting out their roles in the theater of the damned, how 'real' is the reality of Heaven?

Is it another layer within a multitude of layers?

Is it a top layer of reality?

From our perspective Heaven looks like the ultimate reality, real life, the home of YHWH, yet could it be that just as we are part of a simulation in the Earth-theater, Heaven is just another layer in an endlessly layered dream?

If that is the case, then what is the ultimate reality?

Isn't our image of reality determined by the One Who defines reality and feeds our Soul with cognitive information which enables us to construe an image of reality?

YHWH is like the ultimate reality, because He IS reality.

If nothing can exist 'outside' of YHWH and everything exists in Him and through Him, then what is the nature of Creation and the millions upon millions different Souls residing in these realities?

Ask yourself this question: what is 'outside YHWH'?

Doesn't an 'outside YHWH' imply a different reality which is 'external' to YHWH, and if this is so, where does that reality come from, who created it, who created the information for the perception of an external reality on YHWH's level of being?

YHWH's name ('I AM') implies there is nothing 'outside' and 'beyond' YHWH, because the concept of 'outside' and 'beyond' are concepts created by our own minds as a result of the reality we are part of, and the way we relate to these realities.

Could it be that ultimately we are but a thought in YHWH's mind, a thought containing an endlessly layered fantasy?

I do not know because I lack the frame of reference of being able to understand YHWH's level of reality.

Furthermore, what is YHWH's mind?
'Mind' is a human concept I am familiar with, so am I not trying to understand the One Who is unlimited by means of a limited familiar frame of reference?

We truly see through a 'glass darkly', or 'in a mirror dimly' as other translators have interpreted Paul's writings.

Yet even in this dim mirror we are given to see a crystal clear image of the love YHWH has for His children, and in the greater scheme of things that is really what it is all about.
The image of reality serves to give us a crystal clear image of YHWH's love, the blood which flows through the veins of our faith and all of Creation.