I read somewhere recently that the “ordinary world is a delusion with no sense of purpose”. Notice the word ordinary here, an intentional descriptive device clearly meant to distinguish it from, I suppose, the non-ordinary world. It is this distinction that is what is most interesting to me. This idea of the world we see on a day to day basis—the ordinary world—as not being real can be found at the heart of many spiritual teachings; it’s not something you stumble upon with surface religious teachings, but rather lies deeper within the mystical knowledge. Shamans in indigenous cultures also know that the world of the five senses, the world I affectionately called the 3-D world, is not all there is. But ironically, we treat it as if it is all there is, putting most of our attention there and making most of our decisions based on that assumption.

Given the prevalence of paranormal experiences–UFO sightings, encounters with ghosts and other unexplained phenomena, out of body and near death experiences, and so forth—I think that we might begin to challenge that assumption a little more.

Of course, some of us do. I’ve spent most of my life doing that. But I wonder what would happen if the majority of people focused their attention for long periods of time everyday on what lay beyond the five senses?

I suspect something extraordinary would happen. This “illusion” or distorted view of things we’re seeing would shift and we would begin to awaken to an expanded perception and viewpoint.

Those who have already done this, either consciously or by accident (such as in a near death experience), usually return from it with a much different way of seeing. As we know, once your perception shifts at that level, you can never return to your old way of seeing. All of your choices are influenced by that shift.

So we could say that waking up is not about changing or even transcending anything, it’s about seeing what is for the first time. It is always there, but in order to see it, we have to learn how to remove the blinders or the distorted lens.

It is truly waking up from the dream. But instead of unplugging from the matrix, you simply are able to see it without the usual limitations. Instead of feeling, as I quoted in that first sentence, as though life has no sense of purpose, its perfection and purpose are revealed.

If your worst nightmare is a world of pain, poverty, illness, injustice and suffering and one day you were able to wake up and realize that it had only been a dream, and that the REAL world was a world of peace, prosperity, health, justice and joy, how would you feel? What if the only difference between whether you experienced the nightmare or REAL world was what you chose to see at any given moment? What if you found out that human beings were not limited at all by their humanness, but in fact, were completely limitless due to their divinity? What if you recognized that you’d been duped all along into believing that human beings were powerless and sinful and limited–nothing more than thinking, self-aware animals? What would you do if you knew that the truth was that human beings are powerful, whole and completely free?

What then? Would you be angry? Shocked? Would you tell others?

If you are skeptical and doubt what I say, don’t take my word for it, test it out through your own experience and by observing others. Start looking for evidence of our divine nature and start tuning out our limitations. Every time you are bombarded with the negativity of the perceptions of the 3-D world, look for evidence to the contrary, look for things that cannot be explained by the five senses…coincidences, synchronicities, telepathy, spontaneous healing, etc. Expect to be surprised. Demand to see the truth. Refuse to buy into the lies that tell us this “ordinary” world all there is.

You know better.

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