Real and Reality

 Over the last couple of months, almost every time I write to post a blog, I end up not posting it. It’s as though I’m searching for an answer in the words to make sense of my world. All these puzzle pieces, they are now in groups —  like on a board in front of me. The spaces in between the groups seem to be the questions/answers that connect everything together like pathways that I have yet to walk.

 What is real and what is reality is becoming more clear to me. Where am I and when am I is however, still somewhat of a mystery. Am I in a pod (as in the Matrix movie) or am I really in an organic body with a pre-programmed mind and my original beingness —  or is my beingness also a copy?

 I’m certain that there are many others asking similar questions; however, I don’t recall physically meeting any of them. I check sometimes to see if others have similar questions. Usually their responses are negative and/or not even responsive —  as though they haven’t even registered what I said. This year, I’ve noticed that my first year students, those who were mostly born in 2002, seem to be more responsive to existential questions such as these.

 While I would say that ‘Real’ is what remains as time passes by, the reality of myself is mostly what I have been focused on changing —  in order to understand what is real. By changing my reality (to focus more on what is real), I also seem to be changing my physical body for the better.  Herein the questions once again arise: what is real of me, myself and I, where am I really, and where would I be without a mind reality?

 In looking at what is real, that which is physically substantiated, including the sound that I hear, does seem to be what is (dare I say) in fact real. However, when it comes to information, this is clearly a part of what I define as reality-based —  that is also being manipulated. And I guess that the manipulated input is being deliberately overly stated or overly inputted as though to reveal the manipulation and demonstrate how it has been done —  similar to the way a magician might slow down the movements of a trick in order to show the audience how it’s done and how they’ve been fooled.

 As the overall system of power and control, powers down, humans appear to be regrouping primarily into those who fear losing control and those who fear being controlled. The key is to let go of the fear in order to see the real possibilities. And while there are processes to assist people to let go of their fear, the fastest way (unfortunately also the most painful) utilizes the old saying, like cures like.