Is Reality an Attitude? Question: Isn’t reality then, nothing more than an attitude? Richard: Yes, your reality is an attitude. But there is an ultimate reality despite our opinions. Masters have a good grasp of the ultimate reality. Sometimes we may think that a Master’s view of looking at something is pretty bizarre or strange, but He is looking at things like they really are. Yet He usually has to respond outwardly in the socially accepted way wherever he happens to be in the world so that he is not looked upon as being too weird. As I have said, the Brotherhoods have garnered many of these realities and have passed them on to people, but that does not mean that Christians are ready to accept these realities or that lesser civilizations will accept them. Indeed, they will accept untruths that seem rational and reasonable to them but reject some of the ultimate truths bee wise they are either too harsh or too different. So reality is a hard thing to be persuaded of. However, as long as one is not dealing with reality, but rather with his views of what it is, he is indeed making insane responses although they may be reasonable and rational based on what information he believes. Within the framework of how he views things, he is making rational decisions; but it is like a computer — you put garbage in, you get garbage out. If you feel it wrong information, it puts out wrong answers. And that is the position most of us are in, making insane responses to situations which arise in our environment based on what our view of what reality is. (04-1973)
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