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What is Your Definition of Reality? Question: What
is your definition of reality? Answer: I
have been thinking this one over for forty years now and I can only share
some ideas with you. One of the biggest concerns we all have with
this question is that there is one’s subjective reality and then there is the
ultimate reality. The subjective reality is the only one that you are likely
to know. It is your view of the universe and the people around you. Every
thought that comes into your mind changes your view of the universe. When you
were a child someone may have told you that God had
long white hair and that he punished bad people and did good things for good
people. Perhaps that was your view of God. As you grew older, people started
introducing other ideas of what He is and how He relates to us. So your view of God changes and becomes more
sophisticated. God didn’t change any of this time,
it was you; and our view of all reality is the same way. Reality is reality,
but our comprehension of it continually changes. The world didn’t
change between the time we thought it was flat and then thought it to be
round. The Brotherhoods’ main function is to
perceive the ultimate reality and to pass along that information to people so
that their responses to events are proper responses rather than
self-defeating ones. Our religious and scientific institutions have painted a
certain picture of what their views of reality are, and these institutions
account for our prejudices.
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