"Everything is as it Appears to Be"

Everything is as it appears to be. What? Are you kidding? No. I am not kidding. What else is your world if not what you are hearing, seeing, tasting, touching and smelling? You say that is a rabbit or that is a cat, and the dog is running the cat while the rabbit is taking a break. How do you know that? Because you perceive it to be so. Is it or is not not? It is because it is to you, and that is your world.

Illusions exist, no doubt. Just because someone resembles someone we know does not mean they are a person we know. We may call out to them thinking we know them only to discover they only look like someone we know. However, we cannot escape the truth that our belief about reality exists inside our senses, and so everything is as our senses tell us it is, until our senses gather data that further clarifies our reality.

If we change our senses, we change our word. If we change our thinking about the data our senses are bringing into our brain we change our world. And, we can do both of those things. Amazing really…. how powerful we are to arrange and rearrange our interior world. We construct a world that is ours and we can play the role we wish to play in this interior world. Amazing. Yet, so many think and feel "out of control."

"You are Attractive" (Pt. 1)

     You are attractive. Sounds a bit odd. But, it is categorically true. The human body is wired for attraction. Science investigates the natural world, discovering that which is discoverable. However, the U.S Patent Office is not closing any time soon. Whole lot of discovering going on. The natural world contains what has been referred to as "the spiritual world".

     The natural world is the incarnate spiritual world; they are the same. For example, whatever exists is real. Whatever is real is also natural. God is real. God is natural, not supernatural. The Spirit is real, and yet is often considered supernatural. Supernatural, that with is above or beyond or not part of nature, is an illusion because it is not part of what exists, because what exists is considered real or nature.

     One may then argue that nothing is real until it is discovered. However, how can anything be discovered if it is not real? The natural world holds many secrets, undiscovered truths, untold numbers of facts that remain in the darkness of man's ignorance. These yet undiscovered realities hold many treasures, surprizing truths, and vast open vistas. Perhaps in the future, mankind will conclude that 21st century man lived in a most primitive, almost uncivilized manner. What is today ridiculed as simply "faith-based" or "supernatural" could one day be seen as a foundation for all "natural" phenomena.

     What has all of that got to do with the fact that you are attractive?  (see Pt. 2)