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Seeing Beyond the Illusion of Physicality

May 09, 2024 • Ashley Melillo • Episode 62

My intention with this episode is to open your mind to the multidimensional nature of reality. To breakthrough the outmoded barriers of naïve realism. The ones that suggest that our five human senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are. It’s naïve realism that’s left us bought into the illusion that reality is limited to only that which we can perceive through the limitations of the human nervous system.

Broadly speaking though, my hope is to inspire you to shift your perception beyond the status quo belief that we live in a purely physical reality. Over a hundred years ago, science turned this idea on its head and dismantled it, yet we still haven’t caught up. And I’d say it’s about time we get ourselves caught up…

Because until we do, we’ll mistake illusion for reality.

Perhaps even more importantly though…

When our view of reality is fragmented (seeing reality as made up of separate physical objects), our view of self and others is fragmented as well. We see ourselves as being separate from all else as opposed to one whole part of an even greater whole. And it’s separation consciousness that’s the root of all suffering.

I believe that peering beyond the illusion of physicality—and the illusion of separation that it invokes—is the first step towards unity consciousness on this planet.

Sources

Chopra, D. (2019). Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. Harmony Books, New York.

Chopra, D. and Kafatos, M. (2017). You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters. Harmony Books, New York.

Dispenza, J. (2012). Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One. Hay House.

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The evolution of the atom (visuals from Dr. Joe Dispenza's book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself)

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