Sol Luckman
Hello, this is Sol Luckman, and you’re listening to Sol Speaks.
Today we’re going to tackle a pretty wild idea—and a very transformational one to boot.
In fact, you might go far as to say that grasping this concept is a prerequisite for anything that deserves to be called a spiritual—for lack of a better word—journey.
Are you ready?
Before I forget, though …
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Now, bear with me if this starter concept is familiar to you. I still might just have some interesting and helpful insights you didn’t expect as I elaborate on this important topic.
But if this idea is new to you, well, there’s nothing like your first time, they say.
What if I told you that the world around you, this solid, hard, sometimes harsh … place … isn’t what it seems at all?
And what if I also told you that you have far, far more power to mold it to your desires and specifications than you’ve ever been taught or encouraged to believe?
I mean, really, really give some thought to this possibility for a second.
I’m pausing not for effect but to give you a moment to reflect.
Good, now let’s keep going. What if this thing we call reality, this natural environment that we see and feel and hear, and even taste and smell, isn’t really “there” at all?
I mean, yes, maybe you—or what you think of as yourself anyway—aren’t really “there” either.
Or maybe you’re so there, so immanent, spiritually speaking, that the poet Rumi wasn’t speaking poetically when he wrote, “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
Now, that’s what I call … a call to action!
Rumi is merely reiterating what sages and seers have always said, which is basically: that we are the world, that there’s only one of us here, that all is one, et cetera, et cetera.
But he’s also doing so in such a way as to call attention to our unrealized potential for … godhood, I suppose.
Okay, so let’s get into the meat and potatoes of this podcast. Is “reality” just an illusion?
We’re going to try to deconstruct and reconstruct the identity (if you will) of the world with the help of quantum physics and metaphysics.
The first puzzle piece we must put in place, as difficult a pill as it may be to swallow, is that our perception of a fixed “real” is fundamentally flawed.
We’ve been tricked by reality, which really is just an illusion—something the ancients called maya.
We can think of reality as a dream—and maybe that’s all it is. I make this argument in GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE, and I make an even stronger case for this idea in the sequel to that book I just finished but haven’t yet announced.
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Moving on now …
Consider the contrast in our perceptions of “reality” and the beliefs that come from that—or better yet, think of the situation as the other way around, a scenario where our beliefs about the world might create our perceptions of it.
On the one hand, we have our conditioned experience of a Newtonian “reality” as objective and composed of separate, discrete objects, small and large.
On the other hand, a quantum universe or multiverse is a totally different creature. We’re talking about a world of energy, raw potential, a thoroughly subjective swirling Sufi dance of limitless possibilities.
You might be inclined to see this worldview as something new or even new agey, but it’s actually quite ancient.
Seers, mystics and holy men and women have come up with their own names for and descriptions of the quantum underpinnings of “reality” for millennia.
One particularly powerful metaphor for the quantum dance, that I use in both of my new books on inner alchemy and shamanism, is the Dark Sea of Awareness.
This is a poetic and inspiring term for the underlying domain of absolute energy out of which our “reality,” the world itself, projects very much like a movie on a screen.
Here’s the critical point in all this, the real mind bender—or at least it was for me.
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