Table of Contents for Root Meanings
General notes:
- Root Meanings is a work in progress that will continue to emerge and evolve until the Mind of minds is absolutely clear. The definitions below are subject to evolution.
- Many excellent and useful definitions are not yet included. If you would like to make a suggestion, you may do so here.
Revision: 24 Jun 2023
Delusion
- Believing what is not the case.
- Experiencing what is not the case.
- Taking illusion to be real.
- Two steps away from reality. (Illusion is the first.)
- Belief in separation produces delusion.
- Belief in being separate from Divinity/God/Source produces delusion.
- Identification with an idea of a separate self produces delusion.
- Conflict, danger, and violence are indications of delusion.
- Drama and trauma are indications of delusion.
- Death and sickness are indications of delusion.
- Finitude and finite experience are indications of delusion.
- Gross substance is an indication of delusion.
- Evil, hell, sin, sinfulness, and wickedness are indications of delusion.
- Negation (of reality) is a primary cause of delusion.
- Negativity is an indication of delusion.
- Otherness is an indication of delusion.
- Past lives are an attempt to make sense of the delusion of separation.
- Struggle is an indication of delusion.
- Suffering is the primary indication of delusion.
- Delusion is characterized by a sense that something is wrong with oneself.
- Delusion is characterized by a sense that something is wrong with the world.
Sayings:
- “The exit from delusion may involve many strange experiences. Delusion is itself the pinnacle of strange experiences.”
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