As you get older, does the world seem a little less real?

Great question.... I have a fear that they are going to throw rotten tomatoes at me. The autonomy of healing ourselves is partly responsible for this.... there is no cavalry coming to the rescue, at least not until we wise up and forsake the animality in us each one.

Life for me got dead serious some years back in comparison to the frivolity of childhood. Suddenly at the drop of a hat, a sense of invulnerability dissolved and death subtly appeared in the shadows. Compassion is the greatest thing we could ever hope to learn but it just does not come easy. Its strongest manifestation comes when one learns to be dispassionate.

I think there are assumptions behind your question that I don't share and am not understanding, because it seems to be all over the place.

No, the world does not seem less real now than it did 30 or 40 years ago, at least to me. If anything, it's the other way around, as I have a much better idea of how things work than I did then. Note, please: this does not mean that I actually understand how it works. I just have a better idea.

Yes, I do think that life is about achieving responsibility etc, but I've thought that since my late teens. I don't see how that connects with the world seeming less "real". And yes, there are patterns, but there have always been.

If I'm an actor in a play God is putting on, then I need to speak to the director. I've been seriously miscast.

While the world has grabbed me with a vengence and caused me suffering that nearly killed me on occasion when I was 45 I discovered it is made out of God's intention and has no substance whatsoever. God alone is the Substance upon which every appearance rests. When I experienced that I was set free from giving the creation power of it's own. Every energy that plays out in the infinite varities that have been set into motion whether for good or for evil, will play out. Like throwing a stone into a pond the effects will ripple again and again until they become so subtle that no human can detect them.... and yet they have changed the world, the entire creation from what it was. We have been given the chance to create from withing our own being the highest states of bliss, joy and love... but we want pleasure, power and control instead and our energies go off in the wrong directions.

It seems only the individual can find this out and change the way they live. The masses are caught up in the sweep of culture, society and the times they find themselves in.

Namaste'

I was reading about philosophy years before "The Matrix" came out. I find the subject to be beyond fascinating.

Have you also noticed that time passes by faster as one grows older?

I have developed an array of questions about the true nature of the cosmos. What is "real" in any event? What if everything we see is just a mirage? What if every person that we love and hate turns out to be nothing more than an illusion?

Perhaps life is indeed a play- and we must decide whether it is a comedy, a tragedy, or something else that we may never be able to grasp.

I will not say the world seems to me a little less real or somewhat more illusive,

I rather sometimes feel more detached from the world,

so yes,

definitely something like that.

Thank the Word that you said that. I thought it was only me, going senile. Some things seem like I was only born a while ago, and am just learning to appreciate them now. Other things seem like *This CAN'T be how it really is, how my life is, it's all made up to fool me.

I know what you mean, but it could be about the fact that as children we assume objective truth in everything and as you get older you realise that a lot of what you took for granted as real and true was just convention, you start to question everything, you get more and more philosophical.

Yes, we are just passing through.

The next life is an out-of-the-body experience that is more more comprehensive and acutely aware than we are here on earth.

Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”

I know that the older I get the harder it is to believe the greater heights reached by human stupidity.