Casting away all anchors? I guess anything is possible.

For a brief period of time I was doing a little work with this guy who had done LSD therapy in India in addition to working with gurus and what not. He was of the point of view that the apparent world was a complete illusion and that everything around us was just a game. The only thing that was real, to him, was an awareness that underlies all things, the awareness of God in which there is niether subject nor object.

I was walking around, thinking about things, and suddenly it hit me very hard that what I was living in was, in fact, an illusion, and suddenly I felt very, very sad. I felt the loss of everything and everyone I loved, for they were all just illusions. Everything that meant anything to me, an illusion.

I went to the guy and told him what I experienced, he looked at me with a strange expression (which, I think, had a little annoyance in it) and said, "You are realziing the truth and your ego is imploding. It's natural, you must deal with it."

So I went off by myself and sat down and did some hard thinking, my conclusion was this: we exist on the level of "illusion" and in this awareness of God simultaneously. God created this world of illusion for a reason, it exists, it has meaning. Making one level mean any more than another is just a matter of bias, or personal choice. The two levels co-exist together. You can be in the world but not of it. This thought gave me a great amount of peace and a feeling of flexibility.

I believe we can exist on a trascendent level where there are no anchors and trance. Yet, at the same time, we have bodies and brains and live in a world ruled by the laws of physics. You will always have anchors, you will always have reactivity, it is part of being mortal, being human, and living in the world.

And at the same time you can experience more and infuse your "lower" self with transcendence. Yet, I think, we will always live in the world and have to be human, which really isn't so bad. These spiritual enhancements are supposed to, I think, make the experience of being a squishy meat bag chained to the laws of physics better and better, rather than replace it.

At least thats how I think about it.