It's all in the mind

What you can see, with your own eyes, is not the reality

but an mental 3D-film created in your brain.

The world doesn't work the way you think it works.
You are not the one you think you are.
You are someone else.

You are holding on to your erroneous worldview, 

like the WW2 japanese soldier in the jungle who refused to surrender, 

unaware of the fact that it was decades since the war was over. 

Your assumptions, convictions and ideas about yourself and the world 
are made of mind stuff, electrochemical activity in your neurons,
which is affected by preconceptions, misconceptions and social conditioning. 

God is a mental construct.

Angels and spirits are fantasy figures.

Electrons quarks and strings are concepts, theoretical models.
They have no substance outside modern physics laboratories.

The reality is an illusion. You are living in a dream world.

We are lost, as if we were lost in a big forest, out in the backwoods.

No one knows where we are so we just keep on trudging,

quarreling about which direction we should choose. 

After hours of wandering we end up in the same glade.

We have been walking in circles for thousands of years.

All political systems, religions and philosophies have proved to be useless.

What shall we do?

Good advice

Be positive
Be happy

Be strong

Be healthy
Be fit
Be good looking
Be fortunate

Be competitive
Be smart
Be capable

Be outgoing

Be goal oriented

Be focused

Be successful

Be creative
Be mindful

Don't be fat

Don't be sad
Don't be sick
Don't be old
Don't be frail

Don't be stupid
Don't be clumsy
Don't be awkward
Don't be poor
Don't be ugly

Don't be jealous
Don't be resentful
Don't be miserable
Don't be forlorn
Don't be demoralized
Don't be depressed
Don't be broken-hearted
Don't be lonesome

Dream

Someone is trying to open a door but gets frustrated. He is locked out, banging and shaking the handle. Has he lost the key, or has he never had any?

I want to tell him to try a loving approach, but I realize that that wouldn't work either. The door is locked, and rational thinking, love, or brute force make no difference.

Fake

Fake news

Fake religion

Fake humanism

Fake art

Fake love

Fake orgasm

Fake sincerity

Fake friendship

Fake care

Fake designer clothing

Fake money
Fake tan

Fake fur

God

God is a word that can mean almost anyting.

There are thousands and thousands of different ideas about God,

christian ideas, muslim ideas, hindu ideas...

There are gods for the rich and gods for the poor

gods for hypocrites, for crackpots and for those in despair.

All these different ideas about God can of course not be right.

It's quite possible that all of them are misconceptions.
Maybe God is something entirely different or someone else.

There are also many different atheistic ideas about the world,

how it originated, if it has an origin, how it works.

Are there multitudes of universes out there? What is dark matter?

What is consciousness? What will happen to us when we die?

The scientists speculate, debate and put forward hypotheses
but there is no unanimity among them.

We are all kept in the dark.

The thinking mind

A dream is a dream, a surrealistic night show.

The interpretation of the dream is an interpretation

made of words by the daytime thinking mind.

A work of art is a work of art.

The analysis of the artwork is also created by the thinking mind.

A strange experience, a synchronicity for example,

or some other paranormal experience, is a strange experience.

The explanation for the strange experience is an explanation.

The rational thinking part of the brain is just a small part of the brain.
This know-it-all part of the brain can find smart explanations for everything.

These words are of course also a fruit of the thinking mind.

Self deception

Dishonesty and self deception are helpful tools. 
They help us to survive.

However, too much of them create serious problems.
You will find yourself in hot water 
if your life is filled to the brim with dishonesty, 
bullshit and self deception.
It's important to, now and then, question oneself.