 | Understand that persons always take an illusion and either dualistically upgrade the illusion or downgrade the illusion. For example, consider the lie, "This world is real and after death, there is another world that will provide eternal continuity for the body- mind-personality." Persons upgrade the illusion of "this world" with the promise of another world in heaven for the "good people" and they downgrade the illusion of "this world" with the threat of another
world called "hell" that awaits the "bad" people. Similarly, "I am a man" can be an initial illusion. Egotism can generate the belief that "I am a spiritual man," which is nothing more than an upgrade of the illusion. Guilt can take the initial illusion that "I am a man" and generate the belief that "I am a bad man," which is nothing more than a downgrading of the illusion.. |
