Are You Watching Closely?
A quick take on illusions in this Pisces season.
If you’re familiar with the movie, The Prestige, you’ll get the reference. If not, here’s a clip to set the atmosphere for this post: The Prestige Intro.
When most people think of magic, they approach it expecting the end. Michael Caine explains it perfectly:
“You’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
For the sake of this post, we will keep it spoiler free. However, I will be breaking this movie down in an upcoming post. It’s one of the most powerful films concerning the mind.
Magic, in general, deals with illusions. Making something disappear and reappear. That right there should tell you the unreliability of the five senses.
The five senses are how we interact with the physical realm. These are connected to the conscious mind, the masculine mind, also known as the left brain.
The conscious mind is analytical. It’s heavily dependent on reason, logic, rationale, step-by-step processes, and deduction. This is a very rigid way of thinking. However, it is necessary when dealing in the material realm.
However, when it comes to things seen and unseen, the buck stops very early. Magic tricks rely on the unreliability of the five senses, specifically sight.
About Michael Caine’s excerpt, most people want to be fooled in life. They want situations to prove them wrong. Or right. When dealing with magic, you expect to be fooled. You expect the magician to be good at his job. You expect yourself to be unable to dispel the illusion. You expect to be blind.
Now do you see the connection?
This is the contrast between spirituality and just surviving through life. This is the difference between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the unseen realm. Mechanisms like the intuition, creativity, the imagination, and psychic gifts (clairaudience, clairgustance, clairsentience, etc.) all deal with what cannot be seen but are real nonetheless.
Why is it that most people lead their life, expecting something to go wrong? I remember growing up hearing “Something’s always going on.” Even with a try-hard, I’ll get through it perspective, it still has the negative tone of inconvenience. Always getting caught off guard. Never being prepared and always having to shuffle together. Something outside of you always getting the better of you.
Contrary to popular belief, this is you wanting to be fooled. Although you want to feel better, your dominant belief is always being confirmed by what you send out.
Accepting less than desirable circumstances is wanting to be fooled. You’re not willing to see beyond the illusion. Or you don’t believe there is anything possible beyond what you see.
This is why spirituality is not taught. This is why ancient societies, with spiritual systems at the forefront, achieved things that still baffle the minds of technologically advanced societies in modern times. Understanding your subconscious mind, what controls the majority of your mind and your life gives you limitless power.
The opening of the Third Eye is connected to seeing beyond the veil. Seeing through illusions.
This is why the Age of Pisces was such a dark time for the world. Harbingers of beliefs that were made mandatory, or punishable by death if refused…like a cancer.
Same thing goes for your mind. If you are not watching closely, you will give credence to illusionists. You confirm that what you see is all there is. This is a life led in ignorance versus your intuition. There is nothing wrong with being ignorant. However, there’s a reason why they say ignorance is bliss. It relieves you from responsibility. The prominent illusion being displayed is that you can’t see through the veil (Potential spoiler but I will touch on this in the upcoming post).
Your subconscious mind knows the Pledge, the Turn, and most importantly the Prestige. True magic is manifesting the immaterial into the material. Dependence on the realm of Cause (subconscious mind, spiritual, unseen versus the realm of Effect (conscious mind, physical, seen). When you operate in the realm of Cause, there is nothing that catches you off-guard. Depending solely on the conscious mind and the five senses will leave you beguiled by the sleight of hand every time.
Your intuition is connected to your spirit, which has a bird’s eye view of your life. There’s a reason why it tells you before things happen. That part of you sees beyond the illusion.
You can only watch closely if you trust that which has vision uninterrupted.
Check out this video to learn all that goes on when you’re looking with your two eyes and how illusions can come about. What is amazing is that this goes on before your mind gets involved, which includes your beliefs and e-motions.
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