The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making and it does not exist.
On the one hand, this makes total sense to me. What we see/experience is based on sensory experience and an interpretation of that sensory experience. The meaning we give that experience is a projection. It isn’t reality.
On the other hand, I still get tripped up saying something like, “The holocaust isn’t real”, because such human horrors remain such a reality for the people who experienced them. But it is a seeming reality (as is all experience), not an actual reality. One of the most effective means of healing someone who has post traumatic stress disorder is by helping them to directly face the trauma, which involves helping them to “relive” what it is they most fear. This works because it helps them realize that what they fear, doesn’t exist. It can’t hurt them any longer unless they allow it to hurt them. This isn’t an attempt to convince people they didn’t experience what it is they experienced. It’s not like saying, “your experiences at Auschwitz weren’t important”. Quite the contrary. It is the perception of our experience that most shapes our lives. But that doesn’t mean perception of experience, or experience for that matter, is real in actuality. It is an experience of reality. Not reality itself. (It is a perception of an experience of reality.)
My own personal list of horrors is ever shifting.
- God did not create malaria, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create pancreatic cancer, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create starvation, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create global warming, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create the oil spill, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create diabetes, so it isn’t real.
- God did not create heart attacks, so they aren’t real.
- God did not create the current animal holocaust, and so it isn’t real.
God did not create a meaningless world.