I stumbled across this visual illusion yesterday, and it's too good not to share.
Just settle in for a couple of minutes and make sure you watch it with the explanatory commentary (sound) on. Its taken from an award-winning kids TV programme called The Curiosity Show that aired in Australia in the 1970's and 80's.
It's impossible not to be impressed by the Ames Window illusion! 😲
Go on – tell your mind to see it differently! There's the pen, dammit! 🫠
I mean… WHAT?!?!?!
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LOL.
More than just a trick
And why do I share this with you, this morning?
Because it points to something absolutely fundamental in our lives: that while the experience we have of the world is real (we feel it; it's happening, no denying that) it's not true.
Just like this very simple, but bafflingly impossible Ames Window you've just seen, your experience of life is essentially being made up by the mind.
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So it really looks like we're directly experiencing some sort of objective reality, but we're not – it all comes to us indirectly, via the Principle of Thought.
100% of it, no exceptions.
So whatever (or whoever) you're struggling with right now—even if it looks like it's ‘you’ that's at the root of your troubles—you can relax.
Because that ‘struggle’, while certainly real, is not true. It's made of thought.
It won't look like that, of course. (You just tried to force your mind to see this video above differently, aptly demonstrating to yourself that you can't not see an illusion.) So no, the struggle will look true and fixed and insoluble.
But, being made of thought—like everything we experience—it's not. Thought can change at the drop of a hat, which means the struggle can, too. That's the power of insight!
Sure shines some more light on this wonderful Syd Banks quote, doesn't it?
“The happiness you're looking for is inside you. It really is. That's where mental health lies. Everybody—everybody—is only one thought away from whatever you're looking for.”
Have a peaceful day's ‘making stuff up’.
💝
Giles
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