What he is saying is the physical universe is an illusion. It is nothing more than the projection of the collective Ego. It doesn’t exist at all. We perceive everything and know nothing.
If that were true, then I could bypass traffic jams by denying the illusion and driving right through the stopped cars and trucks. If I rear-end anyone, it’s solely a problem with my perception.
It was physical enough that the Son of God felt and experienced torture and death, and He not only created it, He holds all things together. It exists; it simply is not all that there is.
Torah corroborates his projection: that the ways of G-d are far and away higher than the mind of man can imagine. Bereshit (Genesis) plainly states that the entire Universe is made of ‘words’, having been spoken into existence. Therefore, it follows that what we perceive as real, or solid is actually a force field sustained and held together by ‘little bits of nothing’. These little bits behave uniformly with a fierce intensity that belies the fact that they are being directed. Their behavior is being imposed upon them by an unknown actor: Ha Kodesh Baruch Hu. The Holy One, Blessed be He. Tomorrow night candles will be lit and the Story of Redemption will be told to another generation, and many scientists and scholars will look into the eyes of their children and unflinchingly teach them about the ultimate reality, and that this reality is Personal. Happy Passover Everyone.
Nowadays I’m
Perceiving too damned much. And have to admit that it oft seems I know next to nothing
“I think, therefore I am.”