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Here it is. The answer to the big question.
I Googled it, just to see what would come up. Naturally, Wikipedia had a fabulous write-up that is educational in many respects. I searched through it for the meaning of life, however, and just couldn’t find it. Steve Pavlina tried to tackle the […]

Let’s look at three lists of things, and assess their level of reality.

List One:

Trolls

Dragons

Faeries

List Two:

Me

Money

The Sensation of Movement and the Passing of Time

List Three:

Chakras

Higher Self

Kundalini Experiences

For most of us, each list represents a distinct category of realities.

List One represents things that most of us consider fantasies. These realities exist only in our heads. They may be ‘real’ in the sense that thought-forms or emotions are real, but we can probably agree that they don’t exist as external realities.

List Two represents things that we consider much more ‘real’. Me is something that I have a constant sense of, and . . .

When we leave the wild lands and come back to civilization, we discover something curious inside our minds. We discover that we have a peculiar way of considering civilization to be the ‘real world’, and the natural world to be a sort of ‘escape’.

It’s all fine and well to escape into the woods for a month, but it’s definitely an escape. Sooner or later we have to go back to the realities of paying our bills, meeting our social obligations, and putting money into our retirement fund. Our families, our jobs, and our life’s desires all dwell within the world of civilization.

Consider for a moment how you, personally, view the above ideas. Does the civilized world hold this aura of ‘reality’ for you? For most of us, it does. And this is an important thing to notice.

It displays to us the light in which we consider our natural selves and the natural world.