Neale Donald Walsch: Ten Human Illusions

The Ten Illusions of Humans will be found below, in parentheses. Preceding each Illusion is the cultural story of humans that the illusion has placed into the reality of many people:

1. God has an agenda (Need Exists)
2. The outcome of life is in doubt (Failure Exists)
3. You are separate from God (Disunity Exists)
4. There is not enough (Insufficiency Exists)
5. There is something you have to do (Requirement Exists)
6. If you do not do it, you will be punished (Judgment Exists)
7. The punishment is everlasting damnation (Condemnation Exists)
8. Love is, therefore, conditional (Conditionality Exists)
9. Knowing and meeting the condition renders you superior (Superiority Exists)
10. You do not know that these are illusions (Ignorance Exists)

This cultural story has been so ingrained in you that you now live it fully and completely. This, you tell each other, “is just the way it is.” You have been telling each other that now for many centuries. Indeed, for millennia after millennia. For so long, in fact, that myths have grown up around these illusions and stories. Some of the most prominent myths have been reduced to concepts such as “Thy will be done,” “Survival of the fittest,” “To the victor go the spoils,” “You were born in Original Sin,” “The wages of sin are death,” “Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord,” “What you don’t know won’t hurt you,” “God only knows,” and many others, equally destructive and non-serving. Based on these illusions, stories, and myths – here is how many humans have come to think about Life:

“We are born into a hostile world, run by a God who has things He wants us to do and things He wants us not to do, and will punish us with everlasting torture if we don’t get the two right.

Our first experience in Life is separation from our mother, the Source of our Life. This creates the context for our entire reality, which we experience as one of separation from the Source of All Life. We are not only separate from all Life but from everything else in Life. Everything that exists, exists separate from us. And we are separate from everything else that exists. We do not want it this way, but this is the way it is. We wish it were otherwise, and, indeed, we strive for it to be otherwise.

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