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reality is a hallucination?

Submitted by Wil Franklin on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 1:40pm.

So, Paul and I were refining our story of reality and came up with this..."reality is a consensus hallucination about that which cannot be known." It follows that in can only be understood in terms of the constructed language of the mass hallucination.

For me the fact that we are constructing a hallucination means there is something "back there" that we are trying to explain. By this line of reasoning, God cannot be understood, is that which cannot be known or spoken of, hence God must also be "back there"?

As one who moves from agnosticism, atheism, pantheism and then back again in search of a consistent story, I find that I have argued my way into believing in God, if I believe in reality. Interesting.

Anyone have any thoughts that may bare on this particular hallucination?

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