Perfect Dis-illusionment

The Non-"Religious", Post-"Scientific",
and No-Seeking Reality-Way
of Only Perfect Means

I.

The "religious" myth of the "Creator-God" is a traditional idea (or imagination-based construct of mind) that seeks to account for the irreducibly unexplainable appearing (or apparent spontaneous happening) of the (naively, and always mistakenly) presumed "objective world" by proposing a "magical" origin and a "Great Magician"—from which the "objective world" proceeds-as-"caused" (as a "something" appearing where "nothing" was).

All "magic acts" (or theatrical performances of what is suggested and pretended to be true "magic") and all "magicians" (or theatrical performers of "magical" suggestions) are entirely exercised via the devices of illusionment.

All "religion" is a theatrically-conceived "magic show" of suggestive ideas and "make-believe" performances, specifically intended to divert, entertain, and (either with or without mutual agreement and consent) deceive—although the "institutionalized" justification for the "playful" deception is the "compassion-rationalization" that it makes people feel better.

All "religion" is a "playful" effort to console by means of deception—much as parents do with young children (by exercising the faculties of fantasy, until the child "grows up",and, inevitably, and rightly, ceases to "believe" in the nursery stories of childhood's time of nurturing).

The proposing of "religious" myths and illusions has a traditional function in the domain of childhood—but the "world" of truly and responsibly adult life requires a mature and truly civilized culture, founded in Reality Itself.

"Religion" is a part of ancient culture, which was (at least in the larger public sphere) based on illusionism (and on the general affirmation of the dream-mind and the presumed "dream-world" as the principal field of "real reality").

The culture of illusionism is the culture of "make-believe", engaged for the purpose of pacifying primitive (or infantile) human emotions (and, especially, the infantile fear of death).

All illusionists voluntarily and strategically deceive others (and, sometimes, even themselves) on the basis of a culturally-ingrained acceptance of the principle (and a categorical presumption of the inherent moral rightness) of the "compassion-rationalization"—such that they are willing and able to believe and act as if doing falsely, is doing good.

All who believe in illusions (or "magic", or "religion")— and, who, therefore, accept illusions as non-illusions (or "objectively real", and really "magical", events)—volunteer to be thus "tricked" and deluded (and they do so for their own, usually uninspected, reasons, but, in general, because it makes them feel better).

Fundamentally, all "religion" is based upon "magical" thinking—or the proposing of myths and illusions (or "magical" ideas) as "explanations" for the otherwise intrinsically and irreducibly unexplainable happening of (naively, and always mistakenly) presumed-to-be "objectively real" events.

The principal (falsely "objectified") happenings for which "religion" (or "magical" thinking) is the intended "explanation" are the otherwise uninspected (and, in fact, always present-time) events of the arising of the presumptions (or mere ideas) of "separate self" and "objective world".

The principal "religious" ideas (or "magical explanations") proposed relative to the (always falsely) presumed "separate self" (or ego-"I") and the (always falsely) presumed "objective world" are that (in either case) "it" is "magically" originated (or "Creator-God-caused"), as an "objectively real someone" (or "something") appearing where "no one" (or no "thing") was, and that "it" (thus) "magically" lives (or proceeds), and (then) "magically" dies (or stops), and (then) "magically" continues (in or as "elsewhere", or even as a "magical" re-appearance "here").

The psychological purpose of "magical" thinking (about "separate self" and "objective world") is anxiety-reduction—specifically, by replacing the irreducible mystery (or intrinsically unexplained and un-"knowable" condition) of human "experience" (and of Reality Itself) with a comforting sense of "answeredness" and "certainty of belief".

Myths (such as "Creator-God", and "eternal soul", and "Created world") provide the imagination-constructs necessary for a mind-based (or concept-based) psychological illusion of eternity, changelessness, permanence, and deathlessness—whereas, "experientially", both "separate self" and "objective world" are perceived and "known" exclusively and entirely as modes of time-bound change, undauntable brevity, and deathic urgency.

The illusionment "religion" proposes and upholds (by public persuasions that are much in the mode of "magic acts", and that depend on the voluntary, and carefully propagandized, suspension of disbelief) is a principal obstacle to the right and true understanding (and The Intrinsic Transcending) of the (naive, and always mistaken) presumptions of "separate self" and of "objective world".

All "magical explanations" are false—or illusion-based.

The "explanations" made by the "institutionalized" culture of "science" are, apparently (or so it is, even in the illusionist manner, said and believed), rather rigorously (and propagandistically) "realistic" (rather than "idealistic", intentionally "religious", and strategically illusionistic)—but they are, nonetheless, based upon the same conventions of false presumption that are, otherwise, the root-basis of "religion" (and illusionism in general).

All "science" is a search for "knowledge" based upon the (naive, and always mistaken) presumption of a "really objectively existing world" and a "really objectively existing separate self that knows, or can know, the really objective world".

As a means for truly "knowing" (or Realizing) Reality Itself (As "It" Is), neither "religion" nor "science" avails.

Both "religion" and "science" provide and promote an illusion of certainty relative to the ideas of "separate self" and "objective world"—whereas both "separate self" and "objective world" are (themselves, and as such) mere illusions (or mere ideas), which must (themselves, and as such) be Tacitly, Directly, and Intrinsically Transcended (rather than merely "consoled" or "explained").

Relative to Reality Itself, both "religion"`and "science" are illusionist performances—or merely conventional modes of "consolation" and "explanation" (or presumed "knowledge"), based on the illusion of "point of view" (or ego-"I") and the illusion of a perspectivally-organized (or "point-of-view-located" and, thus and thereby, "objectively"-conceived) "world".

The idea of "certainty" (and, thus, of "mental eternity", or of "refuge in knowledge", or of conceptual immunity to change) is the fundamental illusion (and operative myth) associated with both "religion" and "science"—and the mere idea of "certainty" (or any other mere idea, or mode of conditionally-based "belief" or conditionally-presumed "knowledge") is an inherently and irreducibly illusory "object", that directly obstructs and effectively prevents Tacit, Direct, and Intrinsic Self-Apprehension (and, As Such, "Perfect Knowledge") of Reality Itself.

What is required—if Reality Itself is to be "Perfectly Known" (or Realized As "It" Is--is The Intrinsic Transcending of the illusions (or naive, and inherently false, presumptions) of separate "self" and "objective world".

Therefore, if Reality Itself is to be "Perfectly Known" (or Realized As "It" Is a Perfect Dis-Illusionment is required, in which all mere ideas, and all naive thinking, and all propositions based on inherently false presumptions—including both "magical" (and, as such, "religious") thinking-presuming and "objectivist" (and, as such, "scientific") thinking-presuming—are Intrinsically Transcended in Reality Itself.

excerpted from
RADICAL TRANSCENDENTALISM