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[paigetheoracle]

I believe the illusion of reality is caused by what I call 'movement with'. By this I mean that because we're interacting with something, it takes up our whole frame of reference through our concentration, that nothing else seems to exist. Disengaging from the smaller picture, returns us to the reality of the greater universe: Why does the unknown(paranormal/new/different) frighten us? Because it is the tap on the shoulder that tells us we are not alone in the universe (The only form of life or being there is). It reduces us to the state of a child again, instead of the pretentious adult we like to think of ourselves as: The expert who knows everything there is to know about the universe (This is why death scares so many people in my opinion - it wakes us from the dream of the ego, which tells us we are God and reminds us instead that we are mortal after all (All pilgrims on the road to The Undiscovered Country - "Come in number 6, your time is up). It is the bigger self reminding the smaller self, that there is more to true life than this little pinprick in time and space, which we call present reality (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos" episode).