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HOMEPAGE THE INTERNAL CHURCH - GOD ACTED. ILLUSIONS THAT LIMIT US. HOW WE LOSE OUR NATURAL SENSE OF SELF. WORDS AS CAGES, WORDS AS WINGS. INTRODUCING DEOGENICS - SPIRITUAL TOOLS.
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OUR INNER WORLD OF PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS We were borne with a sense of vitality and wonder but lost it as we grew older. Now we mostly live in a world that we have constructed ourselves with all its limitations. Consider the sense of sight. We have an internal experience of sight that tricks us into thinking we are looking out through two windows in our heads. However, only a very limited range of light rays enter the eyes from outside our body. They stimulate nerve cells which then produce nerve impulses which travel up the optic nerve to the visual centre near the rear of the brain. Here they are converted into an image that is a very primitive and limited representation of external reality. Despite our feeling that we are looking out through our eyes we are actually experiencing an internal representation of parts of external reality – an internal picture. The feeling of looking outwards is an illusion It is the same with our other senses. The sensory signals are translated internally in the appropriate parts of our brain. We then experience the illusion of reaching outwards to their source instead of registering their input within us. The enormously complex reality within which the human body exists is made up of a mix of energies and their movements, interactions and intensities. Only a miniscule amount of what exists outside of ourselves can be registered by human senses. The limitations imposed on the input are essential to avoid human consciousness being overwhelmed by incoming sensory stimulation. Our mind is adapted to receiving and interpreting minimal practical sensory information. From it we build an internal model of reality that we come to believe is really the world out there. Originally the simplified representation of the outside world was adequate for basic survival needs, but no longer. From this sensory input we built the simplified model that we still treat as though it is really the outside world. This is how our illusions began, illusions which also include concepts of who and what we are and what powers we have. First there is the illusion that the model is the reality. Then, to complicate the process, we build up a miniature and equally illusory model of ourselves and locate it within our internal mock-up of the outside world. We will soon see how that comes about. This is the illusion that is the source of much of our suffering and self ignorance. It is also the illusion that limits our ability to fully express our potential. When we enter The Internal Church we find we are spiritually OK - even better than OK -we always have been and always will be. We also tap into a new source of strength and creative power. Any belief that we are not OK comes from the internal models we have constructed based on inadequate or erroneous data. When we recognise the illusions for what they are we rediscover ourselves and release a new source of strength from within. At this moment it is almost certain that you underestimate how great you really are, what power you possess and what potential you have. Before we consider how to release the power that we really have had all along, let us look more closely at some of the material we built into the self limiting model of ourselves in the first place.
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