The VR Headset of Thinking and Perceiving

Imagine thinking and perceiving as a virtual reality headset you consciousness put on, refracting your dimensionless presence into time and space. You generate this headset, then expand as the universe and localise yourself as an apparently separate subject. Nothing is created – you simply appear as the universe when refracted through thought and perception. When you take off the headset, you cease appearing as the universe, but it doesn’t disappear because it never existed independently. The world is an illusion, but just because it’s an illusion doesn’t mean it’s not real. An illusion is something real but not what it appears to be. The world – it’s reality is you, consciousness. It’s not the world that veils consciousness – it’s the belief that the world is real. When that belief vanishes, the world shines as consciousness. The world is not what we see but how we see. We perceive the world because we perceive.