What Is the World if It’s an Illusion?

If the world is described as an illusion and not as it appears to be, what does it actually look like? How can there be real suffering if the world isn’t real in the way we think it is? Rupert says: ‘An illusion is not something that is unreal. An illusion is something that is real, but is not what it appears to be. When you touch the stuff the world is made of, you don’t find dead, inert matter. If we go deeply into what the world truly is, its fundamental nature is being . . . We are upgrading the world, not downgrading it or dismissing it. Evil happens when the reality of the world, namely the unity of being, is overlooked or ignored. Evil is an extreme but inevitable consequence of the paradigm of separation, whereas love and harmony are an inevitable consequence of the paradigm of unity.’

From event 12 - 14 December, 2025 The Shining of Being – Online Weekend Retreat at Home, 12–14 December

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