Real Illusions
On the Fictionality of Vikid and Life in General.
The New Year had been good to Vikid, The Hero of Truth. The previous year had been a daily battle against the forces of The DOOM. Demon after demon had been confronted, creatures of all shapes and sizes, Goddesses had been met and revered. 2023, on the contrary, so far at least, had been a year of peace.
The previous day, Vikid had met a curious gentleman online, who had survived a plane crash in Hawaii. In the aftermath of the crash the gentlemen had witnessed his own death and the presence of dark entities surrounding him. Cutting a long story short, after surviving the incident and being brought back to life, he had been blessed with such powers as to cross the different dimensions of existence (at will) and converse with entities often considered the purview of Science Fiction, Fantasy or even Horror. Through the power of Divine Love he was able to exorcize these entities from himself and subsequently helped other people do the same.
Now Vikid was concerned about his readership. It had come to his attention that some believed that he was a real dude. Many of his readers knew a guy, the author, as a friend or acquaintance. They had dinner with him, hanged out with him at parties or at the beach for example. That guy was not Vikid. Vikid was and is, a fictional character drawn from the imagination of his author. Some authors like to write fiction in the form of Magical Realism, others use the techniques of Historical Fiction, Vikid was borrowing from these traditions and creating his own.
The Stories he wrote about were in some sense pure fiction, however Vikid liked to think of them as Real Illusions. They drew inspiration from his life but in a weird twist of fate he realized that his own life was no better than fiction. Thus everything was brought to question as he didn’t know what was real anymore. His words were pure Imagineering.
It had also come to his attention that most of humanity actually lived in a fictional world. Thus this condition actually affected every living human being, not just himself. People were under the illusion that their lives were actually real when in fact it was just the unbalanced action of an overreactive gauche hemisphere.
Let’s try to unpack this. It wouldn’t be easy Vikid suspected...
We’ll start with a video, a Ted Talk given 14 years ago by Jill Bolte Taylor. Please watch it before progressing.
What Jill was exposed to here was the bicameral nature of the human brain, not in theory but by direct experience. As her left hemisphere shut down due to the stroke, it exposed the unfiltered witnessing of the other half. Something that was always there but hidden.
What was uncovered is the insight talked about by mystics and great spiritual leaders. It is also the capacity used by visionary paradigm breaking artists who’s works have changed entire societies.
Vikid had experienced a similar phenomenon 2O years prior, without the use of drugs, psychedelics or the above mentioned brain failure.
He was in the garden of a old manor overlooking the White Cliffs of Dover when he was struck by a level of consciousness that is indescribable. Each flower in the garden glowed with hyper-real colors. The soundscape became crisp, pure and three dimensional. He could hear each individual beating wing of the bees in the garden. The voice in his head completely stopped, leaving a voluminous silence. A total level of satisfaction emanated from his entire body. There was nothing to do, no striving for something better and his awareness was perfectly equipoised.
Vikid Bolte Taylor?
Real Illusion.
The state of affairs may have lasted about 20mins, he cannot be sure but it was broken by a simple thought,
“This is Buddha Consciousness”
With those words, Vikid returned to normality.
Years later the opposite happened. A mental break down, a state of total confusion in which every second felt like torture. Years further still, he travelled the many dimensions of existence himself.
Did what happen, happen for real?
Or is this a crazy invention of a random fictional character somewhere on the Internet? The Author isn’t sure.
However, the real question is, how does this relate to you, Dear Reader?
And are Vikid’s claims that people live fictional lives true?
Well you see, you have probably have a sense of reality, a “World View”. It’s the idea that the world is real in the real sense. That our perceptions of it may change, like if you are drunk versus being sober but in the end, reality can’t be negotiated with. Kick a hard rock and it will hurt you. Try it if you need convincing. It may not hurt, as a feeling of pain, while you’re off your face. Yet the next day will show the evidence, the ensuing wound and a thumping headache. Jump off a cliff and the result are non-negotiable. Don’t try that one at home. Run out of fuel in a car and no amount of wishful thinking will allow the car to run.
We can even give credence to the conspiracy theorists. Who killed JFK may be up for questioning... But very few of us would venture to say that this President never existed at all or that the very thing called History doesn’t exist. The Past happened, full stop. We may disagree on what happened, we may question the accidentals, however what we call reality must be or have been.
That’s a belief in a Solid Reality.
As It turns out, that if you really inspect your consciousness, there is never anything but The Now and it is made of pure experience. At least, this is what Vikid had discovered. Everything else is an artificial boundary in the present, including ones personality, memories, sense of self and time itself. In the timeless place, there was no thinking. Nothing can be taken there and nothing returns. It isn’t a place for ‘self improvement’ or ‘spiritual growth’.
This form of realization cannot and will not occur using the same apparatus of mind that is reading these words.
It seems like a fiction or some grotesque gnostic vision. It may even be frightening or undesirable. This is the breaking of reality or the finding of The Real Illusion.
From this realization, it comes to our attention that our past is nothing but a dream and the present is pure untamed creativity.
That’s where the life of Vikid and the Author intersect. Anything said here can be looked at as freely created unbridled incantations.
A dream of the writer.
Don’t take it seriously.
(Neither my grammar, typos or use of the English language.)
And that’s,
The Vikid Truth
Here, I leave you with two videos.
The First is by Bernardo Kastrup. It will pay you good dividends to listen carefully and then ask yourself, what is real?
The second is just an interesting story for enjoyment:
The previous day, Vikid had met (online) a curious gentle who had survived a plane crash in Hawaii. In the aftermath of the crash the gentlemen had witnessed his own death and the presence of dark entities surrounding him. After surviving the incident he had been blessed with such powers