Great, Chuck!
I would like to add two things.
1) Disempowerment can go very far at the hands of people who are out to disempower, very far indeed. And medium-size powerlessness of the kind you are describing as part and parcel of the materialistic/scientific world view may be the hardest to deal with because it always stays somehow vague, always making you feel that perhaps the next and even much more sophisticated approach will finally yield the results you hoped for.
2) A little further down the road, I think, we will not even distinguish between "reality" and "illusion" any more. We will just see that matter is not at all what we have been thinking it was. We will know that matter is infinitely moldable. Discussions on "real" and "unreal" won't make much sense once we re-learn to fly.
Yes, discussions can be a blessing.
I bless you.


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Thank you for beautiful Heavenletters. I am compiling a book of my poems with lots of quotations and illustrations. May I quote from Heavenletters?