Interviews
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Spring 2025
You have said that the illusion in this dimension is due to our thinking that form is all there is, when there is so much more to our reality. But saying the world of form is an illusion isn’t saying suffering isn’t real, is it? Denying the suffering of others as an illusion seems like a form of spiritual bypassing.
One of the things that you want to remember—and it’s going to sound as though I’m joking about this, but I’m really not—is that bypassing, spiritual or otherwise, is one of the survival mechanisms you’ve learned for functioning in this world, because there are so many things that can push you forward or hold you back every day in your life, and you are always having to decide what is your personal next step.
