Michael Mendizza - Reality Isn't What It Used to Be

Beliefs are realities. Beliefs predispose and organize the body and mind in predictable ways. In the Christian tradition being born again implies, does it not, shifting from one reality to another. Racial prejudice is a reality. The Nazis lived in a unique reality. Urban ghetto children have their reality. Politicians have theirs. All the categories we live our lives in are realities. The category called ME, male, female, mother, father, black, brown, white, smart, PhD, dumb, CEO, are all realities, and while in them very real indeed. All realities are relative and each reality is real. After all, dreams are real while we are dreaming.

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