{"id":12993,"date":"2019-11-07T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=12993"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:21:06","slug":"what-is-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/what-is-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"What is reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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By Roberto Assagioli<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> , from his meditation program ” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>Meditation Group for the New Age <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>“, third-year, set one. From Meditation Mount, Ojai, California.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>
See also my article: Psychosynthesis and Panentheism<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Recognition of Reality is a far-reaching subject. There are different levels and degrees of Reality and also both external and inner realities. The first question which naturally comes up when we start to think about it is:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What is Reality?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> This is not easily answered, because it is something that has to be recognized by direct inner experience, rather than through technical definitions and the concepts of others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It is one of those fundamental realizations, such as recognition of will, of consciousness, of the Self, even of colours, sounds, and so on, which can only be arrived at through individual personal experience. But we can at least get some help in formulating our thinking and arriving at an intellectual grasp of the subject from the descriptions of those who have achieved a measure of that recognition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The first thing to be recognized is that there are two universal aspects of Reality:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Transcendent Reality<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Immanent, manifested Reality<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Transcendent Reality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> This has two aspects:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

a. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Absolute Transcendence<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

b. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Relative Transcendence<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At our present stage of human evolution, we can know practically nothing directly of absolute, ultimate Transcendence. But we can postulate or intuit that behind time and space are Eternity and Universality, that behind manifestation and change there is pure, immutable Being. Those who have had glimpses of ultimate Reality have tried to express or rather hint at it in paradoxical terms: Fullness of Life\u2014Be-ness\u2014Suchness\u2014Thatness\u2014and, at the same time, as Void, as No-thing (which does <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>not<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> mean \u201cnothing\u201d in the ordinary sense).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Relative Transcendence<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> , there are many kinds and levels, because it is <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>relative<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> to each stage of human evolution and to each individual. It can be regarded as that aspect or “portion” of Reality which is <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>just beyond<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> the present conscious reach of the individual or group and which represents for them their next step of awareness or recognition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n