We are born as a flash of light in a dark theater. Soon enough, the light transitions into a movie among many movies playing simultaneously. Family, friends and others beckon us to play roles in their movies as we invite them to play roles in our movie. We assume many different roles as actors in various movies. The roles and our emotional reactions to circumstances define our experience in life. It all seems very real. Yet, when the theater lights break the darkness, we realize our lives were just a two-dimensional illusion, a movie. Knowing we are just watching a movie, we can enjoy it as it is, suffer little regardless of our roles and circumstances and realize we are still alive after the movie is over....

The now is not now.   What the self perceives as the now (the now we know, the "know-now") lags 80 milliseconds behind the true-now. The true-now is the present; the pre-sent before it is sent from where it unfolds. Once transmitted, the true-now is passed the space in which it unfolds. It becomes the past. As every thing changes in the 80 milliseconds between the true-now and the know-now, the know-now is an illusion; though we think otherwise.   The true-now is the expression of the soul. The know-now is an illusion created by the self. Self-realization is realizing the self is an illusion as well.   When we are present, we are the soul experiencing life as the self....