IDENTITY CRISIS OR MAN DIVIDED BETWEEN THE INNER AND THE OUTER REALITY: WHAT IS VIRTUAL REALITY? AND WHAT IS IMAGINATION?

Abstract

UDK 28-41
         28-67

Our spiritual cognition and spiritual experience relies upon two (2) kinds of awareness, whereas vision relies upon one (1) awareness. Revelation (disclosure) as a spiritual cognition is of a higher degree and is related to man’s inner senses (one’s own I). These senses reside within the soul, primarily within the articulate and imaginative soul. Rational cognition, on the other hand relies upon outer, basic senses: hearing, sight, touch and smell (social I). It is easier to be deceived in cognition that relies upon one solitary awareness. And even easier it is to be deceived within the realm of magic, illusion. That is because the visual (virtual) shock most evidently disturbs the continuity of the knowledge by the heart. Vision or cognition by heart is inner, permanent contact of a creature with its Creator, it is continual and within the realm of transcendent reality that brings awareness to the creature. The best path for this self-control is to keep away from anything that may, potentially be bad. Keeping one’s heart alive, controlling one’s ego, one’s own I brings to a state of purification. All that cannot be achieved by reason is possible to overcome in a direct contact with God, through prayers. That is the path.