‘This Delusion dreaming all this dream’ – Swamiji, poem.

‘This encrusted mind’.  –  ‘We are hypnotised already’.

 ‘We are deceived by knowledge’. Swamiji.

 ‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’. Song, ‘London’. William Blake 1757-1827.

‘Beyond the Chains of Illusion’. Erich Fromm, 1900-1980.

‘The Myths We Live By’. Book. Mary Midgely, 1919-2018.

‘We fabricate new realities’. Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935.

‘We imagine we know’ – Evelyn Underhill, 1875-1941. Book, Mysticism.

‘You think you run thought but thought runs you’. David Bohm 1917-1992.

‘The illusion of free will‘. Robert Sapolsky. YouTube, 2023.

‘There is no such thing as free will’. Swamiji.

‘Bondage is of the mind. Freedom is of the mind too’. Ramakrishna, 1836-1886. Hindu ascetic.

‘How our brains model reality’, Iain McGilchrist.

https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/divided-brain-master-and-his-emissary-iain-mcgilchrist

 ‘The Significance Delusions’ – Gillian Bridge, book-2016.

‘The Less Deceived’ – book of poems. Philip Larkin, 1922-1985. His book is not for the ‘More Deceived’ out there.

‘They screw you up, your Mum and Dad’ – Larkin poem.

From ‘This be the verse’. (Sorry Philip, the rules of my deluded, encrusted mind prevent me from using your better word!)

 ‘One half of the trouble is not our fault but the fault of our parents’. Swamiji.

 ‘Your mistake was to project It outside yourself. It was inside you all the time’. Swamiji.

‘The source is within. In your centre are the Object and the Subject of your Realisation’. Inayat Khan, 1882-1927.

‘The final victory is when you have risen above the things that you once most valued’. Inayat Khan, Sufi.