Page 110 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

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T THE GREATEST FEAR OF THOSE WHO ARE SWEPT AWAY
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Think for a moment about those people enters is
who are swept away by material greed: only electrical impulses coming
what do they value most? A fine house, from these material things. This is the
luxurious things, ostentatious jewelry, the situation of a person, as in the picture
latest model car, big bank accounts, a above, who gives money to buy the
yacht... For this reason, these people are magnificent villa shown in the background.
very afraid of the fact that they are While he thinks that he is buying the villa
observing all the things they possess on a and counting the money, really he is
screen in their brains and that they will buying an impression formed in his brain,
never have the actuality of these things. and he is not giving actual money to the
Whether they like it or not, they are living person in front of him, but an image of
in a world of facsimiles composed in their money. The person receiving the money is
brains and cannot possibly have any really receiving an impression. In other
relationship with an external world. Sound, words, there is a "transaction of
light and smell cannot enter the skull; what impressions".