Illusion: of reality

Are the characteristics of the short film variations of those of the long film In most cases, no. It is true that the two forms rely on visual action for exposition and characterization, as well as on the illusion of reality inherent in the use of film as a visual medium. Beyond these two characteristics, however, the short film proceeds in both a simpler, and a potentially freer, manner. 

Early Proletarian poetry was wholly romantic. However, by the late 1920s, when it became clear that the world-wide communist dream had collapsed, the building of socialism in one country necessitated an entirely different aesthetic project the illusion of reality, instead of an illusory utopia. And so Socialist Realism appeared - the realism of the dream. Or, even more concretely, utopian naturalism. This is why Socialist Realism aspires not so... 

Since all is ultimately consciousness, mind (as Buddhist metaphysics terms consciousness) is the builder of all and the source of the illusion of separateness. It is by the skillful use of the image-building faculty of consciousness (imagination) that we fashion the tools for our liberation. The subjectivity of inner vision does not diminish its reality value. It is real on its own level. Such visions are not hallucinations, because their reality is that of the human psyche. They are symbols in which the highest knowledge and the noblest endeavor of the human mind are embodied. Visualization is the creative process of spiritual projection, through which inner experience is translated into visible form, comparable to the creative act of an artist whose subjective idea, emotion, or vision is transformed into an objective work of art which then takes on a reality of its own, independent of the creator. 

Correlli Barnett, The Collapse ofBritish Power (London Eyre Methuen, 1972) The Audit of War The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (London Macmillan, 1986) The Lost Victory British Dreams, British Realities 1945-1950 (London Macmillan, 1995) The Verdict of Peace Britain between her Yesterday and the Future (London Macmillan, 2001). 

The Audit of War The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation, London Macmillan, 1986. 

Psychosis is a state wherein the victim usually does not function within the "normal" tenets of society. S/he may have extremes of temperament from severe depression to euphoria without apparent cause. S/he may suffer from incorrect ideas, that is. illusions and delusions, or actually see and hear things which are not there (hallucinations). In other words, there is a noticeable absence of reality. Schizoid personalities are withddrawn, solitary, emotionally cold and distant. The fantasies they experience may be a way of coping. Misconceptions about the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia have led to the abandonment of thousands of mentally incapacitated to the streets without the care they need. 

These molecules cause significant changes in the perceptual system, producing sensory illusions and inducing a distortion of reality, the sense of space and time, to the point of hallucination. Natural, synthetic or semisynthetic substances can cause hallucinogenic effects psilocin, psilocybin, mescaline, and LSD. Hallucinogenic effects are also created by phencyclidine and ketamine, but these molecules have a dissociative character. 

The interesting question concerns the justifications within the subset, the justifications of simple sentences which fix the reference of words and thereby constitute the structure of reality. Can sentences like This is a dog be justified and yet false Yes, in two different ways. The first way is when the justification procedure is not executed properly. I may fall victim to an illusion, or I may be too careless. I may then believe that the justification conditions are satisfied, but they are not. In a weak sense, I have justification, but my justified view is wrong. This does not present a difficulty for the view summarized in Figure 2, which maintains that the criteria of identity of entities are identical with justification conditions. One may misjudge whether a justification condition is satisfied. But this does not change the justification condition. Of course, a justification condition should be such that it can be easily and uncontroversially settled whether it is satisfied. (Otherwise it would not be a justification condition.) But it would be far too much to demand that no mistake should be possible about it. If the justification conditions are not affected by the occasional mistakes, they may fix the reference of words and provide criteria of identity. The occasional mistakes just do not matter. 

The mechanism implied by the null hypothesis is also just an extension of that discussed in relation to the /-test. It is assumed that the five catalysts are in reality indistinguishable, but within these small samples, random sampling error has led to an illusion of variability in their effectiveness. Presumably, the effectiveness of some catalysts has been overestimated and/or that of others understated. 

Dorm life is not at all what I had expected it to be. I had anticipated meeting friendly people, quiet hours for studying, eating decent food, and having wild parties on weekends. My dreams, I soon found out, were simply illusions, erroneous perceptions of reality. 

Most people shake their heads at such information, and regard the notion of "possession by alien forces" as a drug-induced hallucination. It is this disbelief, based upon the deeply ingrained illusions of materialism, that is the crux of the problem we are handicapping ourselves into extinction by our pseudo-scientific denial of any perception transcending a narrowly defined consensus reality. Ultimately, we must face the question of how willing we are to accept the hypothesis of other dimensions not the lip service paid to Heaven and Hell by the monotheistic religions, but the possibility of immediate personal perception of other realms of experience. 

Shamanic pragmatism asserts that, in their own space, the "Archons" are as alive as we are in ours. One could as well designate human personality as "a set of illusions about reality focused in a physical body." (Enlightenment is the absence of illusion described as a Clear Light, this is a state too transcendent to be normally associated with differentiated personalities, or bodies made of flesh and blood. It follows then that we are all embodied illusions, hardly more substantive than the images we meet with in our heads.) Far from being a mystical fantasy, this view of physical reality has become a commonplace of modern physics ... 

Parmenides, a strict monist, believed that the phenomenal change and multiplicity of the sensual world are merely an illusion. In reality, there is only one thing, undifferentiated and unchanging. See G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 239-262. 

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