Reply #4: I love it too. But if the my perception of self is an illusion, who is it fooling? [View All]

[napoleon_in_rags]

Who is experiencing that illusion? I am tempted to say "I myself am", but that only makes the illusion refer backwards to itself. To the universe/god/totality is being fooled?

I remember hearing something I liked: In the beginning God had infinite power, knowledge. But infinite power had to include the power to be powerless, infinite knowledge included the knowledge of what it is not to know things. For this reason, all the mortal things were created, to collect the experiences of powerlessness and ignorance for God, which were required by His divine nature.

So in the context of that, that which is being fooled ultimately is God, god is fooling himself with the illusion of self making him believe he's all of us, because he must include the knowledge of what its like to be fooled in his mind to actually be omniscient.

Man I love thinking about this stuff! Thanks for posting. :)