is the 'magical'/spiritual world another dimension of mind and thus an illusion

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Sacredness and spiritualism are states of being that we can never fully analyse or rationalise. It can be felt deep within ones self, but this feeling cannot be captured fully by using words. The way of the sacred, as Lao Tzu have said “is like a well, used but never used up. It is like the eternal void, filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present.”

One of 20th century eastern philosophers, J. Krishnamurti saw the spiritual nature of solitude. He compares it with aloneness, which is very different to loneliness:

“…This aloneness is not aching, fearsome loneliness. It is the aloneness of being; it is uncorrupted, rich, and complete. That tamarind tree has no existence other than being itself. So is this aloneness. One is alone, like the fire, like the flower, but one is not aware of its purity and of its immensity. One can truly communicate only when there is aloneness. Being alone is not the outcome of denial, of self-enclosure. Aloneness is the purgation of all motives, of all pursuits of desire, of all ends. Aloneness is not an end product of the mind. You cannot wish to be alone. Such a wish is merely an escape from the pain of not being able to commune.

“Loneliness, with its fear and ache, is isolation, the inevitable action of the self. This process of isolation, whether expansive or narrow, is a product of confusion, conflict, and sorrow. Isolation can never give birth to aloneness; the one has to cease for the other to be. Aloneness is indivisible and loneliness is separation. That which is alone is pliable and so enduring. Only the alone can commune with that which is causeless, the immeasurable. To the alone, life is eternal; to the alone there is no death. The alone can never cease to be.” ( Krishnamurti, p. 17) Krishnamurti, J., Commentaries on Living. The Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Ill. U.S.A. 1967.

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To insist emptiness is the reality without having realized what the words mean brings no benefit.. in order to become realized one must train in both merit/virtues and wisdom. Through gathering the two accumulations of merit and wisdom one can arrive at the perfectly awakened state.

What is your question? The entire world is rather magical!

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I don't know about all that but there isn't much magical about "seeing reality as it is", meaning consistantly focusing on something arising in your own experience, as it arises, moment by moment , in a nonreactive, nonconceptual and impartial way. If something magical seeming does happen then see it as it is and it won't be magical anymore because it was seen without concepts such as "magical".

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