The term “Ockham’s Razor” (Wm. Ockham 1287-1347) means that among competing paradigms, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. We submit that Simple Reality fits this criteria.
Simple Reality is a profound paradigm with the correct assumption regarding Ultimate Reality–that there is only awareness, the Creator, God, Brahman, etc., and that God is none other than the True self. Hence, it is not so much that you are in the cosmos, as that the whole cosmos is in you.
“We in the West have named our God; or rather, we have had the Godhead named for us in a book from a time and place that are not our own. And we have been taught to have faith not only in the absolute existence of this metaphysical fiction, but also in its relevance to the shaping of our lives. In the great East, on the other hand, the accent is on experience; on one’s own experience furthermore, not a faith in someone else’s. And the various disciplines taught are of ways to the attainment of unmistakable experience–ever deeper, ever greater–of one’s own identity with whatever one knows as ‘divine’ identity, and beyond that, then transcendence.”[i]
“All theology is said to be a series of archetypal images intended to describe an unimaginable transcendence; together they comprise the collective unconscious. Because the unconscious is ambivalent, producing both good and bad effects, the image of God is also twofold. The dangers and fears of surrendering oneself to the Holy Spirit are said to be so great in view of this ambivalence that no one today would suggest that he is possessed by it.”[ii]
That is to say, our fear of the metaphysical fiction is so great that we cannot accept the simplicity of the gift of “heaven on earth.” Ironic, don’t you think?
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Supplemental Reading: God, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
#55 Metaphysical Fiction
[i] Campbell, Joseph. Myths To Live By. New York: Bantam, 1973, p. 96.
[ii] Jung, C. G. Abstracts of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung. Rockville, Maryland: NIMH, 1978, p. 131.
