MULTIPLE LEVELS OF REALITY

Rip Parker
3 min readFeb 15, 2024

(Previously titled “Reflections of Reflections, Echoes of Echoes”. This is a more descriptive title)

DREAMS: IN THEMSELVES REAL,BUT NOT FINAL REALITY: LIFE IS MAYA

Hindu tradition calls life Maya, a dream, an illusion that upon awakening, escaping the dream, is seen for what it was. One may awaken before death of the body.

Reality cannot be captured in rational concepts expressed in words, which can only hint at its truth. We can only recognize and accept the dreamlike nature of life. It is Maya.

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics