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Delusion

1. The action of deluding or of being deluded; the state of being deluded. 2. A false impression or opinion, esp. as a symptom of mental illness. Delude –– Cause to accept foolishly a false or mistaken belief; deceive, beguile; impose upon with false impressions. Oxford Dictionary

To delude oneself is to take on, willingly accept, and fervently indulge in a belief to the point of being totally convinced of it being a fact. This condition is most common in spiritual believers who proclaim their beliefs to be a ‘truths’, thereby carefully and cleverly avoiding using the word fact. Thus belief, masquerading as ‘truth’, is then held in higher esteem than fact and even more so when it is proclaimed to be a Truth, the capitalization instantly and magically endowing it with some Divine omnipresence and omnipotence. To call a belief a ‘Truth’, while blatantly and deliberately disregarding what is factual and actual, is delusion in the extreme. Given that a delusion is a symptom of mental illness , the active cultivation of delusion, as in spiritual and meditation practices, leads directly to the institutionalized insanity of religion.

delusions of grandeur –– an exaggerated estimation of one’s own status or personality; megalomania. Oxford Dictionary

The Altered State of Consciousness commonly known as Enlightenment is a classic delusion of grandeur for how exaggerated an estimation of one’s own personality can there be than to consider oneself to be God or at One with God. In a monotheist society such an extreme delusion would be regarded as a severe case of mental illness, but in the current New Dark Age with the fashion for Eastern Spiritual belief this delusion of grandeur is coveted and regarded in the highest esteem. Sustained by passionate belief to the point of conviction, the Glamour, Glory and Glitz of not only becoming God, but having others worship you as a God, is a mightily seductive lure for the merely mortal ‘self’.

The greatest delusion of grandeur is the transition from ‘self’ to ‘Self’, from mundane mortality to Divine Immortality.

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