Knowing.

Information based on imagination and traditions, stories of aliens and angels, and things in the Bible which supposedly happened a long time ago are not fact; but these are machinations of the ego, grandiose nonsense from people who live in fear of the unknown, so inventing something which entertains or fulfills an expectation from the ignorant readers appears to be profitable. And the human mind, the selfish ego is always seeking something fantastical, always seeking answers and ways to mentally experience what it doesn’t understand.

And this is exactly what is keeping you in the dream, because all these fantasies and things which are really unproven are no more than false knowledge; entertaining, imaginative, but false knowledge which is corrupting a clear mind. People’s minds are their sanctuary, or should be their sanctuary; a place of worship of truth, factual truth, and a place where they can find freedom and refuge from the nonsense going on in the world–from politics, from wars, from personal problems, from painful memories, etc. But there can be no sacredness, no sacred place to visit, if the mind is a den of imaginative deities and stories influenced by really ordinary people who lack self-knowledge.

Because when you have true self-knowledge, you stop seeking and inventing things and stories based on imagination and popular stupidity. You must rise above all this and find the truth which you can see and prove, like the energy of the Sun you can feel giving you life, or the fact that you are made of eternal energy living inside each one of your atoms. Question, always question, meditate on everything and anything you read; question even what you are reading right now and that which is popular knowledge–specially popular knowledge, because the rabble tends to feed themselves unproven garbage as they follow society.

And when it comes to spirituality, there are a lot of false and popular things going around; mostly because so-called “spiritual” people tend to live in the clouds and dream about other dimensions, life after death, and things which they have read and formed beliefs out of ignorance… “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking…