Marius (Germany) interviews Marcus Stegmaier (Academy of Absolute Understanding)

Question: You say that life is illusory, what are the grounds on which this opinion stands?

Response: The question is, on which grounds man claims that life is real?

True, but if one comes from the opinion that life is real one must investigate why it could be illusory. 

Review: DVD “Business and Spirituality“ (February 28th, 2011) by Dr. Vijai S Shankar

Universities are supposed to represent the highest state of intellect in life. Scientists have attained the most sceptical view about all aspects of life. Without proof nothing has the right to be in business, and the public believes that this is rightfully so for no man wants to be fooled by others. Businessmen on the other hand are, by definition, most interested in what leads to increase of profit which is of value in business. 

“Mind’s Dialogue - Life’s Monologue”

Lifefull Life and Mindfull Mind

Life lives and mind thinks. Thinking makes man believe he is separate from life and a doer in control of his life. The thought to be a doer is the root thought for all duality in man’s mind. Discrimination is mind’s function. Dual thoughts therefore are man’s dialogue with and within his own mind.

The mind only recognises that what it already knows. This makes man to interact only with his own thoughts which he projects onto others. Therefore man’s dialogue is only his own mental duologue as well as his own mental duel-logue, with and within his own mind.
Man recognises what is present as thoughts but expects to see the life he imagines, in the same way a sculptor recognises a rock and sees the statue he imagines in it, a painter recognises a white canvas and sees the painting he imagines on it, a composer recognises an empty sheet and sees the notes he imagines on it or an actor recognises a script and sees the character he imagines in it. Seeing is believing, which are one’s own thoughts!
Like all artists, who create the product of their art, an actor maintains a dialogue between the images within himself to create a character, which he projects from within himself upon others.

Enquiry: Conversation between Marius (17, sixth former, Germany) and Marcus (Germany)

“Theatre’s Mirror”

Illusion holds a mirror up to life

Theatre is a demonstration how life reflects its illusions to appear real to man, so that an understanding may happen that all thoughts are illusory and not real and man is incapable of controlling life with ‘his’ mind. 
It takes courage to look into life as a mirror to understand that man’s mind projects an illusory world. Such a mirror which could bring about that understanding is theatre if understood properly.
Sitting relaxed in his chair, in the dark, without anybody watching him, and without himself watching himself, man as an audience in a theatre is a witnesser of the theatrical performance on stage.
As an audience man does not participate in what is happening on stage, but he is the spectator of what is performed.
Although not actively participating, man as an audience passively participates in the happening on stage, for he is present here and now.
For the duration of the drama, the spectator forgets the play to be a fiction, and gets absorbed into the drama and is lost in its happening.
But, no spectator, except an enlightened one, watches without his mind interpreting the drama. Perception is in the eye of the perceptor.
A drama play is built to tease the audience into its web of illusions. To do so the playwright uses a dramaturgic construction according to the classical Aristotle drama technique.

Doer And Non-Doer - Aliens In Life

“Should“ And “Should Not“

There is no doubt: If in the depth of the universe man some day finds an alien life form, the alien‘s language too would be dominated by the word “should“, as it is in every human language all over the earth. How could this be known?

If “should“ were not the dominating factor of the alien‘s language, man would not admit intelligence to them and “extraterrestrial intelligence“ would be called “extraterrestrial foolishness“ instead. The belief in a doer and a non-doer is supposed to be a sign of intelligence. “Man is the measure of all things“ as the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Protagoras has stated more than 2000 years ago. This is how the human mind functions at the present state of evolution.

The difference between animals and man is believed to be the ability to plan and act accordingly, i.e. to do what “should“ be done and not to do what “should not“ be done. This gave birth to the concept of a doer and a non-doer in the human mind. And this belief is the basic illusion under which man suffers a lifetime without even wanting to let go of it, for the ego is afraid of losing control. However the ego does not understand that it has never been in control in the first place but only appeared to be the ruler of the game. This deception is the intelligence of life.

Theatre of Life

“Life’s joke on itself”

The enlightened beings proclaim life to be a play of light and sound. The play appears as life’s theatre, and on its stage life projects its drama.

The mother of all dramas in life is ‘religion’. Religious drama stands model for all drama in life.

The drama of religion has been written by life, performed by life and viewed by life. Its show, so far, has been life’s biggest box-office hit.

Religious drama plays with the main elements a drama play contains: theme, plot, character and language.

The theme of religious drama is ‘good and bad’, and its plot tells the story of the battle between ‘good’ and ‘bad’, for good to win over bad and gain power for ‘man’.

The characters of religious drama are ‘God’ the protagonist, ‘devil’ the antagonist, and ‘man’ the tritagonist.

Since its appearance, religious drama is performed all over the world in as many languages as there are. Its battle hasn’t been settled as yet. Its show goes on and evolves and sophisticates.

Religious drama evolved into a more sophisticated drama, called: ‘science’. The theme of science drama is ‘research’ and its plot tells the story of the battle between ‘certain’ and ‘uncertain’, for certain to win over uncertain and gain power for ‘man’.

The characters of science drama are ‘scientist’ the protagonist, the ‘religious’ the antagonist, and ‘proof’ the tritagonist.

“Dramatised Dramalessness”

Mind Dramatises, Life is Dramalessness

Life is an evolutionary and sophisticating process. No thinking accompanies life’s evolution and sophistication, although man thinks it does. And yet, life provided man with an illusory mind, to enable him to realise he is life, and not mind.

Everything in life is life’s expression, and nothing in life is separated from life. Whatever is separated, independent or individual is an expression of life’s illusory nature of separation, independence and individuality.

Life happens to man, man does not make life happen. But life made man think he can make life happen, by the words he uses. Man experiences a world of thoughts.

It is thinking that creates an illusory duality in the mind. The mind is dual and antagonises, which enables it to dramatise. Mind is a myth.

With an illusory mind, life provides man with illusory words, illusory meanings, illusory language, illusory beliefs, illusory feelings, illusory emotions and illusory memory.

Thinking is dreaming in the waking state and dreaming is thinking in the sleeping state. Indeed, mind is an inbuilt television.

Thinking is synonymous with imagining and fantasising. The capacity of the mind to imagine is unimaginable. The power of illusion!

An illusion is an imagination. Man’s mind has the capacity to imagine a fiction. What is imagined is fictitious, and creates a drama in the mind.

Advent Season 

“Time Bomb Of The Year“

In all the Christian countries of the world, man‘s and woman‘s wish is a merry christmas. Parents gift their children advent calendars of various types to prepare, for themselves and their children, the happy, merry christmas. Christmas Eve is expected to be the celebration of love. However in most cases it seems to be the celebration of expectations! This is not love at all though man usually takes it to be love. 

“Art of Acting”

Creation is singular, a single event, in which the appearance of many events is revealed simply as a play of light and sound.

Everything in life happens as a singular movement from a source that is beyond the mind, beyond mental concepts, beyond thought and thinking – from a source that is unthinkable.

Awareness appears as consciousness, as the five elements, as plants and animals, and as human beings.

Awareness as energy is information. Awareness appearing as man is therefore information.

In some human beings information appears as acting talent, they are born with the talent to act.

What could possibly be an actor’s instrument which life uses to act? An actor is his own instrument, meaning his body and his mind, together called: acting instrument.

As a human being an actor is both: body and mind. No mind exists without a body. Therefore the body is an actor’s primordial instrument, and it includes the mechanism of an operating mind.

Mind does not exist physically but mentally, and therefore mind can only appear as thoughts.

As long as it exists, the body of an actor is always present in the present, and within it breathing is also always present in the present.

Body and breath, together called: bodily acting instrument, produce movement as well as sound.

To be able to produce particular sound, an actor uses the physical vocal cords of the body, called: vocal acting instrument.