NEW Summit Session: Carl Dixon Teaches the Value of Recognizing the Illusion in Ourselves and in Others
Are you building an empire on an illusion? Or is it a dream?
In the course of a lifetime, we are continually obliged to choose thoughts and take actions that support our progress and our very existence. Many times a day we must make a choice of what we are going to do, how we are going to do it, and why we are going to do it. We need a guiding thought on which to base these choices, and as humans have gotten more and more removed from the basic needs of survival we have created the ability to willfully be immersed in a made-up world constructed solely of the thoughts we select.
It’s natural, and perhaps inevitable, that sometimes we meander off the path of what’s best for us when the very powerful human brain can be ordered such that we’ll believe that something false is real, or that something real is false.
Il-lu-sion
noun
1. a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.
2. A deceptive appearance or belief
3. A false idea or belief
Behaviour driven by illusion on a personal level or on an institutional scale is all around us, and is not a trifling thing. Illusion can lead either slowly or quickly to any and every kind of disaster or dissolution BECAUSE IT FLIES IN THE FACE OF REALITY.
The crash must come. “Reality will rear back and bite and bite like a snake”
When we invest our entire being, our future and our happiness into an illusion it is only a matter of time before all is lost. Yet, humankind must have hope to go forward with life and be inspired to greater effort; reality in itself does not inspire. Hope drives all progress. Humans are creative beings who need to make our world to order. We dream of what could be and set to work creating it.
How valuable then to recognize Illusion in ourselves or in others, with its twisting of what is, and distinguish it from the Real. Acknowledging the Real allows us the Dream.
“The Dream is a ladder; the illusion a wall”
Join Carl Dixon at the 2016 Global TapRooT® Summit for this life-changing session, “A Life of Illusion – Getting to What is Real” (Best Practice Session 3) on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 from 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Dixon is a Canadian rock musician who has been a part of such bands as Coney Hatch, April Wine and The Guess Who. In 2008 he was involved in a near fatal car crash that could have cost him everything. His story is more than a tale of “had it all and almost lost it”; for Carl the story became, “What now?”
“Our thoughts determine our path; if we find ourselves on a bad path it’s never too late to substitute better thoughts in place of unsatisfactory ones. We have the ability to decide our thoughts, to choose strength over weakness, courage over fear, stoicism over complaint. Sure, it’s not always easy, but it can become a habit every time you remember that the strong choice is the better choice”.
Learn more about other alternative sessions you can choose to customize your schedule by visiting http://www.taproot.com/taproot-summit/summit-schedule and clicking on the “Alternative Sessions” radio button on the top left menu bar. This will display all of the alternative sessions in the red boxes on the schedule. Let us know if you need help registering for any of them or if you want to change your schedule to add Dixon’s session at: editor@taproot.com.
