Real or Fantasy

It has been said that “life here is just an illusion”, and I often wonder exactly what is mean by that. As I thought about it, I was reminded of that old television program “Fantasy Island.” A place where visitors to a unique resort island were able to live and act out their fantasies - played out as desired.” I asked myself, are we just actors in a television program? Is life here on earth just an illusion?

It does seem that we are just actors in a play, Hollywood movie or on some fantasy island, called earth, where we interact with other people to learn the lessons of this life.

I remember one of the programs where a group of people were acting out their fantasy as Soldiers. Soldiers that were given the job by their commanders to rescuing several captives in an enemy camp. During the raid on the enemy camp, one of the soldiers was killed. After the captives were freed and the fantasy was completed, the people in the fantasy went to Mr Roarke, the director of Fantasy Island (played by Ricardo Montalban), asked him “why did that person die, we thought that this was just the acting out of our fantasy where no one gets hurt or dies?” Mr Roarke said to them, “It was his desire to die as a soldier while rescuing someone in captivity.” In reality, the man was dying and wanted to die as a soldier, not in a hospital. Life is like that. We act out our part with the hope that we will all come through life with out a scratch or die of natural causes from old age.

Some people make it seem that they are accomplishing their goals, really living their personal fantasy, and all is well with them. However, in reality they may be suffers from not being able to fulfill their fantasy. Suffering from mental illness/anguish, or suffering from some kind of physical illness that others don’t even know they have. Or maybe they have a terminal illness they just don’t talk about. They suffer in silence.

You have all seen the thousands of Television programs that portray people being killed in war enactments, by criminals or by an act-of-passion, or even by “supposed ordinary people”; or stories about the hero policeman who, each week, captures the criminal, and jails them for punishment, all in less than an hour. The moral of the story is, “if you break the law, you will be caught and punished no matter what or who you really are.

Life may be a fantasy for some, but it sure seems to be very real for others. Life is filled with every sort of experience. We “make or break our life” depending on how we look at it. Some people act out their fantasies on a daily basis, while others seem to get further and further into the depths of despair and suffering. What on earth can be done to change things? Can anything be done?

One of the things that Spiritualist’s teach is Natural Law. Natural Law works in every part of our life and we all have the opportunity to use our knowledge of those laws to change anything that comes our way in an instant. We merely need to know which laws we can apply that will help us make the appropriate life decisions. As true Spiritualist we study these laws and make every effort to abide by them. They are God’s Laws.

Christianity teaches that a strong belief in God and His son Jesus, accepting him into their hearts and confessing their sins to God is all that is necessary for the changes that are needed in one’s life. We teach that a strong belief in God, the source of all creation, is all that is needed. All choices in life are up to you and me, as long as we get the results that we want. The ultimate goal is to find happiness and a little joy in our personal fantasy world.