Posted: Oct 15, 2013 2:46 pm
Destroyer wrote:GrahamH wrote:Destroyer wrote:GrahamH wrote:Destroyer stated that phenomenal entities do not exist, and he seems to believe in some sort of fundamental God-mind. Doesn't that make him an idealist? You both see the world as illusion. James, you think brains and self identify are fictions by God, for God. It is trivial for such a God / author to enter 'the empirical realm' .
The difference between myself and an idealist is that I do not believe that the illusory universe is being generated by a real Mind. But by a Mind that has corruptly converted and contaminated Himself so that He now appears to be the phenomenal universe.
How can anything be generated by an unreal mind?
The Mind is ALL that originally existed in reality. It is that real existence which is now being falsely claimed to identify with the phenomenal universe - hence it is just an illusion.
Or vice versa.