Spiritual Awakening:

From the Unreal to the
Real

By Michael David Lawrience

"Lead me from Darkness into Light, from
the Unreal to the Real, from
Death to Immortality."

*Sanskrit Prayer.


The voices of all of humanity
thunder in an agonizing roar,
clamoring for the unreal upon our
planet. In this din a voice like that of
the Golem from Lord of the Rings
raises above all sounds, My precious
… mine … all mine, which echoes
the voice inside us that clutches at

having more and more material stuff.


next with no real value. Our paper
Inside each of us lurks a facade of
money has no real value either for no
illusion. Within this facade we
gold standard backs it. We accept the
believe we know our real selves. We,
illusion of the value of money yet; it
however, attach our identity to the
has no inner value within itself as
facade, which is unreal.
gold does.


This facade attaches to all the false
This unreality we live in calls out to
things around us. Our facade
destroy life. It crushes our souls. It
struggles in a war within us as most
creates misery, pain, and suffering.
things in the world reflect and
Yet, we cling in desperation to our
maintain the illusion of the facade
unreality for fear of losing all the
such as accumulation of more and
material “stuff” we have
more products, clothes, cars, houses,
accumulated and create more
and money. If we had more
suffering for ourselves.
sensitivity, we would feel the pain

this illusion of reality creates in our
What if we could move beyond this
bodies
unreality rather than being trapped

within it forever? Would we be
For example, what we grasp for as
willing to take the necessary steps?
money exists only as electronic bits
What if we could gradually loosen
passing from one computer to the
the hold of illusion upon us? This
would mean a shift in our
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