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With a new Star Trek movie out I was reminded of a lesson I learned from Star Trek and how it relates to what appears to be going on in the world. It is the story of the power of illusion and how to see through it. Star Trek fan or not – yes I am a big fan – the lesson is easy to apply.

It happened in the first Star Trek episode seen as The Menagerie that aired in November of 1966. In an attempt to rescue Captain Pike from the Talosians, who were masters of illusions, the crew used heavy phaser fire to blast an entrance through the “mountain.”

Repeated attempts to blast open the entrance appeared to them to be unsuccessful because the Talosians’ illusions completely hid the reality from them that they were successful the first time.

Captain Pike eventually realizes that the phasers must have worked and forces the Talosians to reveal the truth to everyone. The illusion vanishes immediately revealing the effects of the blasts.

Holding that idea in mind, let’s call debt and the concept of lack in all its forms a prison from which we all wish to escape.

We can be in debt in many forms because debt is more than just owing money, but all debt stems from the same erroneous premise, and until we uncover and step away from that premise we can never be really free from it.

This erroneous premise is an expectancy that good comes directly from the object that we see – whether it is a person, place or thing. It is our perception, premise, and belief that the material world, or matter, owes us a living, or good things, or health, or love, or our completeness that puts us into its debt as we have put it into ours.

How does this work with the Star Trek metaphor?

We often blast away at perceived problems, including debt and lack, with our phasers of Truth, but seeing nothing change we think that it doesn’t work, and yet it always does. Shifting our perceptions always changes the object that we perceive because what appears as the material world is the objectification of our current highest awareness of every idea, person, place or thing.

Choosing a perception of infinite good and blasting away at what appears to be a problem with that awareness does indeed dissolve it.

If we don’t see a change, it is not the problem itself, but our habit of seeing, or listening to the very loud voice that tells us in no uncertain terms that the problem is still present when in actuality it has already been dissolved.

The problem is that we continue the illusion by continuing to believe that the problem still exists, or ever did for that matter. The problem then becomes that we believe the illusion.

This means we waste immeasurable amounts of time, energy, thought, and hope on something that does not exist so that we do not take the time to simply demand and expect that we experience the Truth now.

In the Bible story of Elisha and his servant, the servant was afraid of the huge army facing them and worried that they did not have the means to fight the enemy. Elisha wasn’t worried, because he knew that it what appeared as the enemy was powerless before Truth.

Responding to his servants fear, “…he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” (Bible 11 Kings 6:16)

Just like Elisha we can stop focusing on the problem, and return to Truth and stay there. What we perceive to be reality magnifies. We can choose to magnify Truth, not illusion. It’s that simple. No matter how big the enemy, how loud it may appear, how terrifying the perceived outcome, we are wasting our time shooting at an illusion.

What we can spend our time blasting away at is the habit of looking at what appears to be wrong and struggling and working to make it better. We can’t make “it” better. It will always remain an illusion and we can fire our time and our hard work at it all we want and but we can’t fix what isn’t there.

Projecting into the future with the fear of what will happen to us, we miss the present abundance. Demanding that the material world owes us a living, or a love, or happiness, we fall into the trap of every kind of debt because we have followed the siren call of the material and return to our old habits of thinking and perceiving.

Instead of looking at what appears as a material world as if it were the truth, let’s look again. Let’s step away from the illusion and immerse ourselves in what is actually True. Let’s look and see that everything that is present in our life is in reality the presence of intelligent Love, God. Let’s follow that clear guidance and direction of this promise: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Bible John 8:32)

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