The 6 Grand Illusions That Keep Us Enslaved to the Matrix [1]

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Sigmund Fraud [3], Staff Writer
Waking Times

“In prison, illusions can offer comfort.” – Nelson Mandela [4]

For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and recognizes the truth in the fact that he has been duped.

Maintaining the suspension of disbelief in the illusion, however, is often more comforting than acknowledging the magician’s secrets.