聽神談【人類「定罪」幻覺的緣起】
因為死亡的存在排除了一種「生命是永恆的」的可能性，所以你們決定認為：在肉身死亡後，生命必定還會永遠持續下去。
但是如果在肉身死亡後，生命永遠持續下去，那麼「死亡的意義和目的」又有什麼呢？
沒有意義。所以，必須在你們死後的經驗裡，創造出……另一種結果。
你們稱它為「定罪」（Condemnation）。
當你門這樣思考時，它完全合理。它正和第二個幻覺——生命的結果是有疑問之「失敗是存在的」觀念——相呼應！
現在你們可以既擁有蛋糕，又可以吃它了。現在你們可以既有死亡，又有永生、有獎賞也有懲罰了。藉由將兩者都放在死亡之後，你們有辦法將死亡弄成不是懲罰，卻只是種「不足」的終極顯現（the ultimate manifestation of Insufficiency）——這是第四個幻覺最令人印象深刻的證據。
現在，一個幻覺真地開始支持另一個了。它們的交織是完美的。你們的工作完成了，而這是你們的文化故事以及「你們無止盡的創造和代代相傳所強化的迷思」所製造出的實相。
迷思支持著這些故事，而故事支持著幻覺。這是你們整個宇宙觀的超級結構。這些是你們所有的理解所依據的基礎。
但它們——它們全部——都是不實的謬誤。
摘自《與神合一》第7章
Since the existence of death precluded the possibility of a life that goes on forever, you decided that life must go on forever after physical death.
But if life went on forever after physical death, then what was the point of death?
It had no point. And so, there had to be created in your after-death experience . . . another outcome.
This you called Condemnation.
It fit perfectly, when you thought about it. It fell right into line with The Second Illusion—the outcome of life is in doubt; Failure Exists!
Now you could have your cake and eat it too. Now you could have death and Everlasting Life, punishment and reward. By placing both after death, you were able to make death itself not the punishment but simply the ultimate manifestation of Insufficiency—the most impressive evidence of The Fourth Illusion.
One Illusion now really began to support the other. The interweaving was perfect. Your work was complete, and this was the reality produced by your cultural story, and by your endless creation and passing on of myths that solidified it.
Myths support the Story, and the Story supports the Illusions. This is the superstructure of your entire cosmology. These are the underpinnings of all your understandings.
And they are—all of them—false.
