Greater Is The Inside
There is a passage in I John 4:3-4 that says the spirit of antichrist is everywhere in the world, but that you, as a child of God, have overcome it because "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." At first glance, this looks like a discussion of two separate things: an evil external spirit versus a good internal one. But what if we've misunderstood the architecture of reality? What if Christ is actually your personal, creative human imagination, and the "outside" world is simply what has already been imagined? Understood this way, the antichrist isn’t a bad spirit moving around the earth apart from you. It is your own limited perception of reality. As neuroscientist Anil Seth puts it: “We're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it 'reality'.” Philosopher Alan Watts described our skin not as a barrier, but as a bridge: “The world outside your skin is just as much you as the ...
