TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF REALITY
Spiritual enlightenment occurs when the limitations of the human mind and senses have been transcended and the awareness begins to operate on the basis of the universal field of consciousness that underlies all things.
Rather than being a matter of faith or belief, this is a matter of direct intuitive experience.In an enlightened state, the reality of the world is experienced very differently from how it is experienced in an unenlightened state. It is no longer perceived by all senses as an external, objective reality. Instead, it is experienced for what it is: an internal, subjective reality or a mere appearance in consciousness.
In this regard, the enlightened sages distinguished between two different but interrelated types of reality: In Greek philosophy, the empirical appearance of the world, which is rooted in the experience of the empirical mind, was called the physical Cosmos, while the transcendental reality of the world rooted in the experience of the divine mind, or field of pure consciousness, was called the metaphysical Logos. Those who are enlightened see both: By means of the empirical mind they see the reality of the physical Cosmos, and through the field of pure consciousness they see the reality of the metaphysical Logos. The sober conclusion of such enlightened sages was that the metaphysical Logos serves as the hidden cause of the physical Cosmos. In other words, the Logos represents the world as it is in itself and the hidden cause of the mental impressions created within the mind.