What I am going to say here is, in fact, very subtle. In my last blog, I said that I was comfortable with “the belief that the Divine Reality that AMORC talks about is a real possibility for human experience.” Yet, this belief can be a two-edged sword- for the wrong type of belief can actually undermine both a way of coping with ordinary reality as well as reaching Divine Reality. In The Prisoner of San Jose, I discuss how certain exercises in the monographs, specifically those about time that can be measured by a clock, can slowly undermine the students’ understanding of measurable time as a component of true, objective reality. In fact, AMORC basically suggests that “subjective” time- the non-linear experience of events in the subconscious- i.e., as in dreams or the imagination- has a primacy over time-by-the-clock. Yes, it is true that in Higher Consciousness, many claim that they are locked in a place beyond space and time- yet, for that part of us that is human and lives in this world, the discarding of ordinary reality can be a portal to hallucinatory reality rather than a conduit to Higher Reality.