Richard Fusniak wrote:
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> David,
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> I postulate this: Nirvana is an illusion and a concept
> invented by mankind. For all you know there is no escape
> from the endless ties of mind, body and spirit. Spirit, mind
> and matter are intexorably linked and escape from the
> material world in the long term is sheer wishful thinking and
> poppycock. So showing others the way out of the material
> world is really banging your head up against a brick wall and
> trying to change what may very well be a natural phenomena.

Nirvana--which I call Universal Mind--is an illusion, but it's still more real than the astral and of course the physical. So if you're going to call it an illusion, include the rest of creation, because the Ruler of this world is Universal Mind--aka, The "Causal" plane.
The physical is just a projection of the inner worlds. Plato had it right in "The Cave".
David