While re-watching The Truman Show, one of my favorite movies as a young adult, I was struck by what the show’s creator, Christof, had to say about the nature of our reality and our childish belief in it.

Here’s the dialogue (Mike is interviewing Christof):

Mike Michaelson: Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?

Christof: We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

We take our lives here for face value and assume all of this is real. I mean, it must be, because it feels real, doesn’t it? If you can see something, touch it, use it, it’s real, right? Your decision to believe it makes it real for you.

Later on at the end of the movie, when Christof is speaking with Truman directly, he says something revealing while pleading with Truman to stay in the show:

Christof: Listen to me, Truman. There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. The same lies. The same deceit.

What Christof said there is similar to how our ego pleads with us when we begin to question our seeming reality on earth, in physical bodies. The ego doesnt want us to use our Right Mind and more specifically the decision-making part of our minds because it was that mind that created the ego in the first place. We still have that same power to choose once again by withdrawing our belief in the ego and along with it, its entire thought system. Our ego wants nothing more than to convince us we would prefer life as separated, individual bodies with special identities waiting to die on this psycho planet.