It turns-out that reality is a connection - not a blueprint

We are none of us spontaneously reality-based nowadays; partly due to inhabiting the virtuality, partly due to everybody* being psychologically (if not physically) ill and/or impaired.  

Since health and normality are unattainable, and because all external sources of guidance are tainted and corrupted by the inescapable totalitarianism of all institutions (including religions and churches); reality is now something we can achieve only intermittently and briefly. 

Reality - truth - is therefore something we can sometimes know, but cannot consistently achieve. 

An extra problem is that our idea is reality is misconceived as some kind of blueprint - whether ideological or religious: something like a set of principles or laws, an instruction manual, or utopian map. 

After the comprehensive and extreme failure of this model, it turns-out that reality is not like that!

But neither is reality nothing at all, nor whatever we want, nor whatever those with power say it is - these notions too have been tried and catastrophically failed to inspire or motivate. 

It turns-out that reality is a kind of connection instead of some sort of blueprint. 

In other words, reality impinges when the mass of surface-stuff in our emotions, thoughts, behaviours; discovers and attends to a connection with our true-self, and via this with that-which-is-divine.  

When we become aware, by this connection; with the reality of truth, beauty and virtue as it exists dynamically, livingly, actively - in actual divine beings...

Such as the divine in ourselves, God the Creator, Jesus Christ and other beings; these connections are what provide knowledge of reality. 

All of which may strike us as very difficult to attain; and we may then ask: Is this really the best that God could contrive for our guidance?   

Why is mortal life set-up in such a fashion?

My understanding is that this reality-by-connection has the great advantage of being potentially available to everybody under all circumstances - whatever our personality, whatever our social situation. 

But ultimately the answer to "is this really the best that can be managed" for mortal life is: Yes. 

It is the best that God can contrive for an entropic universe, that also contains a good deal of evil. 

Which is why Jesus's offer of Heaven refers - not to mortal life nor this earth and universe - but to our post-mortal life in Heaven. 

*I say "everybody" because that is what I observe - obviously including myself! I recognize that there are plenty of people who present-themselves as bastions of normality, common sense, health and strength. But all of these I have encountered, strike me as very obviously and strongly pathological characters - who are deceptively attempting to displace attention (their own attention, as well as that of other people) to the deficits of others.