The whole point of HORD is to become enlightened and to do this by rending apart the Veil of Illusion leaving the way clear to achieving the Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel. This is done by ‘Solve et Coagula’ in Alchemical terms. You undergo a series of challenges that essentially help you pull yourself apart, realise which parts of yourself you have created as an ‘illusion’, and change that ‘illusion’ so that you can reassemble yourself in a better and more perfect way. HORD doesn’t do it. You do it. But you have the rest of the group to support and back you up as we all go through the process together.
Rending the Veil is a ‘profound’ experience. We don’t let go of our illusions easily. The whole process consists of finding your ‘illusions’ and seeing them for what they are – unreal. There is a simple test to check if you’ve found an illusion. Emotion: If something makes you laugh, cry, get pissed off – congratulations; you’ve found one.
Enlightened Buddhists, when they find another illusion, roll around laughing for hours and hours and hours. In fact, people like the Dalai Lama spend most of the day rolling around in laughter – the more enlightened you are – the more illusions you find.
… the unenlightened just get pissed off.