In this post, i shall show you that the idea of our reality is a great illusion. The truth is that we are designed to see the world and universe as we are rather than as it is.
We all believe that we live in a true world. We also believe in the existence of all objects that can be perceived by our senses and we feel surprised when we are forced to accept that which cannot be easily deduced by our senses like electro magnetic radiation, bacteria, virus, radio waves etc.
The fact is that our reality lies only in our senses and the existence of the same is because of our evolutionary conditioning necessary for our survival.
The reality as we believe today is nothing more than a sum total of our sensory perceptions and beliefs formed by our mind over long period of time.
Reality can also be defined as a result of electrical impulses of your subconscious and conscious mind.
Imagine when you are sleeping and you have a dream, you are able to touch, smell, see, hear and do everything that you can do in the real world, you may never realise that it is a dream untill you wake up. How does this happen? It happens because your mind has manipulated your subconscious mind and recreated those electrical impulses.
You will never know you are dreaming untill you wake up. The entire reality had been created for you when you were sleeping. This is the poverty of reality.
It is equally true that the senses we are blessed with are a very poor tool to ascertain the truth of our natural world or reality of life.
What if i tell you now that we are all blind and deaf. Deaf and Blind not by a small measure but by a very large measure. Blind beyond our own beleifs. Impossible you say. Let me prove it.
Consider the fact that the visible spectrum that the naked eye can observe lies between the ultra violet and infra red. In other words colours of light beyond ultraviolet and infra red are completely blind to human vision.
This is not a small measure by any stretch of imagination. Isn't it an irony that millions of colurs, designs that depict the beauty and grandeur of the universe has been kept purposefully hidden from our eyes? Many insects and animals can see the beautiful designs in ultra violet light that is present on flowers and plants which we cannot.
Consider the fact that we are also deaf by a very large measure because we cannot hear sounds beyond 20hz and 20khz of the auditory spectrum.
There are many sounds that are produced continously in the natural world which are far beyond this frequency limits.
Imagine how beautiful would it be if we could hear the sound of buds blossoming into a flower or the musical sounds made by tiny insects and plants in the nature.
And too much has been said about human mind and its abilities, let me show you why common sense is also a weak tool in the wide arena of universe
Imagine a piece of rock, common sense tells us that it is solid and it is not hollow. Nuclear physics and quantum mechanics tells us that a piece of rock is
completely hollow from within and is full of empty space.
This has been ascertained at the atomic level by indepth research and repeated experiments so if rock is hollow and full of space then why does it appear to be solid to us. This is because of force fields between the molecules that are tigtly packed. Now these force fields are packed only to the extent that they can prevent our hands from passing through but why?
One way to look at it is that these forces of field has been especially created for our existence. These force fields are necessary for human survival because concept of solidity and impenetrability is essential for our to existence. How else would we be alive and pass through life?
To look at the broad picture of life, every organism has been given a world model that it perceives and believes to be true.
This specific world model is necessary for its survival and growth. Many insects can see the beautiful flower designs in ultra violet lights by naked eye because it is necessary for their survival, we dont because it is un necessary for our existence.
The same is true of ultra sonic sounds, and other things invisible to us. If this be true our reality is extremely petty, small and poor.
Now is it just a co incidence that we live in the middle world? By middle world, i mean the world in between the vastness of space and universe and sheer smallness of size of atoms and molecules?
We cannot see molecules and atoms because we dont need to see them. We cannot venture into space unaided because it is not meant for us.
Science has opened flood gates to our understanding and is constantly pushing the bar to explore new worlds that we were not designed to understand and see.
The famous biologist Halden had once said that universe is not just queerer than we suppose but queerer than we CAN suppose.
If this be true of our petty and insignificant existence in the vast grandeur of universe what else is our reality but an illusion?
We all believe that we live in a true world. We also believe in the existence of all objects that can be perceived by our senses and we feel surprised when we are forced to accept that which cannot be easily deduced by our senses like electro magnetic radiation, bacteria, virus, radio waves etc.
The fact is that our reality lies only in our senses and the existence of the same is because of our evolutionary conditioning necessary for our survival.
The reality as we believe today is nothing more than a sum total of our sensory perceptions and beliefs formed by our mind over long period of time.
Reality can also be defined as a result of electrical impulses of your subconscious and conscious mind.
Imagine when you are sleeping and you have a dream, you are able to touch, smell, see, hear and do everything that you can do in the real world, you may never realise that it is a dream untill you wake up. How does this happen? It happens because your mind has manipulated your subconscious mind and recreated those electrical impulses.
You will never know you are dreaming untill you wake up. The entire reality had been created for you when you were sleeping. This is the poverty of reality.
It is equally true that the senses we are blessed with are a very poor tool to ascertain the truth of our natural world or reality of life.
What if i tell you now that we are all blind and deaf. Deaf and Blind not by a small measure but by a very large measure. Blind beyond our own beleifs. Impossible you say. Let me prove it.
Consider the fact that the visible spectrum that the naked eye can observe lies between the ultra violet and infra red. In other words colours of light beyond ultraviolet and infra red are completely blind to human vision.
This is not a small measure by any stretch of imagination. Isn't it an irony that millions of colurs, designs that depict the beauty and grandeur of the universe has been kept purposefully hidden from our eyes? Many insects and animals can see the beautiful designs in ultra violet light that is present on flowers and plants which we cannot.
Consider the fact that we are also deaf by a very large measure because we cannot hear sounds beyond 20hz and 20khz of the auditory spectrum.
There are many sounds that are produced continously in the natural world which are far beyond this frequency limits.
Imagine how beautiful would it be if we could hear the sound of buds blossoming into a flower or the musical sounds made by tiny insects and plants in the nature.
And too much has been said about human mind and its abilities, let me show you why common sense is also a weak tool in the wide arena of universe
Imagine a piece of rock, common sense tells us that it is solid and it is not hollow. Nuclear physics and quantum mechanics tells us that a piece of rock is
completely hollow from within and is full of empty space.
This has been ascertained at the atomic level by indepth research and repeated experiments so if rock is hollow and full of space then why does it appear to be solid to us. This is because of force fields between the molecules that are tigtly packed. Now these force fields are packed only to the extent that they can prevent our hands from passing through but why?
One way to look at it is that these forces of field has been especially created for our existence. These force fields are necessary for human survival because concept of solidity and impenetrability is essential for our to existence. How else would we be alive and pass through life?
To look at the broad picture of life, every organism has been given a world model that it perceives and believes to be true.
This specific world model is necessary for its survival and growth. Many insects can see the beautiful flower designs in ultra violet lights by naked eye because it is necessary for their survival, we dont because it is un necessary for our existence.
The same is true of ultra sonic sounds, and other things invisible to us. If this be true our reality is extremely petty, small and poor.
Now is it just a co incidence that we live in the middle world? By middle world, i mean the world in between the vastness of space and universe and sheer smallness of size of atoms and molecules?
We cannot see molecules and atoms because we dont need to see them. We cannot venture into space unaided because it is not meant for us.
Science has opened flood gates to our understanding and is constantly pushing the bar to explore new worlds that we were not designed to understand and see.
The famous biologist Halden had once said that universe is not just queerer than we suppose but queerer than we CAN suppose.
If this be true of our petty and insignificant existence in the vast grandeur of universe what else is our reality but an illusion?
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