Seeing What You Believe, Believing What You See

There is a prejudice in modern society that we need to get over. It’s the prejudice in favor of things that are concrete, tangible and three-dimensional.

Our senses play the same trick with reality at large. Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second; therefore, we see solid objects where none in fact exist. The five senses imprison us in ways that are unconscious and invisible.

Sometimes these bizarre perceptions were so disturbing that the newly sighted preferred to sit in the dark with their eyes closed. Aren’t we doing much the same by clinging to the world of the five senses?

Can we reinvent ourselves in light of non-sensory reality, or are we to be prisoners of the five senses as much as our ancestors were in pre-history?

A fact from neurology, little known to the general public, is that our brains create the five senses and therefore everything they tell us. There is literally no light or darkness, taste, touch, or sound ‘out there,'except what we have created ‘in here.’

In reverse, the human body isn’t solid to neutrinos, x-rays, and gamma radiation, and since every atom inside us is more than 99.9999% empty space, the fact that your hand feels solid is an illusion as much as the wall that separates two repelling magnets. (The empty space between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons orbiting around it is far larger, relatively, than the void between the Earth and the sun.)

So the basic way we need to reinvent perception is to realize that the five senses are totally illusory, the good news being that we can transcend them. In fact we do this every day.

Uncertainty reigns, and where there is uncertainty there’s a chance for freedom. As one famous Indian guru once told his followers, reality is like a net. If you want to escape it, find a hole and jump through.

In truth, the net woven by the five senses has many holes in it.

Yet, I think the greatest revolution will occur when we solve the mystery of how the brain projects reality.

My prediction is that we will see ourselves more and more connected to the quantum field, not physically but through the mind.

As our prejudice in favor of solid, concrete things fades away, certain fringe phenomena will become everyday.

We have shut out that reality in our stubborn, rigid insistence on believing our senses, but seeing with the eyes of the soul is possible. In the end, a new humanity is also possible once we escape the prison we have sentenced ourselves to for far too long.