The Birth of Religion - Part 3
And now for the third part in Seeker’s series on The Birth of Religion.
The Birth of Religion - Part 3
by Seeker
What is it to be human? A part of it is our ability to think and reason, but another part of it is our wonder and sense of awe at the scale and content of the world around us.
Reason tells us that it is at least a possibility that the universe exist only in our minds. Those considered wise among civilizations throughout history tell us over and again that consciousness, spirit, beingness, or whatever name you give to the essence that is us, is all there is. That we create the cosmos around us and that without awareness there is nothing.
Whether or not this is so, Einstein’s Relativity tells us of the importance of the Observer, that it matters from where you look as to what you see. Quantum Theory seems to tell us that Consciousness is an integral part of the universe rather than just a facet of it. In science there are theories that the Observer affects the results of the experiment, including some quite strange results that seem to say the results change in strange ways.
Mystics talk of this world being just one place among many while science talks of the possibility of many dimensions. So why is it we see only this realm?
Our senses are not really enablers for our minds. Rather than opening us to the cosmos around us, when looked at realistically, they instead limit our view. Out of the huge range of the spectrum of light available, we ‘see’ only a tiny slice. Our ears pass very little of the possible spread of sounds that occur around us. Our noses have nothing like the sensitivity of the animals we keep as pets and we can feel only things which directly contact our skin.
All that it takes for a world to exist that we can’t perceive is for it to not react to the wavelengths we can see.
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