The boundaries of reality

What you read here does not exist. In the sense that it is not directly palpable or detectable with our biological human sensors. To actually experience it, we need 'translator devices' like computer monitor screens, televisions or speakers to allow our sensors to pick up signals that they send to our brain in the form of electromagnetic pulses with which we form images that exist in an imaginary virtual world only. The range of impulses that human sensors are able to detect, are marked by an upper and lower frequency, beyond which we are unable to notice whatever is emitting or reflecting those out-of-reach frequencies.

But the fact that our sensors are unable to detect them, does not mean that they do not exist. Oh by the way, anything that is detectable we call reality - the renown seeing is believing cliché - and anything outside of the range of frequencies that make up visible light or audible frequencies, requires specific knowledge to accept that they exist, even though they are invisible or inaudible. We can't hear, see, touch or smell radio- or TV-signals, WiFi frequencies etc. but because we have been told that they exist, we believe that even if our biological sensors are incapable to detecting them. We can see the impulses they transfer on screens or hear them through speakers. But because our sensors do not notice them without the assistance of auxiliary devices, we say that they exist in the virtual world.

The fourth eye

There is no Internet without monitors and speakers, like there are no games without them. We can not video call or vid-chat without our smartphones or webcams. Conference calls are not possible without specialized equipment. But we can also use devices to remote control drones to observe properties of agricultural areas (with infra-red scanners) or bomb the enemy.... The virtual world can be used to observe or direct events in the 'real' world. Does that mean that the limitations of our sensory ability just determine what is virtual and what is real and that there actually is no border between these dimensions inside our dimension? Is this an error of judgement caused by poor or incomplete information?

So apparently the measure and nature of the knowledge that we possess, determines what label we stick on things. But fragments of information - the building blocks of knowledge - are what they are; they can be true or false. This can mean that one and the same event, entity or thought can be qualified as true by one person and be labeled as false by an other. It is knowledge that determines our perception. Professor David Bohm already said this is the case long ago: Human knowledge is a perceptional enterprise.

If something is perceived to be real by one person and not real by an other their perception is not reconcilable, because they believe distinguished information to be true or false. But I suspect nature not to perceive matters in such a way, because it actually exactly knows the difference between true and false information. It seems to me that this is a mandatory condition to create anything at all. In other words, nature does not know virtual worlds, for that is the result of the limited ability to detect of human biological sensors and the possibility to manipulate the settings of artificial sensors and monitors. A person's perception depends on what information (s)he was offered, regardless of the fact if it is true or false, while nature is the source of all information. Entities within nature's domain (some of them) just distort information for unnatural purposes.

Anyway, this is how I perceive things to be.



Hasta luego virtual online folks.

Spiritual assaults / episodes

From time to time I experience spiritual assaults. There is no cure for it; they just occur and the only option is to let them fade away by themselves. Actually, I do not feel the need to make them go away, but that is a mindset that is becoming increasingly rare these days. Commonly people ignore them or even try to suppress such instants with all sorts of means, mostly medicinal brews. I, on the other hand, tend to patiently endure such episodes to the end. Maybe because I entered and grew up in this dimension in a time and place in which mostly everyone was of such opinion. People there lived close to nature and told stories about ghosts that they met in unusual circumstances while they acted in unusual ways, the spirits that is. They usually were semi-transparent, flew about like birds or walked through walls. That sort of stuff.

Ghost

I can't recall ever having seen a spirit or ghost, but the spiritual episodes that befall me leave no reason to think that they're (drug induced - I don't use any) hallucinations or psychoses. At best hairs stands up in my neck or on my forearms. Those are the physical symptoms of the spiritual sequences, but the mental aspects are more interesting, although they usually are difficult to describe with the tools that human language offers. But since I am in the process of writing this blog, I will give it a try anyway, because there would be no point in writing this blog entry, without attempting to do so. Therefore you may want to prepare for some involuntary incoherent and / or puzzling words in the remainder of this article.

The instants in which I experience the presence of spirits usually are characterized by an elevated awareness in which I become capable of understanding matters in a more precise and profound way, that has never before happened to me. It differs from moments in which I for instance discover solutions in creating technical constructions. Those I rather see as aha-moments. It has more to do with intangible matters that offer a more profound understanding of aspects closely related to the essence of life. We can do without most technical constructions, but life has a number of unavoidable requirements, even if many are totally clueless to what I write about here concerning such matters.

Dunning-Kruger syndrome

That sad observation merely means that society has drifted far away from what was once common and normal, thereby losing a lot of valuable things. But if people have no idea what these things are, they do not miss them, eventhough they in fact are missing in their lives. Modern life has become poorer as a result, less profound and more shallow, which is not a good thing. It resembles the Dunning-Kruger syndrome, that states that a lack of certain type of knowledge causes people not to be aware of the fact that they miss things that they have no knowledge of. This creates an unfortunate downward spiral that plunges people in increasing ignorance, even those that are highly educated in this extremely compartmentalized world of abundant knowledge. Having plenty of knowledge isn't a guarantee to become wise, those are two entirely separate matters.

So spiritual impulses are probably directly related to wisdom, while wisdom is not necessarily related to knowledge. It just depends on the nature of the knowledge if it is able to contribute to gaining wisdom. Having the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb does not automatically make the person that can build an atom bomb or hydrogen bomb a wise (wo)man. What's more, inventing destructive means has nothing to do with matters of life - it is associated to inflicting pain or illness or even to causing death, which is the exact opposite of life's features. Thus spirituality is directly connected to life, to existence. People that do not understand that are in fact dead, but just haven't stopped breathing yet. Therefore I would like to wish everyone spiritual episodes every now and then, reminders that life without an occasional spiritual experience, is not really living. It somehow offers life before death, which is more than just cluttering up this planet without a proper excuse.


Hasta luego online virtual folks.