Did you ever stop and wonder, why do we all have this insatiable
need to figure things out? To make them better, faster, more efficient.
To make everything simply "More".
The human race just can't stand to not know how things operate. We always need to dissect, and drill down to find out each and every little molecule and relationship that makes all things what they are.
Then,
when we have taken all the mystery out of something, we move onto the
next thing. And we begin all over again, to explain its innermost
workings down to the most finite elements. Has anyone ever considered
how much happier we would all be if we just took things as they are and
left some of the mystery behind the curtain?
In my opinion, that is one of the biggest reasons for the massive stress and unhappiness in society today.
I was reading a book recently about Shamanism and it explained a very interesting concept.
The idea was that the world as we know it, only consists of the layer we exist in, which can be felt and seen and quantified with science and our senses. But there are other layers which most of us cannot see, so we assume that no other layers exist, because we have no proof that they do or don't.
The other layers I am referring to, are the things you will experience while in other states of awareness. Think of them as "leaks" or "thin spots" between layers. I'm referring to the things you experience in your mind, such as when dreaming or meditating. You know when you have a dream, that your body never left the bed. But haven't you ever had a dream that you swore was real? One that you actually had to think over for a few minutes, before you could convince yourself that it was "only" a dream.
The book goes on to explain that these "experiences" or "journeying" as they are referred to, are actually times when your conscious mind actually slips through the cracks of the Physical world into the other world that runs in the background. It's there, running all the while, but we aren't able to see it most of the time. It is only possible when our mind is at rest and we drop all those safeguards, like our logic, and mental qualification process that we perform over and over, without even realizing it.
So right away, I began trying to pick apart the theory, just as any modern day human would.
My argument was fairly simple. It's a familiar statement that I'm sure you too, have used to dismiss anything that seemed a little out there..
I simply thought "It can't be true, because I've never seen it."
Could you imagine of each of us thought all the things we never saw were lies, because we had never actually seen it with our own eyes??
If that were the absolute qualifier of the existence of things, I would have to say that the world is just chock full of mythical places and things that do not exist. There are plenty of things I have learned about, that I assume are real, that I have never seen with my own eyes.
There are pyramids, and celestial bodies in space, there are strange life forms living in the depths of the oceans I will probably never see for myself. There are even places on this planet, the highest mountains, and hottest deserts, rain forests and remote tropical locations with all kinds of exotic wildlife. Most of which I will not have the luxury of actually experiencing in person.
So if the only qualifying thought process is that things we can't see, prove or understand, do not exist, then I could dismiss 2/3 of what I see on Discovery Channel as propaganda. Absolute garbage. How can all those things exist? I have never seen them.
I would be forced to lump all those things listed above, in the same category as Bigfoot, or mermaids, or Chupacabro, or even the other planes of existence behind the veil. Because I have never seen any of those things either.
Think about it for a minute, do you see the flaw in that way of thinking? Why is most of mankind content on dismissing things that could possibly open up our horizons more than anything we have ever seen, simply based up on thinking that is reminiscent of these four words that were assumed correct for thousands of years... "The world is flat." How ridiculous that seems now, huh?
I believe we should be a little more innocent in our experiences. Acknowledge the fact that although we like to think otherwise, there are things we simply don't know or understand. The hardest part to wrap our minds around may simply be that we don't know, what we don't yet know.
Leave the door open, keep an open mind, don't give in to the need to put things into nice little bundles.
You just may get that comforting feeling that something or someone you saw in a dream, might not have been a dream at all.
The human race just can't stand to not know how things operate. We always need to dissect, and drill down to find out each and every little molecule and relationship that makes all things what they are.
Then,
when we have taken all the mystery out of something, we move onto the
next thing. And we begin all over again, to explain its innermost
workings down to the most finite elements. Has anyone ever considered
how much happier we would all be if we just took things as they are and
left some of the mystery behind the curtain?In my opinion, that is one of the biggest reasons for the massive stress and unhappiness in society today.
I was reading a book recently about Shamanism and it explained a very interesting concept.
The idea was that the world as we know it, only consists of the layer we exist in, which can be felt and seen and quantified with science and our senses. But there are other layers which most of us cannot see, so we assume that no other layers exist, because we have no proof that they do or don't.
The other layers I am referring to, are the things you will experience while in other states of awareness. Think of them as "leaks" or "thin spots" between layers. I'm referring to the things you experience in your mind, such as when dreaming or meditating. You know when you have a dream, that your body never left the bed. But haven't you ever had a dream that you swore was real? One that you actually had to think over for a few minutes, before you could convince yourself that it was "only" a dream.
The book goes on to explain that these "experiences" or "journeying" as they are referred to, are actually times when your conscious mind actually slips through the cracks of the Physical world into the other world that runs in the background. It's there, running all the while, but we aren't able to see it most of the time. It is only possible when our mind is at rest and we drop all those safeguards, like our logic, and mental qualification process that we perform over and over, without even realizing it.
So right away, I began trying to pick apart the theory, just as any modern day human would.
My argument was fairly simple. It's a familiar statement that I'm sure you too, have used to dismiss anything that seemed a little out there..
I simply thought "It can't be true, because I've never seen it."
Could you imagine of each of us thought all the things we never saw were lies, because we had never actually seen it with our own eyes??
If that were the absolute qualifier of the existence of things, I would have to say that the world is just chock full of mythical places and things that do not exist. There are plenty of things I have learned about, that I assume are real, that I have never seen with my own eyes.
There are pyramids, and celestial bodies in space, there are strange life forms living in the depths of the oceans I will probably never see for myself. There are even places on this planet, the highest mountains, and hottest deserts, rain forests and remote tropical locations with all kinds of exotic wildlife. Most of which I will not have the luxury of actually experiencing in person.
So if the only qualifying thought process is that things we can't see, prove or understand, do not exist, then I could dismiss 2/3 of what I see on Discovery Channel as propaganda. Absolute garbage. How can all those things exist? I have never seen them.
I would be forced to lump all those things listed above, in the same category as Bigfoot, or mermaids, or Chupacabro, or even the other planes of existence behind the veil. Because I have never seen any of those things either.
Think about it for a minute, do you see the flaw in that way of thinking? Why is most of mankind content on dismissing things that could possibly open up our horizons more than anything we have ever seen, simply based up on thinking that is reminiscent of these four words that were assumed correct for thousands of years... "The world is flat." How ridiculous that seems now, huh?
I believe we should be a little more innocent in our experiences. Acknowledge the fact that although we like to think otherwise, there are things we simply don't know or understand. The hardest part to wrap our minds around may simply be that we don't know, what we don't yet know.
Leave the door open, keep an open mind, don't give in to the need to put things into nice little bundles.
You just may get that comforting feeling that something or someone you saw in a dream, might not have been a dream at all.
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