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Think About It Like This



Argument from analogy: The portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum visible to human sense organs is a mind-blowingly tiny fraction of the whole(3.5x10(to the)-12th%). Most -nearly all- of the light in the universe does not inform our world-view; it doesn't even enter into our range of perception or consciousness.

The reality of this makes it seem likely to me that common materialism is pathetically wrong-headed; that atoms (or other indivisible things which somehow we keep dividing) are the fundamental building blocks of matter; DNA is the absolute origin of life; that chemistry alone determines bodily health, and a million other more or less profound conclusions, don't really make sense when you think about this: it is just short of certain that our highly limited range of sense perception in combination with our relatively minuscule and idiosyncratic mental conception of the world is limiting our awareness of what is right in front of our eyes to such a degree that the analogy "our knowledge of our immediate environment is a drop in an ocean of the possibly perceived" is probably not extreme enough.

Energy fields flowing and bending around us, "extra-terrestrial" life forms living among us, paranormal abilities and activities, telepathy, etc. The only thing that really excludes most peoples' belief in these things is the assumption that there isn't much more to the world than what we can and are detecting, and therefore mentally arranging and rearranging, right now. But, as an assumption, that is just completely absent-minded. It seems obvious that our capacity to experience the world is delimited by our capacity as human-critters. Sure, we have big brains, technological augmentation, maybe even ant-colony like pan-consciousness, but we are probably nearly infinitely occluded from the broader ecology of the universe and the invisible universes swimming around inside of it, the "shadow biosphere".

One of the interesting things about this is that it is still a naturalistic theory. It is simply stating that there are natural, physical phenomena that are so paradigmatically excluded from our minds and bodies that we aren't inclined to include them in the same category with 'regular' nature. One of the problems with materialism is it's conception of matter.

We live in an invisible world. Simple concept, but it doesn't appear to occur to most people.

So all this is just in defense of what is going on in the video above. I see no reason why years of mind-bending meditation couldn't help develop access to the ocean of 'matter' that is, to our incredulity, all around us. Rock on Dynamo Jack.

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