Mood: Plénitude

All the spiritual paths lead to the observation that what we call "reality" doesn't exist. Now, the greatest physicians come to the hypothesis that what we call "reality" is a collective illusion and they say it's the only coherent explanation that we have for now, according to the data from quantic mecanic.

But, considering this would be a question of belief. Do I believe them or not? And I can also start to know this by myself, just by improving my perceptions, awareness and my knowledge of how I think. How I perceive 'reality' and how I interpret it.


To begin, I can see that, as a human being, it's just impossible for me to access 'reality' (if it ever exists). My organs of sensation filter my perceptions and let me access only a part of 'reality'. I can see only a very limited scope of light. Everything that is above ultra-violet and under infra-red is just not visible for me. And there is a lot. And even within this scope, if it's too big or too little, I cannot perceive it either. I can hear only a very limited scope of sound. Everything that is above ultra-sound and under infra-sound is just not hearable by me. And there is a lot. And within this scope, whether it's too loud or not enough, I cannot perceive them either. Thanks to our abstraction ability, I also know that there are things in reality that exist, even if I cannot perceive them through my body : electro-magnetical fields for exemple. If I were a shark, I could perceive them. I'm not.

So it's just a fact : What I call reality is something I cannot directly access but partly.


Also, I have obvious proof that my brain gimme an interpretation of this little part that I perceive. Many optical illusions which are easy to experience proove that my brain can lie to 'me' and it's just impossible for 'me' to perceive something else than its distortion. For eexmlpe, tihs stennece is vyre esay for yuor biarn to dtsiort itno eginlsh wrods eevn if tehy are not. As one of many consequences, I know that my brain put my experiences into a chronological process. But I have no way to know if time is reality or not. I just can submit to the way my brain put my experiences. Plus, the relativity of everything can show me how much my brain offers me a very relative perception of what I call "reality".

So it's just a fact : The little part of reality that I can access is distorted so I cannot access it directly anyway.


Finaly, there are all my beliefs (culture, influences, beliefs ) that interpret what my brain propose to me as a perception of 'reality' (and is already an interpretation like we saw above). And this is the only thing that most of the people would consider to live and to take their decisions. In some cultures, you get sad when someone die. And in other cultures, you do a party spreading joy. Same situation in 'reality', but two opposite ways to live it. Another exemple : because, in the eskimo culture, they believed (I think it's not active anymore) that someone get his soul only at one year old, it was okay to kill a child before that. 'It' was not considered as a human yet and, in specific situations, they just killed some. So what is a crime and an extreme terrible situation in some cultures is just something common in some other cultures. Last exemple : in amazonia, in a culture where there is no conception of family or couple, they never experience jealousy or any conflits issued from relationships. They just don't understand how relationships can create conflicts as they all live them peacefully and with a full respect. Here we can see how beliefs can even prevent some human beings to live some human experiences that seems just natural and inevitable for some other people.

So it's just a fact that whatever I perceive about 'reality' through my senses, I anyway live not with that but with the high interpretation I do of it, filtered by my beliefs, which include my culture, the lessons of my own experiences and my influences (chosen and not chosen).


You can also do an easy experience : pick anything in front of you that you consider real. Let's say a chair. I can really be sure that there is actualy a chair in front of me. I can see it, touch it and if I sit, I don't fall on the floor. It's really here!

Let's say now I'm a very young child and I'm not taugh yet the concept of "chair"! I have no idea what a "chair" is! So, for me, this thing is not a chair, it's a toy and it's so funny. I can play with it, jump on it, make noises with it. I can even fall from it as I have no experience of the consequences of some behaviours with this toy. It is a toy, and a very funny one. I can see it, touch it and if I jump on it, I don't fall on the floor. It's really here!

Let's say now I'm a sculptor and when I see this thing, I see the head of the dragon I was just searching for my current sculpture. God, it's so great. I can modify it, put it in the best way so that it really looks like a dragon head... etc. This thing is not a chair, it's a dragon head for my sculpture. I can see it, touch it and now my sculpture really have a head. It's really here!

Let's say I'm now an ant and starting to walk on that thing. I (writer) am not very familiar with ant's culture, but I can say I won't, as an ant, consider this as a chair, or it would be really badly convenient for me. Maybe it's just a whole unknown universe for me, funny to feel and explore, or really scary. I can see it, touch it, feel it with my ants. This all universe is real. It's really here!


So now, which one is right ? Me adult? Me child? Me sculptor? Me ant? Obviously everyone is right, or anyone is wrong, according to your own way of interpretation. But what I think was real is not realy. A chair is just my own interpretation, it's not reality. And the point here is to get seriously aware that whatever this thing really exists or not, what I live with it depends only on my interpretations, on the concepts and words that I use to interfere with it. According to my interpretations, I will just not notice this thing cause I know for a long time now what is a chair and I just don't care. Or I can just play with it for hours and enjoy it a lot, which is a very different experience. Or I can create with it and feel proud of it, which is another experience. Or I can discover it or get scared maybe by it and run away (with my 6 legs). Which is again another very different experience.

There are the words that I use to conceptualize 'reality' and my life, as long as I'm not conscious about that, is bonded with those words, never with 'reality'. I cannot access reality, I only access my own creations, my own visions and I interfere with what is actually in myself, not with what is outside. I have no way to actually know if something exists outside. I can only trust (or not) my brain about this and this is another belief. The ultimate one. Just a belief, nothing more. Believing in reality is like believing in god. I can respect it, but there is actually no proof about it. I can do my own experiences... or refuse to do them because it would change too much my vision and beliefs.

Those facts can lead me to another way of life. I can just be deeply conscious by the fact that I live my own vision, my own interpretation so when I get hurt , I can just take the responsability of it cause there is no way I can get hurt by 'reality' , I cannot even know if it exists, I can only get hurts by my own movie in my head. I just made all that up!! I'm responsible of it, even if I did it under influences and conditioning. I can just get free from it (conditioning) and change this vision that created hurts. I can do it !