Most everyone is aware that we are born with five senses, which are commonly known as touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. Because we perceive the world through those senses, we have a very strong tendency then to define reality by just those senses. That is a grave mistake because not everything that exists or that can exist is something that our senses are able to rightly perceive. In other words, if we don’t perceive something through our five senses, and thereby dismiss such that has not been perceived, we have done ourselves and society a great disservice.
To believe, that somehow that humankind is the measure of all that life or consciousness could possibly be conceived by, is a delusion. Rather, the fact is that there is far more to the construct of this world than meets the eye or any of our other senses, for that matter; of which, we simply lack the mindful capacity to fully comprehend all that is about us, which should be our very first clue that far more of us, need to spend far more time in the contemplation of, and the humility to, what consciousness and life thereby beyond just this physical form might so represent.
Again, to get locked into a concept in which we only relate to that which is discovered by our perceptions, and thereby to dismiss all that we cannot comprehend through our five senses and our mind, as of no relevancy is a clear hindrance in our understanding of who and what we really are. At a minimum, this world proves to us again and again, that there are forces within it, that are relevant, and not all of these forces are we able to measure with our human instruments or to fathom within our mind; yet, they are forces all the same. So too, there are plenty of concepts and theorems, that the average person has difficulty in comprehending, yet, these are valid in their own right, despite a given person’s lack of understanding.
Additionally, we need to take into serious consideration that when we are just reliant on our five senses, along with the thoughts that come into our mind, and nothing else, then clearly those domains that lay outside of these, are going to be a difficult proposition to even consider or to conceive of, and thereby impossible to fully comprehend, because we are limited in our understanding of such. This signifies that those that have the audacity to declare that there is no God, and that all that we are is limited to just this physical sphere, along with the brief consciousness that we have here upon it, are really, at best, barking up the wrong tree.
As the inestimable Shakespeare wrote, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” It would be well to remember also “what a piece of work is man,” he of the most noble and ignoble thoughts and deeds, of which the more that we learn about ourselves, the more that there is to learn, of which, this is an area that we do not yet have full appreciation of – especially, in regards to all of the respective intricacies about how everything works, or even why it works the way that it does work. All those that are capable of introspection, have an obligation to, ponder, why it is that we are here, and further, who we are; for that then leads us to enlightenment.