Heaven In A Wildflower

 

What is really going on? Well, I suppose you’d likely refer to it as phenomena. This story keeps rolling out like an enormous carpet; as it rolls, pop-ups stand, simultaneously to observations. When you look anywhere at all, the world you see is absolutely all in your head. Oh, there is something out there, but the world you see is a sort of digital replica of what is really out there. There is no way that you could take the actual world into your brain for processing. Therefore, you have to trust your brain to take all of the data you gather with your senses, and recreate everything you perceive inside a completely dark skull. Our brains are constantly taking advantage of their creative licenses. We are always filling in gaps and connecting objects in ways which they may not be connected in the real world. Not consciously, but without any inner discussion, we might pick up something in our peripheral vision and label it as a person when it is actually just a mailbox in the real world. With vision, the very center of an observed scene is all we gather with significant detail; everything around that center is recreated clearer than it is actually perceived; mostly made up from a lot of guesswork. Your brain may not speak these words, but if it did, it might say, “I think there is a person off to the far left; let’s have a quick look.”

And you feel prompted to look and there is that mailbox. It doesn’t take long to correct the mistake. If we never looked closer, we may always wonder if there was someone standing to our far left.

Getting a mailbox confused with a person is probably not really all that uncommon, but the corrections are being made so perfectly that these mistakes never drag us down. What about the corrections we don’t make?

I heard a lecturer talking about Einstein this morning and he was speaking in front of a large group of college students. Very briefly, he mentioned something Einstein wrote about in 2015. Naturally, I grabbed the remote and went back a few seconds and listened carefully. Yes, he said, “2015.”

I knew he meant to say 1915, but I did not see a single student acknowledging the error in any perceivable way. I understand why. Those students knew to make the correction on the fly. There was no reason to get hung up on a misspoken date. Each student was able to correct the error, forgive the orator and continue listening as if he’d never made any mistakes.

In just this one example, I can easily see that ignoring what should not have been said and replacing it with what was meant, is the best way forward.

Really good brains are doing this at the speed of light. I would not be surprised to learn that most of those students have no recollection of the error I focused on. This, by no means, says they are duller than I; it means the opposite.

With this in mind, we can see that the brain is a wonderful recreator of our world. With all of our senses working in tandem, data is arriving in our edit room simultaneously. Our brain’s in-house editor uses a zero-latency time stamp to line up what was heard, with what was seen, smelled or felt. It is fairly easy to trip up the editor. The McGurk Effect is one of the simplest tricks you can play on the editor. If your editor hears “bah” but sees “fah”, it will go with the eyes; completely ignoring the honest mistake made by your data collectors. The editor would say, “It just made the most sense; I obviously saw “fah” so I chose the most obvious reproduction.”

But from this test, we can see how easy it is for the brain’s editor to get it wrong. The question is: how often does this happen?

I believe it happens all the time. Remember that the world you perceive is not the real world; but your mind’s replica. The replica seems to be out there, rather than in here, but it can’t be. You cannot fit the universe in your head. But you can see it in a grain of sand.

 

 

 

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour

~ William Blake ~ Auguries of Innocence

 

Was Blake encouraging delusions? Not at all. He was simply saying that this sort of vision is possible and even beneficial.

To believe in a world of peace, with loving, unified souls is nonsense; but it is only nonsense to those who don’t sense it.

Using thought as an editor, we can navigate the physical world of objects in a more useful way. Using awareness to take another look at everything and to allow it to provide us with another reel, we can navigate the spiritual world in a more useful way.

Who is this editor of awareness?

The One who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Ephesians 3:20 MCV

What is the power that works in us? The physical power is our machine, with thoughts and functions; behaving according to the environment where our machine abides. The Spiritual Power is our transcendence; our awareness; where we are The Environment.

The subject has been observing a few objects and has been creating a story with them. The Observer sees it All and is aware that the subject and the objects are the result of The Observation; for the pleasure of The Observer.