This "theatre" format is getting old, so I think I’ll slip into the less self-important "book" format…

 

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Chapter 5: Through the Looking Glass


My basic claim is that there is an aspect of reality that most of us look right through without ever noticing -- without ever realizing its implications.

Most of us “believe in” such things as free will, meaning, right and wrong, love, natural law and our own existence -- without ever realizing that these are "magical" ideas – that these ideas have extensions beyond time, space, cause, effect and science. There are aspects of these ideas that belie science – that allude to being outside of science and such. We apparently “see” these ideas with our RH (right hemisphere). Our RH sees in “3D.” It sees holistically. But, our RH is largely undeveloped and mute.

It would seem that we can come to realize their implications, come to appreciate the magicalness of these ideas, by playing enough in their vicinity – we can experience the “Aha!” phenomenon -- but we still won’t be able to communicate that magicalness to anyone who hasn’t recognized it already. That’s the situation in which I now find myself.

Consequently, I would encourage you to keep returning to this vicinity. As noted before, by playing with an idea it will tend to grow and reproduce. As you keep returning, you should gradually develope a better "feel" for it. This is the “osmosis” to which I previously referred.

And, it would seem that by playing in the vicinity enough, two important things can happen – the magical implications reach critical mass, and/or we happen upon the right “rotation” for exposing the pattern (we look at it from the right angle).

That’s what happened when I saw the Christmas card in 3D, and when Mark noticed the ball players.

 

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My own consciousness is the only view that I have on to existence -- and, I'm the only thing that I know exists. If my own consciousness didn’t exist, there might as well be nothing. If my own consciousness never existed, there might as well never be anything. And if the scientific model just described is in place, the probability of me ever existing is, for all intents and purposes, zero.

No way!

I think this is as close as analytic thinking, and words, can get to my particular epiphany. This is where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the parts don’t add up, or communicate.

It is through the looking glass that the whole is realized and I find my proof.

So, if you want to experience this particular epiphany, you should probably keep returning to this vicinity, until you find yourself slipping through.

That's what I'm going to do until I can say it better. (Free Will)