Reality
Connie swatted at a gnat
Which wasn’t a gnat but a floater.
A floater is a tear in the vitreous humour of the eye.
The vitreous humour is a viscous fluid that fills the globe of the eye.
How often do we perceive something
And misinterpret what we see?
How do we see?
Light reflects off an object.
The object absorbs some of the light’s frequencies.
What is not absorbed is reflected.
What is reflected sometimes reaches our eyes.
The light passes through the cornea, the aqueous humour,
The lens, the vitreous humour to the retina.
The light excites the rods and cones in the retina layer.
The retina is a thin, tissue made of receptors
Called rods and cones.
The excitations are sent to the optic nerve
And signals corresponding to the light
Are sent to the visual cortex in the brain.
And voila! We see.
What do we see?
Is it the real object?
Is it the brain’s interpretation?
Is there an absolute object?
Of course!
But many interpretations of it.
Only God knows the absolute!
The rest of us are left with loose interpretations.
Which would not have been a problem
Except we decided not to keep God in the loop
And we settled for our own private interpretation
Instead of maintaining oneness with the ONE who knew.
And so we ruined the beginning
Which is why we will never know the theory of everything.
Until, of course, we are there.
As magnificent a thing as the brain is,
It cannot phantom what lies beyond this life.
Actually, it cannot phantom all that is in this life either!
Connie swatted at a gnat
Which wasn’t a gnat but a floater.
A floater is a tear in the vitreous humour of the eye.
The vitreous humour is a viscous fluid that fills the globe of the eye.
How often do we perceive something
And misinterpret what we see?
How do we see?
Light reflects off an object.
The object absorbs some of the light’s frequencies.
What is not absorbed is reflected.
What is reflected sometimes reaches our eyes.
The light passes through the cornea, the aqueous humour,
The lens, the vitreous humour to the retina.
The light excites the rods and cones in the retina layer.
The retina is a thin, tissue made of receptors
Called rods and cones.
The excitations are sent to the optic nerve
And signals corresponding to the light
Are sent to the visual cortex in the brain.
And voila! We see.
What do we see?
Is it the real object?
Is it the brain’s interpretation?
Is there an absolute object?
Of course!
But many interpretations of it.
Only God knows the absolute!
The rest of us are left with loose interpretations.
Which would not have been a problem
Except we decided not to keep God in the loop
And we settled for our own private interpretation
Instead of maintaining oneness with the ONE who knew.
And so we ruined the beginning
Which is why we will never know the theory of everything.
Until, of course, we are there.
As magnificent a thing as the brain is,
It cannot phantom what lies beyond this life.
Actually, it cannot phantom all that is in this life either!