Further Reading

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

The Brain -- Where Reality Emerges??

It seems that the brain is the "editor" for our reality. It puts together certain pieces of incoming sensory information and forms what we call our reality.

In order for us to exist in this 3-D plane of existence, we must have our experience processed into time and space by our brain. This is what allows us to reside effortlessly in this level of being. The editing process of the brain is also what keeps us believing that reality is solid.

The chair you are sitting on, the computer you are looking at, and the ground you have your feet on are all made up of mostly nothing. If you are knowledgeable about basic science you know that these things are composed of atoms, but when you get down to the core all objects and pretty much anything we consider to be real is made up of mostly empty space. They just seem solid because of how our brain perceives these things and “translates” them into time-space reality.

Although this censoring/editing process that happens in the brain is what allows us to reside in this level of being so effortlessly, it is also what limits us to this plane of existence. It is this factor that keeps us on one side of the veil ... read more ...