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Quote Originally Posted by Greenbeanz View Post
Ignore any spiritual dimension or dark matter, black holes and other dimensions for just one moment. Even if you consider everything from a logical and western/Greek scientific basis, we have to admit that everything we perceive and take for granted as being real is actually an illusion. There is no such thing as colour, and what we think of as seeing, is actually our brains reconstruction of what it perceives as reality not reality itself. What I see and what you see are not exactly the same, even if we assume so. We cannot help but be influenced by our experiences and our physical apparatus, and the fact that we can only see things from one point of view, however multifaceted that object or argument/stance may be. So not being able to comprehend dark or anti-matter, is hardly surprising. Surely we can all only live one life, in one dimension, at a time?
Interesting. I am somewhat familiar with western/Greek scientific basis, NOT a lot, just a tadbit.
Question then: Does that include electricity? Energy? Is it an illusion?
When I looked up the word illusion: it is given as an adjective, but when I look up electricity-it is called a noun.

I ask because that which we perceive- is done as you would say through our brain-which fires off electricity. Is the current that produces our ability to perceive an illusion as well per Greek science? No wrong or right, I'm just digging the conversation!
I should make it clear that I do not consider everything from a logical/Greek/Scientific basis, and most people don't, not even those who are dismissed as materialists. Our nature will not allow it. Electricity is just a word used to describe a phenomenon. From synapses firing to sheet lightning, lighting up the sky. It can convey an idea of the experience but it is not the experience. My point was that even before you get to constant flux on an atomic level, we are all constantly changing and not really here at all. Even if you look at it from the point of view of a physicist.

That current, that energy is both here all the time and not here at all. Polarity is a biological fact not just a Taoist principle ( I have a huge Yin/yang in my front garden made out of stone chippings and in the glass on my front door) or an electro- chemical process.

Sight in all it's complexity is built on the simple principle of ON/OFF.
So are sensors in cameras.
So are light bulbs.
So are genes.
So are Jeans

Sunny / shady, Empty/full, Female/male these are all expressions at either end of the same arc. An endless cycle, one radiating out toward the other. Life/death. Matter/ Ant-Matter. They all move in both directions.