What is real? Elephants can hear subsonic sounds while bats can hear ultrasonic sounds. Birds can see in the ultraviolet wavelength range, while snakes can "see" with the use of infrared rays. Catfish and salamanders can see low electric frequencies. There are transparent sea creatures in the deep sea, flashing electroluminescent biochemical light in rainbow colors in real time, while there are birds flapping their wings 52 times/second hovering in mid-air. The ants see the world as a drawing in a paper, 2-dimensional, while humans have a 3-dimensional aspect of the world they live, only.
All of these are versions of "reality", they are so to speak: subjective realities. Realities that are not common to all the lifeforms, but certain species have access to different spectrums of "reality", and others don't. Humans cannot hear subsonic nor ultrasonic sounds. They cannot see in the ultraviolet nor in the infrared wavelength range, they can neither fly. So, we can safely say that each life-form has its own "version" of reality. For each life-form the reality is real but in the same time is not real.
That is why one should be open to subtle ethereal realms floating out there all over around us. Realms that may not be visible to us but they do exist in -what we call- the spiritual form, which is accessible in subtler dimensions, because we live in condensed bodies, seeing the world subjectively, through distorted vision.
You may one day come to realize, that this world is a dream. Your subjective "reality", is merely electrical signals from your neural system. Yet, they - that run the show - intend to make it even harder for human beings to escape this convincing mirage. They are doing that by throwing you deeper into dense dream-worlds, where the true identity of the self is absorbed from the daily routine. Imagine for a while your perception as the layered structure of the onion bulb, where the outer layer can only perceive tiny portions of the Absolute, or the Objective Reality. As we move on from the outer to the inner rings, we gradually lose contact with that indisputable reality. There have been many ways that have tricked human beings and diverting their energy towards escaping this mirage that we call daily life, but all of them ain in one thing: how to draw your attention from what is really going on, from what is really happening out there (or within if you like: speaking spiritually) to ephemeral things. There has been created a whole web of smaller dreams, like the newspaper, the tv-set, the video-games, and lately that went to a hardcore level: with the virtual reality headset.
This web of smaller drams is of gigantic proportions, and because we were born into it, we take it for granted. Though, all we receive in, all that we "know" are the information from these smaller dreams aka: "information" only from specific centers. One thing we need to make sure is that, this is not real. What we are living is a dream within a dream, within a dream (the onion structure). It is very hard to escape from the center of the onion, but now you have a reason to not let them scare you. You don't have to be afraid, because no-matter what, noone can harm the True Identity of You. I hope we all one day may find the way back to Ithaca
Seek to absorb the beauty of the subtle realms. Find yourself existing in the rainbow spectrum of the multi-experienced aural vision. See with your ears and hear with your eyes. That is more real than the reality they have proposed to you since your linear educative condition in these senseless societies ~
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