| Have you ever had one of those mornings where | | | | Everything Else is Illusion David Icke explains the |
| you groggily get out of bed, make your way to the | | | | strange way our world is perceived: "Our eyes only |
| bathroom and suddenly stub your toe against the | | | | transform light into electrical signals that are |
| bed post? Sir Isaac Newton would certainly | | | | constantly delivered to the brain for interpretation. |
| understand. In this case, a solid object in motion (toe) | | | | This 'visible light' is confined to a tiny fraction of the |
| %2B immoveable object (bedpost) = #$*&?!! | | | | electromagnetic spectrum, which is, itself, only 0.005 |
| However, strange as it may sound, at the quantum | | | | per cent of the matter/energy of the known |
| level of things, Newton's laws simply break down and | | | | universe..." Mr. Icke goes on to explain how in that |
| the idea that the physical world is solid is revealed to | | | | miniscule frequency range, we decode light into our |
| be impossible. The bedpost, your toe, the entire | | | | physical reality. He adds; "There is no world 'around' |
| bedroom, the entire You for that matter, actually | | | | us as we perceive it; everything is all happening in our |
| have no solidity. How can this be, when the intense | | | | brains..." |
| toe pain certainly says otherwise? | | | | Harvard graduate and best-selling author Gary Zukav |
| Remember what you learned in high school about | | | | states in his book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters; "...the |
| atoms? We are taught the ancient Greek Democritus | | | | fact is that quantum field theory...is premised on the |
| in 530 B.C. was the first to claim matter was | | | | assumption that physical reality is essentially |
| composed of tiny particles which he named "atoms". | | | | nonsubstantial. According to quantum field theory, |
| We, and everything around us, consist of atoms. The | | | | fields alone are real. They are the substance of the |
| positively charged central region of an atom (the | | | | universe, not "matter." Matter (particles) is simply the |
| nucleus) is surrounded by negatively charged | | | | momentary manifestations of interacting fields which, |
| electrons. The forces between the two are so | | | | intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only |
| powerful that nothing can cause the electrons to | | | | real things in the universe." |
| unite with the nucleus, there is always "space" | | | | As mentioned, the building blocks of everything |
| between them. | | | | 'around' us and all our physical organs that allow us to |
| In the award winning DVD What the Bleep Do We | | | | perceive it via the senses, are of course, atoms. |
| Know? Down the Rabbit Hole, anesthesiologist, | | | | Atoms consist of particles called protons, electrons |
| professor and researcher Stuart Hameroff M.D. | | | | and neutrons, and each of them are also considered |
| explains that not only are atoms "mostly empty" but | | | | "mostly empty". The protons and neutrons group |
| "they never actually meet". The bedpost atoms and | | | | together in the central part of the atom, (the |
| the atoms of the toe can never really touch each | | | | nucleus) and the electrons 'orbit' the nucleus. In his |
| other. At the atomic level, there is always space | | | | book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill |
| between them because when two atoms are forced | | | | Bryson quotes Professor of Chemistry, William H. |
| together (the toe hitting the bedpost), a very thin | | | | Cropper; "As Cropper has put it, if an atom were |
| electromagnetic repulsion layer keeps negatively | | | | expanded to the size of a cathedral, the nucleus |
| charged electrons of the atoms from actually making | | | | would be only about the size of a fly...." The 'space' is |
| any contact. | | | | considered 'empty' to our perception but is actually |
| So what the heck causes that horrible pain in the | | | | composed of vibrating energy on a wavelength |
| toe? The sensation comes from a neural stimulus | | | | higher than the 'physical'. So how could atoms |
| from the toe that registers in the brain as pain, and | | | | constitute our 'solid' world if they are empty with no |
| that stimulus is a result of the electromagnetic force | | | | solidity? That is the billion dollar question. Mr. Icke's |
| between the electrons of the toe and post. Our | | | | reply; "They can't, 'solidity' is an illusion." (Infinite love |
| senses are basically playing tricks on us as the | | | | is the Only Truth, Everything Else is Illusion) |
| sudden electromagnetic force (the impact) creates a | | | | This sentiment is found in Judaic thought. In the |
| neural response by the brain and registers as very | | | | Kabbalistic tradition, all of creation is; "An illusory |
| unpleasant "contact". We are thus experiencing an | | | | projection of the transcendental aspects of God." |
| illusion here, albeit, a very convincing one. | | | | Michael Talbot notes in his book, The Holographic |
| The character Morpheus asks Neo, in The Matrix | | | | Universe; "The idea that the creation set into motion |
| movie; "What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If | | | | by the God of Genesis is an illusion is reflected even |
| you mean what we can taste, smell, hear and feel | | | | in the Hebrew language...the Zohar...the most famous |
| then what's 'real' is nothing more than electrical signals | | | | of the esoteric Jewish texts, notes, the verb baro |
| interpreted by your brain." The movie may be | | | | "to create," implies the idea of creating an illusion." |
| fantasy, the statement however is based on | | | | There is agreement from the Hindus as well. The |
| mainstream science. Sometimes however, fact can | | | | material universe is maya, according to them, which |
| be stranger than fiction. | | | | means transitory and unreal. Their Svetasvatara |
| There is the common belief that we 'see' with our | | | | Upanishad states, "One should know that Nature is |
| eyes. "Seeing, is believing." Correct? Well, technically, | | | | illusion..." |
| that's not entirely accurate. As lecturer, author and | | | | I had a dream in which I was walking through a kind |
| researcher, David Icke, succinctly illustrates in his | | | | of museum/mall in the future. One of the popular |
| book Tales from the Time Loop; the eyes are | | | | attractions there was the Life Tour. For a certain |
| essentially the lenses that receive neural information | | | | price, one could sit in a special recliner and experience |
| which is then directed to the primary visual cortex of | | | | an entire lifetime as another person in about five |
| the brain located at the back of our heads. It is there | | | | minutes. A frail thin woman could experience living as |
| that we 'see' the world around us, thus we actually | | | | a large hairy man and vice versa. One could even |
| 'see' with the back of our brains and not our eyes. If | | | | choose any time in history to be 'born' and eventually |
| you think that sounds odd, wait, it gets better. | | | | die. Death, of course, was merely the awakening |
| Something mysterious also happens during the | | | | from the 'tour'. |
| process of sight; the temporal lobe of our brain | | | | In Tibetan Dzogchen Buddhism, perceived reality is |
| reconstructs and edits more than 50% of the | | | | considered to be unreal. According to Dzogchen |
| information it receives. Therefore, we only 'see' what | | | | teacher Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, the "dream of |
| the brain is conditioned to 'see'. This means there is | | | | life" and our regular dreams during the night, in their |
| 50% or more of 'something' there, that we never | | | | essential nature, have no difference between them. |
| 'see'. | | | | All perceived appearances of the life of an individual, |
| In his book, The Holographic Universe, the late | | | | including tastes, smells, sounds, and touch sensations, |
| Michael Talbot mentions: "...Some studies suggest that | | | | are as a "big dream". |
| less than 50 per cent of what we 'see' is actually | | | | What is this information revealing to us? What does |
| based on information entering our eyes. The | | | | it say, not only of the world 'around' us, but of |
| remaining 50 per cent plus is pieced together out of | | | | ourselves as well? Do we physically exist, or are we |
| our expectations of what the world should look like | | | | purely consciousness, dreaming our world exists? To |
| (and perhaps other sources such as reality fields)..." | | | | be or not to be, do we or not do we? That is the |
| In his book; Infinite Love is the Only Truth, | | | | question indeed. |