Our Imagination of Things is Just Our Imagination

 
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We all assume we are experiencing the world as it is. But what we are experiencing is information that is created into "the world" by our minds. In truth, we are only experiencing our imagination created by our minds from bits of information that our minds decipher from an infinite number of relationships that exist.

Humans think that their imagination of things captures the truth of life. But our image of what we think is the world no more captures reality than any other creature's view of the world. Our bodies and brains have evolved to help us survive and to create offspring. That is how our brains are wired, and what we see as reality is essentially important for us to survive as humans.

So we mistake our imagination of things as things. But there are no things. There is just life, or being, that takes on endless interconnected individual characteristics evolving through time. Then particular individual beings evolve into other individual characteristics in an endless cycle involving a constant interplay of information we experience as relationships.

When we realize how limited our present capacity to experience the totality of being really is, then there can only be humility and a sense of wonder. Instead humanity imagines that we are at the pinnacle of understanding and development as a species. But that is just our imagination.

Just as a lizard sitting on the desert rock imagines it knows everything about its world, humans sit on a tiny rock in the cosmos called earth and imagine we know everything about our world. But our imagination of things is just our imagination.

Grant