<i>Revised from a letter sent to...someone you may well know. </i>
Up through my early 20=92s, before I experienced those powerful
spiritual interactions in 2003, I believed that good and bad were
simply labels we created and placed on a nature which couldn=92t care
less how we pretended to divide her up. I believed that Nature was
God, and that the most natural actions and flow of all energy decided
what was true and "right," and to deny or restrict the way of nature
was "wrong" and dangerous. This view of morality changed suddenly when
I had those encounters with the violent and evil intents of truely
malevolant entities, followed by the brilliant purity and grace of
that truely benevolant entity, who arrived and dispell those malignant
beings who tortured everyone in my home. These encounteres served to
show me that these two extremes DO exists outside of mankind, and are
not merely semantic constructs...
So, like you said, there are limits to what we are aware of. But do
you believe that the limits of what WE are aware of are also the
limits of ALL awareness?
That is, can conscious beings exist outside of our narrow spectrum of
visible energy?
My personal experience has given the answer, but I cannot expect
anyone to believe, wholeheartedly, the accounts of me and everyone
living in my house during that time. Us Westerners are a doubtful
bunch! Yet, the answer those visitations gave me was to a question I
had never asked, and it was only in the slow process of trying to
rationalize what we had seen that I began to think in terms of
"limits" and the idea that consciousness does not simply END at the
boundary of our 7 bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, but continues
on without us. To say all awareness begins and ends around ol=92 Roy G.
Biv is like saying the oceans contain no life beyond the deepest
distance we can dive down!
Centuries ago, off and on, one of those horrible ugly creatures from
the very deep ocean, where the sun does not reach, would journey miles
upwards to the surface. 15 foot long white eel creatures with
midsections as wide as a man and eyes the size of dinner plates, or
grotesque bioluminescent not-fish with teeth so long they cannot fully
shut their mouths, or giant squid. The sailors who saw these
"unearthly" creatures called them monsters and myths of the Krakken
and other such beasts were told to doubtful family and friends back
home. 400 years later, science has captured and identified the beasts
of these myths...
Yet the stories and myths of Beasts and Beauties told by those brave
"sailors" who have ventured far out into the distant seas of
consciousness are still just that: Myth. And the doubtful family and
friends of the men who witnessed these entities of the deep have long
since died, and died again generation after generation until what was
doubt has become a sort of resentment for the very story, itself, and
the person retelling it! To be so Naive and Ignorant as to believe
that there is anything "out there!" There is only us, there is only
solid land, physicality, which we have so carefully plotted and mapped
and know so well!
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island
of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not
meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its
own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the
piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying
vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we
shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light
into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
-H. P. Lovecraft
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common
sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between
science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of
the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its
failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and
life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for
unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a
commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions
of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the
phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a
priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of
investigation and a set of concepts that produce material
explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how
mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute,
for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
- Lewontin R.C., "Billions and Billions of Demons", Review of "The
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," by Carl Sagan,
New York Review, January 9, 1997
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