Is Perception Reality? Exploring the Nature of Vision Beyond Perception

Perception as a fundamental aspect of our reality allows us to understand and experience the world around us. However, it's important to distinguish between awareness and the objects of perception. While perception cannot be transcended, the objects of perception - whether material or mental - can be.

Can there truly be a vision that transcends perception? This article will explore the question of whether what we perceive as reality might merely be a set of sensations, and how we might expand our understanding of reality beyond perception.

Perception vs. Reality

When we perceive the blue sky during the daytime, the sensation is undeniable. Yet, our intelligence or imagination reminds us that the blue sky as a material entity is non-existent in an absolute sense. This is because color, a sensation, does not represent a substance but rather is a reaction of our body/brain to a certain wavelength of electromagnetic energy.

The same applies to sound, a reaction of our body/brain to vibrations in the air. There is no sound existing outside our perception. When we see a blinding flash of lightning followed by a loud roar of thunder, both events occur within our perception. By applying this logic to the remaining three senses - taste, touch, and smell - we can question the very essence of what constitutes our observable cosmos.

What would be left if we took away all sensory experiences? The cosmos as we know it would dissolve into a void, suggesting that the entire cosmos is merely a set of sensations generated by our brain for survival, rather than true representations of an external reality.

The True Nature of External Reality

We cannot know the absolute nature of what exists beyond our perceptions. However, we can postulate that an immense potential energy exists, and this potential must express itself, resulting in the cosmos we perceive with time, space, and ourselves as part of it.

Humans are organic perceiving mechanisms, and the ONE (referred to as the Creator and Creation) perceives the cosmos through us as its own reflection. Thus, the Creator is also the Creation, a perspective rooted in our understanding, imagination, and trust in our perceptions.

Imagination and Perception

Our imagination, which we often trust more than our physical sensations, has allowed us to achieve remarkable feats, such as sending humans to the moon. Anything beyond what can be directly sensed with our five senses is considered part of our imagination, including concepts such as time, space, thoughts, memory, energy, consciousness, mathematics, science, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

The Transcendent Vision

Is there a vision that transcends our current perception? Yes, there is. The subjective light that illuminates all our perceptions appears to recognize no limiting boundaries or locations, nor does it recognize a division between a subject and an object in our perceptions. This light includes the entire field of perception like a seamless hologram.

By logical and reasonable extension, this light includes the entire creation as one undivided whole hologram. We refer to this light as Consciousness, marking the very essence of our aliveness and the core of our being.

The most direct cognition for all perceiving mechanisms is: I AM THE ENTIRE FIELD OF PERCEPTION AS ONE ENTITY.

Dividing the field of perception into a subject and object is the greatest cognition error and the root cause of psychological problems. We are all one, and this insight is a direct cognition that extends our understanding of the Creator and the Creation.