Different Realities
Sensory abilities differ vastly among the millions of species on the planet. What is real to one species (like a bat’s sonar) is hidden to another (a deaf paramecium). Even among seven billion humans, every person has a different ‘mix’ of reality depending on personal acuity, predispositions, habits, memories,and upbringing (the child of a horticulturalist might automatically see 20 different wildflowers in a meadow where you see a blur of colour). We tend to ignore that sensory abilities differ from one person to another, unless the difference is striking,as between one person who is tone deaf and another who has perfect pitch. Yet, the larger truth is that each of us uses the brain like a personal CGI factory, creating a 3-D movie of the world unlike anyone else’s. Are we illusion makers or reality makers? Big question!
Om Namah Shivay.
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