abo said:
I want only discuss about the "what we see is not real" thing what david icke said. Not about illuminati or 9/11 was an inside job things^^
If he said that what we see is not necessarily what is really there, then he is right on the money. We can never be 100% sure that our senses are forming an accurate representation of the external world. Personally, my senses are incredibly accurate and have allowed me to survive in this world for as long as I have, but they do have limitations. I can tell the difference between maple wood and hickory wood (I work in a cabinet factory), and there are people who can accurately identify mushrooms using only their eyes and skin. Our senses are effective at relaying signals from the external world to us, but they are limited. We can only hear a range of pitches and see a limited range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. For all we know, what we sense is merely a glimpse of what is really there.
That being said, it's important to know when your senses are painting an accurate picture of reality. If your upstream neurons are processing information incorrectly and your downstream neurons take that information seriously, it could lead you to believe some very incorrect ideas about the world.
So yeah, what we see is not always what is real. We can never know with 100% certainty what is real. All we can do is integrate our incoming sensory stimuli, analyze the patterns and make the most practical decision that we can.
His reptilian idea is shit though. However, just because his reptilian idea is wrong does not mean that his ideas about the mind aren't right.
And since I haven't had the opportunity to express my opinion on the subject, I'll say it now. Given that I believe that every moment of your conscious experience is the product of the electrical activity inside your mind, I believe that hyperspacial beings are manifestations of your own psyche. If our senses can lead us astray when they are not functioning properly, how do we know that our perception of hyperspacial beings are not the product of sensory malfunction? It may be quite a while before we develop the science to discern whether we are interacting with other beings or if we are interacting with ourselves. But then again, I've only broken through once. The remainder of my voyages have been in thalamus-land, where I see and hear significant signals and patterns and hope that my natural neural machinery reinforces any useful connections and breaks any worthless ones.
I'm going to stop this before this turns into a rant; I need to practice organizing my thoughts and ideas.