Welcome to Musings, a collection of thoughts on everything and all that is. I’m not unusual in having my thoughts hare off into the wild blue of who we are and what we are here for.
It is part of the path I have in this life to spend time trying to understand what makes people who they are, starting with myself.
I do not believe that the physical three dimensions of this material plane are the only dimensions that we exist in. There is something more; I’ve experienced it.
I firmly believe that this understanding of our larger self, the part that tracks beyond the physical, is what has launched the world’s religions. They started as ideas and experiences and then were distorted and twisted to make everyone’s experience the same.
As humans, we like to put everything in its little pigeon hole. We like to categorize, label and know. It is the unknown that brings fear for our animal selves. It is unknowning that creates uncertainty. The entire history of humankind is littered with attempts by people and societies to fit everyone and everthing into a known structure, to make everything a known quantity.
While I believe that our ultimate achievement as a species lies in our architecture, art and creativity, most of the world believes that our species’ ultimate creation is science.
We, as a species spend time, money and effort making notes of everything, and creating theories to explain all that is. We use science, not really to explore the wonders of the universe, but rather to bludgeon the universe into an understandable framework.
Science is important and ultimately gives us many things, but its’ attempt to make all certain, to turn everything into repeatable, understandable patterns, to render the mysteries of life inert, removes creativity.
Now, I’m not a science denier. Science does a great job of explaining the three dimensions of space, and the added aspect of time. But the rigorous pursuit and denial of anything that we can’t sense with our current tools, forgets that most of what we now think we know, was discovered with tools build to find it, despite the fact that we couldn’t prove it.
