In this book you will come across things that will give you another perspective on the world and your functioning in it. These ‘things’ are often not visible (otherwise we would have seen them) and intangible (otherwise we would have been got grip with them). Yet they are as real as all the things that we can perceive. They actually influence a much larger proportion of our lives that the things we can perceive it. It’s time to take them seriously and to benefit from them.
Our perception is vital, because our ordinary daily thoughts often come in response to when we perceive something. We see something happen and we develop an opinion about it. We hear someone say something and that makes us think. We taste something, we feel something, we smell something, and we respond.
Exactly that perception is our limitation. What we consider ‘true’ is primarily what we preceive with our senses. This is understandable, because we are growing up in the physical world for which our senses are equiped. Our senses give us input to control our thoughts and actions. It makes sense that we tend to rely ourselves on our senses. For instance, it’s vital that we instantly recognize acute threats to our mortal body.
However, the sensory perception burdens us with a shortcoming. We think we can rely completely on dominant senses such as eyesight, to tell us what we experience. We believe that we with five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) plus some extensions we have a balanced impression of reality.
If you think about it is ridiculous that we think that we know all about our world with our five senses . After all, if there would be more, then we could not see, hear, feel, taste or smell it, because our senses are there “technically” not capable for it.
And, there is’s more! We already know that for sure. For example, dogs can hear sounds at a much higher frequency than we can hear. We know there are X-rays, though we can not see them. We recognize that animals smell much better than we do, even at great distances. With accessories such as microscopes, infrared viewers, highly sensitive microphones, etc., we can perceive more than with our commons senses, but that’s more of the same.
We would really take a giant step forward if we would use an extra sense that can add a new kind of information. And if we would take our beliefs about what exists and what does not exists less seriously.