[MD] Uncertainty

[Andre Broersen]

Hi Platt, Mati and All

Here is something from Reanney:

'What is real? We humans are so arrogantly confident about the 'reality' of
what we see around us. We touch the smooth surface of a tabletop and say
without question, 'This is solid, this is real'. But we forget the
relativity of sight. To a flea the table top would not be smooth; it would
be corrugated into a fantastic landscape of peaks and valleys. And think how
a recent portrait photograpg of you would vanishas you went from the human
scale of seeing to the flea's, how the familiar contours of your face would
explode into a wilderness of black and white boulders. The flea would see
this landscape of boulders as stable but to a small microbe the chemical
fretwork of each knoll and shallow would shimmer in the random dance of a
motion that never stopped. As the physicist Lecompte du Nuoy said, "It is
the scale of observation that creates the phenomenon'.

'A central part of our problem is that because 'reality' is a single word,
we think of it as if it were a single or uniform state. In our scientific
culture we act as though the everyday reality we experience when we are
awake is the only reality. But this is nonsense, there are other
'realities'- for example, the realm we glimpse in dreams. When we drean we
enter a different quality of reality; in dreams we can fly on wings we do
not have, see impossible visions, confront monsters, move from image to
image without the 'waiting' that is a feature of the linear time of ordinary
experience.
'In reality' there is an infinity of different 'realities'. Each species of
creature on this planet has its own reality, which means that it samples
quantum ripples in its own special way, painting its own particular picture
of the world in its own individual 'mind'.

'...different eyes see different frequencies (p 55-7).

So metaphorically speaking 'reality' can be regarded as a spectrum of
light...and depending on which frequency/wavelenght you 'tune into' or which
is accessable to you, will determine how you see the world which, in turn,
will provide you with a 'type' of consciousness. So different eyes see
different wavebands see different worlds.

Reanney uses the metaphor of the electromagnetic spectrum and suggests:

low-frequency/ physical reality/ all sub-human staes of consciousness (red)

mid-frequency/ mental/waking reality/ ordinary human consciousness
(yellow)

high-frequency/ imaginal/dreaming reality/ symbolic and non-ordinary states
of consciousness (blue)

all frequencies/ unitary reality/ no boundary consciousness. (white)

The white light...all frequencies...no boundaries...usually associated with
the light surrounding the saints. The dharmakaya light of which Pirsig says;
'The light would occur during the breakup of the static patterns of the
person's intellectas it returned into the pure Dynamic Quality from which it
had emerged in infancy'. (Lila, p 347).

The metaphor as connection.

For what it is worth.
Andre