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Vision and Reality

One of the most terrifying articles I ever read discussed the experience of a woman whose husband had recently passed away. For several months after his death, she swore that his face was constantly present in her field of vision. What was so scary was that the thought that people who have died (or even beings/ objects from other dimensions???) could be physically present to us but we are unable to see them because our sight limits us. We often have to see things to believe them, but it is quite possible that the majority of reality is not visible to us. I was going back and forth over whether or not this is a good thing, clearly our nervous system developed for optimal function and perhaps too much or mutli-dimensional sensory information would be beyond our capacity to utilize and function with. Though it is something to consider that, say, gandhi could be hanging out off to my right and I just can't see it.....

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