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Reality This
time my guide is not content to let me follow blindly. Guide becomes teacher, insisting that the
student begin the true process of learning - deriving new knowledge
from what has already been learned. "You
are much less rigorous when it comes to thinking about reality. You don't probe as deeply from what you know
and are much less detailed. Many
of your questions I believe you can answer from your own experience
and education. Try." Try.
Each moment that permitted, I filled with trying to delve deeper into
this nebulous concept of reality. What is it? How do we
know what is real? My
first response is that things that are real can be measured or sensed.
That fell apart quickly. "Is
love real?" Aye,
but how? Does it exist as a physical presence which can be measured
by inch or degree? And a thought?
A concept? Are these not also
within our realm of reality? Is
awe not real? How
much does love weigh? What is
the color of gravity? There
are many models of reality. Each occupying its own realm, and becoming
"real" by virtue of the parameters of that realm. A statement is real, but measured by accuracy,
not by color. Paradigms
of reality: Physical. Emotional. Intellectual. And
mystical. The
challenge seems to be how to think beyond the constraints of time and
space. How does a concept exist as a reality?
Truth can exist everywhere -- and never occupy a single square
centimeter of space. Beyond
the confines of our physical world reality exists as awareness,
its measure is truth. And
what might be the nature of the creations within such worlds? Are these
the letters and words and meanings of which the Baal Shem Tov wrote? How do souls exist there? I
can only conjecture that here lies the world of pure intellect. Beyond that, I have not yet been able to
go. The
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