The process of rationalizing the world is coming to an end.
It arguably began with Aristotle and continued to develop through Catholic scholastic teaching, finally reaching it's zeal during the enlightenment and throughout the 20th century. But something is changing. People are beginning to discover that "things" aren't quite as real as we once thought. Our perspective and the way we choose to interpret and interact with our environment is truly what creates the world we can experience. Without this human interpretation, we're all just undistinguished matter with no meaning or purpose.
People are rediscovering this concept in droves.
If you go to an African village that still practices paganism, you'll see them point and talk to a God that's completely invisible to non-believers. Is it imaginary? Yes. But so is the chair you sit on. So are the images you see on TV, your sense of self, and even your own family. Every "thing" is shaped by our interpretation. Strictly speaking, existence is one unity that all participates in. The world we actually experience is created by purpose.
We have more control over this than one would expect. What we deem insanity is a different interpretation of reality. We see how having a different interpretation causes different behavior at every level. Zoomers and gen Alfa are discovering this through social media and learning that they really can experience being a cat or a Harry Potter character. And they can. Just like a schizophrenic really can experience being gang stalked and an anorexic can experience struggling with her weight, any human being is free to live in the reality they want. The ancients were given a religious interpretation that lead to ritual and certain beliefs about things. That was all done away with, but I think human beings will always crave that sort of enchanted world. It's built into our DNA.
Did you just smoke some mushrooms?
Choose your reality...I ain't paying for it
Drugs are bad...
The philosophers who claim that reality does not exist but is a result of our perception still have to eat real food to fuel their actual brain to come up with this absurdity.
This.
At some point in time, I think we may very well discover several things that we once thought were "imaginary" or "supernatural" exist within our reality;
Once we find irrefutable proof of the existence of any of these supernatural beings, nothing is off the table anymore for science as we know it.
Agreed
Weird hypothesis, but interesting point nonetheless...
There is a lot of evidence starting to come out that the mind really does have some control over reality. The burgeoning field of Noetic Science has pretty conclusively shown that our consciousness is spread slightly in time. The effect is small, but quantifiable. So things like precognition and astral projection may in fact be scientifically possible. I don't say they definitely are, but I won't rule it out entirely. I believe there is still a lot more we have to learn about what a human really is.
So when I say this, understand I don't claim that what we already know all there is. But sorry. I don't buy that a human can become a cat simply by wishing upon a star. There is a little more structure to this universe than that. If you believe you are a cat or a Harry Potter character, I think a good therapist may be in order.
Naw brah fuck all that shit. Sort your shit out mate; refer to the Bible if you need guidance brah.
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The Bible says the same thing man. Jesus is the Word. The Word is what forms our entire reality.
Yeah and He wrote books through some dudes for you brah. Tells you how to live in this PHYSICAL WORLD WHICH ACTUALLY FUCKING EXISTS. Look into it son, it’ll help.
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True that.