What’s important?
Is the truth important, or just the idea of it? I love the question, “how far does it go?” If you can ask the right question, you’ll get the answer you’re looking for. If there was evidence that the world was not what you think it is, would you want to know? I think that particular question has been asked, and I think we have given the idea of that question some airtime, but what is the answer? The whole “red pill/blue pill” thing that appeared in the movie “the Matrix” is a great metaphor, but metaphor on l reaches just so far… its the TRUTH of the metaphor that has to be related to, and researched appropriately.
The question of knowing is a big one, tempting and scary all at once. Its a nice thought to have a bigger perspective on things, but the change of perspective can (and usually does) mean that ideas of what is have to change, and change, especially about what you think to be true, is a very time consuming and difficult process.
Take this into account… What if the evidence for “extraterrestrial life” was very present, and very real, but suppressed? Circumstantial evidence is just that, based on circumstance. Theory, at whatever level the evidence for it occurs, is just that… a theory. Its an idea with no “proof”. I’d like to propose that practically everything we do, and everything we live for, began as a theory, and continues to be based on ideas of what is tangibly real. It can be said that the world was thought to be flat at one point in time. How many of us would laugh at that thought, and yet, how different are our own beliefs when it comes to really understanding a truly objective perspective on anything? Knowledge is NOT understanding, and understanding is NOT belief. To fully accept something, only one factor really comes into play, and that’s experience, even if the experience is fictional.
We all create our own reality, inasmuch as the things we see are all interpreted by our unique (or not so unique) perspectives. It is said that if you ask 100 people the same question, you will get 100 different answers (more or less). Experience is key, and understanding the experience of something is the key to experience, attention being the method of experiential growth. Here we have a bit of an issue though.. we all go through life, watching the view though our own eyes, listening to the dialogue of our own minds, and to take the collective experience, the “accepted reality” as the truth of existence, closes the mind to ideas outside of that perspective. Unfortunately, it is a symptom of the way things are, a symptom of what we are being driven to be by the environment we live in.
Is it possible that there is life outside of our little system? Of course it is. Is it likely? Certainly. Is it true, or real, that there are aliens out there? Who can know except those who attempt to find the answer? There are answers, and all it takes is a stretch in the right direction mentally. Forego the idea that what you know is the truth of the situation, and your view will automatically refresh. Being stuck in the idea of “What I accept to be real, must be.” does not allow for change, for adjustment. Accept nothing as cold, hard reality, and nothing will be cold and hard. Life is infinitely flexible, what we imagine ourselves to do is really the only factor for growth and maturation. We cannot escape the fact that we dont know everything about anything, so what do we know, really.. and how do we arrange our lives around it?
Priorities are as we experience them, and believe about our relationship with them. How flexible we are is simply a factor of realization of how important the “beliefs” we hold are. Is it important to believe that there is, or is not an alien influence in your mind? Life will change, drastically, and does, based on questions such as this…
