From Beyond
What do we know of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows, and now I believe I have found a way to break dawn the barriers. We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation. '´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'` ¨¨¨¨¨¨ ´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`'´'`' Featured on the Teatro Grotesco |
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Our senses fail nothing, we just need to retrieve them and use them properly :)
That said, our senses don't exactly fail us, but there are animals, for instance, who see so much more. A dog can actually see -- or rather smell -- the past; when it enters a room it may know *who's been there* and in *which direction* they went out. Our senses can't tell us that much. Who knows what other realities we're blind to?
Great marriage of text and image.
Here's a famous quote from a better writer:
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
UV, Infrasound, magnetism, we humans have heard of these but cannot really sense them.
As a friend of mine put it: 'absence of proof is not proof of absence'.
Just because we do not see the divine in everything does not mean it is not there.