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INTRODUCTION

  There was a door to which I found no key;
there was a veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam  

This world, this reality, is probably as much of a reality as there can be, but it is not what it seems. Things appear to be solid because they are made of molecules which are made of atoms which are made of subatomic entities, one of which is the electron. And the electron emits things called photons of light that "strike" our eyes so that we see what appears to be a reality of tangible things.

However, there are many kinds of "photons" of electromagnetic energy that range from very long waves of radio to very short waves of cosmic radiation. The octave of visible light is one octave in a spectrum of over 28 octaves above a frequency of one cycle (Hertz) per second, and many more going down below one cycle per second. If we were to see all of the octaves at once, the sight would be too confusing for us to comprehend, the colors would blend in ways that would be unintelligible, and we would not be able to perceive objects as being solid. It is only by limiting our sensory apparatus to the octave of visible light that we can see a world that is comprehensible and tangible.

Even if we could see all of the octaves of electromagnetic energy, we would not be able to see atoms, their constituent parts, and the waves of energy that come from them. Even though we can see by means of energy from photons, we do not see the photons themselves. If we had a sense that could see atoms, their constituent parts, and photons, we would see a world of "apparent" particles that were so widely separated that so-called solid objects would appear as a very thin fog.

For us to perceive the world we know, our sense of time must be very slow as compared to the time of the atom, its constituent parts, and the energy that comes from them. When we touch something that we think of as solid, we are merely placing our rapidly moving subatomic parts near the rapidly moving subatomic parts of the object we are touching. It is something like having two rapidly spinning propellors touching one another, but even more esoteric, because it is the energy "fields" of our fingers and the object that are actually touching. For we are merely beings of energy. And the world is a world of energy. If the atoms and their constituent parts were to slow down to our level of perception, the objects which they constitute would not have energy enough to remain separate from one another, and we would be in a world that would appear to us as chaos.

Our other senses are also based upon our slowed time sense and the limitations of their mechanisms. So the world as we perceive it is an illusion, a show that is possible through senses that allow us to be ignorant of reality. It is much like the illusion of the theater in which the audience is seeing only the lit stage when the acts are being played, as opposed to what goes on behind, around, before, and after each scene. But we are more than an audience watching a play. We are the players on the stage, playing our parts in accordance with the apparent dictates of the illusion.

This series of little books is presented to those who wish to know reality as best we can currently understand it. Why? Because sometimes, when the illusion is realized, the actions of those who once believed in only the illusion, are altered to more fully benefit themselves and others. Those who once could act only with short-term solutions, who could see only the illusion, might now see what is behind the illusion, and adopt long-term solutions.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,
every door would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up,
till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake  

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