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My Little Romeo

Romeo is my little maroon Siamese fighting fish.  He lives in a plain round fish bowl on my desk.  He loves to eat, to bask and attack his reflection when the lighting hits just right.  I wonder how much he knows about me despite my being the shadowy figure that drops food onto his version of a sky?

For centuries people have placed themselves as central in the story of life.  Could it be that we on collective levels, like Romeo singularly, could be missing the big picture in some way, shape or form?  Just as Romeo can’t even come close to fathom what lays outside of his habitat that he mistakens for reality without a second thought (or perhaps even a first one) on the subject.

In science the explicit paradigm of ‘if it can’t be measured, it does not exist’ prevails and I believe it has spilled into our lives on collective levels.  Is this paradigm to our detriment?  Only when it stops us from believing in the possibility of something (ex: atheism vs. agnosticism, and especially on conceptual levels: structures of psychological interpretations in all contexts, including academics and a variety of science). 

I’m incredibly grateful to be an artistically, intellectually and spiritually capable human and not a fish.  But, I still wonder how much of reality could be missed because of our limiting thinking (again, on collective levels)?  In other words, I’m suggesting that we have the capacity to grasp so much more but are stopped by our tunnel vision of limiting belief systems.

We’ve already moved from the paradigm of a geocentric universe to a heliocentric solar system within a universe.  The bigger the context, the more accurate the perception.  I wonder though, what is next in our discoveries and can science even find all there is to know about the truth of all of reality?  For example:  Is there ever an instrument fine enough to be able detect God?  If there was, would science even be able to tell they have found God, or would it just look like strings of creative energy?  Hmmm.

This reminds me of one of my favorite parables:  A brain surgeon was having coffee with an astronaut.  The astronaut, an atheist, said to the brain surgeon, “You know, I’ve travel to space and back many times and I’ve never seen God!”  The brain surgeon, a spiritually knowledgeable person, chuckled lightheartedly and said, “You know, I’ve performed many brain surgeries and I’ve never seen a thought.”    

Hamlet tells Horatio that, “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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