No Place for Throwing Stones

I live in a house of many windows, and spend much of my time looking out. But I also spend a lot of my time looking in. The world without and the world within hold an inexhaustible fascination for me. It is said that the difference between someone like Einstein and most of the rest of us is that people of genius have more light coming through their windows than others. More information about the world outside, the world around them, flows through their windows than for someone with less intelligence or imagination. The more light streaming in, the more information, the more vital energy about the universe there is to activate a higher potential of human possibility - genius.

There are no curtains in my house. My well-lit life is a great place to be. It's a much brighter place, and a better place than they ever prepared me for in school. My world stretches as far as my imagination and intelligence can reach, and then further. Some say I go too far out for others to follow, but I like to think that nothing is out of reach. For what I find to be real, others challenge me with questions and doubt. That's okay, but I wonder if I am experiencing something they are not! Is there more light coming through my windows than theirs? If only three percent of our genetic code is switched on, do some of us have a greater percentage of our genetic coding switched on?

Growing up in a scientific tradition I learned to define that which is real to be that which can be seen, tasted, smelled, touched, or heard. Only empirical evidence was valid to substantiate reality and distinguish it from that which is considered not real. But I learned early on that the senses can deceive and the mind can be misled in its perceptions by apparent empirical evidence.

What about intuition? Some things I instinctively know to be true and real, but I can't prove it. How do I know these things? As experience has piled on in this life I have come to trust my instincts more and more. Part of what I believe is real is communicating with my higher self. Others scoff and say I must be delusional, or insane. Perhaps so. Hard to argue against that! If my beliefs are not conventional or consensual, are they necessarily false, however? Methinks not.

Skepticism is an important part of the entrenched standard of scientific thinking, and I respect that, but the way that skepticism is used today by a lot of people should more appropriately be referred to as “over-skepticism”, or perhaps “overly-scientism” and is motivated more by fear than by fair play. There is a bulwark of claims made that if current scientific evidence does not support a certain proposition, like the way I perceive certain things intuitively or outside the box, then it must follow necessarily that it is not true. This is “a confusion of no evidence with evidence of no”. There is a huge difference between not having evidence of something and something not being correct.

How would you know if I can or if I can't communicate with my higher self and the infinite world around me to gather information and draw conclusions about what is and what is not real? What's your evidence? Be careful throwing stones near my house of many windows without substantiation for your skepticism. Let's all keep an open mind until the evidence proves something otherwise.