Is There More That We Can See?

Why is this possible? How can there be more? Why can’t we observe it? If we do not observe it does that curtail its reality? These are all questions that will not be answered in the essay I have re-posted in my Archive entitled: Is There More That We Can See? Click on the title to access the post.

Nota Bene: My use of the word “that,” describing the reference to what we can see. In the past this phrase has always been: Is there more than we can see? The answer to that is easy. Sure there is. It is all in that vast default zone the existence of which we cannot deny.

The question raised by change of “than” to “that” raises this question: Is it possible to start seeing more of that we haven’t seen? The answer to that has been the subject of this series of essays. I have been discussing what can be seen by simply looking deeper at all that happens during the course of a lifetime.

To do this we simply apply reason and logic to what we have apparently seen and look at it more deeply. We ask the questions: Why after experiencing the kick, the enjoyment, of our first phase, encountering the wild and wonderful world we are in, given the talents and the drive to learn all we can about it, we come to a second stage in which we are prompted to close down the first stage?

Somewhere something in us clicks and we transfer to stage two. It is this stage where we have become what we learned how to do in the first stage. We then enter into a more intensive process of becoming what we find we are, doing what there is to be done about what we have become and we start collecting the fruits of our labor. This becomes more than a full time, time and a half or double time undertaking.

To do well, to simply keep working at that, to acquire whatever it is the appears to be the emoluments of what we are working for, to hold on to that, whether it be wife, family, job, status, home, care, appearance, acceptance, and the list could go on and on. This takes us up completely in the second stage this middle stage of our lives. We are programmed, determined, driven to do that and have time for that and nothing other.

We often have the inkling there is more but…. Most often it is not until the third stage, our senior years, when we have the time or the inclination to do other than what dominated us in the second stage. With the time and the inclination we enter into that time of reflection and discovery.

This is the time we can start looking and seeing more that there is to see. It seems a natural progression open and available for all of us. All of us do not do it but many do. It is ours to embrace the fulfillment offered by this sight, this insight, of what is more that we haven’t really seen before.

It is in this that we can see beyond our materiality, our temporality, seeing above and beyond that, and above and beyond the parts of us not material, not temporal, but transcendent and continuing after this life.

More that we can see has been my subject. More than we can see is a subject for another discourse wholly separate from the one in this essay series.

The more that we can see is within the purpose of our lives. Acting on it and embracing it is the gift of this life. It is this gift of life that is the object of our incarnation into this dimension. It gives purpose for being here, to having to live within the limits of here, to know the gift that is ours by doing this, doing it well.