“Does this seem strange? it is like when, watching the sun going down gloriously at sunset, disappearing slowly behind distant clouds, we suddenly remember that it’s not the sun that’s moving but the Earth that’s spinning, and we see with the unhinged eye of the mind our entire planet – and ourselves with it – rotating backward, away from the sun. We are seeing with “mad” eyes, like Paul McCartney’s Fool on the Hill: the crazed vision that sometimes sees further than our bleary, customary eyesight. “ The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli
By the time we reach 50 years of age we have seen the sunrise and the sunset over 35,000 times. Our sometimes bleary, sometimes binary vision, sees the sun rising or setting on the horizon. From where we stand the sun seems to magically rise and fall each day. Deep inside of us, we know this is not true, but our perception of the world shows us a different picture.
As we go about our journey we perceive many things some true, some untrue, clouded by our bleary, sometimes binary vision. Once we start to be curious and look around the edges on our journey and realize that the sun isn’t setting but we are actually spinning away from it, on a massive orb hurtling through space. Our perception of the experience changes dramatically. Each time from that point on we can see it differently, a new experience unfolds and weaves its way into our experience.
There are many things both seen and unseen that are just like the rising and setting of the sun each day, things that we know deep inside of us to be different but our bleary perception causes us to see it in a skewed fashion. Start looking for these things and become deeply interested in their nature, curious, and inquisitive, asking what am I really seeing, what is really happening? Is all I have always thought and assumed really different than I believed it to be? Is all I have been told and believed to be true up for grabs?