{"id":20132,"date":"2022-05-23T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/?p=20132"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:24:18","slug":"what-you-perceive-no-longer-exists-pat-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/what-you-perceive-no-longer-exists-pat-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"What you perceive no longer exists. ~ Pat Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn\u2019t it wonderful to look up at the night sky and see thousands of stars and galaxies! I know it\u2019s harder to view it with the city lights glaring but you can still catch glimpses of the brightest ones.<\/p>\n

If one has read anything about these heavenly objects they know that many lie millions even billions of miles afar. What you are looking at is a past time when they shone their brilliance and may possibly no longer exist.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s pick a closer object say the moon. Its orbit is approximately 238,900 miles away. Since light travels at a constant speed it takes 1.3 seconds for you to view an image of it when it shines, so what you see no longer exists only what it did appear to be.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s move a little bit closer to home, say that car in an intersection about 100 yards of 91 meters away. What you are seeing is an object as it appeared less than a second ago but you are still not seeing it as it is.<\/p>\n

Okay so now you are just saying that I am just splitting hairs, the speed is so minuscule it doesn\u2019t matter. Well, you are kind of right but that\u2019s not the direction I am taking this conversation.<\/p>\n

Everything you see, touch, hear, taste, or smell is only a semblance as it was not how it actually is. In fact, because of the lag time for all of our senses to reach the brain and process them, we can never truly perceive things as they truly are.<\/p>\n

But you say it\u2019s still a car and looks like a car. Once more I say that\u2019s correct but it not the same car right now.<\/p>\n

There is a principle in Hermetic teachings that, \u201cnothing is at rest and everything is in motion.\u201d If you believe in science, then even the smallest parts of particles are constantly vibrating which means the entire universe is in constant flux and nothing stands still.<\/p>\n

So where am I going with this on the spiritual or conscious level?<\/p>\n

In my last post, i spoke about the universe possibly being a mental creation and I brought up the subject of the Void as defined in Zen Buddhism, I mentioned that it is not how western civilization perceives the world.<\/p>\n

We like to understand the void as being without anything inside of it, full of nothingness, but can there really be a place that has nothing? Let\u2019s flip that belief to the opposite view that the void is full of everything, some things we can see and others we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

We like to assign tangible properties to everything since we believe we live in a 3-dimensional world but we always fail to address the energy behind those physical objects and without those energies, our physical world would not exist.<\/p>\n

We are creatures of the void, created by it and living within it!<\/p>\n

There was an old Christian belief that man and god were intertwined, that god was omnipresent and residing within everything.<\/p>\n

Okay so let\u2019s circle back to the point I am trying to make. Everything you perceive is just an illusion and not what it really is. Now I\u2019m not advocating that you don\u2019t believe that the cars don\u2019t really exist and step out in front of it to prove your belief!<\/p>\n

What I am trying to get across is that everything that you believe is not as it appears and thinks that if possible all of the physical aspects of your world are changing then what about your underlying consciousness?<\/p>\n

Are your beliefs as concrete as you perceive them?<\/p>\n

Hey, just more food for thought.<\/p>\n

Namaste and take care,<\/p>\n

P. L. Hogan<\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it wonderful to look up at the night sky and see thousands of stars and galaxies! I know it\u2019s harder to view it with the city lights glaring but you can still catch glimpses of the brightest ones.<\/p>\n

If one has read anything about these heavenly objects they know that many lie millions even billions of miles afar. What you are looking at is a past time when they shone their brilliance and may possibly no longer exist.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s pick a closer object say the moon. Its orbit is approximately 238,900 miles away. Since light travels at a constant speed it takes 1.3 seconds for you to view an image of it when it shines, so what you see no longer exists only what it did appear to be.<\/p>\n

If one has read anything about these heavenly objects they know that many lie millions even billions of miles afar. What you are looking at is a past time when they shone their brilliance and many possibly no longer exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,13],"tags":[26,2486,2646,2591,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-20132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-consciousness","8":"category-knowledge","9":"tag-living-librarian","10":"tag-pat-hogan","11":"tag-perceive","12":"tag-perception","13":"tag-reality"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20141,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20132\/revisions\/20141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}