sky to heaven - the invisible life.

Many people don’t believe in God, souls, ghosts, spirits, aliens, magic, psychic powers, reincarnation, out-of-body consciousness, or other forms of “supernatural” phenomena. They think these things are impossible.

But human beings know so little about the world, the universe, and life. What the human eye can see and what we know now, are not the whole of reality. We don’t even know what 80-90% of the universe is made of – scientists just call it dark matter and dark energy. We also don’t even know how many dimensions there are in our universe - and this is just the one universe we live in. In fact, with scientists debating parallel universes and multiverses, we don’t even know how many universes there really are – so what makes you think the way you look at this one universe is correct? We know so little about the limits of what is truly possible – so how can we have any idea of what is truly impossible? How can we assume that “supernatural” phenomena are impossible? We are only just beginning to understand the natural – so it would be a logical mistake to deny the supernatural.

When we label something “supernatural,” we only mean something we don’t yet understand. It is outside of what we believe to be natural – but that does not mean it isn’t true or natural. There is no such thing as supernatural, because all things in the universe are natural. We only call it supernatural because we don’t understand it or we don’t believe it. Five hundred years ago, people probably would have thought that seeing real-time moving pictures of people in other lands was a kind of impossible, supernatural phenomena – but today it is completely natural. We call it TV.

As human beings, we must be careful not to so quickly judge what is impossible or possible, supernatural or natural, real or not. Five hundred years from now, the people of the future might think that we were stubbornly ignorant and backwards for not believing in God, ghosts, aliens, or psychic powers. We have a long history of being wrong about the nature of the universe and reality – so what makes you think we’re right about everything now? What makes you think we have everything figured out? For quite often, in the process of finding out what is true, we discover that what we had thought was right, is actually wrong, and what we thought was wrong, is actually right. This process is called learning. Or oftentimes, relearning. What we now consider knowledge, may only be just a collection of our best guesses – and our worst guesses.

After all, you are only a human being – and human beings know so little about the true nature of the world, the universe, and life. And you’re probably not a human being that spends a lot of time researching or even thinking about the nature of the world, the universe, and life. Most likely you go about your daily life doing mostly mundane things, like working, playing, shopping, having sex, watching TV, eating, and sleeping – just like most human beings around you. So of course, you are going to think that life is just about working, playing, shopping, having sex, watching TV, eating, sleeping, and little else. That’s what your parents did, that’s what your friends do, and now it’s become what you do. You don’t go out of your way to look for anything else, because you don’t believe there is anything else to look for.

You will not seek your own answer to the question of supernatural realities – because you believe you already know the answer. You’re not going to believe in aliens, ghosts, or God unless they fall from the sky or appear right in front of you out of thin air. You think because such things did not happen within your own little reality of the world, that they couldn’t have possibly happened to anybody else. Even though there are 6 billion people on the planet, and you have personally known not more than 10,000 of them in your life. Which means you have met less than .0000016%, which is clearly not a large enough statistical sample to make definite conclusions about the human experience. And of those 10,000, you probably only knew less than 100 of them really well. You think because nothing out of the ordinary happened to you or to anybody you know, that nothing extraordinary could have happened to anybody else. As if you were the center of the universe, and all realities, both natural and supernatural, have the obligation of revealing themselves to you.

I am not asking you to believe in ghosts, God, magic, or life after death. I cannot make you believe what you do not believe. All I ask is that you consider the possibility that what you “know” to be true, may not be so. That there may be more to the universe and reality than what you know now; that there may be more to life than the way you have lived your life. I ask that you consider the possibility – not for my sake, but for yours. I believe life is an extraordinary event – and you are a part of it. You are an extraordinary event. But if you choose to believe that life is just about ordinary things like working, playing, mating, and eating, then so be it – and so shall your reality be. For a while.

Shakespeare said, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” And I would like to add that there are more things in heaven and earth than the human eye can see, and there is much more to life than the way we have lived. And the first step to seeing is the opening of our own minds.

A person whose mind is filled with possibilities is much more open than a person whose mind is filled with impossibilities. And as a person’s mind becomes more open, so does that person’s heart have an opportunity to become more open also - for what his mind accepts, then his heart can care about. This is why I believe doubt has its place in life – doubt is one of the keys that can open a closed mind.

I do not mean the doubt of the skeptic, for many skeptics actually do not doubt at all - many skeptics are quite stubbornly certain that “supernatural” realities do not exist. They claim they are open-minded, but they are in fact quite close-minded. To the skeptic, there are few mysteries in the universe - and life is nothing more than what he can sense and experience in his own limited field of reality. He trusts no one’s judgment but his own, and distrusts the judgment of others. This is why I believe if you look into the heart of many stubborn skeptics, they tend to be more cynical, negative, pessimistic, rationally cold - and not very happy. And it is their own belief that keeps them locked in this narrow state of mind and heart.

But I believe you must doubt that what you see and know right now, is actually all that there is. If you have no doubts and think you know everything, then you can learn nothing. But if you doubt that what you know of life may not be everything, that there may be more to reality than what you can see with your five senses, then you have the possibility of learning something new and potentially life-changing. Doubt raises a question, and with that question, you have the possibility of a new answer; but if you have no new questions, you will gain no new answers. Doubt can open a mind, and help it expand. It is from doubt and ignorance that the path of truth begins.