|  Empirical Evidence for the Reality of
        Multidimensional Communication “What gets us into
        trouble is not what we don’t know - its what we know for sure, that
        just ain’t so!” Mark Twain   Peter Marshall, the Scottish
        Presbyterian Minister of “A Man Called Peter” fame, based his
        ministry in the United States on the following premise, “Life is a matter of
        perception, not of proof.” As an empiricist I need to
        state at the outset that I require proof on which to base my perception
        of reality, but Peter Marshall certainly does makes sense when he states
        that our perceptions shape our reality. Often our assumptions that
        serve to form our identity and worldview are accepted without question
        and without critical challenge. Many people go from the ‘cradle’
        to the ‘grave’ never challenging the thoughts of others or having
        the courage to question their own assumptions. No wonder, as Plato said, we
        live in a world of illusion! As people of the Western
        world - we are more likely to be conditioned at an early age to accept
        as ‘real’ what we only can see and touch around us - and simply
        dismiss the unseen nature of our existence although I’m sure we all
        accept the reality and impact of feelings without question, even though
        they cannot be visibly exhibited in some museum! This area of ‘cognitive
        atrophy’ is of major epidemic proportions today as it creates
        people who hold untested perceptions about life leading to ‘blind
        unswerving faith in everything unknown’ - or  people whose
        perceptions are always rejected by their ‘adopted mindset’ as being
        scientifically implausible or bordering on the psychologically
        dysfunctional ! We either tend to ‘believe
        everything we understand without cognitive question’ or we ‘reject
        everything we don’t understand because of mindset rigidity’ . Many of us in the western
        world are polarized at one end or the other of this spectrum of
        cognitive atrophy - and there are not too many people sharing middle
        ground. I know I didn’t! I had life all figured out
        from a ‘reductionist’ point of view that allowed no scope for any
        new thought possibilities even when based upon empirical findings. I had blind faith without
        cognitive understanding. Our life perceptions - even
        for the sake of our mental wellbeing - must be brought into awareness
        and must be open to question and challenge as we can not afford to
        continually render layer-upon-layer of unquestioned ignorance on our
        mindsets through the impact of multiple unexplored perceptions. Reality is never a given - it
        is an ongoing interpretive process involving the constant peeling away
        of unexplored presuppositions and adopted assumptions about life. The attitude of ‘knowing
        nothing’ can be a very good starting place for ‘crowded and untested’
        worldviews. I believe we are born all
        knowing and real - it is only when we start to articulate our thoughts
        that we can become delusory - but that discussion
        is for another time!! Any
        perception about life must include questioning that supposedly crazy
        notion that life just may continue beyond the reality of the physical. And if that is the case -
        many will need to revise their
        long-held ‘reductionist’ mindsets for the sake of eternal wholeness
        and personal integration. I did. Many of the experiences of
        this physical life will reap little positive benefit unless
        reinterpreted from a broader multidimensional life perspective. And that has been a major
        turning point in my life experience and understanding. Sartre was right in stating
        that the physical life can be viewed as being ‘meaningless and chaotic” For if we accept the
        possibility of an afterlife - and life does end on our
        physical death - we will have no  conscious awareness to worry
        about! But if life or, indeed, the
        ‘heart does go on’ - and I will offer solid irrefutable evidence that
        it does - and we never consider the possibility of an ongoing existence
        - we may well end up in a state of conscious turmoil and confusion -
        with little or no cognitive understanding about our new state of being
        and its resonance. For - in the end - one’s
        cognitive acceptance or denial of an afterlife possibility will directly
        affect the
        transition of one's consciousness. The reason for  raising
        these issues of perception and worldviews is because what I am now going
        to present to you on this
        website will not be easily contained within the perceptions and
        worldviews of many of you who may read it. Welcome to the strange
        yet very real world of ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) and
        EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) where your
        long standing worldview may
        be challenged beyond your
        belief. I simply ask you to
        open your minds to its possibilities and consider its
        credibility. I ask you ‘suspend belief’
        so that the facts may broaden
        your understanding. Rob Smith Melbourne, Victoria,
        Australia 2007   |