Pranams.
During the past few weeks, I have been studying about how the known, illusory universe 'Maya' reflects very the nature of the Supreme Soul within it.
We realise that all matter is an illusion and light has the ability to travel both as a particle and as a wave, but let's take it one step further....to the glorious world of fractals and complex geometry...gazing into projections of the Mandelbrot Set and seeing nothing but the original Mandlebrot Set no matter how close one zooms in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GBwuYuOOs
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते
पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
There are many wonderful 'visual illusions' that trick our minds into thinking something is there or something is happening when it really isn't. You must have seen things like these:
http://www.oocities.org/tim_ph/illusion/blackdots.jpg
http://www.sciencebob.com/graphics/3512883.jpg
*I like to perform Tratak on that last image.
I have taken 'visual illusions' to the extreme and I am using them as meditation tools (when I am not meditating on my Lord Shiva). I see things like the Fibonacci Code underlying all matter in the Universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA
Yes, I meditate in 'Geek'. lol
Last week, I heard my very first audio illusion. These things don't just affect the eyes, guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugriWSmRxcM
I have also heard the 'radio' coming from my fan. I thought I was crazy, but it's only my brain 'filling in' white noise. I'm probably still crazy though. =)
The brain can easily be tricked by illusory things and even though there's always a 'scientific explanation' for why we preceive what we do (even for what we know are 'illusions'...or do we really know it?).
Which leads me onto the reason why I am writing this thread (it has no purpose otherwise).
I just experienced my very first 'tactile illusion' just now and the experience was most uncomfortable.
Over here in Australia, it's very hot (I have no airconditioning) and the thermometer inside reads 37 Deg C and I am not sweating much either, just very hot.
I put the fan on to try and cool me down and to circulate the hot, stale air but I couldn't even feel the breeze from it. All I could feel was my skin move and crawl in ways I couldn't describe...like an external 'pulsing' of the dermis itself. Suffice to say, I had to switch the fan off. lol
Can we use 'known' illusion to dispel unknown illusion? That's the scientific question I leave you all with tonight. Thank you.
Aum Namah Shivaya
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