Our body is designed for the material world.( a world of trapped \nenergy in things or matters)Therefore we persieve reallity through our senses. Of course, we can not persieve other type of reality like the energy trapped in atoms. It is like if we conditioned to the material world in a similar way as charateres of a video game are conditioned to the computer's screen. Not complaints, life is wonderful, but what is real, and what is just a trick of perseption?
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People have different perceptions/realities, based on personal experience (including auditory, sensory, visual) and knowledge. We are greatly limited in our knowledge by perceiving only three dimensions. So, the answer to your question is : ALL THINGS ARE A PERSONAL REALITY .....Unfortunately, too few humans are open-minded enough to realize that their own reality is not a universal truth.
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Life is the result of a higher lever synthesis of atoms.And as I see nature is cruel.Off course there is life in many other places.Man is very egoistic to believe that  he is unique
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Well, from wich perspective do you look at it? In my opinion, physical reality incarnations are done for the purpouse of spiritual growth..."body is a car, soul is a driver, YOU". Aside from that, I believe all is devine, in other words, all is god, source, as some say it. I also believe that each seek's to reunite with source... :) Take Care, Love and Light
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Because it isn't about our physical life.\nWe are here to learn and so we need both positive and negative, light and dark.  Without dualistic concepts we do not have a choice and there is no free will.\n\nBut it's all good... we're here to learn.
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Well that's a good question.  I think so!  There are many things that are real, we don't have to always understand how it works for it to be real!
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There's a good majority, Mixed with the created hormonal emotions from the processed food we eat, of humans that  define their reality in pain and suffering. They can't ever be happy. And their thoughts and Ideas, which are quite subjective, of what a perfect world should be, is always wanting to be put into effect. Like Hitler. His perfect world consisted of only blonde-haired blue-eyed germans. He was also beaten severly as a child, and i'm guessing a bit repressed. There are a lot of factors that go into it. Fear leads to anger. anger leads to hate. hate to suffering. It's true. Perphaps the key to fear is reverse paranoia. Instead of everyone expecting everyone to do wrong unto them, perhaps if they expected only the best from them. It's my personal experience that thoughts, whatever they may be, good or bad in perception, that they'll come to life and be seen most by the mind of that who thinks most about it. Your brain has a way of blocking out things it sees regularly from your memory. Only things that are of perceived importance, (things being thought of often) stay in memory, or in notice, on sight. Awareness is created by change. Things that are normal occurances always blend in. Therefore if you make a note of thinking most of good positive things, you'll find that you'll become a good positive person in essence. Likewise if you define your reality through narrowminded beliefs and generalizations, and only feel reality though existance in pain, always paranoid around those whom you don't know personally, then yes, you'll become old from the stress, twisted, maladjusted, and another force generating more negative energy for the world to pick up. Good begets good. Evil begets evil. If the world is to have full and thorough peace within it. There's going to have to be a LOT of accepting going on. Personally, I don't believe that'd be very possible due to the very natures of certain personalities. I believe everything must balance. There is no all good or all evil. Good wouldn't be good without evil. People cannot live without killing and consuming another live being or object. Whether it be plant or animal, the world was destined to always have some form of evil or another in it. I believe it's just the balance of society and of the universe. Otherwise, it'd just be our ego's driven by emotions telling us that death and dying and killing is bad or wrong. Our emotions tell us that, but universally, you'll notice the universe completely indifferent to all emotion. Perphaps just a mechanism to keep us alive, just like lust is a mechanism to keep us reproducing. If it wasn't for our minds ability to believe anything and to perceive purpose, i think we'd all go insane for being like puppets in the grand scale scheme of things, being strong along by our emotions and feelings towards certain things, embedded in our genetics and brains to make it all but most difficult to do anything but what the brains automated reaction had in mind. All in all, stepping out of human persona, and perception of derived purpose, in the grand scheme of things, without human aspect of good or evil, one could possibly say everything is perfect as is. But somewhere somehow, perphaps this is just a good form of entertainment to another entity larger than ourselves, or perphaps our perceptions. The beat goes on da-da-doom-da-doom-da-da. It's going to continue whether we like it or not, so we may as well know our roles and shut our mouths. That's my 2 cents.
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when we have a lot going on in our physical lives ... our 6th sense so to speak , takes a back seat\nit wont ever go away ... its like riding a bike\nbut we do have this life to lead and so many obstacles to overcome\nonce that is dealt with , then we may aquire our 6th sense more clearly again
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If you think about it, all the experience we call life is actually our impression of external events, but filtered through the nervous system and the brain. Whatever you see, you see in your brain, also what you touch and what you taste and what you smell, it's all sensed through your brain. That's why taoists say that ultimately, nothing really has an intrinsic "existence", but it's all conveniently rendered into ideas by our thoughts. Anyway, besides that fact, I think there's a factor in your life that is not allowing you too feel 100%. When all your senses are in order you don't become aware of how life seems to be a construction of the psyche. I think you need to do things that make you more "grounded", and you'll get over that. Best thing to do is to spend some time outdoors. Go camping for a couple of nights, or just for a hike outdoors, or visit a farm, or ride a horse or something. All those things make your senses go more into survival mode, therefore relaxing all other anxieties. Just a thought.
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Yes, we are. That is what the senses are. There are no real things out there, there are just clouds of possibilities. Quantum physicists are finding out the universe is much more complicated and unbelievable than once thought. Our perceptions actually modify reality.. that means there could be a universe out there for every potential choice we make in our lives... it's a mind boggling concept, but people are realizing theres more to this world than meets the eye, so to speak.
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in favt the thing that is in your mind and allways is talking whit you is your ghost ! your ghost and your brain are working in pair.because that is allways whit you from childlish till end .but never gets old and your body gets older and weaker ! so that is something not made by elements and you cant see it but feel it .
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Firstly, in honour of the late C E M Joad, it may depend on what exactly you mean by the various terms you use.\nThat's not a trivial opening for miscommunication.\n\nIs an ethereal plane a given, capable of definition, or is that a hypothetical construct too?\n\nTaking reality and non-reality in a popular sense, the nature of reality will be a question for anyone delving into philosophy and the mind.  Simple visual illusions are all that are required to distinguish between "perception" and "reality".\nThere is discussion that self-awareness may only be an illusion of identity (following Libets' and others' experiments on brain potential and subjective experience) \n\nAnd a url is given for the discussion that an individual's subjective existence is more likely to be a computer simulation than "real life", which may be closer to what you had in mind.
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There has been a bit of research done on this, but much of it lies within the realm of philosophy rather than pure science.\n\nWhat you are describing are qualia, essential experiential perceptions of stilumli, rtaher than the stimulus itself. They are very difficult to study scientifically because they are inherently subjective and science can only deal with the objective.\n\nDo a Google search on qualia and you will get more information on this subject than you can handle.
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space is not realy a phisycal entity it is only precieved that way as all matter and phisycal objets are only experienced as know them by the five senses which are all non physical and dont have meaning in a real materilistic world that does not realy exist for instance the color blue or a loud noise can only be expierenced ny a conxoius bieng and have no realphisacl attributes and there is nothing ather that man experiences besides hif five senses , it follows there for that the phisical world as we know it is only an experience of the conxious soul whish is experiening this illiusion there for heavan and hell are no more real in the phisal sense then any thing real that we experience for example space and objects only we are not dissalutioned into thing they they do have real materlistic existence as we are dissalutioned with the physical environment we think we live in
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Yes, I believe that would be end of my existence. I believe that we are made from cells and chemicals and our emotions are controlled by the chemicals. There are different proportions of chemicals in our brains depending on how we're feeling at each time (it's connected with nerve reactions too). You know how the rush of adrenaline effects you, right? There's a lot of other chemicals there too that control your emotions and can mess things up badly if for some reason there isn't enough of some of the chemicals (that is thought to be the cause of most mental illnesses). Our "soul" is our brain activity. When the brain is dead, that's the end of our existence. That's my belief.
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There are only two entities in the Universe, one is Consciousness and the other is Energy...but this energy too is self conscious\n\nIn us our body, mind, intelliegence and ego all are creation of the Energy....the Soul in us is pure consciousness and this soul is common to all.
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You're referring to mind over matter and/or biofeedback. Anything is possible when it comes to the mind and body. Even science doesn't know our true potential yet. The smartest of humans only ever use approximately 30% of their total brain power. There is so much untapped power in our minds that it will never be assessed in out lifetime.
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Really a great question.\n\nNo, at the atomic level, things do not touch (normally).  What stops things from going through other things are the electro-magnetic repulsion forces coming from the electrons of the atoms.\n\nThere are exceptions, like in a collider, where we can co-mingle electrons so that atoms momentarily share them.  But those are special cases and, even here, the nucleii and such are not actually touching.  They are simply sharing, with space (reeeealy small space) in between the atomic parts.\n\nWe feel like we are touching because our senses are unable to feel the subatomic spaces; so we have no sensation of spaces that small.  So, in effect, you are right, "our atoms...just bounce off" if by that, you mean they repell each other.