The evolution of consciousness and its journey through physicality has given us the possibility to develop and awaken different senses in order to experience this broad spectrum of what we call reality. Our sensory organs come in touch with different segments and specific aspects of the reality we experience. For example, our ears pick up certain frequencies of vibration and we learn what these sounds are about. Our eyes see the light that bounces off our environment and everything in it. The information that our senses perceive is then coded and interpreted as “reality”. We do not grasp all of what is “out there”. In fact, modern western science, schools of ancient wisdom, and different strands of mystical teachings have argued that there are different sets of gaps between what we perceive and what is “really out there”. The faculties of consciously perceiving what's  “in here”  are even more latent and have to undergo more development, awakening, and acknowledgment on our behalf.

One way to grapple with all this is envisioning reality as the fluid manifestation of energy, in different vibrations and bands of frequencies. Einstein mapped this out when he described, defined and quantified all existence as energy that vibrates at different frequencies. All elementary particles (and the matter that they constitute through their cohesive groupings) are vibrating at different frequency rates related to their complexity and density. A low frequency allows a dense grouping of atoms (physical matter); a higher frequency creates less dense, more spaced-out, refined and/or subtle types of “matter” (energy and waves), and even higher frequencies allow for yet more subtle manifestations of reality (space itself, the fabric of awareness, and what we sometimes term the void).

It is interesting to note that the distances between the nucleus and electrons in an atom are usually bigger than the subatomic particles themselves; the distance from one atom to the next is bigger than the atoms themselves as well. Furthermore, different sets of subatomic particles are not always “observable”. Well, for most people, they're hardly ever observable with use of their physical senses, yet these particles are also hardly ever observable with the use of sophisticated equipment in quantum physics labs. Imposing a measurement on these particles (on a qubit, for example) to figure out where it is, how fast it's moving, which way it's spinning, etc, is what actually makes the particle pop into existence. It's interesting to note that the particle will pop into existence on a dimension corresponding to the one in which the measurement was made, and pop out of existence of whatever other dimension it was in prior to the measurement.

If we think of our solar system as a point in space, the distance between the planets is also bigger than the planets themselves. The same is true in terms of distance, size and proportion from one solar system, or galaxy, to the next. To a certain extent, we and the things we come in contact with, are mostly “empty” space. For the Toltecs, light is what makes existence possible. They say that if you put any object in “empty” space, it is hit by light, coming from the surrounding stars, on all sides.


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