Realms of Perception - Death and The Supernatural

I've written before about extra-sensory experiences that some have had when they have experienced grief over the death of a loved one, but I wanted to explore that theme a bit further by furthering conversation around the realm of the supernatural and what role our perception plays in these experiences. 

A recent post by John Micheal Greer briefly mentions an experience by his own father at the moment of departure for his grandmother - who lived at the time quite some distance away in a retirement home.     I won't repeat the narrative here, but this example serves as a way to demonstrate further that the limitations we find here - space, time, distance, etc. - are irrelevant once our conciousness becomes untethered.  

It is entirely possible - even plausible perhaps - that these phenomena which we label as supernatural are instead nothing more than an injection of presently invisible energies into our fields of perception.   I'm not anywhere near the first person to promote this hypothesis, and there are currently quite a few works available in print that support this.   

Mainstream physicists are beginning to accept that everything - plants, animals, humans, stars, and even the human mind and body - are more interconnected in a way than our currentlly realist paradigm accounts for.   Lynne McTaggart wrote a book around this called The Field, which was well received publicly but I believe greatly oversimplies and understates what's really going on here.    It's a fine starting point if you want to explore this theme more, but it is too understated for us to assume that there is some secret force to the universe that we will be able to discern by meditation and further study.  Our limited perceptions - which Lynne suffers from just like the rest of us - have created a biomechanical death for us - wherein we grieve needlessly for something that never actually happens.    

As a reminder, I want to point readers back to my post on the visible light spectrum.    I'm not an expert in light studies.   I've a basic, college-level understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum and our interaction with it as observers.    However, it doesn't take a NASA engineer to realize after looking quickly at the very thin band of visible light with which we most commonly interact using our tactile senses that something is out there.   We may not yet be able to understand what it is yet, but that denying its existence is to therefore deny the very science upon which the foundations of our "reality" are based.  

To experience these other worlds, other lifelines, other realities (whatever word you want to use here is fine, since nothing yet exists that has gained consensus) we must rely on technologies outside the current paradigm of our tactile understandings.  It is possible that substances such as DMT and LSD can serve as technologies that enable us to undergo these experiences, but its also just as likely that we already possess the ability to understand and experience them - buried somewhere deep in us under the layers of programming to which we are all subject.   

Our universe is full of mystery and magic - we just have yet to understand it. 

In a similar way, biomechanical death processes fall within this same category.  Let's view for a moment our body as it if were an automobile.    We can sit in it, drive it, take it anywhere we need it to go.  Driving the automobile, however, doesn't make us the automobile itself.   Eventuallly, the automobile's performance will decline over time (according to thermodynamics) and we will need to find another way to get around.  But we don't die just because the automobile does.  

Think of yourself as the driver of the automobile, and the automobile as your body.  Our forms will change - as they must.  But our consciousness will continue on, unharmed and eternal, and become part of the experiences that others may eventually call supernatural.

Further, it is my hope that there will come a time when everything we now call supernatural will seem to us just as much a part of this great mysterious universe as everything we currently experience; a time when we'll see biomechancial death in the same light as one might see a wedding, a high school graduation, a bar mitzvah - as a routine experience which is only one part of the mysterious but marvelous universe we call home.