Reality Is Not Real
By David McConaghey
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
Depending whom you ask, reality is a relative thing. Each and every human collects life experience that colors his or her understanding of the world around them. This perspective is what we collectively call reality.
Some experiences hunger, cold, bowel movements are common enough to constitute our shared reality. Other scenarios telepathy, UFOs, the Illuminati are less common, making that which is incontrovertibly real for one person a frivolous flight of fancy for another.
The search for what is interminably real is the ultimate quest for spiritual seekers from every tradition. For physicists, the Holy Grail is that elusive Theory of Everything.
Though the names and methods may differ, there is a shared sense that underlying the infinite variety of manifest creation there must be some essential, unifying factor.
In the Hindu tradition more accurately named sanatana dharma, or the eternal natural way this unifying substratum of all existence is known as Brahman. Realization of Brahman is the only goal of life.
In physics, the pursuit of Brahman translates to solving for equations that unite relative and quantum theories, resolving the discrepancies in our current conceptions of micro- and macroscopic functions and demonstrating how infinities interact coherently within the finite…
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