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Levels of Faith, Layers of Consciousness, Layers of Complexity, and Dimensions of Space
Wow, what a title....
If a rock could understand that it would eventually be eroded, ground, smashed to dust, then it would become something more than a rock. If a dog could understand how it got from Atlanta, GA to Denver, CO, on an airplane, it would become something more than a dog. If a human being could understand what happens when he dies, he would become something greater than a human being.
These are all layers of consciousness, each one largely unable to communicate with the other one in a meaningful way. Each one a separate universe, although coexisting in the same physical universe, and although each is "aware" of the other, we cannot "communicate" in a language of that layer of consciousness, with the other layer. Even within each Layer of Consciousness there is an isolation. I cannot know what my wife is thinking about at any given moment.
I have often asserted that all things are "understandable," but it is just the complexity that is standing in the way. But this is a very big road block. And I have come to believe that things are understandable only within our layer of consciousness. The things in our universe that are not "understandable" with our layer of consciousness and our layer of complexity, such as ghosts, tele-kinetics, miracles, are explainable at other, higher layers of consciousness and complexity.
We can also achieve higher layers of consciousness and complexity just by evolving, and by discovering new things. Just think what people would have thought of electricity and magnetism, in earlier centuries. Today we take them for granted. In the future we will understand additional phenomena and take them for granted, whereas today they are the most mind baffling problems imaginable. I often tell my son that I am incredibly jealous of what he and his descendents will learn after I am gone. On the other hand, I may be at the next level of consciousness where it will all be obvious to me, but that doesn't make it the same.