This paper is meant to illustrate how people can view reality differently. The character in this story is visiting his Grandfather, and when his grandfather sees something he can't, then he is bewildered. Then he realizes the reality is unreal. This story gets people to thinking maybe the way they view reality is not in truth coinciding with reality. In fact, it may even be possible that what they take for reality is in fact pure imagery created by themselves to help them understand grasp a deeper reality. Now nothing is wrong with this mental imagery to help them understand reality, other than the fact that they may become so focused on that analogy, that they lose focus on the reality that it was supposed to help them grasp and understand, thus losing and defeating its own purpose. But when they are searching for a deeper truth that the first reality is part of, this mental imagery will not help them obtain the second other than understanding the first part, because the second reality is more complex than the first. The imagery might help you understand parts and portions of it, but not the whole of the second. To understand the second truth, you must understand the other truths that make up the deeper, thus forming the whole. Once you understand the all the truths of the deeper and how they coexist and correlate with each other, then you understand the mechanics other the deeper, and how they work to form the deeper. Then this second deeper truth will lead you to other truths that form as a whole another, yet deeper truth. This is how the process of revelation works, God-inspired and otherwise.
Copyright 1997
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