Page 673 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

“The faculty of consciousness is one thing we
all share, but what goes in our consciousness,
the forms that consciousness takes on, varies
widely. This is our personal reality, the reality
we each know and experience. Invariably we
mistake this personal reality for physical rea-
lity, believing ourselves to be in direct contact
with the world ‘out there.’ But the colors and
sounds we experience are not really ‘out the-
re’; they are all images in the mind, pictures of
reality we have constructed. This one fact le-
ads to a radical rethinking of the relationship
between consciousness and reality.”
—Peter Russell,
From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the
Mystery of Consciousness,
New World Library, 2002, p. 39

retinas in our eyes through the same method. The more accurate the details in this image, the more rea-

listic it seems and the more it misleads us. Thus we act as if the third dimension—with depth and dis-
tance—were actually there.
In fact, however, all the images we perceive exist in a single plane, rather like a film on a flat scre-
en. The visual center in the brain is exceedingly small. All seemingly “distant” images such as far-off
mountains, stars in the sky, the Moon and Sun, planes flying in the air and birds are all crammed into

this minute space. In a technical sense there is no distance between a plane you imagine to be flying
many kilometers away and the glass in your hand; both are on a single location in the visual center in-
side your brain.

This is a glorious proof of creation, sublime artistry and a flawless work. Allah creates these perfect
images and details in the mind of every human being, at all moments and without interruption. Nothing
is missing to make us harbor any suspicions regarding the existence of the three-dimensional images be-
fore us. The world belonging to us is created constantly as a copy of the original world outside. The
might, power and creative artistry of Him to Whom all these belong are manifested in every detail. It is

Almighty Allah, the Lord and Sovereign of all things, Who creates all the worlds and brings these into
being individually for every human being.
In verses, Allah tells us that:

It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the Earth the same number, the Command descend-
ing down through all of them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things and that
Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Qur’an, 65:12)

Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and Earth, has the power to create the like of
them, and has appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers still
spurn anything but disbelief. (Qur’an, 17:99)

We are so convinced that the other person is at a
distance from us that we shout in order to make
ourselves heard and run to catch up with him. The
fact is, however, that the person we are trying to
catch up with is in exactly the same place as us.
We do not move, and the other person does not
approach us. The whole image and all the distan-
ce are created as perceptions inside the brain.

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