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A glass of water set in front of you is not distant from you at all. It is not standing in front of you, it
is in your brain. You perceive an image of it in your brain.
When we imagine we are touching a glass surface, we are not actually touching the original glass. It
is not our fingers that do the touching, but the brain. That being so, nobody can ever touch a real glass.

They cannot drink water from it. The water they drink consists of a sensation of drinking imparted by
perceptions arising inside the brain.
In the documentary film What the Bleep Do We Know?, Joe Dispenza, who has a Doctor of
Chiropractic Degree from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, says, “Your brain doesn’t know the diffe-

rence between what’s taking place out there, and what’s taking place in here.” Fred Alan Wolf says,
“There is no ‘out there’ out there, independent of what’s going on in here [in the brain].” 68
The life we lead is a composite of the duplicates in question. The realistic appearance of these per-
ceptions is highly deceptive. We think that the person in front of us sees the same things as we do, and

we imagine that we are both in agreement and that we are observing the true state of the world. Yet in
fact, the other person, who agrees with us on the things we see and hear, also consists of an image ari-
sing in our brain. In addition, we can never know what difference there is between the things he per-
ceives and what we perceive. It is impossible for us to describe what “green” means for us, or what a le-

mon smells like.
So what is real? In that regard, Joe Dispenza asks the following questions:

Scientific experiments have shown that if we take a person and hook their brains up to certain PET scans or
computer technology, and ask them to look at a certain object, and they watch certain areas of the brain light
up. And then they’ve asked them to close their eyes and now imagine that same object. And when they ima-

gine that same object, it produced the same areas of the brain to light up as if they were actually visually loo-
king at it. So it caused scientists to back up and ask this question. So who sees then? Does the brain see? Or
do the eyes see? And what is reality? Is reality what we’re seeing with our brain or is reality what we’re se-

eing with our eyes? And the truth is that the brain does not know the difference between what it sees in its
environment and what it remembers. Because the same specific neural nets are then firing. So then it asks the
question: What is reality? 69

In the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know?, J. Z. Knight describes reality:

That we simply are has allowed this reality we call real, from the power of intangibility to pull out of inert-
ness, “action,” “chaos,” and hold it into its form, and we call it matter. 70

Each of us lives in a world of perceptions that belongs to us alone. Nobody can share the images in
this world and nobody can confirm them, yet we regard these images as reality. That being so, is reality

simply an illusion? Does it consist solely of what we are made to experience? Do the body we regard as
our own, and the life we consider to be ours, exist solely as phantoms in our minds?
All these are indeed phantoms. We live in a phantom world brought into being in our own brains.
We imagine that we are looking at the true world outside, but a whole new world actually exists in our
brains, and it is impossible for us to step outside it.

The philosopher Geoff Haselhurst describes how science has no explanation for the realism of the
world that forms in the brain:

Further difficulties arise because our senses also deceive us. Philosophers have known for thousands of ye-
ars that our mind represents our senses, thus the world we see and taste and touch is different (naive real)
to the real world which causes our senses. . . .

Likewise, our sense of color is an obvious example of how our mind represents a certain frequency of light.

If we are to describe Reality then it must be founded on real things which exist and cause our senses, not on
the naive real representation of our senses. Thus Science, by being empirically founded, is not well suited to

describing Reality itself. 71

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