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The Secret Beyond Matter 65

side us. Materialists resist in
an extremely dogmatic man-
ner this evident reality which
destroys their philosophy and
bring forward baseless anti-
theses.
For example, one of the
biggest advocates of the
materialist philosophy in the
20th century, an ardent Marx-
ist, George Politzer, gave the
"bus example" as supposedly
a great evidence regarding
this matter. According to
Politzer, philosophers who
espouse the fact that we deal
with the copy of matter in our
brains also run away when
they see a bus bearing down
on them. 52
Some people accept that when they touch a bus,
When another famous
they feel the cold metal in their brains. On the
materialist, Johnson, was told other hand, they do not accept that the feeling of
pain at the moment the bus hits them forms in
that we are never in contact the brain. However, a person will feel the same
with the original matter, he pain if he sees himself falling under a bus in his
dream.
tried to deny this truth by giv-
ing stones a kick. 53
There are similar examples and ill-considered statements such as "You
understand the real nature of matter when you are slapped in the face," in
the books of famous materialists such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others.
The point where materialists are mistaken is that they think the concept
of "perception" only applies to the sense of sight. In fact, all sensations, such
as touch, contact, hardness, pain, heat, cold and wetness also form in the
human brain, in precisely the same way that visual images are formed. For
instance, someone who feels the cold metal of the door as he gets off a bus,
actually "feels the cold metal" in his brain. This is a clear and well-known
truth. As we have already seen, the sense of touch forms in a particular sec-
tion of the brain, through nerve signals from the fingertips, for instance. It is
not your fingers that do the feeling. People accept this because it has been