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This obvious fact has been proven by science today. Any scientist would tell you how this system
works, and that the world we live in is really an aggregate of perceptions formed in our brains. The
English physicist John Gribbin states that our senses are an interpretation of stimulations coming from
the external world-as if there were a tree in the garden. He goes on to say that our brain perceives the

stimulations that are filtered through our senses, and that the tree is only a stimulation. So, he then asks,
which tree is real? The one formed by our senses, or the tree in the garden? 343 No doubt,
this reality requires profound reflection. As a result of these physical facts, we come
to the following indisputable conclusion: Everything we see, touch, hear, and call

"matter," "the world" or "the universe" is nothing more than electrical signals
interpreted in our brain. We can never reach the original of the matter outside
our brain. We merely taste, hear and see an image of the external world for-
med in our brain.

In fact, someone eating an apple confronts not the actual fruit,
but its perceptions in the brain. What that person considers to be an
apple actually consists of his brain's perception of the electrical
information concerning the fruit's shape, taste, smell, and texture. If

the optic nerve to the brain were suddenly severed, the image of the
fruit would instantly disappear. Any disconnection in the olfactory
nerve traveling from receptors in the nose to the brain would interrupt the
sense of smell completely. Simply put, that apple is nothing but the interpretation of electrical signals by

the brain.
Also consider the sense of distance. The empty space between you and this page is only a sense of
emptiness formed in your brain. Objects that appear distant in your view also exist in the brain. For ins-
tance, someone watching the stars at night assumes that they are millions of light-years away, yet the

stars are within himself, in his vision center. While you read these lines, actually you are not inside the
room you assume you're in; on the contrary, the room is inside you. Perceiving your body makes you
think that you're inside it. However, your body, too, is a set of images formed inside your brain.

Millions of Colors in a Pitch-Black Location

Considering this subject in greater detail reveals some even more extraordinary truths. Our sense
centers are located in the brain, a three-pound piece of tissue. And this organ is protected inside an array
of bones called the skull, which neither light, nor sound, nor odors can penetrate. The inside of the skull

is a dark, silent place where all smells are absent.
But in this place of complete darkness occur millions of color shades and sound tones, as well count-
less different tastes and smells.
So how does this happen?
What makes you perceive light in a location without light, odors in a place without smell, sounds in

total silence and the objects of all other senses? Who created all of this for you?
In every moment of your life, a variety of miracles take place. As mentioned earlier, anything your
senses can detect in this room you're in, are sent as electrical signals to your brain, where they then com-

bine. Your brain interprets them as a view of a room. Put another way, while you assume that you are
sitting in this room, that room is actually inside you, in your brain. The "place" where the room is assem-
bled and perceived is small, dark, and soundless. And yet a whole room or a whole landscape, regard-
less of its size, can fit into it. Both a narrow closet and a wide vista of the sea are perceived in the exact
same place.

Our brains interpret and attribute meaning to the signals relating to the "external world." As an
example, consider the sense of hearing. It's our brain that in fact interprets and transforms the sound
waves into a symphony. That is to say, music is yet another perception created by our brain. In the same

manner, when we perceive colors, what reaches our eyes is merely light of different wavelengths. Again,

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