Ask your doctor (or psychologist) if this post is right for you…

This original post (OP) is strictly for my fellow wonderers here.  Others need not apply, or even read it.  Just move along.  We'll take it from here. 😊

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Thanks to scientific instrumentation, we are aware of many conditions outside our visual spectrum.  Centuries ago, before such instruments were developed, we humans believed that, visually, what we saw is what there was; nothing else.  Seeing was believing, case closed.  Claiming otherwise would have been considered absurd (delusional, witchcraft, looney-bin stuff).

At that time, we did not know that, for example, butterflies and other insects could see things we could not.  We did not know that gamma rays and microwaves and other phenomena were all around us.  

With the advent of future instrumentation, it turned out that our insistence of “what we see is what we get” was wrong; shockingly wrong.  We found out that another “slice of reality” existed right there alongside ours, at the same time, in parallel time, though we did not have direct access to it without such instrumentation.  Yes, it was "there, but not there," as it were.

Here’s another example of currently inaccessible phenomena.  We know that, on the chalkboard, there has to be more than the four dimensions (length, width, depth, and time) that we experience directly.  My understanding is that scientists in the know postulate that there are some 10 or 11 other dimensions that we currently do not have any access to whatsoever; and no instrumentation yet exists to give us such access.  It’s all theoretical except for the perfect chalkboard math.  And who can deny math?  When all is said and done, I'd say math is about the only perfect, solid, “can’t get around it” type phenomenon there is left.   

Where am I going with this?  Bottom line, even with today’s technological inventions and advancements, I still have to wonder just how “lacking” our knowledge is of what’s going on around us.  We have already surprisingly and unexpectedly found out so much, since those clueless days of ancient times.

Now, finally, for the questions:

1. Do you think that someday even more advanced technology will be developed to detect other phenomena that is currently outside our so-called modern-day instrumentation?  Or do you believe that we’ve gone as far as we can, instrumentation-wise? 

2. Regardless of having the needed instrumentation, do you believe there is something else (more) out there, other than what we currently know about?  If no, and if past centuries don't serve as prologue, what makes you so cocksure there’s nothing more?

3. If yes, there is something else (more), what could that something possibly be? (e.g., gods, spirits, afterlife, soul separation from the body, other parallel realities, multiple side-by-side versions of oneself, nonsensical oxymorons such as those square circles, solid liquids, other.)

Let your mind wander as it wonders.  Let’s brainstorm together.

(by PrimalSoup)