Perception – key to understanding
Whenever we study anything at all, we must take into account something that is absolutely vital; the quality of our perception. It makes a huge difference.
Every theory we have, and every fragment of evidence we find, depends on our ability to perceive. If our perception is limited, our assumptions will also be limited. If we are blind, we will not be aware of some important things.
Is our perception limited? Absolutely. Currently, human beings have severely limited perception. Our ears can only hear within a certain range. Same for our eyes; there are many frequencies we cannot see, but that other creatures can see very easily. This is also true of our sense of smell; very, very limited. That being the case, and obviously so, whatever theories we construct regarding evidence we find is incomplete.
Modern science now has a wide range of devices that perceive what our normal senses cannot, and that has helped a lot, especially in the last 50 years or so. Still, these are also limited, as is our ability to interpret what these sensing devices tell us.
Now, consider for a moment people who were living 10,000 years ago. Their way of living survived thousands of years. Do you think maybe they had better senses, such as smell, hearing, and sight, than we do today ? Almost certainly they did. Plus, some of these people may have deliberately trained themselves in things such as remote viewing, shamanic visions, out of body travel, telepathy, psychic energy manipulation ( tai chi, reiki ), and so on. Additionally, some of them may have used effective plant additives to induce extra-sensory perceptions that we only dream about now. Psychic development might have been as common thousands of years ago as kindergarten is to us in our era.
Besides deliberate training, the physical equipment of people who lived in the past might have been far more sensitive. There may have been different light frequencies prevalent on earth sometimes too, allowing people to see things we don’t.
Perception is our only window, our witness of facts. If we don’t develop it, our range of options is restricted and we will travel blindly. I don’t hear a lot of modern, traditional archaeologists talking much about this. They make a lot of assumptions, that past people’s perceptions were as limited as their own. That’s not the case.
Today, we might say that a certain type of light frequency that is invisible to us, but seen on an oscilloscope, will kill bacteria. ( some of the frequencies in sunlight can do this ). In ancient times, a seer might say, ”the soft purple rays of light that come out of the hands of a healer purifies the air and chases away illness” based on a direct observation done with their enhanced senses. The ancient seer did not need an oscilloscope; he could literally see the energy and observe its effects.
In that way a person could know what took us many hundreds of years of “science” and invention to figure out, using the limited senses. Exceptional knowledge can be had by direct perception. The human mechanism is totally amazing, and vastly underutilized by modern people. We should know better. Ancient people have left us a lot of stories and traditions that talk about this. Even now, there are loads of people who train and practice in psychic and extrasensory perceptionn.
