Human perception definition5/24/2023 They had no concept of sight and hence they could not understand his attempts to explain them the sense of light, as it was beyond their comprehension. The mountaineer thought himself to be their king and teacher, being the only person having eye sight, but instead of being so, he was presumed to be himself diseased and alien, subjected to all sorts of humiliation and torture by the villagers. With the passage of time they became oblivious to the existence of light, the sense of sight, and the things related to it. The people of the valley were then rendered blind due to affliction. The story narrates that when a mountaineer fell down a snow slope on a mountain, he reached a valley deep down which was cut off from rest of the world from all sides due to an earthquake, centuries ago. “The country of blind” is a famous short story written by H.G. There exists, therefore, something supernatural and which is beyond our perception, indeed. We don’t know how they perform this superb engineering feat. The architectural precision with which the dwellings of insects, animals, birds, etc, are made by them is also beyond any human perception. How can such alertness and timely action of the hen be explained without the power of divine? When a hen senses that an eagle is flying high in the sky preying on her chickens, she takes them under her feathers and saves them from the approaching danger. Who makes them do such amazing things? It is divine, indeed. Similar is the case with a host of other animals like dogs, horses, cattle, sheep and insects which return to their habitats, remembering well the routes and responding to external stimuli in a much efficient manner than humans can do. They fly in the air in an amazing pattern and under a strict command and control system. Every year migratory birds land at the same spot and in the same season as they visited earlier, flying thousands and thousands of miles in the sky and crossing rivers, high seas and mountains, in droves, and remain there for a certain period of time and then fly back to their places of origin. The firm belief in the existence of Unseen God is the only wy out of such vicious cycle of beliefs. All this indicates that the human mind has accepted and believed in many unseen, unverified things and is rather entrapped in a cobweb like situation, unable to free itself from it despite much talked about scientific temper. Tales of the existence of mermaids, merman and other supernatural beings are often told. Similar is the case with oceans, seas and other water bodies to which many interesting tales are told which are not fully verified. Extra-terrestrial intelligence and things related to it like zodiac signs and the movement of stars affecting life on earth is another subject perturbing us often. Spiritual journeys, the spiritual transformation, omens, mysticism, faith healing, occult and other meta-physical phenomena have dominated the human mind from ancient times. Prophesies about future events are made very often. Plots of many a horror films are based on ghosts, magic, aliens, UFOs, etc, and such films are seen the world over. Though science and logic defies the existence of ghosts, yet many isolated places and abandoned houses are thought to be haunted by them and many believe that the souls of the dead often visit such places. However, something that is doubted, called to question, and put to many “ifs” and “buts”, is the existence of the Unseen God and His many attributes. We never deny or challenge such things and believe in them despite not touching or seeing them. Similar is the case with our thoughts, memory, sadness, joy, imagination, emotion. Like in case of X-rays, light waves, temperature, gases, immunity, strength, etc, we cannot touch or see them, though their effect is felt. In scientific terms, many examples can be cited. So, it is not correct to say that things which we don’t see, hear or touch don’t exist. Sometimes our sixth sense and a third eye shows us unseen objects. It is the voice of our inner soul or conscience which whispers and guides us divinely in such matters. Some things exist even when we don’t sense them, though our intuition does make such things known to us. We generally perceive things through the senses of touch, sight, hearing and smell. It is difficult to find answers to such mysteries in our life. All these and many other similar things are not easily understood. Dreams fade away when we wake up in a vast desert, a mirage looks like a pond of water to a traveler children run in vain to catch shadows. We cannot catch a rainbow, reach the horizons, touch the sky or bring down the moon and stars.
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