The Felt & Unfelt Reality of Our Human Existence?

This blog post is another in my ongoing series about the personal and entirely private experience, the English language uses to word consciousness to describe. And continues my exploration of how human languages simultaneously describe & disguise the true nature of our own reality and the reality of the world, we sighted humans see. With this DeepAI generated image, arguably representing a picture worth a thousand words, about the felt and unfelt reality of our existence in time. As I continue the theme of the previous post titled: Balanced Consciousness & Ancient Prophecy Words?

I mean, why did the large language model AI chose to frame the word prompt; "the felt & unfelt reality of existence," in this particular way? Why the jet-black image of a human being, presumably standing upon a hilltop & facing the sun? Why does a visual awareness of the sun, appear to be obscured by clouds? Is this image metaphorical or allegorical, of our human form of consciousness & the reality of our existence in time? 

And in the context of the felt & unfelt nature of reality, does this image represent our conscious unawareness of our own reality & the earth-turning reality of our existence in time? Is it the reality of the earth's constant rotation in the darkness of space, that creates our visual experience of the sun appearing above a horizon, as depicted in this image. And are we capable of either feeling what's happening in the cosmic reality of space, or in the biological reality of our brain's capacity to manifest this visual experience? 

I mean why does it feel like the sun is rising above a horizon during the birth of each new period of daylight? And why do we all agree with the reality of this visual illusion, when whenever we think, say, or write the word sunrise? Does the English language word "sunrise" and its linguistic equivalent amongst our social world's 7000+ different languages, represent a cognitive illusion? An illusion of "knowing" based on an embodied sense visual feeling, that the sun moves across the sky? And is this our species most universal illusion about the reality of reality, because we cannot feel what truly happens within cosmic reality, or what truly happens within our own bodies?

Is this the pictorial meaning, of the jet-black image of a human being, presumably standing upon a hilltop & facing the sun? And cognitively speaking, does this image allude to our conscious "unawareness" of our own reality & the earth-turning reality of our personal existence in time? And in the current context of global fears of an unavoidable 3rd world war, will it take a revolution to create a solution, as Bob Marley once said? A perceptual revolution I wrote a blog post about in August 2022: A Perceptual Wisdom Revolution. In which I wrote:

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we
really believe in, and those we never think to question. ― Orson Scott Card

Orsan Scott Card’s comment sums up the way I began self-questioning beliefs about my reality while reading neuroscience accounts of nervous system function back in 2007. The calendar year concept of space-time that in hindsight, was the beginning of trying to understand my reality from the inside-out. The period of my life when I started to make sense of experiences of being the earth turning in space, as a visceral challenge to my consciousness.

A challenge that, in hindsight, has always been the need for a re-adaptation of my mind towards a more heart-felt  and embodied sense of reality. Which I now understand as the birth-right challenge expressed in the cryptic clues of ancient wisdom symbols and stories. Like the symbolic image of family life within the horizons of the Aten and Jesus upon a metaphorical cross of space-time.

I believe the intuition in Bob Marley’s revolution solution idea sums up the synchronous reality of human history. Just I believe in our innate capacity for developing a higher consciousness involving deeper insights and understandings of reality. As I continue to wrestle with two cryptic sayings of an old Buddhist monk in Thailand, “Words are not reality?” ― “Only experience reveals the nature of being?”

While during the dawn birth of a day conceived as Thursday and numbered 21/07/2022, two calendar months on from landing in Athens, Greece at approximately 7AM. A further realization dawned within my skull as I flattened 3 images into one with my laptop’s image manipulation software. Three photos of the sun above the horizon at Bondi Beach, Australia that compliment the smartphone video question I asked Facebook friends from Diani Beach, Kenya, just yesterday.

“Where is Heaven?” "If not right here on earth then where within this universe would heaven be?" A video prompted by these self-cross-examination questions, “What am I?” ― “Am I the Cosmos become Conscious?” ― “What is Heaven & Hell?” ― “What is Humanity?” “Why does consensus-reality rule my conscious mind?” ― “If the Bible expresses the history of humanity in allegories and metaphors, who wrote it and what sense of reality informs it?” “What was the inspiration behind gold topped Pyramid and Obelisk structures in Egypt and ancient sayings and stories about creation?”

Questions that cause me to wonder what creation is and examine my relationship with it, and whether I’ve been following a timeless path in my search for the meaning and purpose of life. Since the days of my youth, I have often noticed how sun rays appear through clouds and fan out in triangular, pyramid-like fashion and wondered if this was the natural inspiration for pyramid fashioned structures in the ancient world. So it was no surprise to notice inside Hoffmeier’s book, the passages about the pyramid-like rays of the sun and Akhenaten’s “horizon of the Aten” inspiration for a religious revolution.

While another book, Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on theHistorical Jesus, by Ahmed Osman stunned me with a passage from Egyptian scripture that bears a striking similarity to what I experienced at the temples of Abu Simbel. Twice I filmed the sun rise above the horizon of the East across lake Nasser, once to the South and the next day, on the Northern side of the temples while facing due East.

Three times I went down to the temples on my 3 night stay in Abu Simbel, to contemplate the meaning of their construction and the purpose of the doors in their world-famous solar alignment. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to be exploring two temples after reading articles about Ramesses II and viewing so many images of the larger temple.

While on the last morning of my trip, after filming sunrise in lake Nasser, I thought I understood the 3 messengers of creation as the sun, earth & moon, as I looked towards the entrance doors of both temples. An experience that returned to mind with a profound impact when I read about the doors of heaven using metaphorical terms like a serpent diadem rested upon a forehead, in an ancient Egyptian scripture about the horizons of Ra.

And I continued with my personal experience of a perceptual revolution, when I wrote:

 And just like humanity’s first sight of the paradigm-shifting images of outer-space produced by the James Webb telescope, scientific research continues to provide paradigm-shifting images of the inner-space of our human body and organize and synthesize such information through centers for excellence like HeartMath.org

And after adapting and synthesizing information about my nervous system since 2007 and developing an internal awareness of my heart as the centralizing power in my experience of being human. I realize that my filming sunrise in Bondi Beach, Australia, and across Lake Nasser on both sides of the Abu Simbel temples was an attempt to synchronize the central power of my nervous system with the centralizing power of our solar system.

An adaptive-realization that dawned within me, as I merged 3 photos into one and the effect of 21st-century information brought a paradigm-shift in my perception of the cosmic nature of reality.

As my head centered perception of a consensus-reality suddenly shifted to my heart-centered awareness of cosmic-reality. And a better way to understand and explain Plato’s ancient call for people to have a life-affirming conversion experience percolated within my body-mind. As I merged two autonomic states of consciousness together, synchronizing the relationship between my heart, my head, and the synchronous reality of the Cosmos.

And since this profound adaptive-realization I think I understand the motivation of our wisest ancestors to create magnificent structures, symbols, and stories that would last thousands of years. To warn human history about confusing the communication oriented consensus-reality of our social world, with the solar reality of the sun, earth, and moon.

Specifically, how our earth is immersed within the primeval waters of our solar system and the cosmic ocean of the universe, as ancient Egypt's and many other creation stories informed the world-to-come. Using a heart centered level of consciousness that transcends the concept driven nature of our social adaptation to an illusory, consensus-reality. 

And in the existential context of the felt & unfelt reality of our human existence. Please consider typing the prompt "is consensus-reality like a waking dream?" into Google's search box to see if you get this response:

Yes, consensus reality can be viewed like a waking dream, sharing traits like shared social constructs, malleable perceptions, and mental projection, though it is constrained by fixed physical laws. [1, 2, 3, 4]

And please consider the possibility that the subconscious orchestration and functionally automatic nature of our adult behaviors, combines with the recursive nature of consensus-reality language, to make us all feel like we are more conscious of the nature of reality, than we truthfully are?  

And as I finish this post, continuing this series theme of good news that can be preached to the whole world. About the cryptically wise meaning of the words "and then the end will come?" Through a conscious realization about the deceiving power of the word. That enables an increasingly urgent need to balance our biologically receptive & psychologically projective, experience of consciousness.

I can only hope that I've provided some useful food for thought about the universal reality of being human. And why historical figures like Buddha & Jesus, are also known as enlightened, realized beings? Please let me know what you feel and think about this blog post, in the existential context of truth, goodness, & beauty.

Best wishes,


David Bates.