You presume, in looking at the world around you, that you know what reality is. You presume, that that world which you see in so looking, is reality. But before we can proceed further I must tell you that that presumption is in error. I must tell you that what you see, in looking at the world around you, is a subjective experience that is far removed from the reality it was based upon. I must also point out to you that at this very moment you are taking that subjective experience to be reality, and in so doing, you are blinding yourself to the truth of the reality that surrounds you. You have become so caught up in the believability of the illusion your mind has created for you in the form of that subjective experience, that you find yourself hard-pressed to see beyond it.

Let me illustrate the truth of what I am trying to convey to you with an example, that you may better grasp this opportunity to step beyond the confinement imposed upon you by your subjection to an illusion. For that example, let us examine your sense of hearing. Your hearing a sound begins when waveforms of energy find their way to your outer ear where they are transformed to mechanical energy by small bones within your middle ear. This mechanical energy travels on to your inner ear in the form of vibrations picked up by the organ of Corti. Those vibrations are then converted into and transmitted as electrical and chemical signals passed between nerve cells within your auditory nerve until they eventually reach the temporal-cortical areas of your brain. Here they continue to be shuffled about between neurons in the form of chemical and electrical exchanges between these cells and somehow, through this electrochemical dance occurring within your brain, you come to have the subjective experience we all understand as sound. Though we donââ?¬Ë?t quite fully comprehend how those many transformations become our ultimate experience of hearing a sound, most all of us are familiar with the experience of hearing a sound.

When you hear a sound you presume that you hear that sound because there was first a sound to be heard, but the truth is that there is no sound until you hear it, there are only energetic waveforms. Your experience of hearing a sound, though caused by these waveforms of energy, is not the waveforms themselves. Within your awareness you hear those waveforms as a sound, but the waveforms themselves never experience themselves as a sound. The sound only exists within your experience of the sound.

That experience you call sound is a concoction prepared for you by the perceptual peculiarities of your mind, and is an impression of the ââ?¬Å?out thereââ?¬