Beyond Our Range of Vision

This photo from the Hubble telescope, entitled Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is one of my favorite photographs of all time. It puts unimaginable unreality into a realm of imaginable reality.

The article accompanying this photo when it was released said that astrophysicists counted over 10,000 galaxies in this one photo. Now, that may not be so impressive, but then it went on to say that this photo is like looking up into space through a drinking straw! When you look at the fact that space wraps around us by 360 degrees then this image becomes mindboggling.

Anyone who refutes other life and life forms existing has a very small mind indeed once this photo is pondered. We earthlings have barely explored our own Milky Way galaxy which contains approximately 200 billion stars, all of which could contain orbiting planets like our sun, and certainly some of which are likely habitable. Then you look at this photo and multiply our galaxy times trillions (certainly by more, but I don't know what comes after trillions! lol) and you can see that unimaginable has now become imaginable. Images of a Star Wars intergalactic bar scene come to mind, complete with all sorts of strange creatures milling together.

Now consider our range of vision. Vision is made possible by the eyes capturing electromagnetic radiation... energy pulses... which are then converted to electric signals and sent to the brain for interpretation. However, the human eye can only detect electromagnetic radiation in a limited range of between 380 to 760 nm (nanometres).

Other frequencies of light are undetectable to the human eye. Radio waves, microwaves, terahertz radiation and infrared radiation all exist on a lower frequency, below our range of vision. Ultraviolet light, x-rays and gamma rays all operate at a higher frequency, above our range of vision. Does this mean that those things do not exist, simply because we can't see them? Of course not. We know they exist because we are able to experience the reality of their exisitence in one form or another.

Now consider spirituality. Is it possible for other beings to exist on other frequency levels (dimensions) below or above what our eyes can detect? I would have to ask, how many reading this have had experiences in their lives that they would consider uncanny coincidence, déjá vu, or even miraculous? Could these possibly be detections of something, or someone, interacting in our lives which emanates another frequency of electromagnetic radiation and therefore is simply undetectable to the naked eye? I would have to say that based on our growing knowledge of what is "out there", this is a possibility at the very least and a probability in reality.

I have studied spirituality AND science for more than 30 years of my life and I have come to a conclusion. Althought it has been often suggested that these are opposites, I totally believe that science helps us to understand spirituality, as well as spirituality helping us to understand science.

Quantum physics suggests that all things are interconnected through webs of energy that do not possess space or time. True spirituality has been expressing that fact for ages. Opening our minds to possibility is the key to piecing together the puzzle of life and, perhaps, learning to use our "third eye" to see and interact with dimensions that lie just beyond our view of "reality".