I’m not so sure. Does the universe need improvement? IMO except for the average human mind, it’s an awesome place. (There are some nagging little issues, such as the possibility of thermodynamic death, or the potential of black holes to suck up entropy. But these so-called problems are most likely artifacts generated by our limited understandings.)
Congratulations! Few perceive the “This is what it “
is” because that’s how we see” dynamic! And that is how much religiosity happens, for better or worse.
I’d be more inclined to apply your “largest room” concept to the human mind-- or to minds in general, on the basis of my opinion that there are many planets full of “souls” stuck within bodies as part of their learning process.
Yes, Even the Founding Fathers and others before them were quite sure that there is life on other planets. For my part, I agree about the “souls” part as well, with the understanding that by my lights Atman is Brahman, though I use those terms only because they are more well known.
Our minds originally come with many enormous vacant rooms awaiting improvement. Then we go to school, where we are taught to throw some paint on their walls, then lock the doors to the most interesting rooms. Then we go to church, mosque, or atheistic-run school, where we are taught to fill a big, empty, and life-controlling room with one narrow-minded organization’s version of truth, then to throw away the keys.
Again yes, the most interesting room being the trap door into one’s self, as within the model of awareness lies the key, interpretive though it may be to some extent, to many of the exclusions inherent in the ordinary human subject-object mode of perception. Subject-verb-object is built into English and as we know, grammar colors how we organize our paradigms. Other languages have similar or different limitations, Wish I knew Sanskrit. It is allegedly free of many dualisms we take unconsciously for granted in our own usage. And knowing that, it puzzles me why the first thing we don’t look at when “thinking” about such fabulously important things as cosmology and politics, is how and why we think the way we do! E.g. there are ways to short circuit anger, fear, allergies, PTSD, and other things in a matter of tens of minutes. And yet we have psychiatrists plodding away for years sucking up hard earned patient’s cash and only naming “conditions” with pitiful and few actual practical results. The matter of Identity is an entirely other and actually far more important are that is rarely approached, even in religion, where one would think it is paramount. Oh well, go figure.
BTW I commonly use the “physical” adjective when referring to the universe to distinguish it from religious beliefs in a separate, disconnected, “spiritual” universe. I don’t deny the many phenomena which religionists label “spiritual,” only the validity of the label.
Yes, I only did the strike-out type thing precisely because of your reason. If you say “physical,” someone is triggered into saying “oh–the non physical is there as well.” Better not to provide triggers, in my book. I still agree with you: just because it is a subtler form doesn’t mean it isn’t matter, having it’s frequency specific things going on.
