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Warning
The subject of this film you are about to watch reveals a crucial secret of your life.
You should watch it very attentively, for it concerns a subject that is liable to make fundamental changes in your outlook
on the material world.
The content of this film is not just a different approach or a philosophical thought.
It is a fact which is also proven by science today.
The subject of this film is not just a subject of the film.
It is a fact that the world he lives in has an absolute material reality.
So he grows up under the effect of this conditioning and builds his entire life on this viewpoint.
The findings of modern science, however, have revealed a completely different and significant reality than what is presumed.
All the information that we have about the external world is conveyed to us by our five senses.
The world we know of consists of what our eyes see, our ears hear, our noses smell, our tongues taste, and our hands feel.
Man is dependent on only those five senses since birth.
That is why he knows the external world only the way it is presented by these senses.
Yet, scientific research carried out on our senses has revealed very different facts about what we call external world.
And these facts have brought to light a very important secret about matter which makes up the external world.
Contemporary thinker Frederick Vester explains the point that science has reached on this subject.
Statements of some scientists posing that man is an image, everything experienced is temporary and deceptive,
and this universe is a shadow, seems to be proven by science in our day.
In order to better grasp this secret behind matter, let us be reminded of our information about our sense of sight,
which provides us with the most extensive information about the external world.
The act of seeing is realized progressively.
At the instance of seeing, light clusters called photons travel from the object to the eye
and pass through the eye lens where they are refracted and focus on the retina at the back of the eye.
Here, rays are turned into electrical signals and then transmitted by neurons to the center of vision at the back of the brain.
The act of seeing actually takes place in this center in the brain.
All the images we view in our lives and all the events we experience are actually experienced in this tiny and dark place.
Both the film you are now watching and the boundless landscape you see when you gaze at the horizon
actually fit into this place of a few cubic centimeters.
Now, let us reconsider this information more carefully.
When we say we see, we actually see the effect the rays reaching our eyes form in our brain
by being converted into electric signals.
When we say we see, we actually observe the electrical signals in our brain.
By the way, there is another point that has to be kept in mind.
The brain is sealed to light and its interior is absolutely dark.
Therefore, it is never possible for the brain to contact with light itself.
We can explain this interesting situation with an example.
Let us suppose that in front of us there is a burning candle and we view its light.
During this period, when we view the candle's light,
the inside of our skull and our brain are in absolute darkness.
The light of the candle never illuminates our brain and our center of vision.
However, we watch a colorful and bright world inside our dark brain.
The same situation applies to all our other senses.
Sound, touch, taste, and smell are all perceived in the brain as electrical signals.
Therefore, our brains throughout our lives do not confront the original of the matter existing outside us,
but rather an electrical copy of it formed inside our brain.
It is at this point that we are misled by assuming these copies are instances of real matter outside us.
These physical facts make us come to an indisputable conclusion.
Everything we see, touch, hear, and perceive is matter.
The world, or the universe, is only electrical signals in our brain.
For instance, we see a bird in the external world.
In reality, this bird is not in the external world, but in our brain.
The light particles reflecting from the bird reach our eye,
and there they are converted into electrical signals.
These signals are transmitted by neurons to the center of vision in the brain.
The bird we see is, in fact, the electric signals in our brain.
If the sight nerves traveling to the brain were disconnected,
the image of the bird would suddenly disappear.
In the same manner, the bird sounds we hear are also in our brain.
If the nerve traveling from the ear to the brain was disconnected,
there would be no sound left.
Put simply, the bird, the shape of which we see,
and the sound of which we hear,
is nothing but the brain's interpretation of electrical signals.
Another point to be considered here is the sense of distance.
For example, the distance between you and this screen
is nothing but a feeling of space formed in your brain.
Also, objects that seem to be very distant in one person's view
are actually images clustered at one spot in the brain.
For instance, someone who watches the stars in the sky
assumes that they are millions of light years away from him.
Yet the stars are right inside himself
and the center of vision of his brain.
While you watch this film, you are, in truth,
not inside the room you assume yourself to be in.
On the contrary, the room is inside you.
Your seeing your body makes you think that you are inside of it.
However, you must remember that your body, too,
is an image formed inside your brain.
So far, we have been speaking repeatedly of an external world
and a world of perceptions formed in our brain,
the latter of which is what we see.
However, since we can never actually reach the external world,
how can we be sure that such a world really exists?
Definitely we cannot.
The only reality we cope with
is the world of perceptions we live within our minds.
We believe in the existence of objects
just because we see and touch them
and they are reflected to us by our perceptions.
However, our perceptions are only ideas in our mind.
Thus, objects we captivate by perceptions are nothing but ideas,
and these ideas are essentially in nowhere but our mind.
Since all these exist only in the mind,
then it means that we are beguiled by deceptions
when we imagine the universe
and things to have an existence outside the mind.
To imagine matter to have an existence outside the mind
is indeed a deception.
The perceptions we observe
may well be coming from an artificial source.
It is possible to see this in the mind's eye by an example.
First, let us suppose that we could take our brain out of our body
and keep it alive in a glass jar.
Let us put a computer in which all kinds of information can be recorded.
Finally, let us transmit the electrical signals
of all the data related to a setting,
such as image, sound and smell, to this computer.
Let us connect this computer to the sensory centers in our brain
with electrodes and send the pre-recorded data to our brain.
As our brain perceives these signals,
it will see and live the setting correlated with these.
From this computer,
we can send to our brain also signals pertaining to our own image.
For instance, we can send to our brain
the electrical correlates of such senses as sight, hearing and touch
that we perceive while we sit at a desk.
In that state,
our brain would think itself as a businessman sitting in his office.
This imaginary world would continue as long
as the stimulations keep coming from the computer.
We would never realize
that we only consist of a brain.
It is indeed very easy for us
to be deceived into believing perceptions
without any material correlates to be real.
This is just what happens in our dreams.
For you,
reality is all that can be touched with the hand
and seen with the eye.
In your dreams,
you can also touch with your hand
and see with your eye.
But in reality,
you have neither hand nor eye,
nor is there anything that can be touched or seen.
Taking what you perceive in your dream
to be material realities,
you are simply deceived.
For example,
a person deeply asleep in his bed
may see himself in an entirely different world in his dream.
he may dream that he is a pilot
and command a giant aeroplane
and even spend a great effort to command the plane.
In fact,
this person has not taken even one step away from his bed.
In his dreams,
he may visit different settings
and meet with friends,
have a chat with them,
eat and drink together.
It is only when the person awakes from his dream
that he realizes all were only perceptions.
If we are able to live easily
in an unreal world during our dreams,
the same thing can equally be true
for the world we live in.
When we wake up from a dream,
there is no logical reason
for not thinking
that we have entered a longer dream
that we call real life.
The reason we consider our dream to be fancy
and the world is real
is nothing but a product
of our habits and prejudices.
This suggests
that we may well be awoken
from the life on earth
which we think
we are living right now
just as we are awoken
from a dream.
After all these physical facts
arises the question
of primary importance.
If all physical events
that we know
are intrinsically perceptions,
what about our brain?
Since our brain is a matter
just like our arms, legs
or any other object,
it also must be a perception
just like all other objects.
An example will illuminate the subject further.
Let us think that we extend the nerves
reaching our brain
and put it outside our head
where we can see it with our eyes.
in this case,
we would be able to see also our brain
and touch it with our fingers.
This way,
we can understand that our brain
is also nothing but a perception
formed by the senses of vision and touch.
Then, what is the will that sees, hears, and perceives
all other senses
if it is not the brain?
Who is it that sees, hears, touches, and perceives
the taste and smell?
Who is this being that thinks, reasons, has feelings,
and moreover that says,
I am me?
One of the important thinkers of our age,
Carl Prebram,
also poses the same question.
Since the Greeks,
philosophers have been thinking about
the ghost in the machine,
the small man within the small man, etc.
Where is I,
the person who uses his brain?
Who is it that realizes the act of knowing?
As St. Francis of Assisi said,
what we search for is the one that sees.
In fact,
this metaphysical being that uses the brain,
that sees and feels,
is the soul.
What we call the material world
is the aggregate of perceptions
viewed and felt by this soul.
Just as the bodies we possess
and the material world we see in our dreams
have no physical reality,
the universe we occupy
and the bodies we possess
now also have no physical reality.
The real absolute being
is the soul.
Matter consists merely of perceptions
viewed by the soul.
Yes,
even if we start with the presupposition
that matter is real,
the laws of physics,
chemistry,
and biology
all lead us to the fact
that matter consists of an illusion
and to the inevitable actuality
of a metaphysical matter.
This is the secret beyond matter.
This fact is so definite
that it alarms some materialist scientists
who think matter to be the absolute being.
science writer Lincoln Barnett says in his book
The Universe and Einstein,
along with philosophers' reduction
of all objective reality
to a shadow world of perceptions,
scientists have become aware
of the alarming limitations
of man's senses.
All these facts bring us face to face
with a very significant question.
If the thing we acknowledge
to be the material world
is merely comprised of perceptions
given to our soul,
then what is the source
of these perceptions?
In answering this question,
we must consider the fact
that matter does not have
a self-governing existence by itself,
but is a perception.
Therefore,
this perception
must have been caused
by another power,
which means
that it must have been created.
Moreover,
this creation
must be continuous.
If there were not
a continuous and consistent creation,
then what we call matter
would disappear
and be lost.
This may be likened
to a television
on which a picture
is displayed
as long as the signal
continues to be broadcast.
If the broadcast stops,
the image on the screen
will also disappear.
and the image on the screen
will appear
as long as the image on the screen.
So,
who makes our soul
see the earth,
people,
plants,
our bodies,
and all else
that we see?
It is very evident
that there is
a superior creator
who has created
the entire material universe.
That is,
the sum of all perceptions
and continues
his creation
ceaselessly.
Since this creator
displays such a magnificent creation,
he surely has
eternal power
and might.
All the perceptions
he creates
are dependent
on his will
and he dominates
everything
he has created
at any moment.
This creator
is Allah,
the Lord
of the heavens
and the earth.
The only real
absolute being
is Allah.
All things
except him
are shadow beings
he created.
This reality
is explained
by the great
Islamic scholar
Iman Rabbani
as follows.
Allah,
the substance
of these beings
which he created
is but nothingness.
He created all
in the sphere
of senses
and illusions.
The existence
of the universe
is in the sphere
of senses
and illusions
and it is not material.
In reality,
there is nothing
in the outside
except the glorious being
who is Allah.
in all the four corners
of this universe
that is made up
of perceptions
is Allah's being
as the only real being.
Therefore,
the closest being
to man
is Allah.
This fact
is explained
in the Quran
with the verse
We created man
and we are nearer
to him
than his jugular vein.
Wherever we are,
Allah is with us.
While you watch
this film,
the closest being
to you is Allah
who creates everything
you see
at any moment.
As long as Allah
makes us see images
and gives sensations
related to this world,
we continue to live
in this world.
When he ends
the images
and sensations
belonging to this world,
shows us
the angels of death
and gives perceptions
of a different dimension,
this means
we have died.
The day of resurrection,
judgment,
heaven,
hell
and all our eternal life
will be created
in the same way
for us.
To create all these
is too easy
for Allah
who displays
the evidence
of his eternal power
and infinite knowledge
to us
yet in this world.
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