A popular old saying is, “I'll believe it when I see it.” It's kind of the doubter's motto. No matter who claims to have seen something, they don't believe it unless they have seen it themselves as if it were possible for any one person to personally witness everything that exists in the world. But what about the other side of that coin? Is it possible that some of the things you see with your own eyes are still not true? Of course it is. Magicians are not really sawing women in half or making airplanes disappear. Yet, it certainly seems real when you are watching from the audience and don't know the trick.

    You don't have to be watching a magician's show to be fooled by your eyes. The truth, as has been learned in recent years, is that what we see is not only occasionally false, it is just about always false! The latest discoveries of science tell us that what we see, hear, smell and touch are not at all what they seem to be. That solid rock is really no more solid than a wisp of smoke. Empty space is no more empty than a jar full of pressurized air. And before the big bang, there was not just a great nothing; there was spirit. I do find it humorous at times that the people who call themselves skeptics are skeptical of the things which are most real (spirit), but they accept as real those things which are largely illusion (matter).

    The point for all of us is that we should not accept that something is real and true simply because we have witnessed it with one or more of our physical senses. Likewise, we shouldn't assume that something is automatically false simply because we have not experiences it through our physical senses. We have spiritual senses to help us understand the worlds of spirit and we should learn to use them. To expect our physical senses to understand the things of spirit makes as much sense as expecting a frog to understand golf simply because it is living in a water trap.