Is This All There Is? - By: Scott F Paradis

A searcher's ultimate question: "Is this it?" Is this all there is? Is life a fleeting and repeating series of what we've seen, where we've been, and what we've done?

As you read these words you sense that something more exists — something more real, something more true, some greater whole. Only once we accept the truth that "there is something more" can we move beyond isolation and embrace a new, fuller life. By looking we find light in darkness, hope in despair, calm in the storm - the one missing piece to make the puzzle whole and complete.

What we want, long for, dream about, seek, is to have life and have it more abundantly. We can know no greater gift than to have life abundantly. When we accept the promise of our lives and embrace the potential of our existence in this time, place, and circumstance we release our chains and usher in new found freedom to create and experience ultimate peace and joy.

Usually we accept, without question, the physical reality around us, the boundaries defined by earth, sea, and sky. Similarly we accept the body is real, as are the things we sense in the environment. We accept the things surrounding us as a matter of course, without reservation, and often without consideration.

We can verify physical phenomena. We confirm the substance of this reality, the rules these substances conform to, through our senses. We consult with one another, collaborate on what we experience through our senses — sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell — to ultimately agree on what "is." This is the same for people all over this planet. We agree, so it must be so — or is it? Consider, for a moment, very carefully, very profoundly, that the physical reality we know and experience is not all there is.

When the wind blows, though we see branches sway and hear leaves rustle, do we see the wind? We don't see the wind, only its effects. Does that mean the wind is not real?

When man believed the world was flat — was it? No. The belief the world was flat limited opportunities. People dared not venture out to sea. Fearing the unknown people cling to the known and constrain themselves. If someone, sometime, did not envision a possibility that others could not see, if someone did not first consider the idea of "something more," we would still be living a subsistence existence. Man could not fly, space travel would still be fantasy; as would the generation, distribution, and application of electricity; the internal combustion engine; the telephone; the television; the computer. All technological advances, and even the complexity of human society, began as ideas — ideas most people held as unachievable, unrealistic, undesirable — beyond belief.

In practical terms, the idea of "something beyond our senses exists" is not difficult to accept. Mankind has discovered and exploited ranges of energy beyond the reach of our physical senses. We can communicate around the globe, we can look through objects using light, sound, and magnetic forces, and we can power machinery using forces our biology cannot detect. These are but a glimpse of endless possibilities yet to unfold, yet to explore.

Skeptics claim, as skeptics through the ages have asserted, man has reached the limit of his advance. Skeptics cling to an understanding of what is through what they acknowledge and experience. By clinging to this idea of "what is must and can only be defined through our senses," skeptics rationalize and limit the possibilities of life. Skeptics proclaim, "The intellect is king, long live the king."

Something beyond this reality in space, bounded by time, exists. Throughout history, by some means, the impossible became possible. Through a combination of ideas and action, what could be became what was. Opportunity existed for something more then, in the same way that opportunity still exists today. Something beyond what we "know" and what we experience in this physical reality exists. Each and every one of us has the potential for so much more. This is not all there is.

Copyright (c) 2010 Scott F Paradis

About the Author

Scott F. Paradis, author of "Promise and Potential: A Life of Wisdom, Courage, Strength and Will" http://www.promiseandpotential.com publishes a free weekly ezine, "Money, Power and the Path to True Prosperity". Subscribe now at http://www.c-achieve.com

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