"So near, yet so far away."

Is it possible, that the closer one approaches unadulterated** reality, seamless reality, Knowing, the murkier things become?

When electron microscopes print "photographs" of subatomic particles, they have to be put out of focus to be seen. If they were left in the focus that the electron microscope saw them, the particles would be invisible to the human eye. They have to be shifted out of focus to give them the appearance of being something.

Surprise, surprise.

Considering all this, starts with being able to remember something without thinking about it, being able to see something without looking at it. Staring, or being ordinarily conscious, makes anything invisible. You've seen it before, and you don't see it anymore. You don't see the people you're living with, or what you do everyday, or what you were thinking 4 hours ago (or 4 minutes ago?), or even what you look like in the mirror. You can't see your surroundings or anything else, because it's all invisible. Staring, which includes pondering and studying and conjecturing and discussing and arguing and just plain "thinking about stuff", is the neural processes in you electrically and biochemically running the same old routes, with the same neurotransmitters connecting at the same junctures.

Funny, how a little science goes a long way to explaining that which was heretofore unexplainable. Funny, how in order to see something, you can not look at it directly, because it disappears.

Surprise, surprise.

From the out-of-focus to the crystally-clear.

ps- in the game of "connect the dots," it's not always necessary to connect all the dots to see the image, and not only the flat 2d image, but the solid 3d and the timely 4d versions.

pps- **un-adult-erated is a VERY interesting word - most already know what it means, but there is an obvious "definition" you will never find in the dictionary... know what it is??? Think: children, very young children, not yet taken with long, deep, conversations about things. What is their frequent answer to almost every question an adult might ask them, about "why did/does that happen?" - from "why did you hit your sister?" to "why does the sun rise over here in the morning, and go down over there at night?"