There is always someone smarter than you in many aspects of your knowledge of the world. Even the people who we consider world experts will claim they yet do not know everything there is to know in their fields. Time has also shown that our experts of our yester years have had some of their theoretical predictions overturned upon the discovery of new truths that govern our lives.

Our ability to process information is limited by what we currently know about the subject, about how much we are able to interpret the information we have, and limited by our ability to detect the true nature of our universe.

For instance, until about 20 years ago, life as we know it only existed because we believed life is based on the existence of the sun and life’s ability to use photosynthesis to tap this sun energy and convert it to other energies that support life. Now we know that along the earth’s continental rifts miles under the oceans there exists life forms that do not use the sun for their survival. These living things make their food from the heat of the earth using a process called chemosynthesis.

There have been many such discoveries made that has changed the course of our understanding of the universe. From finding out about earth not being flat, or not being the center of the universe around which even the sun circles, or by discovering the science of carbon dating or other dating methods which enables us to accurately guess the age or our planet and its various fossils.

To get a gist of the big revelations that have changed or will change our lives click here.

The bottom-line is that we are still learning, discovering and growing in our understanding of the true world we live in. Our knowledge, as a species, is a result of building on empirical truths we have found out about our world over the history of our existence. Over time, in the near future, we hope to arrive at a truer picture of our existence having expanded on our current limited ability to detect, collect, interpret and process the information that surrounds us. 

What this also means, is that with Empirical Truth™ we advocate letting go of dogma that impedes our mental growth in getting to know the real truth that surrounds us in life.

Our ears can only hear a small range of sounds depending on our age and ability. More about what we can and cannot hear can be found by clicking here. Many sounds frequencies that we cannot hear are detectable by many animals like dogs, dolphins, bats etc.

Do these animals have a “truer” picture of the world than us because they can experience more sound?

Our eyes can only see the visible spectrum of the electromagnetic spectrum that surrounds us. Waves like radio waves, x-rays and other waves are beyond our means of detection with our senses. Yes, the fact that they cannot be sensed does not mean they do no affect us. They certainly do. We have created tools to detect and even use many of these waves to improve our lives.

The visible spectrum only represents less than 3% of the electromagnetic waves that surround us. Our human experience only knew of the existence of the non-visible electromagnetic waves in the last few hundred years. We continue to develop technologies to detect, learn and use of the ever increasing size of this electromagnetic spectrum.

Natural Examples of “Seeing” past human experience

There are animals that have evolved to “see” beyond the limitations of human sight. For example Snakes have infrared light detection abilities.

Self Experiment:

See for yourself how much our world you can really “see”. Imagine what the world would be like if we could “see” things like x-rays or other electromagnetic waves. You can imagine using x-rays to see the world by seeing x-rays of yourself taken by your doctors.

You can learn more about the electromagnetic spectrum by clicking here. or by clicking here.