Human Knowledge, the Soul, and Planes of Existence

Human knowledge is a funny thing: it would completely fail were it not for our educational institutions; schools, libraries, and such and so forth – which continue knowledge. As if to say: our knowledge is without flaw. But is it not possible to be the opposite? Perhaps our knowledge holds us back from spiritual enlightenment. Imagine Sir Isaac Newton was misled? That the apple fell downwards due to his mind’s wondering and searching physically pulled the apple down? What if gravity only exists because it is widely accepted as truth? And what if we stop believing in gravity, will we be able to fly or float? If true, I do not think we would drift off into a vast nothingness unless we so willed. And if so then our minds control events. Buddhists say that there is a shared consciousness – if so is this shared consciousness only the knowledge carried in oral traditions or books? And does this knowledge keep us harnessed to the ground? Does this learned fear of physical death keep us from living – hold us back fully utilizing our minds and/or bodies?
Another question is our existence: what is a person? Is a person a body, soul, or mind? It could be that we are not people as we believe our selves to be: a body inhabited by a consciousness. But what makes a body the ownership of the consciousness? Surely, if I wake tomorrow in a different body I would note the difference from yesterday’s body and feel displaced. So what is stopping the consciousness from wandering? It cannot be an issue of mass – or we would be capable of extracting it from the body, as we do organs. If not mass then what? It is almost troubling to attempt to pin-point from where your own thoughts derive. It must be that there is another layer of existence.
So, it appears the existence we are most perceptive to is the physical. Leading one to conclude that there is an over laying existence: a spiritual one which literally lays on top with our consciousness existing as souls. So, then do our souls simply shadow our physical body movements. Mo, we must be the puppets of our souls! And if this is the case, again - what stops us from being the puppet masters of a different body? There must be an authority of some sort keeping our conscious souls controlling one body. Or is it that our dreams are our consciousness leaving our bodies and having experiences in other bodies? If so, why are dreams not always as vivid as reality? Also, why do they seem to correlate to the past experiences of the original body? Is it that the soul finds a body to practice in? This seems unreasonable and foolish; causing a return to the idea of a greater authority making sure we remain with a certain physical body. Then dreams are just the imagination of the soul attempting to sort through all the sense information received from the physical body. Science, it would seem backs this up.
So, contemplating on such things throughout the day I note that if we were to not teach any of the past knowledge of man we could; perhaps, be free.

~Liam
5-1-07