Inherent language problems aside (in any other than Sanskrit) - the word 'reality' is simply unuseable! in any serious, persistent effort towards that seeming impossibility: [somehow] viewing from a higher Scale, the totality of "this" scale (the physical universe | 'self' as self-aware creature). Yet that word gets tossed about -- as if we had more than an inkling of what it might connote.. Especially in 'the West'.

That said, most fantasy essays, extrapolating from recent techno- feats (such as have placed a significant part of the population into jobs of dreary paper-shuffling within horrifying pens called 'offices', and called that Progress) -- postulate that, "more of the same" might? Shall! "reveal the Process of Processes" (or whatever words you like). In time.

Then too, the idea that "religion" such as we see - is somehow a necessary (if not sufficient) entr\ufffde to such an imagined Process -?- fails equally to convince / or demonstrate.

If there is a universal theme to the (recorded) utterances of the handful of folk who have somehow 'Realized' what it is 'they are' - and what that signifies about the prospects for approaching reality (better, Reality - in this context):

These Sages (and a handful of 'Avatars') do the best with language as perhaps Can be done with language [?] in the way of giving hints, pointers to those sincerely desirous of knowing. Yet all say that, there is no process by which this realization may be induced.

In brief, the idea that a further quantity of new knowledge about the workings of the cosmos (ie physics - formerly termed 'Natural Philosophy') - shall lead to awareness of the Whole: does not appear any more likely than - an idea that intricate study of music composition might lead to one's achieving Mozartean abilities.

I'd call 'believing' otherwise: faith-based faith. Language (nor math) just isn't up to such a Task.

[Of course, many will settle for just a nice metaphor - which appears to be the assembly-language of our jelloware. WTF: it's a start..]


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