EgoDeath said:
i have a friend that would say this place you go to isnt something just inside your head, this place is also known as the astral plane, the other 95% or whatever it is of reality that most of us are unaware of, even science says we only exist in a small percentage of whats really out there. kinda makes the entity part scary heh
I on the other hand just have no idea, either way, its bloody interesting
I think you're referring to "dark matter", which is essentially a physicists way of explaining why the universe is the way it is.
Because of certain apparent properties of the universe, the current scientific belief is that there must be another kind of matter that we cannot see that makes up the majority of the universe.
That doesn't mean we have proof that this "dark matter" really exists...it's more we have proof that the universe shouldn't exist the way it appears to us, and so there must be something more to it that we can't see.
As for the entities, I have yet to experience this personally.
However, as a Buddhist I'm inclined to believe that such things are creations of the mind, just as the table that we sit at is really a creation of the mind in that it exists as a "table" only in our perception of it. Is it not true that if we were to look at it at another level, for example, the atomic, it would appear nothing like a table? It may be made of different elements, different kinds of atoms to other things, but split these open and look inside the atoms, and then look inside the neutrons and quarks so on, and is it not true that at it at the most basic level, anything is really the same as everything else in the universe, everything else we perceive and experience? All things are made of the same building blocks, and are distuingished by mind alone.
Someone also mentioned the idea that everything in the universe is a little universe in itself...that they are one and the same. This idea was (as far as I'm aware) first cultivated by the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, which derived this theory from the last book of the
Avatamsaka Sutra, an ancient collection of texts probably originating from India.
So, this is an age-long debate...