There are many different layers to reality.

In the final book of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, the "heaven" that all of the characters reach is nested, with the smallest world being the external, physical one that they all thought was the real world. They reach the next version of reality by going through a door, only to realize that the world inside that door is bigger than the one outside, and in this world they finally reach a garden, only to realize that the world inside this garden is itself bigger than the world outside the garden.

In many ways, this is what our reality seems to be like. Outside we have the external world, and many get stuck watching and reacting to that. But inside is all of this complexity that intuitively informs us about the deeply nested nature of reality and teaches us about our origins and motivations, with the quantum nature of subatomic particles possible teaching us something about the zero point field and therefore the nature of universes beyond our own.

The Gnostics believed that the external, material world is only the beginning, while inside each of us is a divine spark, and by searching inward we are able to "know" without being taught the things that this divine spark knows, to see the world of this divine spark, which is of course a more expansive world than the mechanistic newtonian world of the external.

Questioning, searching, thinking, interacting -- the path to enlightenment, all made better through internet connections like Steemit!