We often assume that what we cannot perceive does not exist. However, nature demonstrates the fallacy of this assumption. Numerous animals possess perceptual abilities far surpassing our own. Consider these examples:

• Insects like bees and butterflies perceive ultraviolet light, revealing floral patterns invisible to human eyes, aiding their nectar foraging.
• Snakes such as rattlesnakes and pythons utilize heat-sensing pits to detect infrared radiation, enabling them to locate warm-blooded prey in darkness.
• Many birds and some fish possess tetrachromatic vision, with four color-sensing cones, granting them a wider color spectrum than our trichromatic vision.
• Sharks and rays detect electrical fields in water through ampullae of Lorenzini, facilitating prey location.
• Various animals, including birds, sea turtles, and certain insects, sense Earth’s magnetic field for navigational purposes during migrations.
• Bats employ echolocation, emitting high-frequency sounds and interpreting echoes, allowing them to navigate in darkness.

These examples illustrate that our sensory limitations do not define the boundaries of reality. Therefore, it should not be doubted that personalities and spiritual realities, including God, exist beyond our perception. Reports of near-death experiences and spiritual masters’ accounts of divine encounters further support this notion.

Thus, we should approach our spiritual exploration with open minds, acknowledging the limitations of our current understanding. As Shakespeare’s Hamlet wisely observed, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

The origin of creative ideas remains a profound mystery. While science identifies the brain as the generator, the specific processes involved are not fully understood.

Plato, the renowned Greek philosopher, offered a different perspective, suggesting that a higher “ideal reality” serves as the wellspring of true knowledge and creative thought. His allegory of the cave vividly portrays this idea. In it, prisoners confined to a cave mistake flickering shadows for reality, oblivious to the figures and fire behind them. This allegory reflects Plato’s theory of Forms, positing that our sensory world is a mere shadow of a more real and perfect realm. These Forms are abstract, immutable essences, such as beauty, justice, and geometric ideals. Plato theorized that our souls, before physical embodiment, possessed knowledge of these Forms, thus “learning” is essentially recollection.

Notably, the notion of our physical world as a “shadow” aligns with accounts from near-death experiences, where individuals describe a heightened sense of reality in a non-physical dimension.

We are so much more than our human body, and as spiritual beings we are always connected to the higher spiritual realms. When that connection is strongly felt we may experience not only creative ideas but joy, wonder, inward fulfillment or other peak experiences as described by the psychologist Abraham Maslow.

So when you have inspiration, do not take credit for what you bring forward. It already existed and you were blessed to be the vessel for what has come forward.