A Much Wider World

“Before you were born, your mother’s womb was the whole of reality to you. ... Now that you are born, you can turn around and see your mother as only a small part of a much wider world, a different kind of world, a world that is not just a bigger womb. You were always in that wider world, even when you were in the womb; you just didn’t see it. Isn’t it possible, in fact, isn’t it likely, that this will happened again at death? That you are living even now in a much larger world than the womb of this material universe, but that you will see it only when you die, when you are expelled from this second womb, this big, fat mother that you call the universe? Isn’t it possible that nearly all the great saints, sages, seers, prophets, and poets were right, that all the wise men and women were really wise rather than fools?

But that’s not scientific! Of course not. How could science prove that what science cannot prove cannot exist? Is that logic ‘scientific’? Isn’t it self-contradictory? Can the scientific method detect the nonexistence of things that are not in principle detectable by the scientific method? In fact, can it detect the nonexistence of anything except a logical impossibility, a self-contradiction? Doesn’t certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don’t you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X?”
~Peter Kreeft