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If these three fundamental "truths" are in fact factual, why are each riddled with contradictions?

Perception

Physiologically, the way we perceive reality occurs through our cognitive ability, a completely subjective experience, and our objective experience resulting from our five physical senses.

While we do not really know a lot about the source and function of our subjective experience, we know quite a lot about our objective experience. We know how the senses function, and the electro-chemical processes that give each sense it's ability to detect and recognize experience. Herein lies the dilemma;

What we physically sense must first be translated to an electro-chemical code that our body must relay to the brain, where this code is then translated into the experience we just recognized.

For example, if we touch a sharp object, whether we can also "see" it or not, it is our sense of touch that must convert this encounter to an electro-chemical code that must travel through the nervous system to the brain, where this code is translated into the recognition of this particular sharp object.

Not until the brain assigns an identity to this code, can we know we are having a potentially cutting experience. The same process applies to all our sensory experience. In the most literal sense then, our objective perception of reality is purely a subjective one.

This of course appears totally nonsensical. If we look around, there is a multitude of objects and events with which we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. All these reside outside ourselves and are obviously objective experience. Who can even question this?

This is because of the almost perfect nature of this Grand Illusion, for quite literally, there cannot be objective experience. The only experience we are capable of having is exclusively subjective.

If we focus on the nature of our physical senses, and visualize the process they must perform in order for us to have recognition of experience, we would have the proof of the above statement, not because it is stated here, but because the evidence lies in our own experience of this process.

Matter and Energy

OK, you might be willing to consider there is an illusionary nature to our perceptive ability, but what about the "stuff" we and the universe are structured of? What about matter and energy. Certainly these are no illusion.

Then why, as we break matter down from its form as compounds to its form as molecules, then its form as atomic structure, and then its form as subatomic particles, does it become less and less physical to the point that the only time it can only appear physical is when, and only when we observe or measure it? When we stop observing, it loses all physical characteristics completely, so we cannot be sure it is even there any more.

This is Quantum Physics, and has scientists baffled. Why is this so baffling? Because we assume the physical reality is absolute, just as we assume our perception of physical reality is absolute.

But how can either be absolute when the evidence we each have available to us is that what we perceive is purely subjective, and what we observe at the quantum level is consistent with this subjective evidence of our physical senses.

It is only our observation of reality, whether on the macro level or quantum level that "causes" physical characteristics to appear as physical in the first place. It's just Grand Illusion. The reality of reality is everything is non physical subjective identity.

Space and Time

What then of space and time? Surely these have to be absolute, for whether we are experiencing objective experience or subjective experience, it still has to occur somewhere and has to take time to experience.

What really is space and time? Nothing more than a place for physical objects to appear to reside with a means to give them dimension and relationship to one another.

If physical reality is an illusion, and we each are the physical illusions of ourselves, how could space and time even exist? What meaning would they have apart from supporting the physical illusion?

None. We even have the direct evidence of this.

Think of any experience you choose. Reading this article for example. Where is the space in which you reside having this experience? Where is the time it is taking? Well, its all around me you think, and the clock assures me this is taking time. Grand Illusion. The only "time" that physical reality appears physical is in this present instant of observation that allows us to perceive things as physical. Our entire history, all we know, happens right now. because this is the only time it can.

Now think of some event from memory; something that happened to you in the past. When did this experience occur?

Despite what you think, it is occurring right now, in this present instant, in your subjective perceptive reality. Why? Because right now is the only time that exists; it is the only time there is; it is the only point in which you can experience anything, whether you believe it is real or imagined, or remembered. History, both personal and collective, can only exist right now.

Let's go to the dawn of time as we understand it, the Big Bang. When did that happen? Yes, as difficult as it is to comprehend, it didn't happen, but is instead happening right now in this instant of awareness and recognition, again, because right now is the only time we can have awareness and recognition. There simply is no other time. Think about it.

You cannot objectively or subjectively experience a millisecond ago any more then you can experience a millisecond from this instant, except right now. Everything that happens can only happen right now, in this present instant. This instant is not a function of time, for it has neither a beginning or end. It's quite incomprehensible actually, but again, it is the only "time" that both our subjective recognitions and our objective experience can occur; it is the only point in which anything can exist, whether considered real or imagined.

This article began with the premise that we each are the center of the reality we each perceive.

It is instead a Grand Illusion. Why? Because we cannot be physical identity if nothing physical is real, and only real appearing in this incomprehensible present instant. This concept of reality, called Reology, clearly shows we are in fact the illusion of ourselves experiencing the illusion of a physical reality. Illusion experiencing illusion.

Who are you then? Why are you here? What is your reality all about? These are still valid questions.

What we know for certain is we are not the physical identity we are so convinced we are, nor is this universe the physical reality it appears to be. As for why we are here, that is the real ultimate question.

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