Dreams, fairies and mermaids are real. Science contends that dreams, fairies and mermaids are not real, and the scientists are right but not right in the way they think.
If a scientist were to analyze any illusion or fantasy, he would discover that they always comprise mental representations of real things. Mermaids comprise mental representations of real females and real fish. No matter how fantastic a dream may be, every basic element of the dream must be a mental representation of an object or idea that has been made real by experience.
That which is not real about dreams, illusions, hallucinations and mistakes in judgment is that they consist of false combinations of real things made real by experience. The mental representations of all that can be experienced must also be real, but real only as mental events; that is, ideas. Anything the mind can objectify, whether physical or mental, must be real because those ideas are all that can be experienced. It is nonsense to speculate about the reality of things which cannot be experienced. This means that literally everything that a mind can experience must be real whether physical or purely mental. In fact, the only reason physical events are real is because they have been experienced by a mind. This means that all basic realities and all true combinations of basic realities must be unmistakenly real as one experiences them. Mermaids are not real in the world because they are not truly experienced in the world even though females and fish are. Flying snakes are a true combination of the real motion called "flying" and real "serpents" because they have been experienced in the world. This also means that all mistakes in judgment, such as a sailor seeing a mermaid, always consist of false combinations of real things.
False combinations can be experienced in dreams, fantasies, hallucinations and mistakes in judgments, but they always comprise real things. Basic realities and true combinations can also be known to be real because they always prove useful in some way. Unreality is never useful.
But if everything is real, where is unreality? The only possible answer to this question is that unreality can only reside in the nonexistence of false combinations. Mermaids do not exist even though real females and fish do. Then in what way do mermaids not exist? The only possible answer is that they nonexist in the nothingness that remains after the basic realities of the false combinations are subtracted. This is true of all false combinations.
But this also cannot be a true description of unreality because if nothingness is known to a mind, then it too must be real. The main purpose of minds is to make things real. The mind makes nothingness real as an idea. Then, where and what is unreality in the mind and the world? The only possible answer is that unreality nonexists nowhere and at no time. Unreality is never in the mind or in the world. It is an absolute nothingness of which the mind can get no idea whatsoever.
But then how can the mind know about unreality since it nonexists? The only possible answer is that the mind substitutes the real idea of nothing as a mental representation of unreality. But how can the mind obtain a mental representation of nonexistence? The only possible answer is that the idea of nothing must have been given to our minds by another Mind capable, in some unknown way, of experiencing nonexistence. In order to be capable of such a feat, this Mind must surely be an Infinite Mind.
Science and Reality
Most scientists tend to be skeptics. This means that they believe there is no such thing as absolute truth, and they base their arguments on the fact that the world and human perceptions constantly change and so no determinations about absolute truth can be made. They also contend that even the criteria by which we judge facts may themselves be wrong, and so no absolute judgments can ever be made. They do believe that the scientific method reveals probable truths about the world and the mind.
But there does exist an absolute truth which cannot be doubted. This absolute truth lies in the fact that any individual true combination of basic realities always produces the exact same result so long as no basic realities are added or subtracted from it.
That honey tastes sweet to a healthy tongue results from a different true combination than that which yields the true result that it is sticky to the fingers. Honey is both sweet and sticky according to the true combination which effects each result.
Different people often make different judgments about appearances. But this only happens because finite minds tend to be faulty, mistakenly adding or subtracting true basic realities from true combinations thus making them false. Besides this, the contention that healthy minds often see a particular object differently from the same position is greatly exaggerated. Two healthy persons who observe an object from the same position usually describe it using the same words. That one person may observe details that the other missed only proves that the first person possessed better powers of observation than the other.
The absolute truth remains that individual true combinations, so long as they remain exactly the same, will always produce the exact same results. Thus, 2+2 will always equal 4. That true combination that produces the appearance called "round" will always do so if it remains exactly the same. This will happen even if "round" as a true basic reality happens to be used in a false combination such as that of a square tower which appears to be "round" from a distance. Gravity will always work exactly the same so long as Newton's mathematical laws that describe it remain exactly the same. A yard will always prove to be a true measure as long as the basic reality called "extension" is never added or subtracted from it. This judgment constitutes absolute truth even though the false combination called "faulty judgment" causes it to appear to be untrue.
Scientists devise theories and use experiments in order to separate hidden true combinations about the world from false combinations. But science is limited in scope. It can only reveal true combinations about the physical world and the physical mind, but nothing about spiritual and moral truths. In order to obtain knowledge of such truths, the finite mind needs a revelation from the Eternal Truth who knows all possible basic realities and their true combinations. This revelation is called the Word of God (KJB).
