The Wizard!

Shadow World

Shadow World

©2015, Olan L. Smith

"What do you see?" asks the Wizard.

"What do you mean? I see things; my computer screen, modem, and the normal effects."

"Do you see light, binary codes, the congealed energy that binds those things? No, you only see what the computer programmer wants you to see. That is unless you lift the curtain by pressing 'reveal codes.' Like the programmer, you see what I want you to see. Your scientists were quite concerned when they first discovered reality was a point of view; theirs and mine. They caught me switching the scenes, and that really screwed with their brains. I have never had such a good laugh, not since I put Plato's thoughts in the cave, and let him figure it out. Shadows—that was his determination and your modern scientists are still baffled. However, none of them determined it to be sorcery; though wizardry is just as valid as any other assumption. What is really hilarious is that they started looking for me. They dug a hole in the ground and spend billions of dollars just to find the so called God Particle, and they called my point of view; quantum weirdness. They dug the hole to seek the Higgs boson, but the problem with identifying a particle is that the newfound particle must be made of smaller things, so the search never ends; however, never-ending is damn good job security. What is amusing about that, you ask? What is humorous is to watch a human chase his invisible tail; at least a dog has one to catch.

You cannot find reality in what you see; you find reality in the mind. Plato knew this as did others, so how could humans forget? They forget, because they are third eye blind, most don't even know they have a third eye; they forget they are animals, and believe they are gods. Oh, you use your resourcefulness as children, but parents soon extinguish it by saying, 'Now, dear, that's not real...you are imagining it.' I gave animals three eyes to see with; two to navigate this planet, and the third to find me—use it."