Quote from @Daan De Graeve:
"When I got to the facility we were observing I made holes in it so ISBE's could escape."
My question: How do you know it was not an illusion?
His response: "Best way to confirm it is by remote viewing it."
So, people started to use remote viewing as a method to "confirm" things. I have a serious problem with that:
How do you know that the remote viewing itself is not an illusion? I mean, it's happening inside your head, which is the same place where imagination happens. This means we need a method to distinguish imagination from reality.
It's already clear that remote viewing works – the viewers connect to the tasker and can see the target. But: You can also remote view thoughts and dreams that are not manifested in physical reality yet (see Tanner Dam for an example).
So, how do you know that whatever you saw inside your head actually happened outside of your head?
This is a profound question. It questions the nature of reality itself.
As far as I'm concerned, there are only two possibilities:
1. The shared reality. If this is the case, everything that happens externally takes precedence over internal thoughts. If this wasn't the case, there would be no reliable way of perceiving the shared reality, as its participants would be able to override everything that is happening. In other words: If you want to share something, you need a standard.
2. It's not a shared reality, which means nothing is happening externally.
I lean towards the first possibility for the following reason: A non-shared reality is boring. You have all the power over everything that is happening, like a lucid dream. You can do what you want. Be what you want. But this omnipotence comes with a cost: Things become meaningless. Nothing is really valuable.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the reason why the "gods" went crazy. They realized that omnipotence makes everything shallow. And the idea of the shared reality was the solution for this problem.
So, a shared reality is a way of creating meaningful experiences. The value comes from the fact that you don't have all the power. There's at least one other player that you can't control. This means that the world itself – what we call "external" – can be seen as its own player.
Not being able to control everything makes it interesting.
So, when I ask "how do you know it's not an illusion", what I'm actually asking is: Are you inside your own head, wanting to control everything by ignoring the other players?
Or are you interacting with the external world, trying to create something meaningful?