R E F L E C T I O N S

The other day I was thinking about what is real. I explored some ideas I've come across in my search for reality. I'm not sure if these ideas are from something I've read or seen in a movie or where. 1. There are the physical limits of our perceptions: optical illusions, night vision... 2. Then there are the philosophical disagreements on the actual nature of reality: physical matter only or spiritual only or some combination. I have a feeling that there is something missing in what we experience. A thought came to me. The possibility of the existence of events and even beings in the brink between what is assumed to be real and what is assumed to be fictitious is not easy to ignore. I thought about one of my favorite authors Poe who wrote about the strange. Then by chance or maybe it wasn't chance. Maybe something in the nature of things led me to find while I was at the post office a stamp of Edgar Allen Poe. I bought two stamps. Later I remembered a q...

“Nothing intelligible can be written which, with time, I cannot decipher." Edgar Allan Poe I've always had a fascination with secret codes but they can get too complicated. I looked for a code that was very easy to use yet almost impossible to decipher. For me that code is the substitution of numbers for letters that appear in a book, magazine or other text. The only way I can see this being solved is if the people involved know what book, magazine or text is being used. Here is my version: FIRST: Both the sender and receiver of the message must have the same copy of text. This means the same book, magazine, etc. SECOND: Find the words that you need in your message then indicate their location with numbers. That's it! Here's how it works: First number = the page of the text being used. Second number = the paragraph on that page. Third number = the sentence in that paragraph. Fourth number = the word in that sentence. For exa...