We often hear the words, ¡°Think rationally.¡± Should rationality, however, always be the answer for everything in our life? In fact, the rationalistic bias can promote various types of dichotomous entities in human life, such as truth and untruth, reality and magic, the real and the unreal, or the visible and the invisible. The development of today¡¯s technology may even symbolize the loss of the unreal, and it sometimes creates an obsession with visible evidences and scientific proofs in every matter, which will eventually promote the worn-out aesthetic of truth that the world of the visible should be considered more significant than the art of the invisible. The habit of objective realistic approach may highlight our prejudice against the unreal, which produces all the rationalistic obstacles that we face everyday in the society.
Unfortunately, the ideology of reason has too much control over today¡¯s life. The society is obsessed with rational occurrences and enlightened ideologies. Some of us may even have contempt for the invisible, often expressing disbelief in ¡°unreal¡± things such as magical events, miracles, spirits, souls, and some prodigious occurrences, although it should be noted that we see lots of things or phenomena that can hardly be explained by logic or science. One good example is the human mind (psyche); it is difficult to describe how it looks, but many of us still believe that it does exit somewhere inside our body. It has a mysterious mechanism that no can resist, and we all get fascinated by the beautiful features the psyche presents, such as wisdom, courage, and spiritual power. We often hear all the miraculous stories about people who survived tragic accidents or serious illnesses, thanks to their strong will to live, and the stories help us learn the significance of the human mind that is basically something unreal and invisible. People who overcame various hardships in their life sometimes have difficulty explaining how or why they survived, and they just say, ¡°It was a miracle.¡±
We all have different attitudes toward the ¡°unreal¡± part of our life. Sometimes we may challenge, however, the rules of rationality, the systems of the natural world, and the fear of mysteries, in order to fully understand who we are and what we are doing in this ¡°real¡± planet/world. The challenge may start with understanding the art of the invisible. We should start appreciating the values of inexplicable/supernatural occurrences, respecting the mechanism of the unreal, and trying to make effective use of the invisible power that we all seem to possess. This kind of challenge may bring some unusual excitement in our life, and we will soon realize that the visible and the invisible hardly exist separately.