Like those who decided the world was flat.., by your free will and the boundaries of the ego, you set the filters of sensory perception.
But those who decided that the world was flat based their idea on the obvious observation that it is flat. That is the most obvious explanation for the world appearing the way it does. The ancient Greeks determined that the world was round by making careful observations and realizing that a lot of the things they saw couldn't be explained by a flat earth. This was based on such things as the observation of the shadow of the Earth on the moon during Lunar eclipses and the way ships disappeared from the bottom up as they went over the horizon. After the fall of the Roman empire most of this knowledge was lost to Europe and so they went back to the obvious explanation. And that explanation worked for the vast majority of people until the ancient knowledge was regained. Then it became valuable to the explorers that were venturing into the oceans on voyages of discovery. And to find a source of spices.
Bill Gill
