It’s common knowledge that our pet dogs and cats can sense things that we humans cannot. It is a certainty that they can detect scents that we may not recognize. They seem able to hear frequencies that lie outside the range of human ability. For all we know, they may be able to see things hidden from our eyes.

The bottom line is that there is much more to our world, our existence than we realize.

It might be fair to speculate that most of us are aware, perhaps instinctually, that there is another dimension outside of the range of our senses and we struggle to understand it. It would probably be equally fair to speculate that most of us have had an encounter with that dimension, even if we didn’t recognize it at the time.

That encounter might have been a sensation of the presence of another being, even though we couldn’t see anyone. It might be a particularly vivid dream or a voice that we heard only in our head. It might have been a premonition, or an urge to avoid an action. It is a fleeting awareness, a break in the clouds that reveals that there is something more.

All these things are confirmation of another realm, another dimension of existence, and our earthly existence acts as a filter to restrict our exposure to a greater truth.

As we contemplate the existence of a God and a life after our physical death, these glimpses of a larger reality are evidence of that truth. They are hints. They are the whispy traces of alternate channels of awareness.

So, why would we be prohibited from knowing all that the filter of life blocks from our awareness?

Perhaps God, in His wisdom, limits our perspective so that we might better focus on the gifts of our human existence. Perhaps withholding that ultimate knowledge is the incentive we need to strive for the perfection we need to transition to a fully empowered spiritual being.

Along the way, those glimpses of truth are confirmation that our silent prayers are heard. Our silent prayers are another, valid, form of communication with our Creator.