We haven't even begun to think about reality as it really is

Those of us interested in various cults, and "alternative" ways of trying to act and think, are always hoping to come across some new way of looking at the world.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really seem to happen. We DO get interesting new systems, which can become very complicated in their own ways though.

Just look at all the years that Scientologists have to spend on the level known as OT-7. They invest many hours every day "telepathically" contacting extraterrestrial entities that are "clinging" on to their souls. From what I've read about this matter, the procedures for removing these entities are both very "imaginative", yet it's also a highly regulated bureaucratic process.
That's a very common aspect of many religions, and also of human culture.

What I don't understand, is how the most fundamental things in our world are just about never talked about.
Like, why are we humans about as simple as we can be?
An averagely-sized mind, selected from the set of all possible minds, should basically be infinite in size. But in actuality, we're just barely smart enough to be considered fully sentient.
That's very interesting. What's more interesting is that this is somehow never mentioned anywhere.

The same thing is true in the field of physics.
Physics is both impossibly shallow, yet inhumanly deep.
Just imagine, the extrapolated implications of all the field equations essentially "prove" that the tiniest vibration in submicroscopic space creates a whole new universe (or its equivalent) just like that! (see: many worlds interpretation)

And yet, the (subjectively) absurd over-complexity of our physical universe is something that no physicist has ever mentioned, or maybe even thought about for as much as one moment, in the whole past century!
Of course, the philosophical implications of physics are not their job. But still, you would expect them to have some casual interest at least.
Mainstream philosophers should also be interested in this aspect of physics, but they're not. Now why is that?
Perhaps they just enjoy making things more complicated than they need to be?

short SF: The last class action suit

It was ironic: behind their high bench, the row of judges looked almost like a depiction of ancient gods.
15 years ago, this scene would have been unthinkable. By 2041, it was inevitable.

The world had just kept on changing, until change became the new normal. Conservatism had gradually become radical.
There were some precedents for this type of cultural inversion: The overthrow of Easter Island culture after the European epidemics arrived, the enigmatic burial of the Gobekli Tepe temples, anticlerical purges in the French and Russian Revolutions.

The new global consensus was almost as unanimous as it was inevitable: every religion was a lie.
Now, it was only a matter of what to do about it. Justice should punish.
Almost every remaining religion had been charged with conspiracy and fraud. Their most energetic defenders had been members of various newer cults, including Scientologists. They had scrounged up a large portion of their accumulated wealth to put up a joint legal defense.

A gavel pounded with an echo in the vast courtroom (it had once been the world's greatest church).
The judge spoke. "All the parties have presented their evidence. At the special request of the lesser defendants, we will now wait five minutes for the Unindicted Co-Defendant to appear and present Their defense. If there is no appearance, we will then render our verdict."

The lie of Scientologyparent.com

* https://scientologyparent.com/faq/regarding-my-belief-in-aliens/

Scientology does not "lie" outright, but their unstated policy is to come as close as humanly possible if that helps Scientology.
On the above webpage, they say that Scientologists don't worship aliens. As if anyone even thought that.

The whole article is cleverly calculated to imply there are no aliens in Scientology.
This is because they want to seem respectable to middle class sensibilities. In fact, Scientology wants to appear as the most blandly conformist organization of all.
That way, "normal" people will subconciously start to believe that Scientology should be given power.

But it's still a lie, albeit a somewhat indirect one. L. Ron Hubbard's book "A History of Man" (1952) boldly claims that extraterrestrial civilizations completely screwed up human history. Hubbard called this "space opera."
Alien interventions include brainwashing implants and invasions of Earth by insectoid "Fifth Invaders" around 6235 BC, and a whole Galactic Confederation that was genocided right here on Earth 75 million years ago by a diabolical interstellar dictator who was eventually defeated.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/scientology/comments/bs6i4u/what_are_the_alien_species_in_scientology/

The least bad reason for believing in religion

First, let's be completely clear.
ANY type of religious belief is without merit.
It's completely, totally FALSE. Just the briefest survey of the evidence makes this abundantly clear.

That makes it rather hard to invent a defense of religion, since there isn't one. It's all fake and made-up.
But if you HAD to, what would you come up with?
I can only think of one thing.

Religious belief is so self-evidently crazy and absurd, that it might actually be inhuman. Alien even.

Individual humans and the world are stupid, but there has to be a limit somewhere. Religion appears to exceed that limit. It's just TOO dumb.
That's the best evidence that it might conceivably be paranormal.

short SF: A stable chaos

Every large asteroid became an Empire.

During the start of the Radial Epoch of the colonization of the Solar System, billions of smaller asteroids had been brought together to extract and monopolize their resources.
They were slowly broken up and molten down into metals and volatiles. Immense amounts of particles were still being organized and processed.

The Empires tried to pull ahead by rearranging all the atoms from a single asteroid as fast as possible.
Almost fifty million asteroids had already been converted into increasingly optimized Utilitonium.

Reordering a relatively small amount of matter with growing precision had many advantages. These were described as quality over quantity.

The most important advantage was specialization.
Different asteroid societies explored a multiverse of social possibilities. Each Empire was its own world, with increasingly unique beings that cared mostly about their own realities.
Other worlds were incredibly distant to them.

The largest asteroids became the most complex Empires, up to a point. Progress had a size limit.
Beyond about 15 kilometers diameter, there was too much Utilitonium to maintain a unified society.

Some of these larger asteroids were disassembled into matter streams, to create variant or duplicate societies.
Others, like Ceres and Vesta became virtual universes in their own right. There, competing societies were bound together in endless rivalries. A million years of subjective history could pass by in hours.

All the Empires prepared to compete for the remaining matter of the planets. These were already being pulverized into orbital rings around the sun.

Next, the sun would be magnetized, and spun into a golden spiral.
Then, the other stars within reach.
Then bits and pieces of empty space would start to be made slightly less nonexistent.

As the universe was settled, it would expand forever.