Hillel the Elder and Jesus were contemporaries, according to the stories.

[MineralMan]

70. You can go on if you like.

As far as unenhanced awareness, what you said is true. However, we have instruments that are able to detect and display the entire electromagnetic spectrum, not to mention the light spectrum, which is part of that. I have, in fact, a dongle plugged into a USB port that lets me examine the elecromagnetic spectrum from 1 MHz to 3 GHz as a display on my monitor and that lets me manipulate signals in numerous ways. It cost about $20.

Other instruments let me, or other humans, explore the vastness of space or see individual atoms. We can examine both in a very wide range of visual, electromagnetic and even nuclear spectra.

We are not limited to our native capabilities. We can extend those dramatically. Why? Because all of those phenomena are real, not illusions.

I can't detect gamma rays, but I know a place where they can and do and study gamma rays. It's not my field, but I read about what people are doing in that regard.

Reality is not an illusion. It is real. We expand our view of it constantly.

But, please do go on, if you wish. It's a public forum.