Maybe I should use the word true instead of real. Our preconceived notions may not be true. So what, Jesus Christ is true. Trust in him not what you think.
The spiritual world is real and we are spiritual beings. The world we think of as “real” is a world that our human brains struggle to make sense of. Studying quantum physics is an eye opener
Yes, that helps, thank you.
Our preconceived notions may not be true.
When it comes to eschatology and the afterlife, I think it's beyond our concepts - as far beyond as life is to the concepts of an infant in the womb.
However, UFOs, body snatching, bioengineering, holograms - these are all very much within our concepts, concepts that have even been made into lots of movies.
So if the measure is "beyond our preconceived notions," these fanciful tales fail there as well.