This seems to go back to what it is we even mean when we say something is true. If something is "true outside of reality", is that not literally the same as it being "not really true"?
And what do we mean by our senses? When does a sense stop and the rest of the brain begin? Are our intuitions and internal thoughts not also something we recognize, absorb, sense? What even are "we" if not those very same thoughts? And what is so special about, say, hearing, that we can exclude that without giving up a crucial and integral part of those among us who would otherwise have it? While we are at it, would a blind person be closer to discover capital-T Truth because they are short by one sense by default? What about people who are both blind and deaf? What a great spiritual blessing that must be indeed.
I don't know what truth means. But it seems that while I am an agent within and a subject to the real world, that pretty much anything I learn that has any potential to have utility within my life for either myself or anybody else must necessarily be some sort of a description of the relation between ourselves and the things we perceive (or indeed conceive of) as well as of relations between those individual things.
While we may be unable or unwilling to say whether emptying our minds meditation-style, or depriving them of external stimuli only, as it were, leads us to find some sort of truth, what ever that means, I am pretty confident in asserting that what ever we may find in this way can only hope to be useful insofar as applying it to the internal and external reality is.
Better to leave questions unanswered than answers unquestioned
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