BearBear
Archmage
This post may be contentious and your truth may vary.
In the past few years I have realized that not only is reality subjective but so is truth and even my own personality.
"Do you think that's air you're breathing now?"
- Morpheous
Maybe it is, but what proof do we really have?
We are imperfect, erect, hairless apes that understand reality based on an incomplete picture through imperfect evolved sense organs that were developed mostly to keep lions from eating us and allow is to eat other animals, hence the stereoscopic forward facing vision and wide field of view. We sense what is "real" and our mind takes that raw data, compares it to what it thinks it knows and spits out a comparative study and best guess.
"The Ability To Speak Does Not Make You Intelligent” - Qui-Gon Jinn
In fact what we know as truth is more or less interpretation and imagination corroborated through other's similar interpretations through writings, tribal knowledge, and genetics passed down for generations.
More interestingly, your interpretation makes your reaction, and your reaction is entirely based on how you interpret "reality" now and in the past.
What if I told you that it's arbitrary?
If my interpretation can be affected willfully, and I'm here to say it can, then my understanding of reality and my experience of reality can be affected willfully. It can be seen through the manipulation of others and I can say from experience that you yourself are not immune from your own manipulation for good or ill.
Memories even can be changed and do drift over time. And we know throughout history what the mind can do to cope in dire situations. Such as Stockholm Syndrome.
If you awaken to the notion that you have more control than you've been told, that reality is based personally on how you take it, that being of one affiliation or another is nothing more than conditioning and you have the power to affect your own conditioning through shadow work, then you are the master of your own reality.
"... we are the dreamers of the dreams..." - Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
No two people experience the same event from exactly the same perspective and interpretation, nor do they react exactly the same.
That reaction is only partially the effect of that event, and if that reaction is arbitrary then the event is irrelevant. The only relevant piece is the reaction, the experience, and that can happen even without a real event, such as a hallucination or dream may inspire.
Young Monk: “Do not try and bend the spoon—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.” Neo: “What truth?” Young Monk: “There is no spoon.”
Does that mean we're in the matrix? Are we all Neo? Are we all God? Not exactly, but how you interpret it, how you remember it and how you react to it is entirely within your power to affect. My reaction in not the same as yours, so your reality is not the same as mine.
Logical fallacies aside, I know from my experience that there is something to this.
What do you know?
In the past few years I have realized that not only is reality subjective but so is truth and even my own personality.
"Do you think that's air you're breathing now?"
- Morpheous
Maybe it is, but what proof do we really have?
We are imperfect, erect, hairless apes that understand reality based on an incomplete picture through imperfect evolved sense organs that were developed mostly to keep lions from eating us and allow is to eat other animals, hence the stereoscopic forward facing vision and wide field of view. We sense what is "real" and our mind takes that raw data, compares it to what it thinks it knows and spits out a comparative study and best guess.
"The Ability To Speak Does Not Make You Intelligent” - Qui-Gon Jinn
In fact what we know as truth is more or less interpretation and imagination corroborated through other's similar interpretations through writings, tribal knowledge, and genetics passed down for generations.
More interestingly, your interpretation makes your reaction, and your reaction is entirely based on how you interpret "reality" now and in the past.
What if I told you that it's arbitrary?
If my interpretation can be affected willfully, and I'm here to say it can, then my understanding of reality and my experience of reality can be affected willfully. It can be seen through the manipulation of others and I can say from experience that you yourself are not immune from your own manipulation for good or ill.
Memories even can be changed and do drift over time. And we know throughout history what the mind can do to cope in dire situations. Such as Stockholm Syndrome.
If you awaken to the notion that you have more control than you've been told, that reality is based personally on how you take it, that being of one affiliation or another is nothing more than conditioning and you have the power to affect your own conditioning through shadow work, then you are the master of your own reality.
"... we are the dreamers of the dreams..." - Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
No two people experience the same event from exactly the same perspective and interpretation, nor do they react exactly the same.
That reaction is only partially the effect of that event, and if that reaction is arbitrary then the event is irrelevant. The only relevant piece is the reaction, the experience, and that can happen even without a real event, such as a hallucination or dream may inspire.
Young Monk: “Do not try and bend the spoon—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.” Neo: “What truth?” Young Monk: “There is no spoon.”
Does that mean we're in the matrix? Are we all Neo? Are we all God? Not exactly, but how you interpret it, how you remember it and how you react to it is entirely within your power to affect. My reaction in not the same as yours, so your reality is not the same as mine.
Logical fallacies aside, I know from my experience that there is something to this.
What do you know?