Saturday, October 27, 2007

Creating Our Reality

Imagine that you have just put on a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses. If you were to look around the room and describe what you see, everything would appear blue to you because it?s being filtered though a blue lens.
But is this reality? No, it?s your perception of reality. We only see, hear and experience life through the perceptual filters of our senses. This is why life (and reality) is always subjective. Our senses are always at work, filtering out what we believe to be false or what is beyond our ken. I once read a story about how the Indians responded when Cortez landed his ship in the new world. The author claimed that the Indians couldn?t ?see? the ships in the harbor because their minds were incapable of conceptualizing such vessels. They had no frame of r View the rest of this article


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