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The Levels of Perception

For someone who has a high degree of awareness, it can be difficult to remain centered in ones own truth in a world that does not value truth and encourages illusion. In all actuality it is more difficult to remain uncentered in denial of self, but it paradoxically appears otherwise. This is the case because lower forms of consciousness will always try to cut you down to their size to not feel separate from you and so that they will not have to grow and be ent... Read More

If our experience with Reality is indirect and second hand and only a recollection of what has been arranged by our senses, what does it make of the world then? Is it merely an illusion that must not be taken seriously? What about history, injustice, human life? Do we just consider them as fragments of one’s imagination? This life, this body, this earth, is important in the sense that this is the fullest manifestation of matter, consciousness, and spirit. Our task and the intent of the... Read More

Our experience with reality as such always passes through the medium of our perceptual faculties. What we perceive is already a distilled version of the great reality out there. Then our minds organize this reality into meaningful and palatable chunks. The major mistake of our time is to consider these chunks as The Reality when they are only chunks of reality created by our limited capacity to perceive reality. Then we become attached to these chunks, become mesmerized by them, and wallow in ou... Read More

All perception must be processed by mediums of perception. Mediums of perception are necessarily limited in what they can perceive. That is why all our experience with reality is indirect. Mediums of perceiving reality such as the eyes, ears, nose, feel,taste, are but mechanisms through which we can arrange reality and life into digestible units--more safe, more controlled, more tangible. In this sense, mediums of perceiving reality becomes an advantage to us. It becomes our defense against the... Read More