Didja notice that the world is pretty much what you expect
it to be? You’ve got it figured out. What you believe about people and the world
gets proven correct all the time with few surprises. That’s how you know you’re right. The proof is right there in front of you, as
clear as the nose on your face.
The guy in the next box sees the world in a whole
different way than you do. His
experiences fit what he expects, too. So
he’s right, just like you’re right. And,
he’s just as sure as you are.
The woman two boxes down lives in a world quite a bit
different from the ones that either of you two guys live in. Everything she knows proves that she is right
about the world, too, just as right as you are.
Check in with the folks in row after row of boxes. Every single one has a different idea about
what’s real, about what’s true, and some of those ideas are quite a bit
different from each other.
What gives? Are we
talking about the same world here? Are
some people crazy and others sane?
No, everybody is just as sane as everybody else. And, no, we are not talking about the same
world. We think we share a world but we
don’t.
Each one of us lives in a personal world which is a box built
of beliefs about what is real. Those beliefs
are the floor, walls and ceiling of the mirrored box that we have built for
ourselves to live in. In infinite
regression, our own face is mirrored back to us from all directions until the lights go out.
We are all right, about everything, all of the time.
The vibration that creates the universe can not be transformed with a whim or a wish. if we act in harmony with the existing vibration, our actions are more effective in creating that which exists. actions out of sinc with the standing vibrational wave of existence don't have much of a chance of changing existence anytime soon. Our most deeply held beliefs consistently send out a series of creative waves that participate in the recreation of everything that exists in every momentum of now. This is my personal world that overlaps with the personal world of everyone else.
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We share a world in the sense that the rules of the world apply to every ones creation of it no matter how different they are.
ReplyDeleteThe shared core vibration of consciousness (all that is) is ported through the multitudes of individual nozzles that tune it into different shapes. I'm using a fluid analogy here or maybe a toothpaste analogy. The Source energy, the toothpaste, squeezes out through individual nozzles that extrude it into unique forms. Those extrusions are the individual universes that we inhabit. We, the nozzles, are creators. We are facets of the Source energy adding our own spin to the dance. I am mixing too many metaphors here. The fabric of my words is hard to stretch over the wiggly body of existence.
ReplyDeleteAs I read and re-read your comments, I realize that we are in basic agreement but with a difference in emphasis. I believe that our deeply held beliefs powerfully shape our individual experience of reality. This is just another way of saying what you said with a more subjective slant.
we all share the same world and create a different experience in it.
ReplyDeleteOR: once the toothpaste leaves the tube everyone's teeth are a different shape.
Let's figure out when to use the labels, subjective and objective.
ReplyDeleteFor example: I have nothing subjective to say about Gravity and nothing objective to say about a particular emotion that I may or may not have.
Every experience that I have is subjective, meaning mine. It is not possible for me to have an experience that not mine. It is not possible for you to have an experience that is not yours. Experience is personal and can't be otherwise. Any responses to experience are personal. All thoughts are personal. In the way that I use the language, personal is the same as subjective. Objectivity is a construct that we may agree to use in some circumstances to ease communication. You could call that "consensual reality" because we have agreed (consented) on certain assumptions for the sake of argument. Consensual reality is a tool that may, or may not, mirror personal experience. As a general proposition, objective reality does not exist except through the agreement of all participants in a discussion. It is a myth that has no super-personal, free-standing existence. One may personally accept the idea of objectivity as an element of reality and choose to live on that basis but this is a personal belief. Like any belief, it has no merit outside the individual self.
DeleteHow's that for an object and a subject .
ReplyDeleteThis is Tim Nolte on Mikes pad. I have my own spin on this. I reject your reality and substitute my own. Truth be damned!
ReplyDeleteYour reality is your truth.
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