BARE PERCEPTION
5/7/2004 4:40 PM
One issue I have with the reading of information is the potential degree to which information read might color experience. Does reading the description of a plane, if that description be in error, cause one to perceive the plane in the same way, thus also in error? Reading Matrix V and other comprehensive works, like Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics, what if the detail is misleading? What if they are wrong, and the detail causes faltered perception. I deduce that it is necessary to really seek to perceive reality plain and simple, to read to become aware of what is possible or probable, but to not necessarily go looking for what is read, but to explore and see if what is read can be found, in a blank, open, honest perception of reality, having no preconceptions. The self must in effect be emptied, so that reality plain and simple can be perceived.
This of course entails honestly accepting one's perceptions. I never forget that when I went to see the Source Selves, or the Higher Selves, I had a nagging thought of distrust in my perceptions. I perceived them as a ring. The Author, author of Matrix V, perceives them as an orb, and says the ring is the energy spread on the bottom of the SS/HS. Now did I not perceive the fullness of it due to my inhibitions, or is he adding what is not there. I must assume he went there many times, yet if I go out trying to see what he say, rather than trying to see what IS, I run the risk of coloring my perceptions to see what is preconceived. What do you think?
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Cezyl
5/7/2004 4:40 PM
One issue I have with the reading of information is the potential degree to which information read might color experience. Does reading the description of a plane, if that description be in error, cause one to perceive the plane in the same way, thus also in error? Reading Matrix V and other comprehensive works, like Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics, what if the detail is misleading? What if they are wrong, and the detail causes faltered perception. I deduce that it is necessary to really seek to perceive reality plain and simple, to read to become aware of what is possible or probable, but to not necessarily go looking for what is read, but to explore and see if what is read can be found, in a blank, open, honest perception of reality, having no preconceptions. The self must in effect be emptied, so that reality plain and simple can be perceived.
This of course entails honestly accepting one's perceptions. I never forget that when I went to see the Source Selves, or the Higher Selves, I had a nagging thought of distrust in my perceptions. I perceived them as a ring. The Author, author of Matrix V, perceives them as an orb, and says the ring is the energy spread on the bottom of the SS/HS. Now did I not perceive the fullness of it due to my inhibitions, or is he adding what is not there. I must assume he went there many times, yet if I go out trying to see what he say, rather than trying to see what IS, I run the risk of coloring my perceptions to see what is preconceived. What do you think?
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Cezyl