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  %OBJECTIVE PERCEPTION FILTER GLASSES IDEALS MYTHS 891207

     Our apparently primary perceptions of reality are  in
part  the  consequence  of the  ideals,   values,   myths,
assumptions,  etc. with which we approach reality.  To the
extent that we are totally unaware of the way in which our
ideals,  values, myths, assumptions, etc. help to form our
primary  perceptions  of  reality,  we are  likely  to  be
imprisoned  in false assumptions which lead us to  believe
that  our  primary  perceptions of reality  are  objective
realities which are totally independent of us.

     To  transcend such a bias we need to become aware  of
how our ideals,  values, myths, assumptions, etc.  help to
determine  our primary perceptions of the realities  which
we  tend  to regard as objective realities.   So  becoming
aware  is  not an objective process,  because  it  entails
modifications  of the fundamentals of our self perception.
Our self perception processes are not objective processes;
they are reflexive processes. Changing our self perception
processes are thus also reflexive processes.

     If  we  have traditionally been spending most of  our
time  and  energy  focused  upon what we  perceive  to  be
objective  realities,  we most likely have been living  in
terms of ideals,  values,  myths, assumptions, etc.  which
affirm   objective  realities  as  being  worthy  of  more
attention,   time  and  energy  than  are  subjective  and
reflexive realities.  The affirmation of the importance of
objective considerations is not an objective process.  The
examination of affirmations of the importance of objective
considerations  calls  such considerations into  question,
and so is not an objective process.  Such examinations are
essentially reflexive processes, and cannot be improved by
subjecting them to the requirements which properly pertain
only to objective processes.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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