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%PERCEPTION SEEING IMAGE VISION DREAM IMAGINATION+990519
%VISUAL ILLUSION COLLUSION ELUSION SIN DECEPTION+990519
%OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ASSUMPTION BELIEFS+990519
%PROOF PROVED CONCLUSION EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTIONS 990519
Members of a community which is dominated by the
objective/scientific paradigms and ways of seeing things
---- will naturally regard their own perceptions, images
and visions as reflective of "what is really out there".
This is especially so when community members collect
together into cohesive groups of like-minded individuals
for mutual support and understanding. They may come
together to believe that there have been no determinative
assumptions, attitudes, beliefs or manners of approach
--- which they have brought to their communal processes of
perception and describing what they have seen, envisioned
and/or dreamed. They are often vulnerable to the
evolution of exceedingly dangerous collusive games of
mutual self deception; dishonest games which hide
themselves in the daily lives of those who are both the
perpetuators of the games and the victims of their games.
Our perceptions are the products of both what we
bring to our perceptual processes, and of what we
approach and/or avoid. What we avoid is just as
important as what we approach, and how we approach
whatever it is that we choose to approach. We do
not perceive that which we choose to avoid. If we
firmly believe that something which we do not want to
perceive is not real --- we may not see it even if we
approach it.
What we see/perceive/understand depends upon what:
1. We choose to approach and what we avoid.
2. Assumptions we carry with us in approaches.
3. Fears we carry with us.
4. Lenses and filters we look through.
5. Microscopes and telescopes we often use.
6. Data gathering, storage, and processing we use.
7. Hypotheses and theories we develop and test.
8. Friends we choose to spend time with.
9. Spiritual experiences we permit each other.
10. Concepts with which we are familiar.
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