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The Doors of Perception

NecroTrance said:
Here's a good topic on perception.
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Thanks NecroTrance - that was actually a great thread (now I got a chance to read it properly!)

I hadn't thought as far as philosophising about creating our own reality through understanding perception, or creating a simultaneous reality through collective conciousness.... but that's a natural seague really.

If you can understand - and choose, conciously, in every moment - your reactions to things that's really the ultimate power isn't it. It can have both a positive and negative spin.... great Salespeople and even con-artists I think are natural masters of perception, so too are saints and religious leaders. There's a potential to become a master leader or a master manipulator once you can rise above yourself.

I don't know though. Part of me wants to remain humble and human and I've seen first hand how this kind of attitude working out there in today's REAL world doesn't always go down that well. It's quite isolating in a way.... and taking complete responsibility for your feelings and your life is as daunting as it is liberating.
 
We can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel...

But we can't see that far, we can't see down to the molecular level, I can't hear what goes on in china, or (happily) smell what goes on in the next apartment.

But what if we could? What if I could constantly modulate all of my 5 senses to pereceive any sight, sound, smell, taste, or sensation? Wouldn't that just be confusing? Would it enlighten me? It would be really cool!

And...might there be more than 5 types of things to perceive, but we just don't have the sense organs? I'm starting to give myself a headache...
 
DIfference in perceptions a great thing.

It is the ONLY thing that sets our individual personalities apart.

Plus like someone mentioned above, I dont think it would be literally possible to look at something sans perception with total objectivity, because whatever we look at and think about IS perception.

Man, this whole things just confusing.
 
Dj_TranceMadness said:
, I dont think it would be literally possible to look at something sans perception with total objectivity, because whatever we look at and think about IS perception.

Man, this whole things just confusing.
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Yes this whole thing can be a bit mind boggling, perception seems to tell us that ALL perception is subjective. But does that include Objective Perception? Could Objective Perception just be a Subjective Perception of it's creator? I don't know you decide for yourself. ;)
 
I make art. I doodle. I draw. I make weird little sculptures. That's all OK, but I also think just experience or sensation or perception can be enough. A wrinkle in skin or fabric, clouds, a leaf, water, the shadow of an insect can be more than enough.

Blake's is a fundamental critique of the ways in which capitalist society produces and destroys the capacity to perceive.

He was living at a time and place where capitalist rationality and instrumentalism were dominant. I tend to think his primary intellectual foe was Locke, the empiricist philosopher and legal architect for the displacement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Empire is founded on limiting perception.
 
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