
Selective Attention–You Cannot Trust Your Eyes For All That Is Real
There is more going on in reality than meets the eyes
There is more going on in reality than meets the eyes
Sadly, the most basic assumptions we once shared about reality itself, and our agreed upon notions of it, are no longer a “given”. Even empirical, mathematical facts are not able to withstand politicized assaults in highly-charged racially or socially coded language, specifically intended to divide us into alternate worlds, with alternate facts, and alternate versions of ”reality”.
We experience life like a person who perpetually wears sunglasses. The sunglasses filter everything. The filter modifies the reality of what is being looked at. Remove the sunglasses, and everything looks a little different. Change the filter and change the world.
One of my favorite lines in a Grateful Dead song comes from the tune, Scarlet Begonias. “Once in a while
”You will know the Truth and the Truth will make you free.” ~ John 8:32 I’ve been thinking about this
I’ve always been curious about reality. I can accept that I am sitting in my office chair, my own hands