The Reductive Limitations of Our Perception
Our acquired perception is shaped from the moment of conception up until this very moment and it will continue evolving and changing throughout our human experience.
As children growing up we start off having our consciousness shaped by our caretakers; we are told what our name is, talked to in a language handed down to us. Communicated to within that language in the style of our caretakers, we have our caretakers’ beliefs, morals, habits, and behaviors impressed upon us. We are sent to school with handed down curriculums. We familiarize ourselves with existing societal standards and pressures, religious beliefs, governing laws within our region, reductive scientism, rules of physics, and even assumed rules of quantum physics; where we are now just starting to see and gain tiny drops of reproducible evidence within a sea of previously unimaginable occurrences within our reality.
The process of disenfranchisement from these existing structures that shape our reality is not for the weekend warrior. In fact, challenging someone's belief system of their reality more often than not can become a combative situation when interacting with inflexible, rigid focal points of pre-assembled consciousness of those involved.
Your reality is altered every time you learn something and can range from imperceptible shifts to revolutionary epiphanies to incomprehensible or silent knowledge that simply cannot be expressed with any known words for lack of a familiar foundation to communicate them. When we experience something wildly outside of our typical waking consciousness, we are drawn to indulge; attach to it, label it, anthropomorphize what we see, and put immense dampening and limitations on our experiences by clinging to what we think we know and relating to it with the mindset of “It must be that because that's the extent of what I know”.
When you experience something truly incomprehensible, don't try to force your cohesion on it. This is one of the trickiest paths to navigate as we are often instinctively desperate to explain events of phenomena as they rattle and can even shatter our understanding of reality.
-J. Wesley
