Category: Cognitive Hierarchy

You cannot control your behaviour, directly. You do not decide on what course of action you will embark. You can control your perception, both consciously and instinctively.


We have a sense not only of our own well being, but of our relationship to the world around us. We cannot correctly perceive our own presence if we are cut off from perceiving the world around us. We cannot perceive our environment in an objective sense though. We perceive only ourselves projected onto the world.


“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” Hans Margolius

  • Control Your Perception

    Control Your Perception

    Today’s topic is going to be a bit weird, but hopefully enlightening as well. I have some strange questions to start with. Can you decide to not feel pain? Can you decide that anger makes you happy? Or that fear makes you calm? You can decide your reaction to these things, but I think the…

  • Ethics is a Point of View

    Ethics is a Point of View

    Does one person’s anger really look any different from anyone else’s? No. This is perhaps the reason we so readily describe people as clones or drones. We look at their behaviour in the form of fashion or expressive behaviour, or in how they express their education. Does one educated person really look any different from…

  • Ourselves Projected onto the World

    Ourselves Projected onto the World

    So yes, we cannot control our behaviour, but we can control our perceptions. What does this mean really? Well, let’s look at perception. Our first and baseline perception is peace versus disturbance. Everything is ok, or something is wrong, and if something is wrong, then can we usually focus on anything else? Not too easily.…

  • Interact with Your Own Perception

    Interact with Your Own Perception

    When we perceive that something is wrong, that perception is always that something is wrong with me. Is it not? Can you perceive something being wrong without personal involvement? Or maybe, the fear that something could become wrong with me. Indeed, and the subconscious mind doesn’t comprehend future deference. Something could be wrong is seen…

  • Dream of God

    Dream of God

    Shall we get down to the really way out metaphysics? I am an engineer, an architect maybe. I deal in lies. I sell lies to those who will not see my product. The reason I say this is, every change of people’s point of view is a lie, but it all works with a domain…

  • Thought Takes Shape

    Thought Takes Shape

    How do shapes effect us spiritually and psychologically? They make us think. Different shape, different thought. Every thought takes shape in our mind. Can you see a shape and not start organizing your thoughts? When you see a strange object on the ground, does it not take just a moment of your time for your…