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What is Illusion?
I will begin by asking, what is illusion? It’s used in rituals. Is paradox an example of illusion? Escher’s work, it seems to me, is mostly paradoxical. Oh, indeed. It is a deep, even pivotal element of illusion. Something that appears one way but is another. Escher did a lot of illusion. Stairs going up,…
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Pattern of Attention
We all assemble a picture of our world by the sweep of our centre of attention across our environment. We’re all socialized (programmed) in much the same way. Well, your organs actually program your brain. The eyes stake out a part of your brain for all their activity, the ears do the same, as does every other…
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Informational Flow
Attention is the record player and the needle, and the record itself is the hologram of existence that presents itself to our possible attention, a vast field of information that our attention drags over through the course of our day. Now we do have free will? We are the hand that governs that needle on…
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Controlled Perceptual Shift
Why is it so hard to change what we pay attention to? Because you perceive identity in your attention pattern. You recognize self not in what you are, but in what you perceive. So any change feels like death of self. Reality is much fuller in dimension and depth than any single track can make…