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Causal Filter
The emphasis on causality focuses us away from ego and to our relationships. Indeed, and in fact, new research suggests that our very own minds are structured in such a way that they are by definition responsive to changes in our relationships. They are calling this insight neuro-sociology. We are hard wired to be social…
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Filter Of Institution
When I travel, I see people in other countries with wonder on their faces, but in America most people look jaded. Do Americans tend to stifle wonder? Americans as individuals do not stifle wonder, but the society does. Institutions create frameworks for our life experience, and heaven forbid we reject even the least significant institution.…
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Filter Of Time
A friend of mine mentioned that some physicists reject the concept of time now. They have solid reasons for doing so. Time exists only as a system of complimentary relationships. Yesterdays stand apart from tomorrow because the circumstances of yesterday differ from those that are forming today, that then actualize as tomorrow. If you make…
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Aura as Perceptual Filter
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Threat Through a Filter
Our understanding of events as they happen, and thus by natural extension our understanding of our life experiences, is subject to a form of distortion. Do we change our perceptions? We change the object of our perception, even the pattern of our perception, but not the process itself. That remains consistent which means we project…
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Conscious Perceptual Filter
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Remove the Rationalization Filter
Our brains ability to extract patterns from what is popularly dismissed as random information is not a glitch. The rise of rationalistic thought and its veneration as a supposed panacea for all human shortcomings is more of an aberration than any of our innate mental functions or instincts. People usually struggle a great deal with…