Comments on: On Subjective Reality I: Strange Questions http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/ Spiritual Guidance by Word, Card, and Star Mon, 14 May 2012 06:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kate Gladstone http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-88312 Kate Gladstone Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:47:29 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/#comment-88312 Re: "I don’t have anything like “evidence” for this, but there are some patterns in the development of science and the European discovery of the world that are suggestive. It really deserves its own blog post…" I look forward to that! Re:

“I don’t have anything like “evidence” for this, but there are some patterns in the development of science and the European discovery of the world that are suggestive. It really deserves its own blog post…”

I look forward to that!

]]> By: Jeff Lilly http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1942 Jeff Lilly Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:20:03 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/#comment-1942 That's a neat article, Kara-Leah, and I hope people will go over and read it. I'm not sure I agree with you that reality is "fixed". Right now I'm tending toward the idea that, if enough people <i>agree</i> about a certain idea (e.g. that there's a tree over there), then it's pretty well established. But if no one is in agreement on a given tree, or no one's really thought about it before, then its existence may be completely up in the air; or the fact (is there a tree or not?) may be different depending on who's observing. I don't have anything like "evidence" for this, but there are some patterns in the development of science and the European discovery of the world that are suggestive. It really deserves its own blog post... That’s a neat article, Kara-Leah, and I hope people will go over and read it.

I’m not sure I agree with you that reality is “fixed”. Right now I’m tending toward the idea that, if enough people agree about a certain idea (e.g. that there’s a tree over there), then it’s pretty well established. But if no one is in agreement on a given tree, or no one’s really thought about it before, then its existence may be completely up in the air; or the fact (is there a tree or not?) may be different depending on who’s observing.

I don’t have anything like “evidence” for this, but there are some patterns in the development of science and the European discovery of the world that are suggestive. It really deserves its own blog post…

]]> By: Kara-Leah Masina http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Kara-Leah Masina Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:04:18 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/2006/09/11/on-subjective-reality-i-strange-questions/#comment-1846 My understanding of the nature of reality is that our perception of What Is differs what what ACTUALLY is... in that a tree is a tree is a tree... but how we perceive it depends on the filtering of our thoughts and belief systems. A logger might see money waiting to be made, an environmentalist might see beauty needing to be saved... but the tree itself doesn't differ at all. In this way, one can understand that while reality itself is fixed, by changing your perspective of it, you can change your experience of reality - and as all we can ever truly know is our experience of reality, it might appear that reality itself has changed. Shifting from a model of objective reality to one of subjective reality shifts our focus from changing the perceived external to changing the created internal... and this is where true power lies. Much joy, Kara-Leah www.KLmasina.co.nz be conscious now or for an article I wrote on this... http://www.klmasina.co.nz/index.php?p=5 My understanding of the nature of reality is that our perception of What Is differs what what ACTUALLY is… in that a tree is a tree is a tree… but how we perceive it depends on the filtering of our thoughts and belief systems. A logger might see money waiting to be made, an environmentalist might see beauty needing to be saved… but the tree itself doesn’t differ at all.
In this way, one can understand that while reality itself is fixed, by changing your perspective of it, you can change your experience of reality – and as all we can ever truly know is our experience of reality, it might appear that reality itself has changed.
Shifting from a model of objective reality to one of subjective reality shifts our focus from changing the perceived external to changing the created internal… and this is where true power lies.
Much joy,
Kara-Leah
http://www.KLmasina.co.nz
be conscious now

or for an article I wrote on this…
http://www.klmasina.co.nz/index.php?p=5

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