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Perception is Everything
Stepping out of wounding and opening awareness.
Perception is everything. You may have heard this before. Wikipedia describes perception “as the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information”. But we can only understand and attain awareness of something if we have the tools to do so. Unfortunately, this is not something typically taught, and everyone’s perception is different from the next as each life is unique.
When several people look at a cloud for example, they all may see that cloud differently depending on the angle they are looking at it, the position of the sun, their vision, whether they are wearing prescription glasses or sunglasses, etc. All these things act as factors that affect each person’s perception of the cloud. It doesn’t make any of them wrong; the cloud is what it is, but it can only be perceived by each person with the tools available to them to do so. If the person were in a plane above the cloud, it would again look completely different.
Some historians have stated that when European explorers’ ships were on the horizon of the southern continents that the native people there had never seen anything like a ship, and they didn’t have any mental capacity to understand or perceive what they were seeing. They may have thought they were seeing a vision from the Gods as they had no other experiences with…
