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Created on: April 15, 2009 Last Updated: April 17, 2009
Personal Reality Versus Consensus Reality, The Objective In Relation To The Subjective
My own research categorizes reality into two distinct groups. That of personal and consensus. In the perfect world, consensus reality would indeed trump personal reality. But there are those rare instances, those unexplained mysteries that can only be explained from my unique viewpoint as personal reality trumping consensus reality. It is only significant to all the observers involved in any particular event.
What physicists call entanglement, I call affinity. From my own observations as a phenomenologist, preferring to draw my own conclusions from observing phenomena directly. I have deduced that we are influencing reality all the time. We are all familiar with the concepts of which I speak: that of luck and coincidence. This in my opinion is directly gauged by the strength of affinity for a person place or thing. Which means that a channel of communication in which information travels at faster that light speeds is formed.
Developing affinity with situations and conditions in order to influence a particular outcome is more abstract in nature, but still possible and is occurring all the time. One of the keys to establishing a stronger connection is manipulating the signal to noise ratio as with any two or more dynamically interacting forces by eliminating the impurities contained within the body itself either through fasting or via the sweat lodge. Hence the purpose behind the purification ritual. The stronger the affinity gained, the greater the influence.
One must operate under the presumption that the majority of knowledge is hear-say and biased by forces beyond their control. Our heroes bias our perception of reality to such a great degree that we effectively lose our identity and become a carbon copy of whoever we emulate adopting qualities that only exist in our imaginations the majority of the time. The paradigm the ultimate example of consensus reality is both safety net and pit trap. We were, we are destined for so much more than the situations in which we find ourselves.Each one of us must draw our own conclusions as to what reality is with ourselves as individuals being the ultimate frame of reference.
Reality is defined in relation to ourselves, so to better understand it, one must define what you are. To do that, you start by listing what you are not. An Occam's razor would be the perfect instrument to perform this seemingly daunting task.
Gaining affinity may seem like a foreign concept and I could give more examples, besides twins, who for the most part, contain a natural affinity with each other; most likely due to there prolonged proximity to one another allowing a stronger and deeper entanglement between there atomic structures, but I will refrain and leave you, dear reader with a jewel of knowledge from my own personal collection.
The greater ones affinity the greater one's influence the greater one's capacity for personal reality to trump consensus reality.
If this were not the case, there would be no anomalies, no mysteries, no miracles.
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