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Our reality is a picture painted by our five senses. But is it always accurate? We rarely ask ourselves if this picture of reality is correct. Why is it that two people seeing the same thing will often describe it differently? It is because each of us only know our own interpretation based on information taken in by our five senses, and filtered through the mind...the ego. We actually live within a much more massive reality than our senses tell us.

If we consider how just one of the senses work, for instance, our sight, we find that light does not actually enter our brain. Light enters our eyeball, strikes the retina, the retina transfers the information about the qualities of the light along the optic nerve to our brain, where the data is then interpreted. This information is very limited. Why?

The retina is only sensitive to a small spectrum of what is called "radiation" or light. The visual spectrum is a very small part of the bigger reality surrounding us. Our eyes do not see the x-rays, ultra violet, infrared or microwave radiation which make up the full spectrum of light waves. If they could our perception of reality would be much different. There is a much wider range of information within reality than we can perceive with just our senses. We know it is there because we have invented instruments to "perceive" it for us.

Let's backtrack to what we do actually perceive with our five senses. We know our brain interprets the data it receives from our eyes, ears, skin, tongue and nose. This data is often interpreted differently by each of us. Color blindness is just one example of the differences in interpretation. Furthermore, the brain of each person filters the data through what is called the EGO. The perception of each person's reality depends on the properties of the ego. There is one overall characteristic of the ego, it is the will to receive.

The will to receive is the drive for pleasure. Even if I have learned to give, I give in order to gain pleasure. Gaining emotional pleasure from giving, is still seen as receiving because we receive satisfaction from giving.

The limitations of our senses do not give us the full picture of reality, and the picture we do "see" is distorted by our ego, our emotions. Our emotions are driven by the will to receive.

We see that our senses and our egos keep us from accurately perceiving what is the reality outside ourselves. Our subjective (existing within the mind) perception of the world tells us nothing about what is going

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