You Call This Pareidolia?

Elaine @thewebrecluse

December 19 2022 7:55am

Perception is the lens through which we observe and interpret reality. Perception is both conscious and unconscious, both real and not real, both in our control and out of our control. Perception is not always fact and not always truth … in fact … rarely is it either.

Consensus reality is no longer a thing. It hasn’t been for a long time.

The breakup of consensus reality is driven by much deeper economic and technological currents but that doesn’t mean that social media isn’t the main driving culprit behind the rise of permanently altered perceptions and the rise of highly individualized realities.

Drs Amy and Arnold Mindell have a great lecture on Consensus Reality, Dreamland, and Essence, the 3 different levels of our experience and perception that form our reality.

All of this came to mind when I was reading about the NYTimes Crossword situation … perceived injustices, Pareidolia, intention, imagination, conceptualization … all of these things (and more) formed the foundation of a lot of arguments regarding it.

The majority rule of consensus reality suggests that something isn’t real if it’s not perceived by the majority … but when reality has been altered at its base, then how do you determine realness?

Individual perception is not reality or fact.

This is where Dreamland and Essence come in.

Dreamland: explore dreams, deep feelings, unspoken truths, “double” or unintentional body signals, “ghosts” (unrepresented figures) and ghost roles in the stories and myths of individuals and organizations. History, visions and transgenerational events.

Essence: Deeper non-dualistic tendencies that can be sentiently felt to move us. Intangible, “dreamlike” tendencies that are not easily expressed in words. Nonlocal, quantum, cosmological states.

So, what do you think? Is it a swastika?

𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵 …

Yes.

And when the world we live in is dominated by those who see only that which directly benefits or threatens their rule of law and they are rapidly converting many to their consensus reality, then the way something is seen is determined by what suits the consensus best and what strengthens their perceived reality. Not unspoken truths, not transgenerational or historical events, not the intangible, or the emotional realities of others.