Perception

Perception-1 (Psychological Filtering):

• The ego tunnel filters reality: promoting what has been conditioned, suppressing what has been forbidden or deemed unsafe.

• The subconscious functions like internalized “parents” — acting as though it protects, but often undermining growth.

• Conscious mind = surface thoughts, labels, identifications.

• Subconscious = deeper, largely language-based processes hidden from awareness.

Perception-2 (Cosmic Self-Perception):

• Physical reality itself may be perception: consciousness perceiving itself in form.

• Identification with perception loosens in awakening, revealing that appearances are not the whole.

• More than meets the eye — perception is both a lens and an appearance of the Self.

Additional Detail

• Nature: Perception is not neutral — it is always conditioned by prior reinforcement and filters of belief.

• Mechanics: Much of what is “hidden” isn’t absent, but screened off by unconscious filters. Attention can draw these into awareness.

• Metaphor: Perception is like a prism or lens: it doesn’t create reality, but bends and colors it, shaping what appears.

• Awakening shift: Recognizing perception as filtering dissolves the illusion that “what is perceived” = “all that exists.”