01/04/2026
We don’t see the world as it is.
We see the world as we are.
Across gender, race, class, culture—there is one thing we all share: consciousness.
And the mind’s primary job is not truth.
It’s protection.
This is why the Scientific Process specifically aims to eliminate the bias of the researchers own mind.
The mind builds patterns from what it has seen.
The nervous system looks for what feels familiar.
Our reticular activating system filters reality, giving us only information that we/our survival deems relevant.
And that relevance is based on our previous (traumatic) experiences, and the resulting belief structures.
Once that ‘personal truth’ is formed,
it simply keeps proving itself.
In the body.
In relationships.
In what we notice.
In what we miss.
Over and over gain.
Until we go *underneath* the mind.
Carl Jung said it plainly:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
That’s not necessarily spirituality, it’s just brain mechanics.
And this is where it gets tricky—because acknowledging perception does NOT mean denying painful realities.
Horrible things are happening.
Violence. War. Human rights violations. Abuse of power.
This is real suffering.
Naming the function of perception does not erase accountability.
It’s interesting:
Even the same world event is experienced radically differently depending on belief systems, history, trauma, religious or political identity, and social conditioning.
and then people ruin their own day battling unnecessarily in the comments sections - or in their own minds.
If reality were purely objective, we would all agree on what we’re seeing.
We don’t.
That doesn’t (necessarily) mean “nothing is real.”
It means reality is absolutely filtered—by survival, by memory, by fear, by habit.
The work isn’t pretending that harm hasn’t happened.
It’s learning how our minds shape what we perceive—
so we can respond consciously instead of reactively,
and stop mistaking conditioned patterning, for identity.
Awareness doesn’t fix our lives overnight.
But without it, we keep recreating the same one.
“Everything is perfect, and, there is much to be done.” - Zen Koan
