Exertec Health and Fitness Center,
Napa,
California, USA
July 25, 2018
"What is out there for you is not what is out there - that is, what is
'out there for you' is not the so-called 'objective reality'. While we
can confidently assume that there is an objective reality out there,
that is not the reality that
shows up
for you. What
shows up
for you is a 'reality' generated by your
brain.
Put in another
way,
while we assume that what we perceive is the reality that is actually
out there, in fact every shred of what
shows up
for you as reality is
beingwholly
generated by your
brain."
It's an endemic rot that runs deep. But there's a
simple
fix. It is however, not an
easy
fix. And in case
"simple, but not easy"
sounds like a dichotomy, no it isn't: it's really
"simplebutnoteasy". If you entertain and / or engage with
Werner's ideas,
you already
know
that which is
simple,
isn't always
easy
- such is the
nature
of almost all of the smartest, most
masterful
mid-course
corrections
we can make in our lives which enable us to transition from mere
existing /
getting
by, to
livingmasterfully.
The trouble
began
(or so it would seem) a long, long
time
ago, long before we were born, in fact. Back then (ie
waaay back then) there was arguably only our own
subjective
experience.
By "only" I
mean
there was no objective, separate
world
anywhere to be found. To be sure, that's how I
discovered
it to be, when once (in exploring an
interest
I had at the
time)
I regressed my memory until I
re-experienced
my birth, then whatever there was prior to it. All there was, was my
experience.
In hindsight (and hindsight is always 20/20 vision), that all seems
like a pretty
natural
evolution. And it is. But wait: it's also the genesis of the grave
error (the onset of the rot) all
human beings
make, which brings on all kinds of unforeseen and undesirable
possibly
tragic consequences if the error remains uncorrected. And
the truth
about
humanity
(not the badtruth,
and not the goodtruth,
but
the truth
nonetheless) is that with almost all of the eight billion of us, it's
mostly uncorrected.
That there is an objective reality out there ie that there is a
world
distinct from
who we are
out there, is more than an argument beyond reproach: it's a
"Duh!" - which
means
it's so obvious as to be
self-evidentiary;
it's patently inarguable. It's when we take
a closer look
at the
nature
of that
world
out there, and how it
shows up
for us, that something mostly undistinguished (cue to the error that's
mostly uncorrected) and totally counter-intuitive, becomes
newlyknown.
When it becomes
newlyknown
in three progressive steps, it brings with it the
transformation
of everything we've ever
known
about our lives and about
Life itself
in a flash. No kidding.
The first step in
knowing
the objective reality
newly,
is realizing that all
opinions,
the bads and the goods, the politically incorrects and the politically
corrects, the unfairs and the fairs, aren't intrinsic to the objective
reality itself: they're yours, and they're imposed on the objective
reality by you. Most if not all of us, will
get
that, if we confront it. Some of us won't. The second step is realizing
that all distinctions of the objective reality, what
things are (and what they aren't), where things start (and where they
end), which objects are solid and will impact you if you
walk
into them (like
brickwalls),
and which are soft and don't impact (like
beaches),
aren't intrinsic to the objective reality itself: they're yours, and
they're imposed on the objective reality by you. Some of us will
get
that, if we confront it. Most of us won't.
The third step
transforms
the average
Joe
/ Josephine into a
master.
It's realizing that every shred of what
shows up
for you as the objective reality, is
beingwholly
generated by your
brain.
That's
playing
in a
wholenew
ballgame. It's beyond the ubiquitous "you
interpret
what's out there". It's "you generate what's out there".