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Video Title: Your Reality Is Mental Everything Else Is A Matrix. #reality #matrix #manifestation #manifest Video Summary: Look around your room and tell me what you see. A table, a chair, a lamp—whatever—just take note of everything. If I were to ask what percentage of your environment is concrete and physical, you'd likely tell me all of it. But is that really the case? When you look at a chair or any other object, some degree of pure perception occurs. Light reflects off an object and is processed by the eyes. This is 'seeing.' But seeing—as well as all other senses—is quite limited. It's so limited, in fact, that it's almost impossible to strip down the experience of 'seeing a chair' to the raw perceptual component of the seeing. We 'see' a chair, a table, or a lamp, and then immediately, our mind classifies what we've seen. It tells us, 'Chair. Table. Lamp.' Perception ceases, and conception begins. We stop dealing with the raw data itself of experience and start dealing with a conceptualization of the raw data. Basically, we weave that which we've perceived into the contextual tapestry of every other thing we've ever perceived. We try to fit our perceptions into the larger context of the mental world we've created for ourselves. Ninety-nine percent of all experience is mental. The raw data of experience accounts for a very tiny sliver of our lives. Most of our processing power is dedicated to organizing our perceptions into a larger narrative that doesn't exist anywhere except in our minds. This might seem kind of obvious. Most of us have an intuition that our minds are responsible for organizing our reality. Without mind—without the ability to quickly identify patterns and respond to them accordingly—life would be almost impossible to navigate. You wouldn't be able to make sense of anything. Every time you walked down the street; you'd be overwhelmed by stimulus. Every tree would cease to be a tree. It'd be a totally new object, different from every other tree. And the same goes for every other common object. Still, though, I think it's essential to remind ourselves just how much of our experience is mental. People struggle to deal with the '3D' because they have an inherent belief in the 3D as something concrete and existent. Something outside of themselves that has its own inherent meaning and context. That just isn't the case. The raw data of experience isn't contextual. It has no meaning beyond the meaning you impose on it. Imagine I were to walk up to you, shove my finger in your chest, and say, 'You are the biggest idiot I've ever seen in my life.' If you're a normal person, you'd probably be some combination of angry, embarrassed, and confused. Who is this gentleman, and why does he think I'm an idiot? Does he have me confused for somebody else? Is he insane? Is he going to get physical? But think about the raw data of the experience. A combination of shapes moves toward you, reaches out and makes contact with you, then utters some noises in a loud, firm tone. Notice how there isn't any meaning in this pure perception. 'Aggression' and 'anger' don't exist. As far as perception is concerned, I'm not a 'human being,' I'm just a combination of shapes. My words aren't even words—they're just noises. Here's the point I'm making: you have to make sure you're completely honest with yourself about how overwhelmingly mental your experience is. It's very easy to allow our conceptual understanding to bleed into what we consider the 'concrete' world. We take for granted that things have inherent meaning, and then we proceed forward in our lives under the assumption that all the meaning we've constructed is in some way a tangible fact of experience. But it isn't. Raw experience without any conceptualization is senseless. It's an acid trip—a bunch of hallucinations strung together with no connections between any of them. Any meaning or context that you experience was imposed by you. No exceptions. Don't get me wrong—I'm not suggesting you throw out your conceptualizations and move through the world like a mindless caveman, ignorant of language and unable to understand the patterns of the world as you navigate through it. Language and the ability to conceptualize are amazingly useful tools. But, like any tools, they have a very specific purpose and we have to know what that purpose is. If you struggle with the 3D, it's only ever because you've come to believe that some of the meaning you've imposed on your perceptual experience is concrete and 'real.' Copy-Right Disclaimer:- Under Section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
