"Perceptions" ITEM
Copyright © 2009 Ray Dickenson

`TRUTH' and `REALITY'

Like `wants' and `needs', truth and reality get confused. Here we'll try to find if there's a `real' difference between them.

Reality

Reality is `everything that happens around a person' - so that means it has to be lived or experienced, rather than being forecastable, or even describable in a scientific sense. ^ref01

Which then means that everyone has their own perception or version of `reality'.

That's because each of us `physically' perceives the external world slightly differently, ^ref02 and each of us carries a unique baggage of a life-time's concepts and assumptions which further influence those perceptions. ^ref03

And all this happens mostly without our knowing. ^ref04

Truth

On the other hand, it seems that small amounts of `Truth' might be distilled from our experiences, if great care is taken to compensate for the effects of faulty perceptions, ^{ref05 & ref06} and false assumptions. ^ref07

Results might be surprising, maybe to be taken in small doses.

Certainly establishments do not welcome too much truth, ^ref08 because establishments fear change. ^ref09

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