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Being colorblind has shaped my worldview, https://t.co/6MY1X20g5N
In large part from having a direct lived experience of watching my own perception A) be different from others, and B) get shaped in real-time in constant small ways All since before I could remember https://t.co/OofBvQrrpe
This is an accessible version of that feeling that Iâve watched over and over again since before I can remember Watching how my own perception, the direct evidence of my senses, is weirdly malleable and shaped by preconceptions/intentions/guidance https://t.co/jJoaFhFXus
This is all pretty directly connected to my sense of myth, the imaginal, âemptinessâ, etc what you expect to find in the world affects the world you find becoming adept with this kind of expectation, intention, the inner myths you carry, It matters https://t.co/5FAnfJt1yE
Cuz this isnât just personal, That funny lol video where you can hear a few different phrases depending on what you expectâ Entire societies are doing a version of that every day over the course of decades and centuries Almost always entirely unaware
Wars are fought over whether âbaptism piracyâ or âthat isnât mercyâ is The Truth Lives are made joyful or shitty or forgettable or meaningful based on which line a person expects to hear, or is taught to hear