The best way to describe the world that we meet with our sense organs is that it is a carefully orchestrated facade. Reality as we know it is a thin epidermis of features and characteristics that we observe and interact with that produces certain probabilistic effects, in accordance with our beliefs and expectations. It can also be described as a fully immersive and interactive simulation that we are all plugged into from the point of our birth.
The substance of a person's reality is endowed by their attention and their energy. In other words, we make our world real through the focusing of our attention and influence reality as we understand it to be, through our intentions. So we can say that reality isn't what we think it to be, yet it is precisely what we think it is.
Duality is when we forget that what we experience is not inherently real in and of itself, but that by taking it as real and interacting with it as such, we make it real. Non-duality is when retain the capacity to distinguish between what is and what is not real, by remaining in unity consciousness. Our teachers and our families attempt to jolt us out of unity consciousness and to surrender our senses to the illusion of what they take to be reality, and then we are rewarded by our society based on how successfully deluded we can become.
The features of our reality are determined by the particular set of limits imposed upon it by the circumstances of our birth. In one particular "lifetime" we may be born into privilege and in another, poverty. Each set of unique circumstances produce certain effects upon the consciousness that follows the principle of convergent sequences. This is a mathematical term, as follows (taken from math.net. :
Convergent sequence
Convergence is a concept used throughout calculus in the context of limits, sequences, and series. A convergent sequence is one in which the sequence approaches a finite, specific value. Consider the sequence . We can determine whether the sequence converges using limits.
A consciousness that is locked into a particular set of probabilistic outcomes will experience reality differently to another similar consciousness locked into a completely different system of variables. Each perspective upon reality is equally true to the experiencer yet each is simply relativistic in nature. We can say that reality is subjective as dictated by the locality of its jurisdiction.
Consciousness is also atavistic due to the limits imposed upon it by its genetic predispositions. In other words, the lineage that one is born into has a deterministic effect upon the characteristics of the consciousness that is logged onto the reality of a particular lifetime, creating a most unique set of limitations and experiences, in accordance with the focusing of attention and the exercise of intent within its reality vectors.
Divergent sequences can be set up within a consciousness by altering the variables within the probability matrix of its reality. In other words, a consciousness can follow a different course to the one set out for it at its birth by the circumstances that it is born into.
In so doing consciousness may evolve beyond the limits of its imposed reality vectors, accessing different parts of the probability matrix to the one that it was born into. If exposed to a varying degree of vectors it may eventually evolve beyond the limitations of the probability matrix of reality, providing it breaks with the force field of resistance set around it's consciousness by energetic fields that are generated by its consciousness. It not only learns to think outside of the box but to escape the world of thought boxes, altogether, in order to experience ever greater degrees of ultimate reality.
Within certain limits it is possible to influence how reality is experienced by an individual awareness by directing its attention towards certain events, effects and aspects of their experience, and convincing it that this is in fact what the collective are observing too.
Due to social conditioning where people are encouraged to follow what the collective say, see and do, particularly by men in white coats and other persons of authority, the mind of the individual can be convinced into believing anything that they are seeing is in fact real, because others also seem to be equally convinced of it.
This is highlighted in the work of BF Skinner on Behaviorism but is found in present day to day experiences such as has been carried out in society during the Covid period, where the questionable existence of diseases is concerned.
Also for instance, by televising the events of 9/11 live across the world, many individuals simultaneously witnessed what they were told (and took to be true) was a terrorist attack. They could not distinguish between a staged event and an actual one except by the reactions of those that were apparently also witnessing what they were, and from their reactions to what they had allowed themselves to believe.
It completely eluded them that one of the buildings that had been reportedly destroyed in the attack had failed to detonate at the required time and was still standing whilst it had been reportedly destroyed.
This is due to the nature of human awareness that tends to delete, distort, diminish, magnify and falsify it's perception to satisfy the continuity of its experience of reality. Resultantly to this very day there are millions of people that still believe the fallacy of a terrorist attack on 9/11, because not to do so would imply that their experience of reality is false, which is something that the human ego, also an illusion of the mind itself, cannot tolerate.
One may argue that with the advent of mass communication that it has become easier to manipulate reality rather than more difficult, by ensuring that what an individual experiences to be real is simultaneously experienced to be true by millions of people often in different parts of the world. It evidences that the minds of individual members of a collective are willing to believe what others believe to be true, regardless of their own personal experience and the evidence of their own eyes, because they want to believe just as others do.
Well, I do ponder the "in accordance with our beliefs and expectations." I remember as a child I truly believed and expected that I could fly. Never happened. Haha!
I believed and expected that I would succeed and have a rich life. People targeting Me ensured that did not happen - and it did not occur to Me that I was targeted until after 7 years of applying to 100,000 jobs, having some offer Me the job, and then never get back with Me, and such. Even when I was absolutely certain I would get the job, and expected to be hired.
So... LOL! I find this to be a co-creation of the Now. Beliefs and expectations sit in a back seat to the choices of behavior We all in aggregate choose.
Your perspective may differ.
Love always!
Spot on ... and very well explained, thank you. (As an engineer, 9-11 was a big wake-up call along with other ones. And the reporting anomaly. And 'intelligent' friends who swallowed it all. My main thought was that if 'the-system' can make lies this big stick in the collective mind as a true account of 'what happened', then the grip of control ran much deeper than I was thinking it was at that point in my life. And that's the bit I found scary at the time).