Reality versus images.

The success of every adult to imitate ideal personality through control of facial expressions, inflection and word choice creates an environment which acts as alternative to reality, and this environment is "experience"; this is what accumulates in memory along with the facts, equations and theories the various educational media provide.

Each of us have been collecting this "experience" since we were born. We have become accustomed to this alternative world. And, of course, this means we are all incapable of the most elementary virtue: being realistic!

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When someone deceives us he is generating an image. This image seems to him to serve the purpose of substituting for something real and true.

The mind is what has been perceived, not in a lifetime, but throughout evolution. The mind is evolved. There is no way to introduce into the actual mind something that is not real and true. So when someone deceives us he is establishing an alternative to the mind. And since the mind connects directly to the real and true through perception, then this alternative to the mind also requires an alternative to perception, which is self, the thinker of the thoughts, the observer of the experiences that were not real or complete, and the controller of the affected exterior, the vanity, the fraud or the pretense of charm, respectability, integrity or whatever.

How can someone deceive us? What is the foundation? It is simply that we are born in an alternate environment. We are like a squirrel born in a glass cubicle, except that our captivity is very intricate. Like the rodent, we are evolved to perceive every natural thing, and so we find ourselves completely out of our depths when thrown into an unnatural environment.

How did this environment get here? Through the explanations given as history? Not at all! History is all deceit. There is no reality in it. Those who decide what history will say have no concept of what it would need to say in order to be true or real, nor do they harbor any inclination to care. It has never been the function of language to communicate, because to communicate is to refute the need to persist with man's endeavors. Any expression of the need for man's endeavors to continue is as contrived as man's environment.

Communication, perception, mind, and reality; these things are as one. They have an impetus dating back billions of years. They go on. But they have this competition from this alternative to the mind, "conscious", which is as one with images from falsehoods and with self, and this alternative also has some small impetus once we have accumulated enough imagery into memory.

Consider a very early falsehood. Let us say that each of our mothers, or in some cases, fathers, told each of us that they were so devoted and endeared to us during our infancies that we never shed a single tear, that our infancies were idyllic. What is the impetus of this one deception? It leads to a problem we have learned to call "Oedipus complex", where we just can't get over our mothers; we become her slaves, want to bring her flowers, etc. Even if we for some reason eventually learn to hate these mothers, we are always attached to them, and they can always pull our chains and make us jump through hoops. But let's say that we suddenly discover a collection of videos or movies of ourselves as infants, and these moving pictures show us wailing, screaming, obviously in torment almost continuously. What happens to this image the mothers imprinted upon our memories, and the impetus she intended?

Reality obliterates image! And to find reality you don't really need video, as we will see when we continue.