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The creation of scenarios through Perception

  • Alberto Terrer
  • Aug 28, 2023
  • 5 min read

When I say that Perception generates the scenario, this can lead to confusion.


Because the senses give us back perceptions.


Therefore, is it the senses that create the scenario?


Because the senses cannot perceive something that does not previously exist.


Well, Perception works as follows.


It is inevitable that the mind generates a scenario.


It needs it all the time in order to maintain Identity.


Every being has a Self because there is a scenario with which it interacts and which is not the Self.


That is, the scenario represents everything that is not Self and is totally necessary for there to be a Self.


Imagine you have to design a GPS mobile application.


And you have the map of the world.


When you click on Spain, you get the information about the country.


If you click on France, it shows you the information about that country, but not about Spain.


You can even click on a street number in the city of Valencia, Spain, and it will show you the precise information.


This happens because someone has drawn a line on the border of Spain and assigned an identifier to it.


So, when you click on Spain, the application knows that this is Spain and not the general map.


If Spain had not been identified on the rest of the map, when you click on it, the application would think that it is the general map.


The general map is the totality and each place you want to separate, will have its unique identifier.


If you identify each door of each portal, of each street, of each neighborhood, of each city, of each province, of each country.


If you do that, when you want to go to number 5, Calle Colón, in Valencia, Spain, it will take you to the right place.


But for that you have to identify each point by referencing it on the total.


If we don't do that, each point will be the general plan.


There would be no Spain, no Valencia, no Calle Colón. Everything would be the Plane.


If we living beings did not have our Identity, we would all be the totality.


Thus, Perception is the mechanism that generates, in the first place, this plane and the I in it.


Perception is self-reference.


Notice that, in the example of the blueprint, someone has had to enter each location into the database.


But in life each Identity self-references itself.


Perception is that process of self-reference and creation of the unique and exclusive identifier.


And, as a consequence, it generates a scenario, which is the general plane.


Just as in the application we have started from a general plane to reference each place, the opposite happens in life.


The Mind, when it is born in a living being, self-references and identifies itself in order to, simultaneously, create the scenario that is not Me.


The mind (actually, it would be more correct to say Consciousness) always needs that scenario that is not I for there to be an I. It always creates a scenario with which to interact.


It always creates a scenario with which to interact.


Thus, we can differentiate between the scenario when we are awake and the scenario when we sleep.


Also, the scenario when we imagine and/or remember.


The awake scenario is a shared scenario.


In a traditional video game, before the internet, when you turned off the game console, the scenario was also turned off.


The game was over.


If you turned it on again, you started a new game. Like a dream.


Every new dream is a new game.


But in an online video game, when you turn off your game console, hundreds of thousands of players continue the game.


And, when you turn on again, you continue as if your character had gone to sleep.


Because it's a simultaneous, synchronized scenario.


That is, it is held by hundreds of thousands of players because they all perceive it at the same time.


However, the dream scenario, or the mental processes of remembering and imagining, is an individual scenario.


It is born and dies each time.


When you start dreaming, you stop perceiving the waking world (the simultaneous and synchronized one) and Perception itself generates a new scenario.


Why?


Because Identity can only exist if we are referenced with respect to that which is not Me.


Thus, Perception is generating scenarios all the time, inevitably.


When you imagine or remember, the same thing happens.


If you turn off the waking scenario, the simultaneous one, an individual scenario is turned on.


So when you start to remember, you stop being so attentive to the waking scenario and your attention is divided between the waking scenario and the scenario you create when remembering or imagining.


The difference between the two is that in your own individual scenario you have the power to make whatever changes you wish.


But in the waking scenario you cannot.


For example, you live in an apartment and suddenly you want to know what it feels like to live in a castle.


You just imagine it and that's it.


You perceive a castle by imagining it.


However, in the waking world there are other rules.


You don't decide on your own what you perceive, because it is a shared, synchronized scenario.


Do you want to know what it feels like to live in a castle?


Then you must build one, stone by stone.


Or travel to one and settle there.


Whatever, but with the rules of simultaneous and synchronized perception.


In the individual scenarios, you can travel in time and space as you wish.


In the shared scenario (the awakened one) you cannot.


And you cannot modify the scenario at will. Changes must comply with the rules of simultaneous and synchronized Perception.


Your Perception is limited by Collective Perception.


Actually, think of it as a collective Mind that is the sum of all minds.


Thus, there is a scenario that is the sum of all perceptions.


But, each perceiving being is only 1/10000000000000000000 of the total number of perceivers.


That is your capacity for change.


To cause a drastic change of Perception in the waking world (like changing a floor into a castle instantly), it would have to be a change that at least half of the beings perceive.


Do you wish to change the climate of the world?


You must affect the Perception of 50% of the beings who are perceiving at this moment.


This is what I call collective Perception changes.


But that is another subject that I will talk about.


To summarize.


Perception is the mechanism that generates the scenario to separate me from the totality.


I, added to the scenario, we form the total.


For an I to exist, something other than I must exist.


That scenario that is generated, either when I am awake, or when I dream, imagine or remember, is what I am going to interact with.


For that I perceive it, don't I?


Well, I am going to define Perception.


Perhaps, there is a confusion of terms. There is no word to describe what I call Perception.


Because by perception, everyone understands that I mean using one of the 5 senses.


To interact with the scenario.


Because, when the stage exists I interact with it.


Perception, understanding perception as the recognition of the scenario by a mechanism (every species has its mechanism to recognize the environment and to be able to interact with it), is another thing.


I will use it interchangeably.


However, I will use the capital letter in the first letter to make it clear that I am referring to Perception, to define the mechanism that generates the scenario and perception (in lower case) when, simply, I recognize that scenario that I have previously created.


To assimilate that Consciousness can generate Reality is complicated.


For this we must imagine life as a dream.


Therefore, there is a dreamer.


This is the Presence, what in religions would be God.


That Presence is the general plane.


But, when it identifies itself, it happens to have a dream and play a role and forgets that it is the totality.


Nevertheless, it is always the same dreamer, in the infinite simultaneous and synchronized dreams that generate the shared world.


And, it is also the same dreamer in each individual dream.


Yet, having the Identity, he believes he is someone separate.


Strange, isn't it?


The Presence is interacting with itself in infinite roles that it plays.


That is the result of Perception.

 
 
 

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