The Perception Box
Naturally, my emotions are very raw at this point. What point? The point where I am dealing with the declining health—and mental health—of my mother. I’ve moved her out of her own home forever. We’ve even discontinued many of the services. I heard a researcher say something earlier, and I will roughly quote them here: “We perceive the world through our perception-box, and what we see is determined by our emotions and collective, cultural emotions.” ~ Unknown researcher (paraphrased) Owen Barfield said this in the 1950s. Plato said it thousands of years ago. Bruce Lipton says it all the time. But of course, they all use different words. Bruce Lipton, for example, uses words like culture and environment almost interchangeably. That’s mainly because his epiphany came while studying the effects of varied cultures on cells in literal petri dishes. We often use the word culture to refer to our social situations. But Lipton points out that this is, in fact, a very fitting u...