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Statement of Visual Perspective

Let me ask you this question… When you look out of your eyes how many images of the world do you see, one or two? We have two eyes, but we only see one image! We don't see those two images because our minds create a single representation. Yes, stereoscopy is a nice word but its' definition does not deal with what is happening in our heads. And there’s an interesting problem with that:

 

 

Look at the question mark with your right eye while covering your left eye with your hand. Keep your eye on the question mark. (You may need to move so that your right eye is directly in front of it or you may need to adjust your distance from the page to make this work for you.) What will happen is the X will disappear and the line will appear to continue unbroken in your peripheral vision.

The fact that you have a blind spot is not the issue. It's the fact that your brain fills in the image in your mind. (Incorrectly, though based on patterns and trends, regardless of what you know.) This begs the question, what else is my mind creating for me? - Meanwhile physics is telling us, one way or another, that life is really just a bunch of energy patterns. I wish to stress the fact that we all create the world as an image in our heads and even though that image is validated by our experiences it is only an image. It is an image that seems to break apart into smaller and smaller divisions until what mattered becomes more energetic than real. (This is what we are taught, the division of matter, even where it no longer seems to divide.) I have become fascinated by this “energetic space” and over time I have come up with a kind of short hand to talk about it, or around it, in many different ways.

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