#pereption

[shamanic-vision]

Concerning Evil

I was asked, “How do you deal with evil spirits?”

Short answer? I don’t.

Good and evil are concepts created by human existence. Evil describes a person or act that is culturally abhorrent, immoral and malevolent. People can do evil things. But this is a subjective property that only exists within our frame of reference.

Soldiers may travel from one country to another for the purpose of “restoring…

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[bignoniaceaebignoniaceae-blog]

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Henri Bergson

[english-tibetan-dictionary]

pereption

rna ba'i dbang mngon - auditory sense pereption [dbang mngon lnga'i nang gses, rang gi bdag rkyen rna ba'i dbang po las byung and rtog bral ma 'khrul ba'i gzhan rig EG, ear consciousness apprehending the sound of a flute] [IW]

[nicolaclaus-blog]

"Sometimes I felt that the Hmong of Merced were like one of those visual perception puzzles: if you looked at it one way you saw a vase, if you looked at it another way you saw two faces, and whichever pattern you say, it was almost impossible, at least at first glance, to see the other."

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman. Page 237. 

It applies very nicely to the Hmong, but I think it honestly applies to everyone. Think about it. 

[pembroke1]

"When the Doors of Perception are cleansed, all things will appear as they truly are, infinite" William Blake

[scipsy-blog]

Munker-White Illusion

All of the small bars within each pattern are actually the same color (i.e., all of the blue segments are the same color blue, all of the red segments are the same color red, and all of the small grey bars are the same color grey). The lightness differences you are experiencing are massive illusions. A theory of what's underlying the lightness illusions in this figure is described in a paper to appear in as special issue of Perception on “Contextual effects on color appearance.” (via Perceptual Science Group @ MIT)