Perceived Reality vs. Unconscious Reality

The concept of reality purports a duplicitous nature. One aspect relies upon perceptions, and is often coloured by sensual misnomers. While the inverse filters though the unspoken, and subsequently hidden, concepts that we ourselves fail to openly acknowledge.
Perception clouds judgment. It relies on what one experiences with the five senses, heeding little to any influence outside of the mind's conscious interpretation of events. You perceive a situation to occur, and subsequently that event becomes an expressed reality. The question becomes, has the reality evolved from your perception of it? Or, have you arrived at a perception of the reality you choose to believe? To clarify, do you create reality, or does reality create you?
The relative aspect remains that each of us has an unconscious realm. We have desires and wish fulfilment that exists our side of the realm of the sensory. As the unconscious represents your true magickal Self, your mystical identity, then what you create in that realm undoubtedly reflects itself in the world of waking reality. Your unspoken magickal Self alters your perceived reality based upon your desire for that reality to be. Expressly, your perceptions can filter the truth from reality. While your unconscious creates the highest expectation of what that reality should become.
I suppose it is an age old question, of the chicken and the egg. Yet, as you exist as a three-dimension persuasion of a higher non-corporeal being, you reflect that elevated state into this dream world which often is perceived as true reality. Instead, of living the depth of absolute magickal truth, you would rather limit your interactions into sensory experiences which can become altered by the mind's desires and unintentional emotional flags.
I propose, rather, that we coexist with a duplicitous realm of light and shadow. Man remains a spiritual being, expressed into physical form, conjured from an eternal existence. In this mind, we exist on many levels at once, and therefore share and co-influence both reality and our individual expressions of it.

March 27, 2001