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Heard from Gfg32 after a month of silence
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 622581" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>That is exactly it, Recovering. We learn how to interpret reality from our families of origin. Why we see what we see in the way that we see it is never addressed. Remember that piece you sent me, about the eyes being cut open?</p><p></p><p>It is hard to get that concept that we are blind when we think we see. Hard to understand that we only see what we have been taught to see, and that the truth we think we see may be something else, altogether.</p><p></p><p>My Tai Chi instructor is always talking about that. He tells us that our left brains are constructed in such a way as to protect us from what is really real because we would be too frightened, too depressed, even to try. So, we selectively interpret the world and its meaning based on what is safe to know.</p><p></p><p>Our families of origin have survived. Whatever else their versions of the world have accomplished, they have survived to birth us. And they teach us the same survival skills, the same version of reality, that has helped them to survive.</p><p></p><p>I do feel surprise, when I have worked through another layer and see reality expand into a multi-faceted thing with a thousand meanings.</p><p></p><p>So, that's good, then.</p><p></p><p>I like that story about the roast, Recovering!</p><p></p><p>Ha!!!</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 622581, member: 17461"] That is exactly it, Recovering. We learn how to interpret reality from our families of origin. Why we see what we see in the way that we see it is never addressed. Remember that piece you sent me, about the eyes being cut open? It is hard to get that concept that we are blind when we think we see. Hard to understand that we only see what we have been taught to see, and that the truth we think we see may be something else, altogether. My Tai Chi instructor is always talking about that. He tells us that our left brains are constructed in such a way as to protect us from what is really real because we would be too frightened, too depressed, even to try. So, we selectively interpret the world and its meaning based on what is safe to know. Our families of origin have survived. Whatever else their versions of the world have accomplished, they have survived to birth us. And they teach us the same survival skills, the same version of reality, that has helped them to survive. I do feel surprise, when I have worked through another layer and see reality expand into a multi-faceted thing with a thousand meanings. So, that's good, then. I like that story about the roast, Recovering! Ha!!! :O) Cedar [/QUOTE]
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