If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

A quote by William Blake.

What is perception?

That's a profound question,

which we will answer in this episode very conclusively.

By this question what we mean is not only

what is perception but what is the relationship between perception, the mind, the brain, consciousness, and reality. How is it that

perception can happen at all. This is a very deep philosophical question that

Western philosophers and scientists have been pondering literally for

thousands of years and still struggle with today.

And I've been wracking my mind over this question for probably two decades until I finally resolved it around six months ago during my 30 day

solo meditation retreat. Now that retreat didn't quite go fully to plan. I only completed half of it 14 days, but nevertheless in those 14 days that I did complete I had some pretty epic epiphanies and one of the things that I discovered is that I discovered

the answer to this question and I discovered that perception actually does not exist. It's an illusion. And that was one of the deepest

mind flux of my life and I've had many mind flux which I've shared with you but

this one in particular was quite astounding and so I want to go a little with you

but this one in particular was quite astounding. And so I want to go a little bit into

the mechanics of

how it is that we get perception so wrong.

Why is perception so tricky?

Why do so few people understand it? There are many

philosophers and academics and neuroscientists right now in top-notch universities who are

trying to understand this problem and they still aren't getting it

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