Reality Tunnel

"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."...Talcott Parsons

• Reality Tunnel (Wikipedia)
  Reality tunnel is a term coined...by Timothy Leary (1920-1996) and popularised by Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), akin to the idea of representative realism.
  The theory states that, with a subconscious set of mental "filters" formed from their beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence "Truth is in the eye of the beholder".
• Reality-Tunnel: How Beliefs And Expectations Create What You Experience In Life
  "This is not necessarily meant to imply that there is no objective truth; just that our access to it is mediated through our senses, experience, conditioning, old beliefs, and other non-objective factors. One could say that the objective truth 'out there' is constantly being filtered through our tunnel realities."
• Seeing Castaneda...by Sam Keen
  "...we have to begin by realizing, as don Juan says, that there is much more to the world than we usually acknowledge. Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by a social consensus."
• Reality Is Made Of Language...by Terence McKenna
• Real Reality...Robert Anton Wilson (YouTube)
  Robert Anton Wilson tells it how it seems.

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