Inside out disco-ball

Imagine a dot—a singular piece of awareness. You can call it whatever you want.

It’s the only thing that truly exists, and it has no idea who or what it is. It longs to experience itself in different ways—what it means to be this awareness.

But there’s nothing outside of it. In fact, the concept of “inside” and “outside” hasn’t even formed yet.

So, it creates the illusion of separation—a divide within its own awareness. It generates different perspectives for itself to take and hold.

And along with this illusion of separation and these many perspectives, it creates an inside-out disco ball and places itself at the center.

Each perspective now looks outward toward one of the tiny mirrors on the inside of the disco ball. Each mirror is coated with colour filters—filters that shape what each perspective can see and how it interprets what it sees.

It’s through these colour filters and mirrors that the perspectives are able to see and experience themselves. And in doing so, each perspective meets other perspectives—reflections of the same singular awareness.

To hold this metaphor is to see yourself in others. To be curious about what others are trying to experience.

And to realize: you can change your filters. You can shift how you see—and what you come to understand—about life.

“Perception is what separates the Individual from Awareness,
our Senses are the Stimuli to the Illusion of Separation,
shifting your Perception of Reality is nothing more than making a Choice”
— by Pascal Clarkson

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