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LOVE & PERCEPTION
💖THE MAIN TASK💖
Looking together
to deeply understand Love,
experience Love, and act in Unity to Create from Love.
The Only Alternative:
Ignorance, creating emotional separation, leading to action and distraction from THE MAIN TASK
-Lynette Wiest
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Video Topics:
1) Perception To Heal Division & Create Connection
2) Expanded Context For Accurate Understanding & Systemic Solutions
3) The FUTURE Is In Our Hands! Time & Space - Tools For Unity
4) WHAT IS LOVE? An Embedded Trait, A Chosen State, An Action Of Unity
5) CULTURAL Narratives & Understandings In Trouble. Brain Science Suggests Love Promotes Solutions
Written Topics:
1) What Is Perception & Why Is It Important? What Is The Purpose Of "Blind Spots"?
2) Expanded Context Increases Accurate Perception
3) Understanding Time & Space, For Expanded Context & Greater Vision
4) A Love-Centric Perception / The Mind Of Love
5) Your Power & Impact On Cultural Narratives/ Understandings
💖PERCEPTION To Heal Division & Create Connection
What is Perception & Why is it Important?
What is perception?
Our brains interpret, build on, and process, according to what we already know or recognize in part. Our brains create our context. Within this context, we create our perception. Thus, the context of your perception comes from who you are, and from the world view you have formed over time. Perception creates thoughts, emotions and intentions.
Inherent in perception is the limit of what we know. Sometimes, we don’t know what we are unaware of or what questions to ask. We can’t understand what we are not aware of. Lack of awareness is known as a “blind spot”.
Why is perception important? We tend to move in the direction of our vision. What do we see? The clearer we see through the lens of love, knowing all is one whole, the less inclined we are to hold back from sharing our truth - our love-with all.
What is a “blind spot”, and why do we have them? We all have blind spots. Blind spots are the areas or information about life we cannot see on our own. We need others, in order to see a broader context than one mind alone would know. Blind spots create beauty, because they require interdependence with others if we want to move beyond individual limits. Blind spots encourage us to change isolation into harmonious connections.
We each perceive a piece of what is 'out there'. Each piece, each person’s perception, is like a mirror reflection. The mind perceives what it knows. There is a potential for an emotional experience with each perception. The emotional experience is an extension of our mind. It is a boomerang of thought that we throw, returning to us as an emotion. Each mind mirrors and processes the universe from its vantage point. Each mind sees a piece of the whole, and each mind processes information to create it's part of the whole. Thereby one changes all, and is changed by all.
What is the purpose for each of us having only a piece of the larger context? The goal of life is to experience the connection of love – NOT to know everything.
Here is an illustration:
You may have heard of The Elephant Story. This is my version of it.
*A group of people is split into two groups. Each group goes into their respective dark room. In each room is an object identical to that in the other room. The people feel the object to define what it is. In each room, one person says it is a tree trunk; another says it is a snake high in the air; another says it is a big, floppy, thick leaf.
*In one room, they argue, each individual giving facts, and great detail about why their perspective is correct. Each person believes they are correct. They create conflict, anger, and frustration. They are alienated from each other's point of view. Everyone feels certain about their answer and anger with the other members of the group.
*In the other room, the same information is shared. Yet, they add their perceptions together in a spirit of unity. They eventually decide that the object must be some type of big creature that is indefinable from one particular vantage point. They don't know what it is, and they are confused about their answer. They share their frustration, and listen intently and respectfully to what each is saying. They end in confusion about what it is, but feel very good about the people they are working with.
*When the lights are turned on in the rooms, the first room is left with an elephant, and anger. The other room is left with an elephant and laughter and enjoyment. Which room are you living in?
Take the story another step:
*What if it is only in the process of discovering what the whole object is, the lights gradually come on. The lights would eventually go on in the room where the people admit they don't know; where they need the perspective and hearts of each other in order to see the whole object; and where they are able to listen, even to the people they cannot understand at first. As they grow to learn how much they need each other, and as they learn what they offer to the group, they learn more about what it is they are touching with their hands and with their hearts. They are learning about their interdependence. The lights are coming up in the room, and subsequently in their hearts. They see the elephant. But more than that, they know the experience of love, respect, empowerment, purpose, and meaning. They have gathered information from the hearts of those around them.
We are in a time when we have an invitation to see from a greater context - ever unfolding in each, of each, and as all – the web of life holding us all together. Our blind spots encourage curiosity, discovery, and relationship building. If you are curious about a flower, build a relationship with it, as you are learning the facts about it. If you’re curious about a culture, build relationships within it. Physical facts are fine. But relationships of love change your life.
Each perceives from its level of viewpoint. Hate, love, compassion, competition, cooperation - perceives and creates. Perception leads to imagination, leading to actions, which are perceived by others.
BEWARE of a perspective of separateness (ie., self-centric). Believing you can know the limits of reality is arrogant and ignorant. Believing reality is more than you know is wise and humble.
Perception determines how we connect with others. We tend to move in the direction of our thoughts, our perceptions. Our steps follow our vision of self, and of the world around us. If you think you are isolated and separate, you may think you have to know more than you possibly can know. This can bring a sense of worry, fear, loss of control, and scarcity.
If we perceive we are on our own, it will seem there is a lack of something. This can lead to fear and greed. Greed breeds hoarding. We may project our thoughts onto others, as if these are their thoughts. We then assume others are greedy, increasing the need for greed, as greed stirs a sense of competition for resources. This leads to a lack of trust.
If we have angry thoughts towards others, or we perceive others as operating from anger, we increase our separation. Filters like greed and anger cause us to lose trust, increasing the subjective feeling that we must build relational walls and separation.
Wisdom and love create a larger context than one of isolation and fear. Part of responsible selfcare is knowing how to connect in love, while staying disconnected from anything that is not of love. Wisdom and love allow us to see where to connect with each other in ways that are healthy and healing for ourselves and our relationships. Love brings light to darkness, allowing us to accurately perceive each life in a larger context. With love, we can see beyond our dark ideas about another, and see the light in them. Love sees each person as lovable and in relationship with all of life. Each life is not a separate. Each life is actually most accurately understood from beyond out brains understanding. Each is an expression of what transcends the brain of each life
💖Context For Accurate Understanding & Systemic Solutions
Expanded Context Increases Accurate Perception
Your Thoughts Inform Your Perceptions and Interpretations:
We choose thoughts to interpret what we observe. Thoughts are what you tell yourself. Thoughts create the words and actions you give to others.
In Order To Create Meaningful Solutions, We Must Know Where To Focus During Challenging Times:
Life is full of opportunities to take actions and create a better world. When you see problems, use love and compassion to understand context. Great and lasting actionable solutions come from a context created with love.
It can be tempting to focus on what appears to be dangerous . This is because we often feel that focusing on danger will protect us from it. While it is important to know where to offer love’s actions, focusing there can give a false sense of protection. Focusing in the negative creates anxiety and fear – creating a self-fulfilling prophesy. A negative perception has short-term strength; but a loving perception has greater and lasting strength.
We need to stay aware, and create our attention from love’s greater consciousness. If we perceive the world through a lens of love, we can still see problems. But, we don’t define people as problems or solutions! Define problems as issues. We have a greater understanding from a context of love. Our ability to see and be love is true safety. We are not helpless. Look to love to see how to create solutions with others, creating healing solutions. From this broader context, we see love’s actions are solutions anywhere love is absent.
When the heart is moved by love to act, be fluid enough to be moved. Be an expression of love’s movement. Only depend on the perception of love/ spirit – only respond from this. Anything else leads to trouble.
Understand Through A Lens Of Love:
Love is honest and accurate. This is why it feels right and best. Strive to experience love, both internally and in your relationships. Love is your true safe place. Is your perception created from love’s way of understanding?
When physical senses interpret the world accurately, no contact lens or hearing aid, or other amplification device is needed in order to perceive correctly. For the mind, love creates a perfect and accurate lens. A mind of love has an accurate perception of the world. When we observe through our senses, the lens/filter we wear is created from, and placed on our senses by our heart. The lens, or filter, interprets how we see the world.
If you don’t use love, you may choose thoughts that bring discouragement or despair. You may then think you need a corrective lens for the mind. But for the mind, there is no accurate corrective lens. When love is not the lens used, people attempt to interpret accurately by using lenses such as denial, hate, doubt, blame, fear, prejudice, and scarcity. These lenses attempt to create solutions. But these lenses are ignorant and lead to greed, apathy, passivity, aggression, ignorance, addiction, worry, separation, division, violence, and war. If you don’t use love to create your perception, there is no other lens that can give you a better viewpoint.
When we look into the sun with our eyes wide open, and then look away, we see the impression of its silhouette on everything. In the same way, if we look at the world with a mind of anxiety, we create a perception and consciousness of anxiety. We then perceive what is in the world through a lens of anxiety (or anger, or hate, etc). We will then use this level of awareness to understand and interpret everything we experience. If we are fearful, we perceive others as fear-inducing. If we don’t believe we are capable of creating from love, we may become dependent on someone else to be our savior, leading to a sense of personal powerlessness.
We hear the phrase “elevated consciousness”. Using love to inform the conscious mind, and interpret the world and each life in it, broadens the view and elevates your vantage point. Perceive everything using love’s mind and context. This elevated consciousness reveals greater possibilities for purposeful change and for a beautiful world.
Perception Creates Peace:
Perceive the world as a place where you are made of love and exist as love. Nothing can take away the core of you – love. Be at peace with the world. True peace is what is expressed into the world, unconditional on the environment. You can be at peace, and bring peace into the world, no matter the situation. See every situation as opportunity. Peace includes using boundaries of love, in order to show up as your true self. Peace is not passive. It is not aggressive. Peace asserts love into any moment.
When we use love to perceive the world, we construct our lives in ways which build more love, thus increasing our experience of love. The more we do this, the more we become aware of internal Peace. We no longer think our peace is dependent on something external. We can perceive and experience love and thus gain a sense of internal peace which surpasses logical understanding. We know love from within ourselves – for ourselves, and for others.
Where do we see love’s Peace at work in each of our lives? Look at what love is doing in your life, and even in the world around you. The more we focus on love’s activity, the more Peace we can have in our hearts, minds, and emotions. It is like driving a car. You have to focus ahead to where you are going, staying aware of the cars around you. But if you focus on the cars around you, you probably wont get to where you're going. Notice where love is more needed, and share what you have. But don’t immerse yourself in a perception that lacks love.
💖The FUTURE Is In Our Hands! Time & Space - Tools For Unity
Understanding Time And Space For An Expanded Context
Love Expands the otherwise limited dimensions of TIME & SPACE!
TIME:
In understanding life, the only moment we are trying to understand Is NOW. Even when we use history or predictions of the future to gather information, NOW is the only moment you live in. In this moment, you are impacting all of time.
NOW is the moment when the past, present, and future of all love come together. NOW is the only moment that ever exists. As such, it is the culmination of everything, and it is the only moment we can enjoy in and create from. At all times, we only live in the moment of Now.
Nature teaches us time is an important ingredient in the unfolding of each life and all life. Life develops over time. The power of life is ever present. But it uses time as a tool. Even though answers and solutions are always spiritually present, they may not be able to change the physical situation at the time.
Each of us can activate the power of infinite love in the present moment, setting us free from emotional traps of passivity and fear, while we experience the unfolding in NOW.
Time requires patience (the lingering finger over a piano key; the vocalist holding a note until the air seems almost expended). Time brings us all together. Before a beautiful crescendo, some musicians may need to wait, as others complete a spectrum of melodies and sounds (and possibly seeming discord). Then, unified in time, the volume of beautiful harmony soars.
SPACE:
HERE is the only place you experience. From where you are, you are impacting every where.
See every life as a note, in a global song of unity. Know that each note holds love – even when we do not understand the discord it is manifesting per measurements/limits of time and space. The loving unity we are embedded in is not limited inside the metrics of space or time.
HERE & NOW:
Each experience of HERE and NOW serves a greater purpose, giving opportunity for us to evolve more into the harmony of love’s song – beyond the context of mental measurements, judgments, and limit. This requires trust – a trust of love. Without trusting love, there is fear and confusion. But realize the brain often doesn’t get the evidence it wants, until AFTER it takes the leap of faith to trust the very strong, and ever present message of the heart – the message is to love oneself and others (this is the goal).
This is the way to unity and peace. There isn’t another way. There isn’t a fight to win. There is only the recognition to trust what is beyond limits. To transcend the limits and become conscious of the unity we are all already embedded within.
People throughout time looked and waited for a moment where love would come and uplift the world from it’s problems. But looking and waiting are futile, when the answer is already in our hands. Love is the actual answer to the problems. In this moment, we already have access to the infinite love we wait for. Love is flowing to and through each of us. We are the expressions of love. We are the manifestations of love.
All we have is this Sacred moment. NOW is the only moment that exists. It is all we ever have. It holds the totality of our entire being. It holds all love. The more we are connected to the Harmony of NOW, the more alive we are, in love, in the only moment that ever exists.
We are here to live out love’s abilities everywhere, all the time. Love’s abilities go beyond every limited context of mental measurements and judgments. Without trusting love, there is fear and confusion. But each of us can activate the infinite power of love in the present moment!
Unlimited Love Is:
Everywhere Now + Here Always = Everywhere Always
💖WHAT IS LOVE? An Embedded Trait, A Chosen State, An Action
A Love-Centric Perception / The Mind Of Love
The awareness of love/ the consciousness of love is available to everyone, when they are in the integrity of unconditional love. Unconditional means love’s experience is not dependent on conditions in order to exist. A person in this state is aware of love’s perception. Although our brains can’t see the whole context of all life, we can feel love in our hearts. In this way, we experience love, and manifest it into the world. We are each an expression of Love in physical form.
The Mind of Love knows Infinite knowledge. In this is the knowledge that peace is our organic/ natural relationship with every life. Ignorance of unity creates the illusion of separation. The illusion of separation does not change the fact that the world is operating as an interdependent system of life. We each experience this. We create our minds perception from within this experience. We can perceive from a self-centric operating system or from an unity-centric operating system. The mind of love empowers an experience from the unity-centric perspective.
The higher consciousness of love is not dependent on intellectual ability. Instead, it requires humility of the brain to admit being a part of something larger (love’s essence). Apart from love, the brain lacks any purpose beyond keeping a body alive. Ironically, when we realize and accept the brain’s limits ("blind spots"), greater information and wisdom become available.
Webster’s dictionary says “blind spots are the point in the retina where the light doesn’t enter in“. Look at what you think is a problem or dark spot in your life--a place the light isn‘t entering in. It is where you have a blind spot. Sadness and emptiness may be felt when a person is experiencing a blind spot. It’s not a problem without a solution. The solutions exist. But solutions may not look like what you expect to see. Look for solutions from the point of view of the higher mind of love. See blind spots as opportunities to fill the space with love.
Richard Bach writes, “A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, It feels an impulsion …‘this is the place to go now‘. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”
The consciousness of love requires confidence of the heart. Trust that love is able to understand a greater context, even before the practical information is available. We know this trust, when love informs our hopes and dreams. In trust, we act in love, with no immediate physical guarantees of the outcome. Acting in love is, in and of itself, productive. What is produced may be beyond the brain’s immediate perception.
Perceive the world as a place where you exist AS love and are made OF love. Nothing can take away your core of love. As love, be peace in the world. True peace is what is expressed into the world, unconditional on the environment. You can be at peace, and bring peace into the world, no matter the situation. See every situation as opportunity. Peace may include putting boundaries in place, in order to empower and express your true self. Peace is not passive. It is not aggressive. It asserts love into any moment.
Viewing the world from the mind of love is like having night vision goggles. Even in confusion, we can look for the wholeness our collective differences can create. We can look inside ourselves for peace of mind, and then extend out, until we find the path to connection. Here, we gain courage and wisdom to position ourselves for opportunity, even when all we see is impossibility.
As a Being of Love, respect your own life and all life. Spread love unconditionally. When the heart is moved by love to act, be fluid enough to be moved in life. Be an expression of love’s movement. Only depend on the perception of love/ spirit – only respond from this. Anything else leads to troubles.
According to Adam Curl, in Another Way: Positive Response to Contemporary Violence, peacemaking (within the self, a relationship, or the world), "is the science of perceiving that things which appear to be apart are one, and the art of restoring love to a relationship from which it has been driven by fear and hatred". See each person, each relationship, and the world as redeemed from what you saw before. Everything becomes meaningful through eyes that love all of life, and see each part of all life as interdependent with all other parts of life.
How can we understand and perceive Truth and Love, if they are so much more than a physical manifestation? We can see them by the unity they create. Truth and love are in all loving expressions and beliefs. Life is a creation and extension of Truth and Love in physical form. When we know we are extensions from one source, we realize we are each a part of all, united as One. We know love is a fabric we are each a part of and made of.
When we look into the sun with our eyes wide open, and then look away, we see the silhouette of it on everything. When we know love’s unity and look at the world, we see this unity of love, despite the shadows that dim the light over the ever-existing fabric of love.
Just as it is only because of background silence we are able to hear sound, it is only because of our unity that we are able to notice attempts to be isolated. Whether it is oneself or another, we feel the tug of one on the fabric of all. The illusion of separation does not change the existence of a unity-centric world operating system.
When we look at the Divine, with our heart wide open, our heart will see the Divine everywhere in the world around us. The more our hearts seek and experience Divinity, the more we see each life as holding Divine potential, as precious pieces of ourselves. We are each an extension of the Divine. In other words, we each make up the Divine. The Divine is never in danger of anything; but, we can miss the joy if we don’t intentionally train our brains to perceive the awesomeness of Divine love.
If you see a spot without love, fill it. If you see a gap or deficit in the unity, provide love to dissolve whatever is causing unity to be hidden.
💖CULTURAL Narratives In Trouble! Science+Love = Solutions
Your Power & Impact on Cultural Narratives & Understandings
Division is embedded into the modern cultural narratives of today. Transformative possibilities and solutions to world problems do exist. These solutions are like cargo ships holding necessary materials, and sitting out at sea. The reasons are many. But the root cause harkens back to the fact that so many cultural narratives promote division and distract from real solutions.
It is within our power and responsibility to access much needed solutions/ to bring love’s cargo ships into our ports. Love’s lighthouses must be turned on.
Collective Understanding is a critical component in the creation of cultural narratives. To understand something is to give meaning to it. Meaning is subjective. Meaning comes from an individual’s perspective. Within groups, individual understandings are joined together, forming a collective understanding. This does not suggest that the individual’s understandings are the same as each other. A collective understanding is made of various subjective perspectives. From collective understandings, we create structures and patterns, called Cultures. In turn, our cultures deeply influence each of our lives.
We all function together, creating the systems we live in. What we create is up to us.
How can we, as individuals, join our differences together to create cultural narratives and operating systems to benefit everyone? We have to be able to use our minds in beneficial ways. Scientifically speaking, when love is a foundational ingredient in our understandings and meanings, individuals and society can thrive.
Love is not isolated within a person. It lives in each one of us and belongs to no one. We each choose when to operate from love. Love is beneficial to each person. And when love benefits one, it benefits all, in very practical ways.
As individuals, we need to be able to think clearly in order to understand accurately. We each need to think for ourselves about what is beneficial. Being in the state of love promotes brain health and mental clarity. This is not a love that is conditional to circumstance, or directed to any specific thing or person. It is the state of love in general. Scientifically speaking, the state of love promotes production of the chemical oxytocin in the human body. Evidence suggests that oxytocin, made in the brain, is not only healthy for biological functioning, but it decreases anxiety, and it down-regulates behavioral and emotional reactivity to stressful experiences. This is important, because we have to use our brains to create our understandings. With less reactivity and anxiety, the brain is able to think more clearly and accurately. Specifically, there is more ability to utilize the part of the brain that operates critical thinking, self-control, long-term thinking, and creative problem-solving, along with other cognitive abilities. Evidence also suggests that the presence of oxytocin inhibits the production of some stress hormones, and promotes the experience and expression of pleasant feelings. Thus, being in the state of love increases access to more accurate and beneficial meanings and understandings. In turn, these enable each of us to responsibly create healthy connections and cooperation necessary for building resilient societies.
If love is not a foundational ingredient in creating collective understandings, collective meanings, cultural structures, and cultural patterns, then no matter how brilliant a culture may seem, it is guaranteed to sabotage itself. Ingredients like arrogance, fear, greed, aggression, and jealousy build cultural narratives and metaphors which create the illusion of separation. These ingredients block the insight necessary for building long-term solutions. Societies made of divisive cultural narratives live in a state of self-sabotage. They believe that one part of society is not interdependent with another part of society. This is like a cancer. These beliefs create what will destroy the society.
Love is like a lighthouse, offering everyone the guidance and ability to live together with wisdom, in peace, compassion, and kindness. If we don’t look towards love’s lighthouse, we will find ourselves grouped together in the dark.
It is our responsibility to infuse Love everywhere – especially where we least see it. If we don’t, people wander around in the dark listening to any voice that says, "You need to be afraid of what you can’t see”, or, “If you could see, here is what you would see”, or, “You need to adopt my thoughts”. It is no wonder people blindly follow deceptive narratives, when there is no love being shown to them.
Misery loves company. If someone is wondering around in the dark, scared, helpless, and powerless, is it any wonder they will try to create a false narrative to gain the illusion of connection, control, and power? Some will yell into the dark, "Come over here, I have what you are looking for!", and in the darkness, people will try to find and follow them. As long as deception is able to keep moving around in the dark, people will keep chasing it. In the dark, people are unable to perceive/to see their own power. As a result, they give away personal agency and control, hoping someone else will be able to save them and tell them what to see.
Love is an empowering lighthouse for our individual minds. It gives us personal agency to see others in love’s light. We must be lighthouses for each other. We have to bring light into the darkness. Just as light waves are used as a physical instrument to sight, and sound waves are a physical instrument to hearing, your life creates waves. Your life is a physical instrument, signaling others to see that their life is made of, and embedded in, the fabric of love. Assert yourself! Signal to others with your love’s light wave. It is your responsibility to see their love’s light for them until they can too. Share what you are perceiving and understanding as you build your own life without judgement or division. This is your responsibility in creating collective understandings. Your waves of love echo forever.
BE CLEAR that it is no one’s right to judge or resent anyone. This would be the opposite of love. Love is patient. You can’t put a time-limit on another’s arrival at the state of love.
Cultural transformation / creating a culture of love’s narratives, requires self-respect. Your life is your responsibility. You can’t respect yourself if you believe you are separate or isolated. Those are lies to yourself. Self-respect means you value your life and your impact in the world. Use your mind for critical thinking - meaning you think for yourself, you filter information with your integrity, and you don’t adopt cultural narratives at face value.
Look beyond any self-centric perception or fearful interpretation for your life. You are connected to everything; and so, you are significant to everything. Understand you are both a vessel of love AND an expression of love’s vessel.
One of the most important parts of self-respect is sharing love. See everyone as a vessel of love, just waiting to see themselves more clearly. This is a cultural narrative of love.
For the people who have been searching and mislead, they will eventually realize they have been deceived. This will happen when they understand the power of love they hold within themselves. But before this can happen, everyone needs to have the opportunity to be loved and accepted as they are.
The wisdom of Love knows that everyone is lovable, and in this is the knowledge to understand accurately, to see meaning for all of society and all of life. No one is alone, and the value of every life must be seen and understood. In this way, everyone can let go of fear and fear’s lack of power, thereby knowing love’s Power.
In a culture of love, everyone is valuable, meaningful, and seen as beautiful. No one is helpless or powerless after all.
Remember:
YOU are a vessel of Love, AND you are embedded within the larger vessel of Love. Every life is an expression of love.
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