See, there's this thing called 'binocular vision' which applies to the mind's perspective as well as sight.
Monocular vision is what you have when you look at something with only one eye. Everything looks flat and immobile... It seems to be all one thing. For someone with only one eye to see depth in anything they have to change, move so the background changes in relation to the foreground. Then they can see the depth of it, they can see what is behind the seemingly seamless foreground.
Binocular vision allows two points of view on the object, revealing the background, which allows a 3-D perspective. Then moving strengthens the 3-D view and a greater understanding comes from the sight.
For minds, we each are perspectives of the same Universe, the same One, but we are single mental perspectives, and to get any real understanding we need other people's perspectives. This gives the mind a kindof 3D perspective of reality, allowing us to see the depth of what is really happening. Without that second, third, fourth, etc, perspective, we cannot see any depth, and things not only seem flat and fixed, but with no possibility of real change. Especially we cannot see what is hidden by the foreground, which for the mind, is usually our fear driven illusions produced by our subconscious.
So to see what is really going on, either other perspectives have to be involved, other people, or we have to change ourselves. This is why it is said; 'Change yourself and the world changes.' Changing ourselves gives us more depth, giving us a greater understanding of what happened or is happening by shifting our mental perspective.
Now the Universe, in every atom, energy, every part, is changing all the time. But our minds are virtual... that is, they do not exist in the same way that matter or energy exists... even while made up of matter and energy. It is possible to petrify the mind into a fixed perspective by either constantly reinforcing a mental perspective, or by rejecting all other data coming in, but it is rarely a conscious process.
This petrifaction is caused primarily by fear, often deep unconscious fear, which we are afraid to investigate or become aware of... All fears, especially unconscious fears, are fixed places in our minds loaded with emotional memories, often amplified by imagination, but they are virtual also, which means, like all data, they can be changed easily once we become aware of it.
The process is called 'self-examination', and requires a level of courage that few can come up with unless they make a conscious decision to generate that courage. Courage is when you face something despite the fear, rather than avoiding it, and that barely applies to events outside the mind. It takes far greater courage to self-examine than to run into a cage full of hungry lions to save a child. For some, even thinking about some 'axiomatic' subconscious assumptions produces major anger and a desire for violence, and those people have no idea where that anger comes from.
Humans have a social instinct. Socializing and communicating are ‘hard wired’ into us. This is because being able to create virtual constructions of Universe in our minds has immense survival value. It allows us to perceive larger scales of reality beyond our little personal lives. But for that to work for our benefit, it requires us to self-examine and clean out our subconscious so we can use the ‘binocular’ perspective gained from that socializing and communication to see Universe with depth, without mind distorting fear.
The goal is to become unattached. Becoming unattached recognizes our actual relationship with Universe here and now, that we are ‘standing wave’ patterns of matter, energy, and attention that exist only as patterns made up of the greater whole, in our case, this planet’s ecosystem sustained by this star’s solar energy.
This is not theory or conjecture. This is clean observation of the fact we have to eat, sleep, drink, defecate, urinate, communicate, and share with others. That there is a constant flow of the outside into us and back out of us, by which we exist. This is an observation that does not conflict with any religious or philosophical opinion because without this, we would not exist to have any religious or philosophical opinion.
To experience reality clean of subconscious is to lose all fear. And it’s only perceived through binocular thinking/communicating. We cannot gain that natural perspective only within our own minds, we need each others input to accomplish that vision.
Knowing what we really are shows the value immeasurable in people and the environment. All concepts of ‘superior/inferior’ disappear, and we find that the whole, and every part of the whole, is of greater value than any opinion or anything conceptual. It takes us beyond violence, beyond hate, beyond emotion, beyond theory, and love and beauty beyond imagination is what we find everywhere.
It's all very simple...
