Auras/Chakras/Energy Question Regarding Clearing

[zenmaster]

zenmaster - I understand perception as an interpretation of our sensory information, that is based on our beliefs, biases, and assumptions. So I thought perceptions may be evaluated. Could you explain what you mean by perceptions not needing evaluation?

I meant that perceptions can exist without evaluation, whereas beliefs can not. Once you evaluate something and it goes into memory you then can form some belief and that belief can then become part of a worldview. A perception is like sensory input, what you touch or feel, or what is presented to awareness, from the unconscious, via the faculty of intuition.

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Thank you for that explanation, Spaced.

Perhaps we are speaking of two different modes of perception.

Yes.

From an observer self (or some call it true self) observation/perceptions are neutral, "it-is-what-it-is." No judgment, no meaning.

Yes. The meaning has not yet been assigned. Things presented to your conscious awareness based on what you are capable of accepting and your current distortions will form a pattern or dynamic. You first see the pattern or dynamic without engaging rationality.

For another aspect of self, perception is an interpretation of a phenomenon based on beliefs,biases, values, and assumptions. Thus perception from this level is based on a meaning system that we construct through cultural, societal upbringing.

Yes, then it depends more on context. I perceive a principle vs I believe in a principle has vastly different meaning.