Reality Orientation
Quote:
A normal state of consciousness is characterized by immobilization of a structured frame of reference in the background of attention which supports, interprets and gives meaning to all experience. This frame of reference remains a superstructure of consciousness only by means of active mental striving, which in fact it is not usually conscious.
~ Shor
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Quote:
All our views of reality are conditioned by an unspoken model of the world - and that model is always arbitrary and limiting. It is mistake to take a model of reality for the reality itself.
~ Stephen Forrest
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In other words:
We all have personal subconscious patterns of the psyche that are also part of a functional collective subconscious patterning or ‘programming’ and it seems, that during the first 3 to 5 years of age, a child becomes acquainted to this collective unspoken model of reality, which then for the rest of one’s life forms a kind of subconscious 'core-system' way of automatic subconscious functioning.
Unless we do become transparent to our own ‘unspoken programming of the psyche’ i.e. become aware of our own subconscious ways we perceive reality as reality i.e. our superstructure - we cannot see or we cannot even fathom that other 'programs' exist, imagining our own particular "reality orientation" to be the all-encompassing-reality.
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Lucid dreaming is just lucid dreaming – some people learn it, doesn’t matter what background.
If one says ‘shamanic lucid dreaming’, one will add something to that ability, which isn’t necessarily there. Same with ‘journeying’. If one thinks it makes one a shaman, one is a fool and will only find fool’s gold. ‘Journeying’ is just a tool.
What does make a difference though is the reality orientation of the tool user.
New age neo shamanism pins it to the Western unspoken model of the world, but like out of context, because it is the ‘shamanic reality orientation’ which gives rise to shamanic phenomena.
When indigenous children were taken away from their communities, they lost the connection to their culture - their original collective unspoken way of functioning was replaced by another model.
The place where I worked a bit, I saw some of these people come back in efforts to reconnect to their cultural roots.
With Elders present, some of them from a few minutes up to a few days got it and shifted/switched orientations. Some never could - no matter how much aboriginal data knowledge they acquired and/or how many of the old practices they learned.
Don’t know if I was able to express this, so that it would make sense … ?
We all see through a cultural prism, but often we do not recognize the prism itself.
And when your ‘indigenous’ cousin/uncle - brother sells your culture, but now through a prism of another's – this is worrying.