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To: uu who wrote (317)	10/31/2001 3:29:12 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

Addi: (from the vantage point of my own Path) Generally speaking there is no such thing as objectivity, for the reason that, while everything arises in the Divine, that which is EXPERIENCED, is a heavily filtered subset of that, with the filtering device being the ego or the self-contraction. People THINK that when they look at something they are objectively observing it, and that they see what "it" is. However, for example if you check into what the eye's seeing apparatus is (just for one example) you will find that the eye picks up points of light and CONSTRUCTS an image. And that image is constructed out of many elements, including one's previously recorded experience. Thus, if you have had a bad history of violent dog bites, you will see dogs "differently" than the guy who loves all dogs. Each guy thinks he is seeing things objectively. Actually they are seeing things SUBJECTIVELY. About 99.9% of the observations made about things, that purport to be "objective" are just other opinions and 100% subjective. On top of that, my teacher says: YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT ANYTHING IS. You may know a lot ABOUT something (or think you do). Do you know what a dog IS? A cat? An ash tray? Anything? IS? We live in a world in which everybody thinks that they objectively KNOW everything (just because they are experiencing something or other subjectively). Actually we exist in a world in which no one truly understands the IS-ness of anything. NO one! Now are you sorry that you asked? <ggggg> Namaste! Jim