My Perception

http://inlink.gaia.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:04:10 GMT

A conception, the state of being conceived, by opinion, an interpretation, whereas a perception is to know by means of intuition, or appreciation, one can be made consciously aware by opinion, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is not an opinion; it is a perception. If I ask you how you feel about this or that, not how you think about it, your answer is not an opinion; it is your perception.

My question: Do you have a right to your perception, for example, on the right to life, and if so should the question be decided by vote? A conception deals with external matters, perception with the inner self.

When I say look within for answers, how do I feel about it? I'm granting you the privilege of deciding the right answer for you. Is the right to life an external or an internal issue? Is God, the giver of life, an external or internal issue? When I say you possess God internally, an external God does not possess you, I'm removing all concepts of God, allowing you, individually, to perceive God.

Do you know how you would perceive God? Would you perceive God frowning on everyone who does not believe in your perception? I don't think so. It is only those who conceive God who say others are going to hell. Were that concept true we're all going to hell.

You are aware that you are a conscious entity, perhaps like a drop in the ocean of consciousness? Would a drop in the ocean not want to contribute to the whole? If we exist in a state of conscious awareness, without boundary, endless, then there is more than we conceive. Would we conscious beings not sanctify human life if we perceived of our coming from one universal consciousness? Is it not the numerous conceptions of God that bring about human suffering?

I don't allow anyone to conceive God. They are making themselves God. It is dangerous to my health. Would I be willing to grant you the privilege of individual perception, say on the right of life, were I not certain of my own perception? I'm confident that you would not perceive a God that would deprive me of life, or liberty, or pursuit of happiness.

What kind of a world would it be if we each were granted the right of perception; authority would not have the right to conceive an end, concerning our lives, and pass laws that justify that end. Would we perceive a brutal, uncaring world for all those who do not favor that end? I don't think so. Would not each and every one of us count?

By turning our lives over to authority, we are saying we don't have the right to perceive; we should jump through authority's hoops. Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter. What was true yesterday is true tomorrow. We are living 5,000 years in the past. We don't know what kind of a world this would be if the individual had the privilege of perception.

The facts say we've never yet believed we are fully human, that we have the gift of limitless conscious awareness, but let me tell you the energy is building for a vast change.

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My Perception