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Sunny · 03-15-2007, 05:09 PM

When discussing objective vs subjective reality it is important to have an understanding of the Levels of Consciousness (LOC) as described by Hawkins. Our individual and unique experience of reality (note the lower case "r") gradually changes as we move through the LOC. So instead of thinking about it in black and white terms we need to think of it more as shades of grey. At the lower ends of the LOC your experience is of a mostly objective world, where everything is separate from you. There is a tipping point between "Courage" and "Neutrality." In these middle ranges your experience is more of a balance between objective and subjective, where you begin to focus on relationships with others and even community. There is another tipping point between "Reason" and "Love". At the higher LOC your experience becomes more dominated by the subjective and you begin to focus on the unity of all things. As you move through the LOC your experience of reality (note the lower case "r") gradually gets closer and closer to true Reality (note the upper case "R") as described my all of the great mystical teachers such as Buddha, Jesus and Krishna so that when you reach the highest state of Enlightenment you are experiencing Reality (note the capital "R") yourself which is purely subjective.

So the reason it is difficult to discuss the concept of objective vs subjective reality with others is because we are all at different LOC so our experience of reality is different. When you are at one LOC you "resonate"

with others at your same level so you tend to flock together, you think the people at a LOC below you are "immature"

and you think that people at a LOC above you are "crazy"

. I put the words "resonate", "immature" and "crazy" in quotes because once you understand this concept you stop judging people for where they are and begin to realize that everyone is in the perfect place for their own personal evolution and that no LOC is better or worse than another. An additional complicating factor to understanding objective vs subjective reality is that our LOC may be evolving during our own lifetime so our experience of reality tends to change on us.

So the bottom line is that your experience of an objective or subjective world is relative to your LOC. So by playing around with the idea of subjective reality you are likely to raise your LOC and you might even jump to the point where you begin to experience your own reality in a totally different way. Now that is cool.............

03-15-2007, 05:09 PM	#17 (permalink)
Sunny Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 39	When discussing objective vs subjective reality it is important to have an understanding of the Levels of Consciousness (LOC) as described by Hawkins. Our individual and unique experience of reality (note the lower case "r") gradually changes as we move through the LOC. So instead of thinking about it in black and white terms we need to think of it more as shades of grey. At the lower ends of the LOC your experience is of a mostly objective world, where everything is separate from you. There is a tipping point between "Courage" and "Neutrality." In these middle ranges your experience is more of a balance between objective and subjective, where you begin to focus on relationships with others and even community. There is another tipping point between "Reason" and "Love". At the higher LOC your experience becomes more dominated by the subjective and you begin to focus on the unity of all things. As you move through the LOC your experience of reality (note the lower case "r") gradually gets closer and closer to true Reality (note the upper case "R") as described my all of the great mystical teachers such as Buddha, Jesus and Krishna so that when you reach the highest state of Enlightenment you are experiencing Reality (note the capital "R") yourself which is purely subjective. So the reason it is difficult to discuss the concept of objective vs subjective reality with others is because we are all at different LOC so our experience of reality is different. When you are at one LOC you "resonate" with others at your same level so you tend to flock together, you think the people at a LOC below you are "immature" and you think that people at a LOC above you are "crazy" . I put the words "resonate", "immature" and "crazy" in quotes because once you understand this concept you stop judging people for where they are and begin to realize that everyone is in the perfect place for their own personal evolution and that no LOC is better or worse than another. An additional complicating factor to understanding objective vs subjective reality is that our LOC may be evolving during our own lifetime so our experience of reality tends to change on us. So the bottom line is that your experience of an objective or subjective world is relative to your LOC. So by playing around with the idea of subjective reality you are likely to raise your LOC and you might even jump to the point where you begin to experience your own reality in a totally different way. Now that is cool.............