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perception undermines sense of life

Dukk, from the guest registry, wrote: “The principle of perception undermines the typical sense of life. Think above this.”
My book (available soon) contains a ten- page chapter on sense perception. I have a roughed out feel for my sense of perception, but I’d really like to hear from others.

Dukk’s use of words is interesting. I don’t know if he intended a double meaning in his suggestion to “think above this,” but I’d like to hear your opinions on two points.
My first thought, when reading dukk’s piece, was that dukk wasn’t a native speaker of English in which case he really meant, “think about this.” But then I thought that what he was also asking, literally, might have been a challenge to think above our regular senses for the answers.


When I thought about dukk’s comment that “…perception undermines the typical sense of life” it struck an inner chord. Does our personal definition of reality undermine the deeper or deepest sense of reality because it has been filtered through a tight funnel (our perceptions)?
The act of perception defines our reality. In other words, the world is what we think it is. But is there a higher (or deeper) reality not limited by mere perception?

Four questions:
1) Is there a reality above the only one we perceive?
2) If there is a higher reality, then what is it?
3) Is it possible for individuals to access the deepest sense that perceives “above” reality?
4) How?

I’d like to hear your ideas.
Thank you, dukk
Jack Livingston




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