Human conceptual understanding of reality has undergone a radical reformulation due to the explosion of graphic visual imagery, now with Dolby Surround Sound.

Categorization process' of the human mind have caused the compartmentalization of experiences in the subconscious to be incorrectly filed resulting in a misperception of reality.

For example, if you are watching a movie on a large screen with surround sound you feel as if you are within the reality you perceive with your eyes and ears. Consciously you are aware that you are sitting and watching an enactment of reality rather than actual reality but your subconscious does not always correctly compartmentalize this as just entertainment. In some ways the subconscious human mind makes this enactment of reality into your actual reality. The subconscious human mind does not have the ability to perfectly discern the difference between real world sights and sounds and entertainment sights and sounds.

Every individual, male or female, young or old, works all the time, consciously and subconsciously, molding themselves into the individual they wish or envision their self to be. This is natural in people as people have a large portion of their brains devoted to socialization.

Some men or women are more successful than the average person as the vision they hold of themselves contains the knowledge, consciously and subconsciously, which shows them the path in reality to convert their vision of themselves into reality.

Naturally this can only happen when the vision of self that is sought can, in reality, exist.

Some individuals are born with innate talent, a natural talent, to do that which they do well better than the average individual. Most 'talent' in men or women is not of this nature. Most 'talent' in men or women is derived from knowledge gained through experience.

The experience that will reveal the most knowledge is of the self interacting with the reality of the Earth.

Personal first hand experience with the reality of the Earth. Take a hike. The individuals with more talent are much more likely to have had a wide and diverse variety of personal first hand experience with the reality of the Earth. Plant a garden. Anyone that does any thing, except sit and be entertained, is gaining experience of the actual reality of the Earth.

To increase intelligence and talent do a variety of things. Learn to do different things. All humans set up behavioral patterns for themselves which appear comfortable in their minds. Many times this may be comfortable but by being comfortable it may not be challenging. To gain experience and knowledge of the reality of the Earth do some things that are challenging.

"Learn something new or undertake a challenge every day." - Mehmet Oz

"Every action of the hand and eye sculpts the soul." - Arthur Zajonc

The next best way to knowledge through experience is delving into other men's and women's experience through some form of communication.

Other men's and women's experiences can be communicated in a variety of ways.

One way is to share experience is through verbal communication.

I am standing here and you are standing here and we are talking. I am standing here and you are standing there and we are talking on a land or air phone line.

Another way is through written word.

Written word is based on speech and came into being after speech.
The written word can come in the form of newspapers, magazines, books, internet and/or anywhere there is a flat surface that symbols can be drawn or mounted on.

Pictograms, symbols cut in rock, were in use in Egypt and Mesopotamia 6000 years ago. In China the beginning of writing dates back about 30,000 years but formal writing dates back only about 5,000 years. Pictograms evolved into hieroglyphics when the meanings came to include verbs and phonetics. The emergence of advanced written language in places like Egypt, the city states of the Tigris and Euphrates and China was necessary as the need to orderly record and store information grew as the population grew.

The written word typically is based on speech or writing patterns that prevailed at the time. These speech or writing patterns may appear odd to a reader that has not been exposed to a variety of patterns of speech.

All spoken word evolves over time.

For the preservation of first hand experience and knowledge in the reality of the Earth in the past nothing compares with the written word.

Only through the written word can a society be considered to have a history, which is now especially true with the recent abandonment of the verbal art of storytelling in the industrialized countries.

Another way to communicate is through visual imagery.

One type of visual imagery is the images that are conveyed to us through a two dimensional process such as a photographs, oil/acrylic/pastel art painting, a televison screen, a billboard, a movie theater screen.

Of the five previously mentioned two dimensional imaging processes only one has been with humanity for thousands of years, the art painting on rocks, skins, cloth, etcetera.

The development of paper and the printing press made bill posting possible in Europe after about 1500. Lithography, a printing method developed in the 19th century, expanded the creative possibilities of advertising design. Posting "bills" on wooden boards in the late 19th century led to the birth of the term "billboard." Billboards have been with humanity for slightly over a hundred and fifty years

George Eastman invented flexible photographic film in 1884. Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera in 1887.

The first public demonstration of motion pictures was displayed in France in 1895. Moving pictures, movies, have been with humanity for slightly over a hundred years.

Televison has been with us for around sixty years.

In 1945 there were fewer than 7,000 working televison sets in America and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.

Verbal communication was the first way for humans to communicate and has been around for millennium.

Written communication appeared a few thousand years ago.

Visual imagery began to appear in public in the middle of the 19th century.

Visual imagery from televison has only been in American homes for about five decades.

Humanity has been communicating verbally for millennium, in writing for a few thousand years and in visual images in mass media for a few decades.

These last decades have caused a radical reformulation of thought in individuals exposed to this visual imagery and has profoundly affected their perception of reality and what is real.

What is a thought? Is it a verbal word? When I sit here and type I think the words that I want to type as I type them by verbally saying them to myself. I do not see a parade of alphabetic symbols in my mind. I do hear myself talking to myself in my mind. When doing this in reverse what I do is see the symbols and verbalize them in my mind. Once they have been verbalized in the mind several things can happen. Nothing happens; these words did not speak to me, they are just words. Or something can happen.

What is happening? Probably one of two things or a combination thereof;

First, the words I read are describing some thing and I can therefore visualize it in my mind. I feel a presence of place. I feel as if I have been transported to another time or another place in my mind. The presence of place that I feel within my mind is very, very similar to a memory.

Second, rather than feeling a presence of place I instead feel an emotion. I react emotionally to the image that the symbols written on the page are attempting to paint in my mind's eye. This emotional reaction was stirred up in my mind'seye because I could relate it to an actual memory that I carry in my mind. Although you feel the emotion you may not be able to identify the emotion's basis.

When that emotion occurs a flow of information has been pumped through your mind as you try to figure out on a subconscious level how this new information effects you.

Many times emotion is triggered by conscious thought, many times an emotional response is triggered by subconscious intuition.

In reality I sit in a chair and look at a series of symbols on a page. If those symbols can create the images in my mind's eye, as was their intention, then I am where ever the imagery brought about by the symbols has taken me, I am no longer in that chair. Consciously I sit here in the chair but subconsciously I live within the image. If the symbols have been carefully conceived and if they can convey the image they were meant to convey then at times my consciousness can be carried into that image. I am excercising the hermeneutic passions by empathetically entering into a text.

Any intelligent reader who reads carefully for pleasure should have an image of the state of consciousness the above set of symbols were meant to convey. The image in your mind's eye in all likely hood will be very similar to the image I intended to convey. But it can never be exactly the same.

We have experience that coincides as you and I have spent time together but we look out of different eyes. Your experience may be similar to mine but it is likely that although some images are the same, many, many, many more images will be different. Culture, social, and life experiences make us inherently different and make the images we form in our individual minds different.

As there are many differences between us it may be easier to convey image and emotion in carefully composed written word than there would be with me standing there and talking to you.

Thoughts, at times, appear easier to convey in written symbols.

If you enjoy literature you will understand when I say that men or women from all over the Earth throughout recorded history and civilizations have much more in common than they have differences.

Recorded history being that time in which two dimensional symbols that imitate speech were written on a flat surface. (Mathematical symbols also have been in operation since that time.)

Now let us carefully examine the mind/spirit/soul of a human.

I can do this but unfortunately I can only do it with my mind/spirit/soul since it is the only one in my possession. However I can examine my conclusions in light of the secondary knowledge that I have gleaned from men or women who have lived before me and who so studiously recorded their take on this whole situation of living life on Earth.

Emotions and their accompanying thoughts are hard to understand in many situations.

How do thoughts and emotions come about?

Thoughts and emotions are caused by things external to us in the world, yet they are only of us.

I really do not have to tell you what thought is as you already know that or you could not be looking at these symbols written on this computer screen and wondering - just what is his point and if he has one is he ever going to get there.

Emotion is a ‘feeling'.

Emotion is like a sense, like seeing, hearing, touch, smelling, tasting, and equilibrium.

Feeling an emotion is your body, your subconscious, reacting to a consciously perceived reality that your body, your subconscious, connects with a previous subconscious body memory.

Emotions, instinctual subconscious intuition, occur universally in all living organisms.

It is a requirement of survival to be able to differentiate between that which will cause an organism to thrive and that which would cause an organism to fall into premature corruption and die.

Those organisms that fail to use their instinct, intuition, drift in the direction of premature corruption and death, are unable to adapt to the ever changing environment and typically do not reproduce.

Conscious thoughts occur in all higher animals.

Frequency is debatable.

Thoughts are peripheral to survival and for an animal to survive they must be able to choose as the mouse chooses which direction to go in a maze.

We therefore know that higher animals possess emotion and thought.

Any one who owns a cat or dog knows this to be true.

What is the nature of thought and what is the nature of emotion?

Thought is that which occurs in the consciousness of living organisms and

emotion is thought which occurs in the subconscious of living organisms.

While thought can trigger emotion in many cases emotion triggers thought.

What triggers emotion?

Emotion is an automatic response, a response from the organic body which you inhabit, to conditions in the environment through which you move. You move through the environment even if you stay in one place as time is always flowing. Time never stops.

Since humanity has settled down into 'civilized' societies men and women have had to control their emotions.

Those emotions worked just fine to sustain life in the natural world but in the reality of the industrialized Earth we live in the present these emotions may be anti-thesis to the thoughts of a rational human.

When I was young, about fourteen, there was a period of time when I tried to compartmentalize my mind, to build a wall between my conscious self and my subconscious emotional self.

The Vietnam War was in full swing and young men I knew were being drafted and sent away to die in the jungles of southeast Asia.

As well the reality of the toxic effects of pollution was dawning upon the American consciousness.

Many days I could hardly breath as asthmatic attacks captured my lungs when the smog was so thick you could cut it with a butter knife.

I did not want to feel empathy towards living things.

I did not want to believe that men could act in such evil ways while proclaiming their righteousness .

The wall I built did not have a foundation in reality. My compartmentalization was faulty.

The wall crumbled. This compartmentalization of reality was not based on actual reality but a mispreceived reality.

I became very disoriented and confused.

My subconscious mind was unable to be neatly compartmentalized into a rational part and an emotional part that were both based within reality.

I had to acknowledge my emotion, even emotion based on mispreception, let it flow through me and work to understand the basis of those emotions.

In America today many, many individuals have built a compartmentalizing wall.

Some build a compartmentalizing wall with drugs.

Some build a compartmentalizing wall vicariously through celebrities.

Some build a compartmentalizing wall with religious dogma.

Some build a compartmentalizing wall with ideaological demarcation.

These individuals are detached from reality because they have detached themselves from the true nature of their own emotions.

I would guess that most of these people do not even realize that they have done this to themselves as it is an acceptable way to live in America, totally detached from reality.

One thing I do understand about these people is that their rejection of reality has made them extremely unhappy.

Watching people throughout my life I have seen that most people will avoid unpleasant thoughts if there is any way they possibly can.

These individuals do not like the emotional subconscious response that unpleasant thoughts create.

These individuals have built a wall compartmentalizing their emotions, subconscious, and their consciousness.

Individuals that have done this are going to be confused and disoriented when actual reality kicks them in the head.

These individuals are going to make bad decisions for their selves and for others because while they are trying to keep those emotions neatly penned inside that compartmentalizing wall they have also penned their intuitional understanding in with their emotions.

If you have cut yourself off from your emotion you have cut yourself off from your power of intuition and you have thus eliminated your greatest source of true knowledge based on your past actual experience of reality.

Remember this: your intuition is your subconscious sorting through all the experiences you have ever had.

Socrates called intuition a little voice in his head which told him not to do some particular thing.

Later men have titled this conscience.

People cut themselves off from emotion because they have been trained since early childhood in our modern industrial-corporate-mass media-dominated culture to control their emotions and to build a compartmentalizing wall. Pink Floyd did a whole album, The Wall on this mental wall, between the subconscious and the conscious.

With the advent of civilization humanity began the walk down this road to a walled fortress of compartmentalized rationality.

With the advent of our modern industrial-corporate-mass media-dominated culture this walled fortress of compartmentalized rationality, which allows us to cooperate with other humans has been built upon a faulty foundation based on misperceived reality.

Unfortunatly when the wall of compartmentalization is based upon a false reality men become spiritually corrupt. They are unable to live a full life because of their 'wall' and they therefore make faulty judgements.

Now let us return to way in which humanity expresses concepts or ideas.

Verbalization which has been around for millennium, the written word which has been around for several thousand years and visual imagery which has been around for a few decades.

Mankind has readily adapted to verbal communication and if you speak the same language then complex concepts can be transferred between individuals. It must be noted that although humans may speak the same language they will have differing images and concepts for the words that are spoken and the images and concepts they are trying to convey can not be conveyed as intended perfectly. Prior knowledge and differing experiences of the individual make it impossible for two people to hold absolutely the same image in reality. Therefore the image that is held in the mind of an individual can never be transferred perfectly to another mind. The new image formed must, by definition, be corrupt.

"When we are first exposed to an environment in which a language is being spoken, it is as if certain parameters in that built-in program are then fixed, and the program then runs upon the raw vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of the language that we hear. The scope, and level of sophistication, that will result from this process will vary from person to person and will be very sensitive to slight variations in experience." - John D. Barrow

With the written word as well there can never be a perfectly matching image. As previously stated prior experience requires that the perfect image can not be conveyed through any form of communication including the written word.

Throughout history men have tried to control the written word which means they have tried to control thought. People have been murdered, excommunicated, driven out of their homes and driven from their country because the words they spoke or wrote were anti-thesis to the men in control of their society.

America was the first country on Earth to allow free speech, but even in America recently men have still been killed and maimed for the thoughts and images they held in their minds that they attempted to express to the public.

Think John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, George Wallace and Larry Flint.

As the wise Chinese curse states, ‘may you live in interesting times' or possibly it should be written ‘may you live in times of change and upheaval'.

We now live in times of change and upheaval.

Much of this change is occurring because mankind has overpopulated and conquered the Earth.

Knowledge of reality has increased exponentially since the Age of Enlightenment began.

Now we have a major disconnect.

Within the last fifty years, after World War II, it has become popular to think that mankind or Americans can solve all problems quickly with technological innovation.

Mankind can not solve every problem.

Man is stuck in reality on this Earth.

Recently it has become popular to throw out the knowledge that mankind has gained throughout recorded history about his species and his place in the general scheme of life on Earth. Social and moral laws that go back thousands of years are no longer valid in the eyes of the men that have conquered nature.

Many people no longer believe they are a part of nature, they believe themselves to be above and beyond nature.

Separate from nature.

These people have been deceived.

In Judaism, Christianity and Islam mankind is charged with ‘original sin' and kicked out of the Garden.

This was the beginning of man's separation from nature.

Western man began his walk away from nature and reality at the time Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain.

Until the last hundred years most of mankind lived in rural areas close to nature and the religious separation from nature of the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were of little consequence to the Earth.

This is no longer true.

Man has walked down this road away from nature at an ever increasing pace since the advent of the use of visual imagery for communication.

This occurs because man's perception of reality has been increasingly corrupted by this visual imagery.

Words spoken are carefully analyzed for content and if any images or concepts are worth remembering then they are stored in memory.

This storage is a natural function and everyone at sometime or another will think back on a conversation and ponder the meaning of the message that was conveyed.

At the time this message may not have ‘sunk in' but now the message has become clear and easy to see.

The unclear message has just now become clear because there was a hole in one's knowledge that needed to be filled before the message became applicable to the listener.

This same thing is true with the written word.

Visual imagery stored in subconscious memory is an entirely different story.

Visual imagery has been around for a very short time in the history of mankind.

Man has not had time to adapt to the way in which visual imagery is sorted, analyzed and stored in subconscious memory - the way in which experience is compartmentalized.

Visual imagery has caused people to become ever more separated from reality.

If a human was a machine then visual imagery would not be a problem because the machine would easily be able to differentiate a two dimensional image from three dimensional reality.

This is not true with the organic mind of a human.

The organic mind of a human 'sees' visual imagery and stores it away in the subconscious.

When a man or woman makes a decision they use conscious thought process but they also use subconscious branding.

Does the decision I am making 'feel' right?

At this point their subconscious is sifting all the information previously stored in the mind of all the experience and knowledge they have obtained. The decision they make will either 'feel' right to them based on their previous experience and knowledge or it will 'feel' wrong. At this point they have a choice to either go with their 'feeling', their subconscious solution, or to reject their 'feeling' and go with their conscious considerations and deliberations.

Here is where a large part of the problem with visual imagery exists.

If your subconscious is unable to clearly define what is reality and what is not, then your intuition, your subconscious 'feeling', will not be true to reality and you will make a decision based on a visually stimulated subconscious 'reality' that does not truly exist in reality.

People that say that all their decisions are based on carefully thought out considerations and deliberations and that their subconscious or intuition had nothing to do with their decision are liars. (See branding.)

Either they are lying to you or they are lying to themselves!

These individuals may have built such a thick compartmentalizing wall that they do not even know their own selves.

Their mind/spirit/soul has been effectively separated from their body.

These individuals can never make a proper decision because they refuse to acknowledge the reality that subconscious emotions play a part in every decision ever made.

Visual imagery that bombards the minds of these individuals will still be sorted and stored but it will not be stored in the ‘fantasy compartment' it will be stored in the 'reality' compartment because they do not even know there is a compartment at all.

These individuals do not have a clue as to how their own thought process' work and their subconscious compartments of reality and fantasy have a fuzzy undefined boundary.

Decisions will be based on a false reality that does not exist in the world of substance on Earth.

Imagination is an image in one's mind in which a possible solution to a existing problem presents itself.

This image may be a fantasy or may be a vision, a possibility in reality on Earth.

Fantasy is an image in one's mind in which the immutable truths of nature have been abridged.

Vision is an image in one's mind which looks forward in time to a point in which an imagined thing becomes knowledge of it's existence in reality.

Vision has also been called foresight, prescience, presentiment and precognition. In the past individuals that used foresight to foretell events or predict the future were called soothsayers, seers, oracles or prophets.

As a simple example imagine that I have a vision of what a room would look like painted. From my previous experience and knowledge I can expect and see an image in my mind, a vision of the future, a time when the room will be painted and will look the way I have, at this time, envisioned it in my mind's eye. Although the image in my mind does not exist in reality it can exist in reality if I make it come true.

There is a problem in how the individual uses imagination to differentiate fantasy vision from true vision of reality.

This is were spitual corruption comes in.

The subconscious plays a major role in bringing images into the imagination.

The subconscious can only bring into the imagination images that have been successfully stored there previously. Incorrectly stored images create a future vision of reality that is false.

Images that have been incorrectly differentiated between fantasy and reality in the subconscious compartments of fantasy and reality cause mistakes in one's imagination. It may be believed that a solution, a vision, has been found which will solve a problem in reality when in reality the imagination has grasped onto a fantasy as a solution.

Young people will and always have had a problem of differentiating between fantasy and vision in the mind.

Personal experience is the best way to be able to differentiate in the imagination between an image that is a vision and an image that is a fantasy.

Trail and error shows us over time what is real and what is a fantasy.

The explosion of visual imagery that floods our minds in this day and age make it even harder for the subconscious to differentiate between fantasy and reality, especially in youthful minds.

People that have built compartmentalizing walls in their mind to lock out the emotions and feelings of their subconscious can never make wise decisions as they have excluded most of their knowledge.

If you have vivid dreams that you can remember when you awaken then you are in touch with your subconscious.

If you trust your intuition and use it to help make decisions then you are in touch with your subconscious.

If neither of the previously mentioned is true for you then you have shut out your subconscious and I truly doubt that you are a happy individual.

As well you have allowed yourself to become totally spitually corrupt.

If you have dreams and trust your subconscious intuition then at least you are not totally spitually corrupt.

How do you know if your subconscious is relaying valid information?

This is where experience, judgement, discernment and wisdom come into play.

When I look at America today it appears to me that many, many individuals in positions of power, in the media and those I see at the mall or walking downtown streets have none to very little power of judgement, discernment and wisdom .

This is caused by two things.

One is lack of actual experience in the reality of the Earth.

The other is that these individuals have become corrupted by visual imagery and their own fantasies causing the vision they hold in their minds to be of an Earth that does not and can not exist in reality.

Remember as you envision yourself so you become.

If your vision is false then you will have built a fantasy world of an Earth that does not and can not exist in reality.

"Human beings are what they understand themselves to be; they are composed entirely of beliefs about themselves and about the world in which they inhabit." - Michael Oakeshott

In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America Daniel Boorstin stated that Americans increasingly live in a "world where fantasy is more real than reality," and he warned, "We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make our illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that we can live in them."