From the Zero Drafts: 8 Jan 2015

In the three years since I wrote what follows about the social significance of perceiving energy, I've only distanced myself further from accepting the consensus view of how the world works.

This admittedly brings up some fear. In trusting that viewpoint, how do you avoid devolving into alienation or worse with the rest of the world? You know--"Oh, when will these poor benighted people come to their senses!"

I see it this way: energy awareness is like bringing color to a world that had previously been seen only in black and white. Given how vastly better my life has become since my awakening into the reality of energy flow, a vast potential for a change for the better exists in our world, as more and more people have the opportunity to finally see the world in color.

It's a funny thing when you start having experiences that you realize (a) are actually happening and (b) you can't talk about with just anyone because you'll sound crazy. And it's true, too, that sometimes you'll feel crazy. Because what's the evidence that (a) is true? Your subjective experience? Isn't trusting your subjective experience over the consensus reality of those around one of the signs of craziness?

And yet I have no doubt that what I'm experiencing is, in fact, there to be experienced. It's not a crazy piece of mind-created nonsense. That not everyone perceives it so directly … well, that's just how it is. If you've ever listened to music with a highly skilled musician and heard her describe to you things that you cannot hear until they're pointed out, or maybe cannot hear at all--subtle gradations of intonation, for example--you might have a sense of what kind of perceiving I'm talking about. What she hears is there to be heard. You just haven't developed the skills to hear it.

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