“Our egos take the path of least resistance”, according to one of the interviewees in the documentary People v. The State of Illusion. This hit home for me because I notice myself wanting the easy, instant gratification whenever possible, even though I know that the path of least resistance will not take me to where I want to be in the long run. Another good quote from this film is: “We create what we expect to see. ” This reminds me of Plato’s Theory of forms, where he postulates that there is a world, separate from our physical world, where the perfect version of all things (called “Forms”) exists.
Plato believed that our souls learn the Forms before our birth (in between physical life experiences, in heaven), so everything we see in this world we call reality is actually not real: we only see what we expect to see, based off of our innate knowledge of the Forms. This makes a lot of sense to me because everything is always changing, and everything is connected: so how come we see separate entities when we look at the world? Plato’s answer would be that this is because we are simply using our knowledge of the Forms to make sense of what we are seeing.
The most powerful and shocking piece of info I got from this documentary is that perceptions and thoughts can and do affect inanimate objects such as computers and other electronics. It makes sense because it is our thoughts and perceptions that create these inanimate objects in the first place. This is not to say that you can create and destroy things simply by thinking it, but that the process of creation, modification, or destruction is set in motion the moment you start perceiving and thinking about the object in question. It is therefore very important to watch our thoughts and perceptions of the world around us: we are creating reality.
People v. The State of Illusion “Our egos take the path of least resistance”, according to one of the interviewees in the documentary People v. The State of Illusion. This hit home for me because I notice myself wanting the easy, instant gratification whenever possible, even though I know that the path of least resistance will not take me to where I want to be in the long run. Another good quote from this film is: “We create what we expect to see. ” This reminds me of Plato’s Theory of forms, where he postulates that there is a world, separate from our physical world, where the perfect version of all things (called “Forms”) exists.
Plato believed that our souls learn the Forms before our birth (in between physical life experiences, in heaven), so everything we see in this world we call reality is actually not real: we only see what we expect to see, based off of our innate knowledge of the Forms. This makes a lot of sense to me because everything is always changing, and everything is connected: so how come we see separate entities when we look at the world? Plato’s answer would be that this is because we are simply using our knowledge of the Forms to make sense of what we are seeing.
The most powerful and shocking piece of info I got from this documentary is that perceptions and thoughts can and do affect inanimate objects such as computers and other electronics. It makes sense because it is our thoughts and perceptions that create these inanimate objects in the first place. This is not to say that you can create and destroy things simply by thinking it, but that the process of creation, modification, or destruction is set in motion the moment you start perceiving and thinking about the object in question. It is therefore very important to watch our thoughts and perceptions of the world around us: we are creating reality.
