• Perception without Judgement

    by Alexander Becker on November 13, 2006 | Link

    Every piece of information is interpreted upon entering our mind and eventually our memory. By delaying the process of interpretation or judgement and by relying on the original data, we can achieve better results and prevent struggling with second-hand thoughts, caused by interpreted interpretations.

    Gather and collect as much information as you can. Always take care to keep and save the input in as raw an unprocessed state as possible. You want the subject of your perception uninterpreted and unlabeled.

    Since all perception is subjective, any expressive image is an uninvited disturbance of an ideal, pure reality as perceived by an arbitrary, third person observer. The prejudice is one of the reasons for the biblical prohibition of imagery of any kind --

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth. Exodus 20:4 (King James Version)

    The freezing of any perception as it is done with any graven image disturbs and misleads the efforts of observing and perceiving through your own filter exclusively. What is the result of combining two filters? Another filter, a third way of perceiving the exact same thing. The image, once observed by its creator through his filter and which you would see in a completely different way through your filter creates the illusion of a different reality without actually changing reality itself.

    Your perception is tainted by your judgement. Pre-judging is almost always post-judging. You apply prior knowledge, experience, and learned patterns to whatever new situation you encounter. You make your environment yours in a way that you filter each and every thing, even the smallest impression and label it as this or that.

    Judging attempts to create reality instead of accurately and passively registering it. The final outcome of continuous judging is reality eventually giving in and delivering what judgement implicitly predicts.

    Why do you think are traffic accidents so hard to resolve? Why is it that witnesses, even the ones who are not directly involved, contradict one another and are in many cases willing to swear that their version is the only correct depiction of what happened. They, you, I, everybody filters their input and only stores an interpretation of perception inside our memory.

    I do not suggest to not organize your gathered knowledge but instead of pre-judging everything, why not save the source information and judge -- if you have to judge at all -- dynamically within its respective context and always using the original data.

    Try to consciously perceive, for one day, only raw information and avoid judging or labeling or categorizing it. You will be amazed by the excess energy you have left at the end of that day. Not judging frees valuable cycles that your mind keeps uselessly spinning all the time. Everything is so much easier, more calm and more real without judging -- more real as in closer to life itself and farther away from wishful thinking or fearing. Try it out for yourself.

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