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it really is. In our on-going yearning for

gratification of our suppressed but authentic

needs, we unconsciously – imperceptively –

overlook and ignore vital elements in the

presenting world-field. We may be looking at

the world around us, but to a greater or lesser

extent we are only selecting those elements

that fit in with a fixed, unchanging and

obsolete world-view. The fact is, that what

passes for reality is always, to a greater or

lesser extent, a personal construct. We don’t

perceive the actuality – the nuts and bolts – of

what’s before us at any given moment. You or

I, looking at precisely the same physical field,

will isolate, become aware of, only those

elements that represent, remind us of,

unresolved emotional conflicts from our

personal past. So then, at any particular time,

what we perceive – what goes to make up our

personal reality – doesn’t necessarily have

anything to do with the purely physical

properties of the world around us, but is