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about the past – ‘unfinished business’ – that

distort our perception of what’s going on

around us and prevent us from presently

seeing the world as 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. What

passes for ‘reality’ is always, to a greater or

lesser extent, a personal construct - looking at

precisely the same physical field, you or I will

isolate, become aware of, only those elements

that represent, remind us of, unresolved

emotional conflicts from our personal past.

...and how we can get really ‘real’ again!

The idea of perception as a dynamic and

subjectively creative process first saw the light