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a given place at a given time, facing in the same

direction but with different internalised needs,

are capable of subjectively perceiving two

entirely different versions of reality.

And that goes for all of us. By the subjective

process we call ‘attention’, each one of us has

the ability to construct uniquely different

realities from any presenting field. The

perceived foreground is an individually

meaningful pattern that spontaneously

separates itself from the background - the

presenting material world - in response to the

perceiver’s over-riding psychic state. What we

perceive as being real is precisely what we

need to perceive at any given moment. We

look at flames, at passing clouds, or at patterns

tea-leaves make at the bottom of a drained

cup, and every one of us will see different

images in them. Our perception, by its very

nature, will scan the presenting field in order

to isolate a foreground image that is personally