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meaningful. Instead of perceiving the totality

of the world as it really is so that we can

respond to present actuality in an appropriate

way, our attention is focussed on scanning the

present field for patterns that relate to

unadmitted, internalised and therefore

unresolved feelings 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,