I am back, and posting again, and impressed at the changes.  Bruce and I share at least one thing in common that I know of, and that is, our intellectual background was grounded in science (he as an engineer, and I as a physician).  I suppose that those who have this grounding look for evidence in a very orderly way, and I am guilty of this to some extent....today I am interested in those who have addressed thier own perceptual blocks - things that hinder us from experiencing different focus levels and awareness. 

I have read of removing perceptual blocks (mostly through Bruce's work) and discarding outdated or unnecessary beliefs in order to advance our perceptions.  I am quite open to this. 

I am curious, to those of you who have succeeded in removing perceptual blocks and beliefs that hinder us, how it changes your day-to-day existence in our shared reality.

In other words, on an intellectual level, we can discard the block of perception or let our higher self no it is no longer needed.  But how, after doing so, does it affect your day-to-day routine (not just your routine when exploring or in meditation)?

I'm interested, as usual in hearing your own experiences - as I think these have the most weight.....

Best,

Matthew

Losing perceptual blocks.  It happens ALL the time.  In the last four days I have learned that I can listen to my dreams because they are true.  I have also learned - again - that everything is connected.

#1 My sister called me in tears thinking her cat was run over 2 blocks from home after a 2 week search.  My dream the previous evening was about her.  We were flying happily in a balloon over the countryside where we viewed 2 horses in a field by the river.  2 days later, before the cremation, she and several other people (it took that many) determined with great care that it was NOT her cat.  There was a connection between the 2 cats, the 2 horses, the happy dream, and the reality that occurred.  Yes, a cat died, but "our" view of reality was correct in my dream.

#2 I decided to change my forum name.  I took a name which came from "nowhere" in a poem I wrote as a teen.  I decided to look up the name to find out its meaning.  Its meaning is "hope."  I decided I wanted to post a poem for my first post with the new name.  I looked up "hope" on the web and the first entry was a poem by Keats named "To Hope."  It was fitting in every way to describe my entire experience of the moment.  Keats was a large book of poetry I carried around in my teen angst years.  I posted the poem, then posted his birth/death dates.  I looked again for more information.  I found out that I was UNWITTINGLY posting this poem ON his birth date, which was the day of the dead.  

These sorts of experiences REMOVE perceptual blocks and create awareness of the connectedness of ALL things.  Only when we are searching with full awareness will we see this.  It causes me want to open my eyes, all of them, completely.

nadia

One often heres of mystics who see peoples' auras, and such.  My question, I suppose is not how to incorporate PUL into my life, but how were the perceptual blocks removed, and did one suddenly have new perception that lasted  - or was it more subtle.

There is an old Zen dictum that says to effect: "before I studied Zen the mountains were just mountains, the sea was just the sea.  While studying and going on my quest for knowledge, the mountains were no longer mountains they were more, the sea was no longer the sea.    When I reached enlightenment - the mountains were again mountains and the sea was again the sea."


I'm not sure if that helped. 

M

nice thread. my experiences sometimes come from books first. one such book made me feel like I was nothing but a program. hard to accept it, but I was. a program of conficting belief systems. so then after learning this was how it was I took 20 years to experience whether it was true..that I was a robot.

then various experiences happened as I focused in on this idea my mind was programmed. knowing this, I am like Recoverer, who says he is not afraid to die anymore. a great weight has been lifted when fear leaves.  more and more I would follow Bruce's technique learned from his books to engage a belief system and debate it. perceptions of reality lead to a belief system. were my perceptions of reality correct? or incorrect?
If I found I had a perception of being "less than" another whom I compared myself to, then I found I was holding an incorrect perception to limit myself in self expression. if I corrected my perception that the person whom I was comparing myself to, who was more accomplishing, or whom displayed a persona which made me feel "less than" if I corrected myself then there was more PUL in my life and more balanced perspective.
then guidance was there, and seemed guides even took form to become people. I prefer to call them people although non/physical. these guides would slip me phrases sometimes. one day I asked "what is an emotion?" as clearly, have too many emotions. the guides said "emotion is the barometer of spiritual well being." I said "huh?"
It is not that I can disect a feeling and make it scientific and logical in an instant, but not a good thing to ignore feelings either, as they can lead you into your conflicting perceptions which have a strong belief system program attached to them.
I think our society very technical minded, very mental society. would that we could be like the Italians who recognize their feelings to give voice to them..makes for some hilarious living to be more balanced and self expressive within non-judgment of what is good versus what is bad..it is to allow all life forms their expression without condemnation provides a gateway to express PUL. In my disc therefore must live a Jewish Italian grandmother who overfeeds her family with goolashe and which they oblige her because her voice is louder but they are never hungry in her house, perhaps overwieght, but not hungry

getting off topic again. basically, I'm talking about balanced viewpoints...and PUL too.  to percieve correctly I would have to balance the mental areas with the emotional areas, to do that, I would have to respect what I felt. as feelings were in essence, a communication to myself. if I stuffed the feeling, then I stuffed communication. I would have to trust myself then and get over fear of expressing feelings. another way to define this idea is we get first impressions and sometimes this first impression is very correct but we wish to see something else. I would say correct perception is to simply ask another if you are correct or incorrect in your impression and let them create for their own satisfaction to define who they are.

this sort of interplay does create many hilarious and lively conversations...

thanks for coming back here Doc, you make me open up!

For me, PUL, and how it comes from our prime source, is a strong motivation for losing limiting ideas.

Regarding seeing mountains as just mountains, well, I want to see that everything comes from God and is God.  Then I guess, it doesn't matter what you're looking at.

Ah! Golden.

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guides slipped into my dream state another phrase "when you wish to see only love, you will see only God."

I suppose that my take on the Zen quote of "mountains are again mountains" was that, initially when one is on a spiritual quest, one is wowed by paranormal things like the idea of talking to the dead or magic.  Eventually, when one reaches enlightenment, if it happens in Zen, one lives for the moment, but everything here in C1 reality is, as it was.  The mountains do not appear differently.  They are exactly as they should be.  So we start out on a quest, learn and believe there is going to be an unbelieveable perceptual change that will floor us.  For a while we are floored, but still searching, and when our search is done, we have wisdom - but things in reality appear as they did initially.

Does that make sense?  Did anyone remove blocks to perception and suddenly start seeing things differently all the time in their day-to -day routines?  Apart from the PUL..

Matthew