Practice makes perfect: Meandering thoughts on subjective and objective reality

Hello Fellow Members of the Passionately Curious,

Today I'd like to talk about the nature of reality. For some time now I've played with the notion of objective reality and subjective reality. Up until recently, my main thought was that there is an objective reality and a subjective reality. Let me explain why I think/thought this to be true.

First, I should define subjectivity and objectivity. Subjectivity is the individual experience, the personal and idiosyncratic perception. Objectivity is the collective experience that the whole (the sum) exists, independent of subjective thought.

Inspired by the likes of Carl Rogers and my psychology teacher Dr. Cera, one of the key implicit concepts of humanistic therapy is to acknowledge that someone's experience is real. For it is real. To them, that is what they perceive, and I am not one in position to judge that to be false. Though I may not agree, or I may "know better," to acknowledge the other's thought is to accept that, in terms of them, it is true. In regards to objective reality, subjective reality fits subsequently to it on the individual scale. In the microsphere of sovereign experience, everybody has his/her own perceptions of reality that are purely unique. Moreover, through this thinking, I believe that there exists and objective reality independent and outside of subjective reality. That is, I can serve two equivalent portions of the same pie to two different people and receive two separate opinions. Based on this thought-frame, person A likes the pie, person B does not, and there still exists the pie which is the objective. This neatly illustrates the factual baseline of the situation - but to me it somehow feels empty of something. Hold that thought for a minute.

To continue, there is a reason that seems very intuitively electrifying. A justification for why this could be true. I'll try best to explain this reason with some questions (As ee cummings said: "Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question). What if thoughts create experience? What if we incarnated into physicality to agree and abide by certain rules like gravity? What if anything is possible through belief, but one term of the 3D contract is that if your belief subjectively interferes with an other's, that it will not manifest? (<--That one of the basic principles of free will is respect, and that the universe respects conflicting beliefs) That the rules of this incarnation are subject to greater metaphysical rules like the law of attraction? What if our subconscious is thinking the 3D contract into existence? That our conscious subjective experience is true, while at the same time, our subconscious initiates its own agenda?

Naturally, given that there is an objective reality and a subjective reality (which in an infinite universe there absolutely is), why does this matter? Good question. I think what I'm trying to outline and imply, is that beyond this scientific analysis, there are some missing spiritual implications. What I've just mentioned above serves well to expand the mind and consider alternate possibilities - but there is a missing practicality. The shortcomings of science is that it only says what was/is. Living is fulfillingly is being what was/is/will be.

Anyhow, that was what I thought. Recently, I've had this thought about a purely subjective existence. That all I've just said is true, but there is more to it. And there is less to it. Allow me to explain, once again.

The limits to objective reality, is that its merely a collection of shared experience. It assumes that people's individual realities are just individual and inconsequential to the whole picture. But in truth, everybody has their own "whole picture" - well, at least implicitly. I'm still trying to figure out that for myself!

But this notion of reality is flawed in the sense that everybody's potential for thought is so limitlessly creative. Though popularly underutilized, this boundless capacity to create and affect and change exists. Only your personal experience will prove that to you. This is circular, yes, but life is more a circle than a line.

Given that everybody has their personal thoughts and beliefs, and that this is in such a large quantity - for them to work in the same reality there must be very specific framework. That is, because we are subject to the laws of gravity, we all buy into the same belief. And because people believe many different things which are true for themselves, subjective reality is therefore more expansive. Because it is more expansive, I feel it is more complete as all possibilities already exist.

All of this has been taxing for my mind (yours, too I'm sure) so I'll leave you at that. My desire to blog and my personal capacity to do so are not quite congruent. My eyes are bigger than my stomach. Hopefully, though, it is through these moderately unclear postings that I will be able to filter and synthesize what truly resonates.