The Role of Perception on Global Consciousness

“Sovereignty lights the way to joy.”

~TARASA B. LOVICK

This past year, humanity has faced many world-shifting events and many of them have been feeding collective fears. Australian bush fires (burned over 47 million acres), and US west coast wildfires (burned 5.8 million acres). In the UK, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down and moved to the US. The World Health Organization declared Wuhan virus a global health emergency; essentially shutting down the world. The counter movement, called Plandemic perceives WHO and others to be so desperate to grab power, that they have manufactured a pandemic to endorse heinous crimes against humanity: it’s asking for facts, not fear. US President Donald J. Trump was vindicated on both articles of impeachment against him. The US voting system is on trial for massive and corrupt election fraud. The media has suppressed and censored any opposing voices; for example, YouTube has banned all creators who challenge the media’s results of the 2020 US Presidential Election. The world is faced with human beings being used in unprecedented experimental vaccine trials, that haven’t gone through valid scientific examination. Big Pharma is raking in billions of dollars, and at the same time being given a free license to experiment on humanity (not unlike Agent Orange and Roundup). Meanwhile, the evidence is not sufficient to validate the need of a COVID vaccine, since affordable and available therapeutics work superbly. 

Face masks are a metaphor that represent the role of perception on global consciousness. They give us a clue as to how awake the population is to the geopolitical changes the world is facing. Some people see that face masks are a symbol of obedience and submission to an illegitimate and criminal authority. Others see face masks differently, considering them an altruistic inconvenience that serves a wider public health interest. The fact is that face masks are being positioned as a safety issue, which is controversial, while the media is presenting wearing face masks as necessary. The result is that we live in a world of polarized opinion. The masks will all be gone soon enough, but there will be new changes and challenges in the future.

These, and many other events, have brought to the forefront questions about the future of the world, and what direction it moves towards.

We now have an extra dimension to our world views, which could be characterized along the lines of how “awake” humanity is to the geopolitical changes we are experiencing. The risk here, is pandering to the extremes, and forgetting that most of the public are in the middle. Aligning to causes like “Black Lives Matter” is the right of any person, but in the present circumstances, it is unwise to align to any institution or activity that may be tainted with corruption or violence. 

Contemporary spiritual leaders might see the world through the lens of the level of consciousness; the enlightened, the awakening, the sleeping, and the comatose. Conscious spiritual leaders will recognize that these general groups are shifting daily, and shocking events, like massive voter fraud, may alter them instantaneously. After all, world events trigger responses based on perceptions.

One thing is clear, world events are a great theater that garner expressions of perceptions, illusions, and projections of opinions.

There is no supposed spiritual way to be, or attitudes to have about world events, as there are multiple options. It takes inner discipline and surrender of attitudes to not fall into the temptation of identifying with a position about world events. Enlightened leaders like Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Mother Theresa, and others have shown us how to align with divine love by dedicating their lives to spiritual evolution: We are not alone. 

What Albert Einstein said puts perceptions in perspective, “The bigotry of the nonbelievers is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.” Everything is affected by the conditions and instruments of perception. Perception is the interpretation of reality that an individual comes up with via awareness. It is through one’s individual perspectives that their perception is created.

At the finest levels of perception there is no such thing as objectivity.

Perception has several influences such as the message, the tone, a persons attitudes, beliefs and opinions, and all of these are informed by culture (the unspoken rules that signal meaning). Moreover, there are deep, sometimes unconscious, reasons why you perceive something the way you do. Your perceptions and your reality direct thinking, thinking controls your decisions and ultimately your behavior. The average person makes thousands of decisions a day. And how one validates the information depends on their perception and reality. Perception and reality coexist, and each can distort the truth.

So, what can you do to protect yourselves from distortions?

There are three simple steps you can take to cultivate an open heart-mind. First, you can: have faith in humanity, by giving people the benefit of the doubt. Second, you can create space in your life, so you have the opportunity to cultivate inner peace and harmony. These are developed through implementing exercises such as mindfulness practice, praying, meditating, being grateful, or surrendering to God. And finally, it’s helpful to understand that the brain doesn’t mirror reality; the brain constructs reality based on context. That’s why you can interpret information in an entirely different way than someone else. Accepting this, you have an opportunity to move toward higher consciousness and compassion. Empathy makes you vulnerable, it gives you the opportunity to be compassionate.

Only through compassion do you have the opportunity to move away from the dehumanization and polarization of fear and hate in yourself, as well as in the world.

There is no such thing as absolute truth because humans make errors that lead to flawed thinking. Absolute truth has no perception. So what can you do? There are at least five things you can do. First, you can be aware and open to possibilities. Second, you can be curious, and ask questions like: what’s the lesson; whose truth is this truth; does it matter to me? Third, you free yourself of mental distortions by being in command of your emotions, using discernment, listening without opinions, and by asking, “Is it true?” Fourth, you can be you; you can trust your self. You choose how to make your decisions. You can ask, “How do I engage with others in a respectful manner that serves both of us? Lastly, when your perceptions are blinding you, you can agree to disagree.  

When you live from peace inside your heart, you remember whose sovereign. The contemporary spiritual leader must inquire, “Who is the real ‘you’ that decides?”