What if the things you see around you were only the reflection of the things inside you?

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This may sound “esoteric” but it is an ancestral shamanic way of perceiving the world; one of the ways in which shamans used perception to change reality. But is there any truth to it? Does it really work?

It’s easy to verify if you open your mind and revisit your memory.

Remember your childhood. How did you perceive your parents? Your teachers? How did you perceive things that seem magical because you did not know how they happened?

Now remember your adolescence. How did you perceive small problems? A peer’s opinion? A failure? Not being able to go to a concert or game?

As you remember this stages in your development, you will realize that at those times your limited experience and your still developing emotional and intellectual maturity created a world that was not necessarily “objective.” Yet, it was true for you, and you made decisions based on what you perceived was real.

Understand that you are still doing something similar.

You have more experience and maturity, but in the measure in which you have not outgrown old, hidden beliefs that were embedded in your psyche during your early years, in that measure you are still doing the same.

In the measure in which you refuse to open your mind and your heart, learn new things, take risks and explore possibilities, in that same measure you are facing a world that is constricted only by your own limitations.

And when we think of ourselves as members of a human collective, then our learned or acquired cultural, historical, racial and gender limitations are constricting and defining the limits of our human reality.

You can do the same experiment. Go back 50 years. Then 100 years. Then 200 years. At each point, imagine how you would see reality. How you would see women, men, foreigners, new things, change, science, possibility, geography, professions, housing, health, democracy. It’s a sobering exercise, isn’t it? The obvious impact of our limited perception in what is real becomes visible when we acquire historical perspective.

Yet, a reality that reflects your learned limits is  not the only possible reality.

Imagine the world of  Leonardo Da’ Vinci, Jules Verne, Madame de Stael , Goethe, William Blake, Madame Curie, Socrates, Galileo or Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and more recently Albert Einstein, Gandhi or Mother Teresa.

Now imagine your own world if you saw it with the eyes of your Infinite Self, with the expansive perception of your Creative Genius.

Watch the reflection change.

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