[MD] Perceptions: the deception of it all...

[John Carl]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:41 AM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

>
> Mark,
>
> I'm reading dialogues between Krishnamurti and David Bohm trying to get at
> it.  They seem to be calling the world of thoughts 'reality', and the
> direct, full experience 'truth'.


Well they got it backwards then.  Truth is abstract, logical, of the word.
 Reality is direct sensory experience, of the image.

Jaques Ellul wrote a whole book on the subject, The Humiliation of the
Word, showing
a relationship between these two realms - Truth vs. Reality and their
correlation with the word vs. the image.  He makes an eloquent point about
our two differing ways of perceiving these different realms, our eyes giving
us information about the world which we equate with reality and our ears
processing language which we associate with truth.

Yeah, and I know we process the written word with our eyes - but the part of
our brain which processes words corresponds truth with a codified, logical
matrix while images impose reality without much logical intervention.  A
picture is more efficient persuasion.  A picture is worth a thousand words -
to an advertising executive anyway.