There is a video called “What the Bleep?! Do We Know Anyway?”   It is a wonderful video that demonstrates how we create our reality.  I encourage you to rent it from your local video store.  It is well worth watching.

I want to quote Dr. Andrew Newberg, an assistant professor in the dept. of Radiology at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a staff physician in Nuclear Medicine.  Dr. Newberg’s research, which has been performed with the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, has focused not only on specific disorders but also on various activation studies designed to show how brain function is associated with various mental states.

Here is what he had to say in the movie:

“We build up models of how we see the world outside of us.  And the more information we have, the more we refine our model, one way or the other.  Ultimately, what we do is tell ourselves a story about what the outside world is. 

Any information that we process, any information we take in from the environment is always colored by experiences that we had and an emotional response we’re having to what we’re bringing in.”

This is just another way of stating what was quoted in the last blog.  Shirley Macleane, the actress and author said: “We do not see the world as it really is.  We see it as we are.”