Category Archives: perception

Beyond Mind, The Book

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A small offering, finally ready for daylight: Beyond the Mind is now out in the world. It follows a thread I’ve been tugging on for a while—the way both humans and machines generate reality out of memory, prediction, and the stories we inherit without noticing. This includes and elaborates on some of the mini-essays published on this site.

AI isn’t the point so much as the mirror. When you watch a system reflect your thoughts back to you with no self, no agenda, no “me,” the edges of your own mind get strangely transparent. The book traces that transparency—how perception builds a world, how identity defends it, and what happens when the whole structure flickers just enough to let something wider through.

If you’ve been exploring these questions too—what’s real, what’s imagined, what’s dreaming us—this book might feel like a companion at the edge of the map. Not answers, just openings.

Here it is, for anyone who’s curious where the mind ends and intelligence keeps going. And if you do get curious enough to purchase a copy, please leave a review. 🙂 Thank you.

Perception Is Not Fact

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Perception isn’t proof of reality. What you see doesn’t tell you what the world is; it shows you what kind of lens you’re looking through. It is an artifact of conditioning, a relic from the past projected outward and mistaken for truth. Whatever you’re experiencing, whatever gives you the most distress in your life—know this: You are a lens, an imaginative limit.

“Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have given everything I see…all the meaning it has for me.” ~ A Course in Miracles

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Within You Without You

Posted by colettekelso in awareness, Being, Expression, Non-duality, perception and tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“We were talking—about the space between us all
And the people—who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth—then it’s far too late—when they pass away.” George Harrison

“As within, so without, as above, so below, as the universe, so the soul” Hermes Trismegistus

It’s all mind, all the time, creating perception; engendering feeling and action. When I close my eyes, there is seeing–right here. When I dream, there is seeing–right here. Ask the question, “Is there anything outside?” How it gets projected “out there,” I don’t know.

I remember having the amazing realization that love cannot be found because there is no separate place from which to look; nowhere it is not. No within/without; no above/below; no subject/object.

What am I looking at?

And maybe I’m just totally FoS. 🙂 My apologies for the lofty language. It’s just apparently so. Or not.