Fairytale flight. 2 (Patreon)

When you analyze perception you discover a very weird thing about perception, for instance let’s take the primary sense of human beings which is sight. We trust our eyes, we believe that our eyes tell us something about immediate reality however if you analyze what sight is, what seeing is, it’s the light reflected off surfaces pours into a sensory organ and then is transduced through a series of neurological transforms into an interiorized model of the mediate surround.The problem with this is the light which enters my eyes is entirely mine, you don’t get any of it, and the light which enters your eyes is entirely yours. Not a single photon is ever shared by two people. Everything I’m seeing is entirely opaque, hidden, occult to you and everything you’re seeing is opaque, hidden to me. We are truly prisoners of our unique perception.

—Terence McKenna