March 10, 2025 – B

Blackberries — Lancaster County, South Carolina, 07/25/2019
I have realized that we cannot discern the difference 
between where we stop and our experience
of ourselves, our life, the world around us starts.

There is no objective vantage point from which
we can gauge/determine the validity/truthfulness
of any experience we have,
or of any statement about the validity of any experience.

Everything is our interpretation of our experience.
We say what is truth, but how do we know?
It is only our evaluation of our experience,
but we cannot get beyond our experience to know
what we are talking about, and we can be influenced by the 10,000 things.

We see what we expect to see,
what we look for,
and call that "seeing,"
and call seeing "knowing."

Everything we see/know is projection all the way down.
We do not know where our experience of the world stops
and where the way things actually are with the world starts.

We project our experience onto the world and say,
"This is the way things are."
It is the way we believe things to be,
NOT the way things are!

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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