Okay, full disclosure, this might be triggering to some people. I'm going
to try to keep this set as apolitical as possible, but it is has
to do with political views in some respect. So bear with me, and
please understand it's not my intent to offend you or anyone that's listening in.
We all have our own thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and they're all
one hundred percent perfectly valid. I guess this is just me trying to figure
things out, make sense, make heads or tails of the division in our
country in a way that points back to our spirituality and who we are in
the real sense of the word. I was doing a meditation, as I
often do, and I kept getting these messages and I want to just throw
them by you and see what your thoughts are. We've been told many times
that our reality is a vivid representation of all that dwells overtly as well as
dormantly within our consciousness. Now does this mean that wherever you are on the
political spectrum, whether you're on the right or the left, are we more
alike and we're just merely living in our own version of reality where each one
is right in our accusation of each other. Could we each be reacting to
each other from our own perspective of our own reality, expecting others to understand
what we're saying based on our reality, when really we should be understanding that
they are listening to our words from their own reality. Maybe they're hearing different
words than we are saying, or different emotional content that we're saying. Maybe
we are speaking to each other in completely different languages from an emotional spectrum point
of view. If you're engaging somebody from your own reality without taking into account
that their reality is completely different than yours, the perspective, the emotional content,
the truth, the experiences that we're each under going, perhaps might be
completely different from each other. So when you say to someone that's cross the
aisle, I can't understand how you could think that way or feel that way.
It's so obvious, so it's this way, when in their perspective they're
saying the exact same thing to you. I can't believe you feel and think
that way when it's so obvious that it's this way. I wonder if maybe
we should try to understand each other's realities instead of assuming that we're living in
the same ones we got to understand that we're living in a five dimensional puzzle
and we're preceding each other from our own perspective instead of theirs. When they
say put yourself in someone else's shoes, maybe goes a lot deeper than just
what could their experience be, but rather what could their reality be? I
mean, there's got to be a reason why they feel the way that they
do. I don't believe that people are intrinsically evil, are specifically thinking things
because they well, that's not necessarily true. There are some people that probably
are very angry and for whatever reason, feel the need to take it out
on others, which is unfortunate. But well, I don't know. I
know it's kind of out there a little bit, but I just can't help
but think that in my attempt to try to make heads or tails of the
division and the anger towards each other, when we really should be just loving
each other. In light of all that we've learned on our show up to
now, when we talked about the different paths and different realities and all that
kind of stuff, how about engaging with each other understanding that our reality is
completely foreign to someone else, and instead of damning them or hating them for
not living in our reality. Understand they're in a different reality, and instead
try to come to terms with that. Talk to them about how is it
that you are feeling that way? Help me to understand without judgment, without
preconceived notions, and then you don't have to change your mind. But at
least then you will understand where they're coming from a little bit better, and
that anger may not trigger you as much. It may be more of Okay,
Well, this is the reality that they're in, and I support them
in their thought process because that is the reality that they're in. It's just
not the same as mine. And that's perfectly okay. In one way or
the other. My reality will move in the direction in which I believe it
needs to, and their reality will move in the direction that they believe it
needs to, and they don't have to be contradictory. We don't have to
compete with each other because both realities are valid. As we diverge and move
into different directions, each reality will breathe and live a life of its own.
Or so that's what I think. I'm curious to hear what your thoughts
are. Is this just complete dobblygook? Or does it make sense to you
send us a message. Go to skeptic adposition dot com. You can leave
us a voicemail or an email directly there. I'd love to hear your thing,
and if you do leave us a voicemail, you might hear your voice
on the show in some future episode. All Right, I guess that's enough
rambling for now. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time on
the skeptic Betiphysicians