{"id":10554,"date":"2025-12-12T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/theory-knowledge-castaneda-dressing-perceptions-acceptable-representations.html"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:38:40","slug":"theory-knowledge-castaneda-dressing-perceptions-acceptable-representations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/theory-knowledge-castaneda-dressing-perceptions-acceptable-representations.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dressing Of Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a big difference between reality and the image we have of it. We spend our lives dressing our perceptions to make them presentable, let\u2019s say ideologically correct. And when I say us, I digress. It is not us who perform this masking. It is done by our brain programmed to. On this point, the vision of shamanism<\/a> joins that of quantum physics. Which validates both.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your Brain Deceives You<\/h4>\n

If we could show you all the tricks that you constantly play with your own brain, you would be amazed. A dull veil on the eye, a silly scent spread over your noble features would certainly highlight your confusion. Our senses deceive u<\/em>s, said Descartes, well satisfied with his discovery. What would he have said knowing that the brain deceives us much more? Syncope! He reportedly fell dead struck by lightning. He who had put all his trust in this thinking machine, how could he have borne the idea that thought itself is dictated to us? It is not our senses that deceive us, but the reality they show us. She undergoes a systematic make-up t– or, to speak like Castaneda, a dressing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A warrior treats the world as an infinite mystery,and what people do as an unlimited folly.<\/p>