by: Beatrice Bruteau
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Theosophical Pub. House (1979)
ISBN-10: 0835605310
This book has been on my mind since Carmen sent me her story about a vivid altered state experience she had during a reiki master attunement. Read it here - The Grid. It is time for me to re-read this book, again.
From the book: "Human consciousness is the most mysterious reality we experience. The fact that we coincide with it does little to allay our uneasiness in its presence, for the only instrument we possess with which to study this mystery is again the same mystery, human consciousness. If consciousness should deceive itself, we would be caught within an enchanted Hall of Mirrors from which there is no exit."
From a review: "This is not a book about psychic phenomena. It is a work of philosophy about how our perceptions are conditioned by the world view of the culture we are raised in. Each human being carries a "lens" through which he perceives everything that happens around and within himself, and with which he filters out bits of information which do not jive with the lens he carries. Our lenses are a product of family, school, workplace, regional, religious, and national influences--indeed there are many layers to each person's lens, and the layers begin to be formed when we are infants and continue to be added on throughout our formative years.
"The consensus reality of one's community therefore bestows upon each individual a field of knowledge, and this field determines what new knowledge we pick up. It is this field which Bruteau refers to as the "psychic grid." There are a multitude of psychic grids. They are simply different belief niches which people can inhabit. You might think of them as subcultures. No one psychic grid is "right," according to Bruteau. What makes a psychic grid "right" is if it works for a group of people, if it allows them to find meaning. If it does not, it will be replaced. . . . ." ( Read more )
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