Twelve Steps to Forming and Reforming a Perception:
We must never allow any "new input*" to enter our processing stream as other than a clean, pure "New Input Event."
* - "new input" does not mean it's brand new information never heard before. It simply means it's "new in this moment". Even if we've seen, heard, and think we've understood it, a thousand times already. It is NEW in the instant it comes to us. All our processing begins from that receipt.
The diagram reflects our conscious effort to block any "new input event" from reaching us at any pre-existing point in the processing cycle other than as a 'new event.' it may well contain entirely unexpected information for us we will miss, if we do not 'identify' it, carefully 'compare' it, 'recognize' it for what it is, and how it may or may not fit what we already know, etc. through the chain.
To subvert this step by step process is to arrive at an Opinion in advance of even having a clear view of the Perception we should develop before we move beyond this,
And Perception is just the first step of the climb to an actual Perspective, rather than an Opinion. So you see, if we fail to get to a clear "perception" - the foundational step - we just distort the ultimate Perspective we SHOULD have all the more.
Once we get a clean and correct Perception of a New Input Event, we can begin up the steps to a right Perspective - being equally as cautious as we take each step not to let it be interfered with by any new Affective Responses, prejudices, etc. working to creep in along the way.
This is NOT how we've been trained to think, or to process information. Many call it 'impractical."
But consider:
Your mind is incredibly elastic. It can be retrained. It just takes exercise. The problem is, it's been trained by the System and the Machine to think according to THEIR dictates - so you have years of practice with a misfunctioning and misfiring brain.
Training is entirely possible.
Brainwashing is one key way we see that done. There are tens of thousands of others - all commercials for example, are intentionally produced to stimulate 'trigggers' in you other than the realities of a 'new input event.'
You're not good enough as you are.
You're missing something.
There's something you need to fear.
etc.
Anyway, thought I'd give you this taste of the future.
Stand in awe - marvel at the Idol of Opinion. It is where the Machine wants you to live and how the System is engineered to try to insure you behave accordingly.
However - knowledge IS power - and once we know, we can choose differently.
Problem is, the Machine engineers the System to be sure what we "know" is according to their preferred model, to achieve their desired results.
Stand by for news... the book will come along in its time. (Unless I'm jailed or burned at the stake first.)
(p.s. - the above diagrams are Ent originals and will be in the book. Use them if wish, but the less far they get in distribution, the less I'll be accused of 'plagairism' should someone else put them to use before I get done.)