Vessel & Filter - Protecting Ourselves Through A Worldview
Each of us has a container within. It is constantly being filled with data.
It holds the sum total of our thoughts, feelings, dreams, and experiences in the world. Let's call this the vessel.
Information does not enter the vessel directly, like rain filling into a barrel. It is filtered in a unique way for each of us. p25
To navigate our way through the immense world of data, we learn early in life to focus on information that appears essential or of particular interest. And to tune out the rest. p26
Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the material already collected. These relationships produce beliefs and stories. They may be about who we are, the people around us, and the nature of the world we live in. Eventually, these stories coalesce into a world view. p26