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“A FEW WORDS ABOUT PERCEPTION”
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Our brain always perceives any information as a plane
surface starting with "Points" and "Macaroni" of pictures on rocks and
ending with a computer monitor.
Pictures, Books, the Board of the Teacher in a classroom, Painting, Photo,
Traffic signs, Restaurant Bills and Tax accounts,
People perceive the world through windows of their houses.
Being inside a car you can see only a projection of the outside world on
the windshield of the car.
 
How’s that?! I saw the Taj Mahal with my own eyes!... But I never was in India.
I saw a photo of my beloved grandmother...
That’s it, she is the young girl with the Taj Mahal on the background,
... BUT THAT’S NOT ME.
 
and more
I remember a postcard with
the Taj Mahal hidden from the sun in the shadow of trees.
... There are no more trees there!
I don’t care whether you have some trees in your Taj Mahal or not.
They are there near My Taj!... And for me this picture is true!!!
 
Since “The Tables of the Law” and “The Laws of Xammurapi”
the flat plane of any knowledge became an inherent attribute
of our perception of the world.
When was the last time you admired La Joconde?…
And if you never saw Her in your life?
You do understand, anyway, what we are talking about.
And what about The Volume?
You turn around the corner, and
the brain not seeing the object anymore immediately transforms it
into a flat picture and hides it in the folder titled "MEMORY".
Only EXPERIENCED STATE can be volumetric.
And what this STATE IS LIKE is for you to choose,
You need only learn how to use it.
 
The lighter in your pocket is flat,
and Venus of Windsor ... is volumetric.
 
STATES CAN BE VARIOUS, BUT THEY CAN NEVER BE FLAT.
 
 
 
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Micha Maslennikov.
01.10.2006
Translation by
Yana Tsoy & Steven Brayshaw.



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