Synthetic Objectivity
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:51 pm
Suppose I am stabbed. I then proceed to modify my senses so that I do not see the wound, I appear healthy, and I do not feel the wound.
While this modifies my internal representation of the world, it leaves the objective world unchanged. Surely, to others I will be bleeding, and once I remove my glamour, I will find that I am dead.
This begs the question of what objectivity really is. If we take the approach that there is nothing beyond experience, then objectivity simply means that multiple observers are seeing the same thing in the same environment, or at the very least, that they are seeing quite similar things.
This makes me wonder, if that's all objectivity means, then the only reason my subjective glamour on the stab wound is not objective, is because not enough observers are seeing my glamour. So, would it not suffice to split my own consciousness in order to create more observers which see my manifestation? Thus manufacturing synthetic objectivity?
Now oppositely, suppose I am not actually stabbed, but need to appear like I am in order to create a diversion. If I make all the people around me see that I am stabbed, when I have not really been stabbed, will a stab wound manifest? I think not, because sensory illusions do in fact exist, meaning that a person's senses can be wrong without affecting reality (or do off senses affect reality, meaning that I merely do not notice?)
But, I know from personal experience that subjective illusions can in fact alter objective reality. Perhaps there are different kinds of hallucinations?
What are your opinions on bridging the gap from hallucinatory magick to physically noticeable magick?
While this modifies my internal representation of the world, it leaves the objective world unchanged. Surely, to others I will be bleeding, and once I remove my glamour, I will find that I am dead.
This begs the question of what objectivity really is. If we take the approach that there is nothing beyond experience, then objectivity simply means that multiple observers are seeing the same thing in the same environment, or at the very least, that they are seeing quite similar things.
This makes me wonder, if that's all objectivity means, then the only reason my subjective glamour on the stab wound is not objective, is because not enough observers are seeing my glamour. So, would it not suffice to split my own consciousness in order to create more observers which see my manifestation? Thus manufacturing synthetic objectivity?
Now oppositely, suppose I am not actually stabbed, but need to appear like I am in order to create a diversion. If I make all the people around me see that I am stabbed, when I have not really been stabbed, will a stab wound manifest? I think not, because sensory illusions do in fact exist, meaning that a person's senses can be wrong without affecting reality (or do off senses affect reality, meaning that I merely do not notice?)
But, I know from personal experience that subjective illusions can in fact alter objective reality. Perhaps there are different kinds of hallucinations?
What are your opinions on bridging the gap from hallucinatory magick to physically noticeable magick?