Imagine your whole life you’ve been wearing goggles and noise-cancelling headphones. Now imagine you didn’t know it since they’ve been part of your day-to-day as far as you can remember. Now imagine for the first time you’re trying to feel these devices (1/7)
On your person, on your head, in your mind, in your heart, in your sensorium, in your entire subjective experience. Then imagine you can investigate the boundaries of the gear, the lenses and the drivers. And imagine how they color, flavor, even cause your hopes and fears. (2/7)
Finally, imagine being told all of this and feeling unwilling or unable to agree, to feel that to be true, to feel how dangerous that would be for you, your understanding of self, of your perception and perspective. Imagine I’m with the one telling you. (3/7)
Imagine how mad you’d be at me, how much you’d doubt me, how much you would resent to need me. Imagine I cannot remove the things for you. Imagine you not only have to learn they exist, that they affect you, but have to resolve to need them at all. Imagine you could see (4/7)
And feel better without them. Imagine you could experience a more genuine, authentic, cogent and effective life liberated from them. Imagine the energy needed to hear and see through those filters is now free to be used as you and for you (5/7)
Imagine your utmost capacity to strive towards your own potential, to live and safely feel as vivaciously and passionately as you absolutely can. (6/7)