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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Consensus reality is the set or totality of what is believed to be real, the "reality" accepted by the majority of individuals in a given place or at a given time.
		The connotation of "consensus reality" is, with few exceptions, disparaging: it is usually employed by idealist, surrealist and other anti-realist theorists with the implication that this consensus reality is, to a greater or lesser extent, false.
		Believers in reality enforcement are typically sympathetic to anti-psychiatry and would describe involuntary commitment as often being a form of reality enforcement (as in the course of treatment the patient may be encouraged to abandon beliefs the psychiatrist considers to be delusions and thus to have his beliefs come into line with consenus reality).
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/co/consensus_reality.html (311 words)

	Consensus reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consensus reality may be understood by studying socially constructed reality, a subject within the sociology of knowledge.
		The connotation of the term "consensus reality" is, with few exceptions, disparaging: it is usually employed by idealist, surrealist and other anti-realist theorists with the implication that this consensus reality is, to a greater or lesser extent, created by those who experience it.
		"Reality enforcement" is also used in a number of more or less related senses, as, for instance, to refer to the attempts of parents or others to coax or induce a person diagnosed with autism or Asperger's syndrome to abandon thoughts or behaviours typical of the syndrome(s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consensus_reality (1514 words)

	Reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Axioms are self-evident realities, the existence of which is accepted as given and on which further conceptions are generated.
		In philosophy, reality is contrasted with nonexistence (penguins do exist; so they are real) and mere possibility (a mountain made of gold is merely possible, but is not real) unless they are discovered.
		In psychiatry, reality, or rather, the idea of being in touch with reality is integral to the notion of schizophrenia, since it has often been defined in part by reference to being "out of touch" with reality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reality (2775 words)

	Reality - Conscious Awareness - Crystalinks
		Axioms are self-evident realities, the existence of which is accepted as given and on which further conceptions are generated.The facts of a natural world would hold true only in the systemic construction of that world.
		Obviously, when speaking in this sense, "real" (or "realistic") does not have the same meaning as it does when, for example, a philosopher uses the term to distinguish, simply, what exists from what does not exist.In the arts, and also in ordinary life, the notion of reality (or realism) is also often contrasted with illusion.
		Reality appears to move in a linear fashion creating the illusion of time or the wheel of karma - wheels within wheels - alchemy wheel.
	www.crystalinks.com /reality.html (2469 words)

	Toward Activating - 1.html
		Social consensus realities are perpetuated by cloning their basic concepts into others via association with them, or by the tried and trusted method of educating, conditioning, convincing, or propagandizing.
		Consensus reality formation seems to be a trait of our species as a whole, for consensus realities are everywhere formed -- and usually perpetuated to their last gasp, especially if they have become "prevailing" ones.
		It is demanded by the social consensus reality, and the demand leads to adaptation of or the cloning of whatever is demanded.
	www.biomindsuperpowers.com /Pages/TowardActivating-1.html (7508 words)

	Evolution of Consciouness --
		Consensus reality would be meaningless because without the ability to "hear", the voices of many are no louder than the voice of the one.
		The magnitude of the imprint of consensus reality is entirely dependent upon the existence of the Akashic Records, and its ability to "hear", process and record the voices of human experience.
		It is highly likely that any strongly held belief within your illusion of reality or any strong association with a particular consensus reality seems to lock you into a pattern of relationships with other souls, your soul group, and quite possibly the available options for the next step of your eternal journey.
	shamans-cave.com /Evolution_of_Consciousness.html (1939 words)

	What's so Funny About Astrology
		Consensus reality is a body of ideas and assumptions that most people accept and believe about society and the universe.
		Consensus reality indicates what people at any given time are interested in, concerned about, and preoccupied with, and it determines how and what they perceive either socially or intellectually.
		Here we have the real reason that astrology is "rejected knowledge;" it is currently not included in our modern-day consensus reality because it confronts consensus reality at the roots.
	www.onereed.com /articles/joke.html (1896 words)

	States of Consciousness
		Adults are full-fledged members of the consensus reality: they both maintain it through their interaction with their peers and are shaped by it and by parts of it.
		This strengthens and maintains their membership in the consensus reality and their use of their ordinary state of consciousness as a means for dealing with consensus reality.
		Because of the power over physical reality given them by their consensus reality state of consciousness, adults are the most free; yet, because they are the most thoroughly indoctrinated in consensus reality, they are the most bound.
	www.psychedelic-library.org /soc4.htm (5250 words)

	The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion JASON BRADFORD / Energy Bulletin 11jan05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		istory is replete with examples of social organizations, whether a business or a nation, that failed to perceive the realities of a changing environment and didn't adapt in time to prevent calamity.
		Because the scientists are challenging fundamental assumptions of our culture, such as the basis for "progress" and the consequences of "economic growth," many cannot agree with the scientists without losing their identity.
		Hence you encounter two modes of response from those accepting of the prevailing paradigm: (1) the scientific data are not reliable, and (2) faith in technological progress and/or human ingenuity.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2005/Mass-Delusion-Neurobiology11jan05.htm (1394 words)

	Consensus reality - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To those who adhere to the materialist philosophy, it references the overall space-time reality believed to exist irrespective of anyone's perceptions.
		3 Consensus reality and reality enforcement in fiction and literature
		The phrase became a meme used on computer message boards in 2006 against those who were perceived to be, or perceived to be connected with, radical Islamic terrorists.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Consensus_reality (1263 words)

	Reality
		This is also the reality that is generally accepted by entities that have not come to terms with their own possible non-existence.
		This is because of the fact that many sentient entities are obliged to comply with consensus reality models during their existence but employ temporary (quite normally) or permanent (getting tricky) additional paradigms (or reality tunnels) in order to explain certain unusual, paranormal, phenomena.
		Due to the philosophical problem of categorising reality as Real, Semi-real or Unreal, it is the authors suggestion that it be categorized as Unreal, pending further investigation.
	www.galactic-guide.com /articles/9U6.html (641 words)

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		As we remember the nature of the illusion we must remain aware that consensus reality is not an illusion.
		It is as ‘real’ as are you and I. The illusion is in the sense of separation, limitation and meaning that we accept and limit ourselves to in order to gain experience.
		What we must understand is that our consensus reality here in our physical world is not limited to the first layer.
	www.skyhero.com /t14.htm (1035 words)

	Toward Activating - 2.html
		Almost all consensus realities hold that everyone can mentally process, at the most basic physical level at least, the elements of everything that is in that physical level.
		Something now depends on which consensus reality is being utilized as the "proper" one, and which band in it is thought of as the "normal" one.
		For example, via the prevailing consensus reality characteristic of the scientific discipline of physics between 1905 until about 1927, Albert Einstein was bombarded with vocal and PRINTED condemnations regarding his congenital stupidity and similar invectives.
	www.biomindsuperpowers.com /Pages/TowardActivating-2.html (5001 words)

	The UFO Abduction Phenomenon's Challenge to Consensus Reality by John E. Mack, M.D.
		When, for example, one experiencer would be shown a picture of the aliens drawn by another experiencer, he or she would react with horror, because that meant someone else was having the experience and their notion that they could somehow dismiss this as a dream was shattered.
		But it is the affective power of the real abduction experience that gives authenticity to it and tells me as a psychiatrist that something powerful and disturbing has, in fact, happened to people.
		At the end he said, "You know, John, the physical terror is minuscule compared to the terror of acknowledging that this is real, of having to look into the eyes of the aliens." The eye contact, which is sometimes strongly resisted, is a very powerful, confirming matter for these individuals.
	www.primalspirit.com /pr1_1mack_abduction.htm (7022 words)

	Universal Magick --
		From earliest childhood and subsequent experience, we are indoctrinated by social interaction as to what the consensus reality is, and, thusly, what our illusion of reality may and may not be.
		Like the hundredth monkey theory, consensus reality is a long process in which everyone within a group, society, or culture agree and adapt a mass identification, complete with all the beliefs and taboos.
		In a group, society, culture or religion where adherence to the consensus reality is limited to empirical data only, magick and the practice of the occult arts with their corresponding gifts and abilities can not flourish.
	www.shamans-cave.com /Universal_Magick.html (2064 words)

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		Each person really forms their own reality, intersecting and diverging from common or consensus reality at different points.
		This reality differs from location to location, and will vary depending on how you define the word "location." The consensus reality of Chicago will not be the same as that of London.
		It's really just another level of consensus reality tacked on to the Shared Domain the mage already knows -- which is why in my chronicle, the majority of mages don't subscribe to any Traditions, since they represent another layer of limitation...
	hem.bredband.net /arenamontanus/Mage/magestuff (1608 words)

	Erowid Experience Vaults: DMT - Consensus Reality
		I've heard that DMT really screws up your perception of time so I ask my sitter how long I was out, to my surprise he answers about 5 minutes, exactly what I would have guessed.
		I realize that this is a lifeform completely independent from me, it seems very friendly and makes sure not to scare me. It works its way up to my head where it opens its mouth and puts its tongue through my head, ear to ear.
		I open my eyes and the consensus reality in which my body resides is completely spectacular, I exchange a few words with my sitter and close my eyes again, the entity is gone.
	www.erowid.org /experiences/exp.php?ID=43682 (1141 words)

	ESCAPING THE MATRIX
		What Neo had assumed to be reality turns out to be only a collective illusion, fabricated by the Matrix and fed to a population that is asleep, cocooned in grotesque embryonic pods.
		In matrix reality, globalization is not a project but rather the inevitable result of beneficial market forces; genocide in Africa is no fault of the West's, but is due to ancient tribal rivalries; every measure demanded by globalization is referred to as "reform" (the word is never used with irony).
		In reality there is only one significant political agenda these days: the maximization of capital growth through the dismantling of society, the continuing implementation of neoliberalism, and the management of empire.
	www.worldagesarchive.com /Reference_Links/ESCAPING_THE_MATRIX.htm (5168 words)

	Wrestling with Saturn
		The soul of a reality- challenged life is born from an improvisatory talent for making up the rules and the structures as you go.
		It delineates a time for the larger collective culture when new concepts and definitions of consensus reality emerge and are tested for their socio-economic value.
		With consensus sanctions behind tobacco, booze and sex, one must still possess a strong imagination and vital force of will to stay high-- that is to say, spiritually alive--in any Saturn-based culture.
	www.verticalpool.com /astro9.html (1615 words)

	Nature of The Personal Universe
		The difficulty with consensus reality is that it must be occurring at such a high level that we don't know it's occurring.
		If we all realized that we are One, that the physical world is a frustrating illusion and that our Eternal self is going to continue long after today's concern about money and getting the best on people is over, then we would be genuinely honest with everyone else.
		It is only our consensus reality that man subdues and rapes nature that results in people destroying nature.
	www.greaterreality.com /consensus.htm (1596 words)

	Interacting Arts \| Collective realities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The reality we live in daily has demanded the same type of contract; it is full of conventions on how social interaction is supposed to work.
		And even if some nutcase really believes in mythical creatures, he or she is relating it to established myth and in this way the consensus reality is affirmed yet again.
		The world view that we are forced to accept in consensus reality is as frightening as the world view of the Christian (or whatever) sects.
	www.interactingarts.org /index.php?id=23,80,0,0,1,0 (2626 words)

	http://www.skyhero.com/lucid.htm
		Having realized that what you are experiencing is a creation of your mind, you can now walk through walls or even dissolve them completely.
		We know that the consensus dream is held together by the laws of The Magic of Agreeing, and we know that the personal dream is held together only by the focus of your attention on the dream.
		In Balance, we are able to free ourselves from the restrictions of consensus reality and express ourselves as the spirit we are.
	www.skyhero.com /lucid.htm (5186 words)

	Consensus Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Physics has shown that every individual's consciousness is always co-creating in a unified, interconnected reality with every particle and wave that exists and that has ever existed and that will exist.
		The obstacle is from the majority: Reality perceived in a limited, material way - by individuals imagining themselves to be merely separate, independent beings - causes their cultural programming to allow them to see only what they expect to see.
		In today's trying cultural/perceptual reality, almost all of us in modern society thus fail to sense the greater, inextricable unity of the known and "hidden" universe.
	metanon.blogspot.com (3519 words)

	Science and Consensus
		The focus of the book (or at least of Joi's take on it) is that scientific "facts" are really a form of what some people have called consensus reality.
		It's often said that culture democratizes perception (hence the consensus), sometimes lulling us into thinking that this mainly means that it provides a process and means for individuals to become part of a collective (who enact and practice the culture).
		Thus when an individual has,for example, a moral or immoral experience that individual doesn't deny the lived content of his or her experience--they accept it for good or ill, and it is that acceptance of reality that is the basis of the individual who is awake as opposed to asleep.
	www.oreillynet.com /cs/user/view/wlg/1933 (3594 words)

	Consensus Reality Bites
		Unfortunately he wasn't pissed at all that an intelligence agents cover was blown by the White House, compromising the entire team.
		Really have a need to put gas on a credit card and pay for a trip a year later at 19% interest?
		Well Arnie is a "Running Man" trying to be Gray Davis "Terminator" during the California "Total Recall." I hope to give a little of "The Rundown" of his past before an "Eraser" wipes away his "True Lies".
	homepage.mac.com /iwebmaster/iblog (2142 words)

	Language of ONE 19-24
		The only limitation to the holographic dream are the agreements that the consensus reality that one associates with holds to be so.
		Holographic consensus reality aligns all consensus realities into a syncopated movement and dream that is whole and united.
		The Great Central Sun is a holographic consensus reality of its own; in order to enter the dream of the Great Central Sun, Earth must find her place within the whole; so much each upon earth including each species and each human find their place within the whole of this new consensus.
	www.ascendpress.org /LoONE/LoONE19-24.html (569 words)

	"Faith, Moving Mountains & Consensus Reality"
		A frequent topic is whether we create our own reality, and the degree to which this ability might be able to ameliorate the often predicted earth changes and other "inconveniences" as Ra called these.
		Yes, we create our reality, but this is a democratic, consensus process, and one that is a function of the degree and purity of faith and intensity of focus.
		The efficacy of the calling is a function of the magical qualities of those who call; that is, their desire to seek the altered state of consciousness desired.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~boyne/ra/faith.html (1304 words)

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