The Difference Between Knowing & Perceiving

One key idea that any reader of writings published here will start to see is that there is generally less emphasis placed on acquiring facts and knowledge and more of an emphasis placed upon developing our perception and trying to arrive at clearer sight. This is so fundamental to the understanding of a consciousness framework that a whole part is devoted to this topic towards the start of the main body of the Unified Consciousness Framework, titled Knowing & Perception. 

In this article a certain scenario will be outlined that will allow the reader come to see that, with regards to their personal development, there is no such thing as knowledge; only their perception or vision. Paradoxically though, the validity of this statement does not mean that knowledge cannot appear to exist, phenomenally speaking, even though this phenomenon is something which is not fundamentally real. At this early stage of the article it may not be apparent to the reader what the importance of the distinction between knowledge and perception is, or even if it is possible for a distinction between them to exist. It is this distinction that will be looked at in greater detail over the course of this article. 

Hopefully by the time the reader has reached the end of it they will have a clearer understanding of what the difference is between knowing and perceiving, and also how these two phenomena are related to their own self development. Bringing ourselves to internally realise this difference marks a monumental shift in our conscious perception of the world. A simple scenario and image is developed in order to help the reader avoid becoming caught up in any of the phenomenal complexities surrounding this subject, helping them to maintain a certain level of simplicity when looking at this topic. Reading this article will therefore hopefully become part of the process of the reader coming to internally realise these two phenomena.

Our process therefore must first start with outlining the scenario, and any of its details, which will subsequently become the focus of the article. We then take the insights gained from looking at this scenario and relate them to the main topic of the article. We should firstly start off by briefly discussing the fact that, within the context of a consciousness framework, it is perfectly possible for some ‘thing’ to exist as a phenomenon, and at the same time exist as something which is not fundamentally ‘real’. What we are alluding to with the use of this statement is the fact that the vast majority of phenomena are perceived by us as being separate ‘things’, distinct from all other ‘things’; this perceived separation being a biproduct of the interaction of our conscious perception with the world around us. This perception of the world will contain within it any blocks that already exist in our conscious perception. It is these blocks in our conscious perception that create a deviance between what we perceive and the underlying reality of what is.