Above: Glowing streetlantern through tilted plastic lens of Kinga 35mm projector. The way we perceive, think and act is an expression of our state of consciousness. Lower states of consciousness malfunction on fear, anger, pride (denial). Higher states of consciousness conceive unity, forgiveness and love. Daily training is an excellent tool to examine, redirect and reload one's state of mind.

How does perception work?

David Hawkins: "The mechanism of perception is like a movie theatre where the projector is consciousness itself. The forms on the film are the attractor energy patterns¹, and the moving pictures on the screen are the world that we perceive and call "reality". […] What appears as an important and exciting piece of information from the perspective of one level might be boring or even repulsive at another level.Truth is subjective, and that can be frightening. […] To transcend the limitations of the mind, it's necessary to dethrone it from its tyranny as sole arbiter of reality. The vain mind confers its imprint of authenticity on the movie of life it happens to be viewing; the mind's very nature is to convince us that its unique view of experience is the genuine article. […] The mind identifies with its content. […] The mind doesn't even experience the world, just sensory exports of it. Even brilliant thoughts and deepest feelings are only experience; ultimately, we have but one function -- to experience experience. The major limitation of consciousness is its innocence.²"

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¹ Attractor is the name given to an identifiable pattern that emerges from seemingly unmeaningful mass of data. There is a hidden coherence in all that appears incoherent, which was first demonstrated in nature by Edward Lorenz. [Now] quite famously known as "Lorenz's Butterfly". The flapping of a butterfly's wings in Tokyo can cause a tornado in Texas. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz

² 'Power vs Force', first published and distributed in the United Kingdom by Hay House Ltd.

Above: detail 1

Above: detail 2

See picture: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/162-sar-sarsential-23-train

Above: detail 1, leftside under the bridge

Above: detail 2, right side bridge

Above: detail 3, 1955 built minesweeper PW 809 at other side Spaarne. View the ship: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/nl/training/160-sar-sarsential-23

Above: Haarlem, 52° 24′ 9″ N, 4° 39′ 25″ E, yesterday. Sarsential 24: take the long way home [ motivation, heartbeat ]

Details: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/nl/training/164-supplement-to-sarsential-24

Above: Haarlem, yesterday. Sarsential 23: train! [ practice ]

"One day, after a rehearsal that hadn’t pleased [ violinist Mischa ] Elman, [ he was ] leaving Carnegie Hall by the backstage entrance when [ he was ] approached by two tourists looking for the hall’s entrance. Seeing his violin case, they asked, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without looking up and continuing on his way, Elman simply replied, 'Practice.'"

'Who created the “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” joke?' on the Carnegie Hall, Midtown Manhattan, New York City website: http://www.carnegiehall.org/History/History-FAQ/

"When you acquire a certain level of competence that is presumed to be satisfactory, practice typically stops. As soon as ‘good enough’ is achieved something subtle yet extremely powerful happens: habituation steps in. One of your habituation’s central attachments is comfort. Wherever you are comfortable, wherever ‘good enough’ is subjectively perceived, your habituation will invest vast amounts of resources to maintain this comfortable status quo. One way your ego achieves this is to stop practicing.[…] Suddenly, the practice that birthed the greater competence in your life stops and your conditioning steps in. As engagement ceases the conscious participation and inhabitation of your body, mind and life is replaced by your ego’s habituation. And as soon as you cease consciously metabolizing your experience within the direct immediacy of the present moment you are no longer preparing yourself, your ego is just repeating itself. […] The essential aliveness of […] Practice resides in the engagement of all of your major faculties in the immediacy of the moment and your present activity. […] Practice from this perspective has no end, only a beginning...followed by another beginning. This path requires a constant unwavering commitment to engage. While this may appear tiresome, […] this is the only path from which you will truly and fully understand rest, and the complete release of Surrender, the letting go of the ego’s compulsive struggle. Sadly, the alternative is the continued unconscious investment in your ego’s unwavering habituated struggle with the truth of what is and the deception that this process of grappling can eventually result in genuine happiness."

From: 'Why Practice? Adapted from an article by Ken Wilber', first published as Pdf by Mark Divine, Februari 2012, trough: http://www.unbeatablemind.com/

Details: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/nl/training/165-supplement-to-sarsential-23

Above: retired naval warship Hr. Ms. Naaldwijk PW [M] 809 detail: tag painting on wood. 

More on Hr. Ms. Naaldwijk PW [M] 809 (all in Dutch): 

Website "Stichting Beheer Naaldwijk PW809": http://naaldwijk.pw809.nl/home/

Website "Vrienden van de Naaldwijk": http://www.vriendenvandenaaldwijk.nl/home/

"A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to engage in minesweeping, the use of various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers keep waterways clear for shipping": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper

Back to overview: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/running/160-sar-sarsential-23

Above: warship painting, "PW 809", Haarlem today. Sarsential 22: play [ show time ]

View tag in close-up: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/running/161-supplement-to-sarsential-22

"Fritz: "O my brothers, who braved 100.000 perils to reach the west, choose not to deny experience of the unpeopled world. Think of the seed of your creation. You were not born to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" […] Know it?
Paul: Sure, it's very famous. Dante.
Fritz: Oui
Paul: "Night when saw all the stars. We were filled with gladness, which soon turned to tears until sea closed upon us."

Film rush[es] of Fritz's 'The Odyssey' ends.
Lights turn up inside the screening room.

Paul: I'm Paul Javal. Mr. Prokosch told you…
Fritz: I'm perfectly aware.
Paul: It looks swell. I really like Cinemascope.
Fritz: It's not made for people. It's only good for snakes and funerals."

From: Jean Luc Godard's screenplay and film 'Le Mepris' (1963)

Above: detail 1, "Le crew hollandais légendaire¹" GVB's double-headed top-to-bottom-whole-car at Haarlem refurbishment and overhaul-depot, yesterday.

Above: detail 2 from the GVB train at Haarlem refurbishment and overhaul-depot

Above: detail 3 from the GVB train at Haarlem refurbishment and overhaul-depot

"A top-to-bottom whole car covers the entire side of the car, windows and all. Some writers will only do top-do-bottom whole cars, disdaining anything less complete. Others, particularly during periods when the Transit Authority is vigilant, feel that to cover the windows is a waste of time, since these are the first part of the car to be cleaned, and usually with solvent who drips down, streaking the piece below. Window-downs last longer, but the top-to-bottom whole car is the graffiti writer's finest achievement. It is here that he displays his virtuosity […]. The initials […] which accompany the writer's names, stand for their crews. [A crews is: ] a unit of dudes who work together to achieve a goal: to get up and to go all city […] Crews are made up of trusted friends, […] a bunch of brothers that are down by street law with each other. […] There is a strong sense of community within a crew and members will expel those writers who are only out for themselves. […]"

Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant in 'Subway Art', page 74 and 50, first published in Great Brittain by Thames and Hudson Ltd, Londen, 1984

Above: detail 4 from the GVB train at Haarlem refurbishment and overhaul-depot

Above: detail 5 from the GVB train at Haarlem refurbishment and overhaul-depot

¹ www.allcityblog.fr., 'Amsterdam: God Vicious Babies': http://www.allcityblog.fr/32115-amsterdam-god-vicious-babies/

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