by Neil R. Miller © 1995, 1997
Note: I consulted no reference sources in composing these definitions, but rather concluded, from, among other things, thirty years of reading the several hundred books listed in the bibliography that these are the most useful definitions of the terms defined.
Thus, it appears to me that these definitions fit, not only for their usage throughout Paradigm from California, but, it also seems to me that they fit the most common general usage.
The following definitions apply for all Paradigm from California materials.
Extremely Useful And Vital To Life Untruths.
Report Of Perception Of Reality
Deliberate Misreport Of Perceptions
A Lie About What One Understands
This bioecosystem operates on a singular reality system in which illusions play an often vital, and mostly - but not always - helpful role.
(Please see an additional explanation entitled The Nature of Truth, elsewhere at this site for a description of the difference between the framework within which this planet's bioecosystem operates, which is a singular reality framework, and some other alleged frameworks that people sometimes describe, for example, a multi-reality 'framework', or a no-reality 'framework', neither of which describes this bioecosystem or its workings. There are also several one-line explanations regarding this matter in the "Components" list, also located at this site. Also, the *.gif file, *.gif file, "Definitions", from which this list is derived, contains a color graphic rendition of the relation between some of these terms.
(Additionally, in the 1992 Paradigm Summary there is further explanation regarding how the human mind makes such distinctions, and, finally, there is a more detailed, and perhaps definitive illumination in Vol. 2 of the Paradigm itself, in chapter 13, "Current Professional Homeostasis", much of which is devoted to clarifying these distinctions.)
The structure by which the bioecosystem at this planet operates.
At another star, or in another galaxy, or in another dimension, it is possible that there is a multiple reality system.
But at this star, on this planet, the particular four billion year old bioecosystem in which we all live operates on a singular reality system.
One aspect of the human mind, is that it is capable of imagining things that do not exist within this bioecosystem. A "picture" that forms in the mind, that is not a report of this bioecosystem's singular reality, is called an illusion. Usually, that 'picture' bears some partial similarity to reality.
The ability to conjure illusions is an absolute requirement for life on this planet; illusions are a required life nutrient. We cannot live without them, quite literally, as a matter of life or death, like oxygen, or water. Without them, a human dies.
The great problems arise, however, when the ability to distinguish illusion from reality is lost, or when one is confused with the other.
In other words, each person is born with a portion of their mind that was designed (through evolution) to clearly and accurately see various aspects of the singular reality of this bioecosystem, and each person is born with other portions of their mind which can imagine illusions. And most decisively important for survival, each person is born with excellent ability to clearly distinguish the ideas, or 'pictures' that are accurate to singular reality, from those which are illusion.
The difficulties that people have distinguishing between reality and illusion have nothing to do with their basic mental equipment, nor with the nature of life on this planet, but rather, are the result of them believing to be sincere, persons who are deliberately lying to them (see below).
The word truth, refers to a description that conforms to some part of the singular, never changing, reality arranged by the five billion year old bioecosystem at this star. When something is true, it has the properties of being singular, absolute and consistent with everything else that's true, and it is the same for everyone and constant for all time.
An untruth is an idea or description that does not conform to this bio-ecosystem's singular reality, as evident to the cognitive mind of every human.
A special kind of untruth that evolved alongside the central nervous system, functioning for the intellect, emotions, and behavioral governance much the way calories and oxygen function for the more formally understood physiological systems. Helpful untruths are nutrients, and are every bit as vital to human life as oxygen, truth, protein, and the other main nutrients.
What distinguishes helpful-untruths from lie-untruths, is that, in the high level presentation of helpful untruths, they are never presented as descriptions of literal truth.
A lie is a special sort of untruth wherein it was originally depicted as true, conforming to singular reality, where it was known by the reporter to be untrue, while being reported as true.
What makes the word lie an ugly, anger-provoking word, is that a deliberate misrepresentation of a human perception of literal reality, puts a person who believes that the liar is being honest, puts that person at high risk of injury or death.
More relevant to current circumstances, and deadlier still, believing a lie, and mistakenly believing that a liar is not lying but is accurately portraying human perception, skews a person's understanding of reality in an insanity-producing, imbecility-producing, and highly damaging manner.
Lies kill, the everyday social lies, and the high level lies, kill, big time, just as sure as gas and bullets. In fact, it is lies and lying that drive the bullets. Major. A lie, ANY lie about anything, is, quite literally, THE social nazification procedure. And those who most heavily promote those patterns in others, are the deadliest nazification militants of all.
In the context of this truth/untruth/lie matter, a mistake is a description that does not conform to singular reality, and which the original formulator/perceiver thought did conform to reality. Until, hopefully he or she found out better.
Being mistaken causes no interruption whatsoever in integrity, and in fact, persons of integrity may often be mistaken . . . it's part of the song . . .
Remember, the person who is quick to acknowledge when they are mistaken, is always right. (Derived from a Russian proverb "The man who knows he's a fool, is no fool.")
A person who never gives, what they know to be inaccurate reports, about what they perceive to be true. One who, it turns out, can be relied upon to give accurate reports of human perception, which, in turn, engenders a powerful sanity and intelligence in those who look to them.
One who never lies about what they understand the truth to be.
A person who sometimes lies about what they understand the truth to be as a general pattern. This term is particularly applicable to those who protect the entire social system that allows deliberate misreports of perception to go undetected (see below).
A person who deliberately misreports their perception, in order to survive in a particular moment, is not necessarily a liar. But a person who lies as a general pattern, who does not acknowledge at the first opportunity, who lies to a person with integrity, or who thwarts exposure of the deliberately misreport perceptions system altogether, falls fully and directly within the classification of the term "liar".
Liars generate the deadliest mental toxins known to humans, both the low level everyday liar-toxins leading to local derangement and stupidity among those around them and among the general population, as well as generating the major high level toxins, such as the preposterous "inevitability-of-work-out-poorly" 'idea' as a general pattern of life.
A mechanism specifically developed through evolution to serve the specific function of informing of the damage wrought by lying.
Anger was designed, fundamentally, as a swiftly moving "relay" type of message, to rapidly move through people, from one to the next, often through several layers of hierarchy, until it reaches a party who is in a position to solve the problem of the damage being reported.
A person understands a statement to be 'self-evidently true' when, upon careful scrutiny of the statement, the person has to consciously deceive, or consciously lie about what they understand; has to consciously and deliberately misreport their perception, in order to claim to disagree with it.
Putting many things together in a way that is truthful and, first and foremost, that solves problems of damage and loss to everyone.
Putting a few things together in a way that maims, destroys, and, especially, destroys solving. The CIA for example, employs an archetype usage of this mode of operations: Corporate Imbecile Activity.
An aspect of this bioecosystem.
A configuration of electrons and molecules in a person's mind that forms a picture in that person's mind of some aspect of reality.
A description given by a person, usually spoken or written, of what that person perceives an aspect of reality to be.
A deliberately inaccurate report by a person of their perception of reality. A polite way of identifying a person as lying about what they understand.
A deliberately inaccurate report by a person of their perception of reality. An angry way of identifying a person as deliberately misreporting their perception.
A polite way of describing the collection of various methods and techniques by which the general practice of deliberately misreporting perceptions remains hidden.
The blunt way of describing the collection of various methods and techniques by which the general practice of deliberately misreporting perceptions remains hidden.
The individual methods and techniques of everyday conversation by which the Deliberately Misreport Perceptions System is kept from being exposed.
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Definitions
The Framework Within Which This Bioecosystem Operates
Singular Reality System
Illusion
Truth.
Untruth.
Extremely Useful And Vital To Life Untruths.
Lies.
Mistakes.
A Person With Integrity.
A Liar.
Anger.
Self-Evidently True
Intelligence.
Imbecility.
Reality
Perception Of Reality
Report Of Perception Of Reality
Deliberate Misreport Of Perceptions
A Lie About What One Understands
Deliberate Misreport Perceptions System
The Nazification System
The Everyday "Conversational Conventions" That Promote And Enforce The Deliberate Misreport of Perceptions System
Paradigm from California
© Neil R. Miller 1978-1997
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written - May 30, 1995
revised and appended, April 23, 1997
posted: May 31, 1997
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