To perceive, but not to experience.

Provoked to react to information without any experience to inform our reactions. This builds stress and anxiety, like a schizophrenic who cannot tell reality from fantasy… on a national scale.

The greater the stress and anxiety, the more people react to fantasies. It is a vicious self-escalating cycle.

Experience is the foundation of understanding. Understanding is a structure that is framed by memories. Our memories of real experiences.

Higher awareness knows perception as experience, knows imagination as an experience and a canvas, and can hold these elements as part of an understanding that is separate from the physical world. Separate, but capable of influence through the choices we make.