Your Attention Defines Your Reality, but What Is Outside of Your Attention Gradually and Surreptitiously Undermines Your Reality.

The bubble has a vast inner surface with patches of W1 and W2 lenses that have been created in the course of one’s life. The window of attention at any moment defines what portion of the inner surface of the bubble contributes to construction of your reality. As the window of attention changes, the W1 and W2 content entering into hologram lens changes. Hologram lens is where the inputs of W1 and W2 bodies give rise to the stream of reality. Perhaps in an unconscious level, what is outside the window of attention also enters hologram lens. Many times, at a happy moment, when your focus is on the most positive scenarios of present and future, negative feelings creep in, but you cannot explain the source of vague unhappiness.
Depression is the smell of the whole inner surface. Single windows of attention may seem fine, but the whole picture has no meaning. Depression is partly caused by what is outside your window of attention. A depressed person may feel sad at a moment that should feel the happiest, and he cannot fathom why.
Nez: Your window of attention defines your reality, but what is outside your window of attention gradually and surreptitiously undermines your reality.

Metaphor Therapy

Every person lives in a constructed reality (the mechanism that constructs personal reality will be explained in depth in this blog). A person experiences a self-made reality; however, the person who is immersed in this experience fails to see the mechanism that constructs the realty (like a fish that can’t see water). It is difficult to understand the machine that gives rise to understanding itself. Metaphors are tools that can help a person to comprehend the unexplainable. Though, understanding a concept through metaphors needs powerful imagination. Once the concept of X was understood, one can detach oneself from the experience and gain control over the experience of the reality. In fact, whenever one experiences the abyss, one can shatter the solidity of that reality by remembering that all are constructions, and whenever one experiences bliss, one can intensify the experience of that reality by forgetting about the mechanism.
Depression is imprisonment in a extremely solid reality. For the depressed, the outcome of X is ugly and meaningless (full of scenarios of future pain and suffering). The cause of depression is either in W1 body (hardware malfunction rooted in your physiology) or in W2 body (software malfunction rooted in your psychology and your belief system).
Metaphor therapy, which provides a deep understanding about the machinery of X, can enable an individual to shatter the solidity of that horrible reality. Treating depression by metaphor therapy takes a long-time and intense intellectual labor. Metaphor therapy is an ideal treatment for intelligent individuals. Nevertheless, it is a bumpy road because, at first, it makes every reality an illusion. This creates a serious crisis (accompanied by pessimism or nihilism). Later, when the person gained a deeper understanding of X, he or she becomes equipped with tools and criteria to separate different realities from one another. Finally, the person learns how to evaluate any experienced reality. The person learns to analyze the components of W1 and W2 bodies, and eventually gains power over the outcome of that constructed reality. For Nezman, depression is one persistent illusion (where the stream of reality gets stuck on one reality).

Nez’ Metaphor Try to Explain Something Unexplainable

Some concepts are ahead of their time, and some are difficult to understand because need powerful imagination. More than a century has passed since Einstein's theories of relativity replaced all previous descriptions of physical world, yet many educated people cannot understand his theories and their implications. To understand the implications of his theories, you need some fundamental knowledge and powerful imagination. Einstein’s theories of relativity introduced new mathematical equations and new models to describe the physical world. A descriptions that seem unnatural to common sense. Nez’ metaphors to describe X are of the same nature. They describe something complex, profound, and unnatural. You should patiently learn the basics and let your imagination fly in order to grasp the most important concept of your life, namely X.

Metaphor of Robot

You are a robot with inner experience. Your reality is the product of your unique hardware and software. Manipulating your hardware is difficult. For instance, drugs and alcohol alter your hardware, and in turn, alter your reality and your experiences in it. Software is flexible, but changing it needs education, meditation, and imagination. A Robot that becomes self-aware and free if it can rewrite its own codes. Imagine you want to weld and repair an electric generator, but you want to do it by using the same electricity it generates. How such a thing possible?
All in all, updating software means updating reality.

Existing Languages Fail to Describe 3 Realms

Our languages have evolved organically. Languages are W2 entities that try to describe W1 and serve our W3 preferences. Our existing languages are inefficient tools in describing 3 realms. We need a new language (with new vocabulary) in order to describe X and the three realms successfully. One day such a language will come, but in the meantime, I have coined new words and metaphors in order to convey the meanings effectively. New vocabulary and metaphors help you understand yourself, 3 realms, and your reality.

The Bombardment of Useless and Irrelevant Information

The bombardment of information and variety of ideas does not let people choose their own belief systems. An ordinary person with a full-time job neither has the expertise nor the needed time to evaluate and choose one’s own belief system. The first thing you should do is to protect yourself against the bombardment of useless and irrelevant information. The limitation of your W1 and W2 bodies leaves no room for useless and irrelevant information. A useless information is something that does not serve the feeler. For instance, most information that is broadcasted through mass media is aimed at controlling masses and swaying them toward the agenda’s of ruling class that serves the interest of a minority.
The knowledge that serves the feeler is understanding how your feelings are created and how they are controlled. To this end, you should learn about the existence of the feeler and the machinery of X. To understand X, you need to understand three realms, three layers of W2, and the metaphor of hologram lens. Then you will understand how miraculously the feeler evaluates W1 and W2 compositions and gives rise to your qualitative experiences.
The knowledge of X is your first priority. The knowledge of X is the foundation of your castle of thoughts. Learning the 3 layers of W2 will help you categorize ideas based on their use. You will learn how to draw a distinction between the ideas that accurately describe W1, the ideas that are concocted by W2 machinery (and have no root in W1), and the ideas that serve the feeler.
Nezman categorizes importing information and ideas meticulously. Nezman masterfully organizes and distinguishes between his or her own facts, interpretations, and values.

The Metaphor of Hologram Lens

The hologram lens is a metaphor that tries to capture how reality is constructed. Your stream of reality is similar to a hologram construction that comes out of your hologram lens. Your W1 body composition and W2 body composition gives rise to the hologram lens. Every piece of information you receive changes this lens. Every change in your biology affects this lens. Your interpretations about your past and future affect this lens. As the hologram lens transforms, the reality of your universe and definition of the self transform.
Sometimes, these changes are so gradual that it takes a long time for people to realize they have changed. Nezman tries to register any change in W1 and W2 bodies. Nezman carefully guards his or her own hologram lens. The metaphor of hologram lens is the closest concept to what people call it soul.

Nez' Powerful Metaphors

Metaphors are the vehicles that help us understand something profound or unknown. There are things that are indescribable. Human consciousness is the most unknown entity (while it is the most mundane and accessible to experience). No one knows what is consciousness; it is irreducible and inexplicable experience. Metaphors try to capture its magical essence. An army of metaphors can only scratch the surface to shed light on such an unknown entity.
Imagine the atom metaphor; metaphors such as orbits, clouds, and so on evolved to describe the components of atoms. Such metaphors may not be an accurate model of state of affairs, but they give us more control over nature.
We use metaphors to understand something strange, unknown, or even unintelligible. Metaphors are some scaffolds that help you see an invisible building. You will dispose them after you saw the hidden. Or, you may keep them for a while until you get used to seeing the invisible. Metaphors are astrolabes that help us to discover unchartered territories. The metaphors that I am using are the same. They are the most helpful tools to understand and transform your reality.

Metaphor of the Room with Glass Walls

Nez: Imagine that you have been kidnapped and taken blindfolded to a well-lit room. All walls are made of glasses, but outside the walls is pitch-black; therefore, no one can see what lies outside the walls. There is a glass door at the end of the room. How would you feel there? You gaze at darkness outside the glass wall to see something to no avail. Your imagination starts to work hard to understand where you are. You may think that you are in an moving train. You may think that you are at the top of a high-rise or in the middle of a dessert. You may think wild animals outside the walls are waiting for you. You may think this is a practical joke, and your loved ones are waiting outside to laugh at you, or with you. You may think a variety of things, some good and some bad.
You are constantly looking for clues. You to interpret everything. The great extent of uncertainty gradually exhausts your mind. You want to relax. You want to enjoy your stay in this large waiting room. As time passes, you meet other people in this large waiting room, and you ask them about their opinions. Some tell you naive, infantile, or unbelievable stories about what exists outside of the glass walls. Others tell you that they do not know.
If you are smart, you realize nobody knows what is outside. You also realize that what individuals believe about the outside the walls affects their feelings in daily life in the room.
As decades and centuries pass, the smart come up with different definitions for the unknown world outside those glass walls. They realize that definition chosen for the world outside the glass walls will affect the quality of the world inside the waiting room. These definitions gradually evolve to provide the best feeling for and highest harmony among people in the waiting room. The smart even go so far as to paint the glass walls to cover uncertainty and anxiety caused by not knowing what lies outside. Painting the glass walls help them forget that they cannot see and know what is outside those glass walls. However, something else also happens. The murals on the walls introduce different future scenarios (heaven or hell) for different course of actions. Whoever decides about the paintings on the wall gains control over the reality inside the waiting room and becomes a lawmaker.
As time passes, layer-by-layer, new paintings are painted over old paintings, and all those paintings become more believable. People grow up with these descriptive paintings and never question what really is behind the walls. When everyone believes those comforting descriptions, then it seems even more believable. Some of these paintings become religions (painted by prophets and religious leaders). The answers to questions such as what you should do in the room and why the room exists lies outside the room. Religions paint comforting detailed paintings on the glass walls as if they know what lies behind the glass walls.
However, some realize that such paintings are mass delusions. They erase the paintings and discover the underlying glass walls with the unknown darkness behind them. Despite their brave effort, they are not educated and creative enough to paint their own paintings. They replace the mass delusions with something worse like nihilism and depression. After all, it is not easy to replace well-thought paintings created by masters generation after generation (in order provide meaning and comfort in exchange for obedience). It is difficult to break free from a reality that a person has gotten used to since childhood. Facing the darkness behind the glass walls needs a fresh imagination, a new kind of creativity, and bravery. Stepping into a room with dark glass walls needs bravery, intelligence, and creativity.
The magnitude of possibilities, and the extent of freedom that come with erasing the paintings are overwhelming, even frightening. Only those who can understand the gravity of unknown, can overcome the fear of unknown, and have a powerful imagination become such painters. Only a few can erase those paintings and replace them with beautiful and coherent paintings. Nezman becomes such a painter.
Nezman realizes that all the previous paintings are primitive, infantile, and unimaginative. All those old paintings reflect what is inside the room, while the possibilities outside the glass walls are infinite.
Nezman paints the most beautiful paintings on the glass walls. The paintings that create the most beautiful, meaningful and pleasurable reality for him inside the waiting room.

The Metaphor of Bubble

Nez: Are you familiar with the metaphor of bubble? You look at the outside world from your unique angel. Your body is part of W1 (which I call it W1 internal composition). Your W1 gives rise to your W2 composition (W2 body). You make a model of W1 inside your W2 composition. I call it your bubble. I do not want to call this bubble a familiar name such as soul, spirit, or psyche because it has its own meaning. When you meditate enough on the metaphor of bubble, you will have a rather clear understanding of it. Inside your bubble your universe is constructed. You can control your own constructions inside of the bubble.
All the input from W1 is registered on the inner surface of this semi-transparent bubble. Our common sense (which is the product of accumulated experiences) helps us to construct a seemingly accurate model of universe. We paint a model of the W1 on the inner surface of this bubble. If what one paints on the inner surface of the bubble is a good model of W1, one is a realistic person who can predict W1 events accurately. But many have painted a distorted image of W1 on the inner surface of their bubble. Some have painted something totally detached from the state of affair in W1 (we call them delusional or mad). What you paint on the inner surface of your bubble creates your own reality. By painting the inner surface of the bubble, you become the painter and the creator of your own version of reality. Every one of us is a creator knowingly or unknowingly. All the interpretation, all the associations, and all the attributions related to a topic create a lens on the surface of the bubble that alters your perception of that object. This interpretations apply to every object or event in the past, present, and future. For a Hindi, a cow has religious significance, but for an American it is just a source of food. Death had a different meaning for an ancient Egyptian compared to an atheist in 21 century. Everything inside the bubble is a construction. The concept of God also is a construct that evolves by different religions through eons. The bubble is the home to historical interpretations about variety of concepts that accumulated layer by layer on back of each other. Bubble is full of inaccurate paintings drawn many generation before. Paintings that distort the immediate perception of W1. Nevertheless the bubble is a second-hand painting of W1, but some bubbles are strangely distorted.
One major problem is that everyone starts painting the inner surface of the bubble from early childhood. Indoctrination in one’s childhood leaves permanent marks on the inner surface of the bubble and limits the creation of a flexible reality by a creative mind in adulthood. Dogmatism formed in childhood is a great obstacle to overcome. Only a person who is willing to interpret the world in new ways can reach the highest levels of freedom. Only one's childlike imagination can help one to replace the old painting with new paintings.