Facing Illusions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3195Ho898

The video linked above looks at a particular effect arising from changing faces viewed peripherally.

@MKdGlu
Amazing! It would actually explain a lot on anthropology and the development of mythology.
@bishopp14
I've always wondered how much mythology came from people with vision issues living in a time with limited or no way to correct eyesight.

 

I'll posit that myth or 'story' of symbolic significance underlies 'object reality' as a continuum or 'time' set over experience of a split mind or separation trauma as a masking dissociation giving 'survival focus' as a 'consciousness' by which the split is rendered 'unconscious'. Faces communicate personae or masking aspects of the 'god' or characteristic quality of emotional/mental balance/imbalance in expression.
That the 'gods' are constellated in shifting alliances and oppositions is the basis for hyper-alertness to 'change in the Heavens', now operating as reading the room or the situation in play. This function is relegated to subconscious routines so as to allow a bubble of 'normality' as a stable or reliably predictable sense of self and world within a split or dissociative mind or focus.
The distorting faces illusion is partly framed in the release of the 'fixing continuity' of this focus to a peripheral awareness which can be called 'psychically sensitive or receptive' - receptive to information from wide field, but selectively sensitised to triggers relative to conditioned fears along with defences invoked to offset, allay or mitigate fear.
Staring at our own face in a mirror or a mutual session with another, face to face, will -if allowed' drop into peripheral awareness, open the realm of 'angels and demons' in terms of projections that can initiate self reinforcing feedback.
releasing projections to receive a true presence is giving a true with-ness. Without this centring or grounding quality, the enforcement of 'normality' will be aligned in as either the breaking or blocking of communication, or a contract to mask in social distancing - as in a clique without real intimacy or a psuedo-community. But from grounded acceptance of the moment as is, the synchronous smile of the eyes moves as one in the release of specific focus to the wider situation - the room, or the flow of relationship as a whole in the situation at hand.

Without the grounding embrace of the center - all attempts to 'correct sight' will war with our own unconscious conditionings and thus endlessly repeat or reinforce it in shifting narratives of self-inflations and destructions or boom and bust, relative to the 'gods' of our particular and collective alignment. Rationalisation as distinct from grounded Reason, seeks monopoly under ideals set over and apart from the 'mess' of life viewed unworthy and treacherous by contrast. Usurping the mind's true function is the 'split mind' of self-illusion by which we seek to gain for a split off self as our overriding or existential necessity or dictate. The focus of a mindset at war will override all wide-field or peripheral 'messengers' or evidences, as attempt to control reality 'externally'- which is clearly delusional and self-destructive - or rather denying our own 'wider' embrace' of creative being for the belief such a war makes sense or can be won.

There is an objective reality that is truly lived and shared, but that subjective bias discards or rejects for its own 'reasons' - but its unifying quality and characteristic is not an objecting rule and filter of imposed dictates, but in the nature of giving and receiving as one- which is a Gift that cannot be commoditised, patented, manufactured, weaponised or officially mandated.

We are always looking into the Face of Reality - but who is looking 'out'?
What we choose or accept sets the measure of our receipt.