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  "description": "A short video with three helpful metaphors for how we experience the world 🎬",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-03T07:00:01.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gilespcroft.com",
  "tags": [
    "best magic trick",
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    "MECHANICS",
    "drop me a line",
    "Inside-OutThat one time I shut my mouth and life delivered the answers. 🤐The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "We live in the feeling of a thought-generated perceptual reality.\n\nCrazy, right?!\n\n(If you don't think that's completely bonkers, check yourself for a pulse.)\n\nBecause as I sit here and type this, it really,  _really_ looks like there’s a window on the front of my head, that I’m looking out of, onto the world.\n\nBut there are no windows. There’s no light inside the skull, and no sound. There’s just fluctuating energy that’s being turned into my reality, by the universal, impersonal, creative Principle of Thought, moment to moment.\n\nIt's not an ‘outside world’ – it's all happening within.\n\n🫠\n\nThe most amazing sleight of hand—the best magic trick in the world, ever!—is happening for us, every second of our lives, day in, day out.  _Everything_ we feel is as a result of that internally-generated, apparently separate reality that is real, for sure… but it’s not true.\n\n(How could it be? Whose version is true? Mine? Yours? Any other of earth’s 8 billion human inhabitants?)\n\nAnd that has some  _massive_ implications!\n\nIt can be hard to wrap your head around and a helpful metaphor to better understand this, is to look at something where it's a bit more obvious what's going on – like my daughter and her love for her teddy bear, for instance.\n\nIn this short clip, looking at the MECHANICS of how we experience the world, I share this metaphor _and_ two more that point to the inside-out nature of our experience as well – that's three for the price of one!\n\n  1. The teddy bear\n  2. A flip-book cartoon\n  3. A scrolling sign on the tube\n\n\n\nIt's not something you can _use_ … it's something to see for yourself.\n\n4 minutes to upend your perceptions.\n\nI know it's a lot, so if you watch this and are left with questions or concerns, drop me a line, and I'll do my best to address them with a reply.\n\n💝\n\nGiles\n\n### Related\n\nInside-OutThat one time I shut my mouth and life delivered the answers. 🤐The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft\n\nLooking at how this plays out in real life situations.",
  "title": "Your reality is a perception of the mind",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-24T00:45:16.805Z"
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