Reality Tunnel

Reality tunnel is a term, akin to the idea of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_realism" title="Representative realism" class="mw-redirect">representative realism</a>, coined by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a> (1920-1996). It was further expanded on by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a> (1932-2007), who wrote about the idea extensively in his 1983 book Prometheus Rising. The theory states that, with a subconscious set of mental filters formed from his or her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">beliefs</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experiences</a>, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> is in the eye of the beholder".

In a chapter Wilson co-wrote with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a> in Leary's 1988 book Neuropolitique (a revised edition of the 1977 book Neuropolitics), Wilson and Leary explained further:

The gene-pool politics which monitor power struggles among terrestrial humanity are transcended in this info-world, i.e. seen as static, artificial charades. One is neither coercively manipulated into another's territorial reality nor forced to struggle against it with reciprocal game-playing (the usual soap opera dramatics). One simply elects, consciously, whether or not to share the other's reality tunnel. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

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Reality Tunnel

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