Past, 'Present', Future - mirrors and brains

 

Introduction
This entire blog entry is an exploration of an event or act, basically an assumption that is based on what I think to know. It may be a strange way to explain what is behind what is written here, but it basically is the way on how mankind handles all planning and the execution of their plans, without exception, which includes the presently most advanced tool that human currently uses: AI systems. Hardcore planners and elevated computerised systems probably are inclined to deny the nature of what I wrote in the previous sentences or at least doubt what I claimed, because it undermines their capacity to use their intellect to plan events that take place in the future.

Mirror

People often say that their image in a photograph, reflects them when they were younger. But even when the photograph was taken seconds ago, they were younger than in the moment in which they spoke these words. There is truth in their expression, but the length of the dissolved time in an extremely brief stretch of history, does not match what they intended to hint at when saying what they meant to say. This does not exclusively apply to photographs of a person, but also of events that were recorded. The same also applies to videos. In the human perception the 'now' that separates the past from the future rationally is an extremely short period of time, so short actually that it is close to non-existence. Commonly understood is that the past is rigidly recorded in the word 'now' to the human mind, but many recorded events can contain a different character from what the observer believed what actually had been taken place. As an example event, that often is intentionally swept under the carpet, is the attack of the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese navy, of which various intelligence agencies knew the event was going to take place before it occurred, which also includes president Roosevelt who did nothing to prevent it and willingly sacrificed thousands of lives and a great deal of maritime equipment to justify the US to take an active part in World War II.

The same veiled mechanism applies to the JFK assassination and the 911 terrorist attacks, of which an increasing measure of evidence, that is violently suppressed and lied about, because their purpose definitively were not what the government wants people to believe. Of all these horrid events there were recordings, photographs and videos, including the crashing of Building 7 in New York that was never hit by a plane, but about which the BBC journalist Jane Standley who tried to hide the collapse of Building 7, because it did not fit in the train of events, while the camera registered that it was crumbling right behind her. Also Larry Silverstein ensured the Twin Towers not long before the 911 attack took place and earned billions of dollars from the collapse of the buildings, which means that he knew the attacks were going to take place before they took place. These events included organised efforts to misrepresent the recordings to hide the earlier measures that enabled them to take place and also contained the false explantations after the events occurred to convince the general public to mistake the lies from what happened in reality.

Day of the JFK assassination

Personal experiences
Apart from what was offered in the previous paragraph in which events that were recorded by others that bore truths or lies, there also are events that are directly observed and judged by people. A famous example of the fact that the human brain filters and processes what test persons in a psychological experiment are allowed to see and recall, is the 'invisible gorilla' set up. It shows that the human brain filters and processes what a person believes what (s)he observed, that at times does not necessarily comply with what cameras have registered. This implies that what occurred in reality is sometimes different from what cameras and microphones have recorded, which means that the human brain has given a twist to what is alleged to be observed by filtering what the brain figures makes sense to the believed observation and what is irrelevant for the memory to contain.

A test that basically everyone is able to test themselves is simply looking at a mirror to observe the image of the person using that mirror. When done for a sufficient amount of time with a steady focus, the image in the mirror begins to change. The nature of what that person thinks (s)he sees, depends on what is deeply embedded in his or her mind; it can be an alleged reflection that is more beautiful than the person is or a monster that reflects veiled feelings hidden in the dungeons of the mind that the person often can even be entirely unaware. A mirror has a 2D surface and only reflects visual interpretations in two dimensions. A Kozyrev mirror however is a spiralled aluminium spiral inside which a test person takes place. The allegedly observed reflections are perceived from a 3D perspective. Most test persons are confronted with horrid reflections, making the afraid and refusing to enter that mirror again at a later point it time.

A spiralled Kozyrev mirror

Related thoughts

In many modern Asian houses mirrors are hung from the walls, because they are believed to help deflect and disperse negative energies. The are called Bagua mirrors and are related to the Feng Shui tradition. Particularly in South-East Asia, mainly in Indian traditional architecture - Vastu Shastra) - mirrors should ideally be placed on North or East walls to invite positive solar energy and wealth into the homes. Vastu guidelines advise against placing mirrors directly facing the main entrance or positioned so they reflect a sleeping person in the bedroom, which is believed to drain vital energy. In Japan, mirrors (shinkyō) are traditionally viewed as sacred objects that house divine spirits or reflect the purity of the kami (deities). While main household altars (kamidana) might feature a small sacred mirror, large mirrors are rarely used casually for interior decoration in traditional sacred spaces. [1, 2] Japanese culture historically links mirrors with truth, self-discipline, and honesty rather than external energetic defense.

So there are many different types of significance ascribed to the function of mirror all over the globe. Some of them are folklore others reflect images that have a real impact on people that look at what they think is their reflection. What is beyond doubt, it that the human brain and mind play an important role in what we think we see in the mirrors' reflection and what humans ascribe to the significance mirrors. If what is believed to be seen in the mirrored reflections is affected by the brain and the mind, some of the observation, do not support what we thinks we should see, which gives the proverb I do not believe it until I see it with my own eyes  worthy of a second thought.

Reflect on it.