Perception is a powerful mechanism and tool for understanding and relating to a mental image of how something is viewed In the light of Interpretation. In the "Mystical languages of UNSAYING" Michael A. Sells asserts that "While looking at a smudged mirror the viewer sees the glass. If the mirror is polished, a shift occurs. The glass becomes invisible, with only the viewers image reflected. Vision has become self-vision." Sufi mystics used the polishing of the mirror as a symbol of the shift beyond the distinction between subject and object, self and other.
Depending on what type of lens one is looking through and focused on in their perspective world, it can be distorted or blurred, however the viewer can shift into self and therefore see clear into what before was blurred and distorted. I liken this metaphor to the story of Adam and Eve In the fall and pose the question: Was their perception a bit distorted when they ate the fruit of the tree of good and evil? and did the shift occur as a result of eating the fruit , as they obtained knowledge and their eye's were opened?
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