“The reason a lot of dialogue becomes so emotionally charged is that people bring their whole past into the way they perceive the world and others without realizing it. The only way we can really cleanse the veil of perception is through greater self-awareness.

We need to work through some of our stuff so that we can see, “Oh, when I get triggered by this woman or this man, this is my mother and father stuff coming up, which affects how I perceive them or how seriously I take them.”

You can’t cleanse those veils of perception without that self-awareness. We need to do a certain amount of inner work to have discernment because our unresolved psychological material affects not only how we feel, but how we interpret events in our personal lives and in the world.

Beyond that, we also tend to adopt certain social or ideological identities that influence how we interpret events and the information that we come across.

Our beliefs and worldview are influenced by our family’s conditioning, the culture we grew up in, the educational training we’ve had, the religion we ascribe to, the political party we identify with, and our overall social environment.

These identities are not a problem, it’s only when we begin to become identified with them, meaning that our sense of who we are becomes psychologically fused with them. So, I am a conservative; therefore, I believe everything that tribe is saying. Or I am a liberal; therefore, I believe everything that tribe is saying.

This is a huge issue with Pluto in Aquarius, where we have this intense polarization and tribalism developing out of it. And if a belief becomes part of our identity, when someone expresses an opinion that challenges it, it feels personally threatening to who we think we are.”

-Laura Matsue

Episode 182 – Why We Don’t Understand Each Other: The Confusion of Tongues

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