Another Manual description of the meaninglessness of adjectives in our perception:
M12:6:6:6–9: Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful.
Another Chapter description of how we give meaning to everything we see:
C12:1:1:4–5: Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response.
Lesson 2 is a step in acknowledging how active and self(ego)-directed our perception is:
C12:7:5:1–2: You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it.
I'll deviate with a quote from the Preface of ACIM that introduces all these ideas:
The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference—the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. "Projection makes perception" (Text, p.445). We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing.
These are not new ideas, as we learn them in basic psychology courses. Scientific study acknowledges this because it recognizes human bias as inevitable, and that reality must both have a universal frame of reference and also be universally experienced. Thus, if anyone cannot reproduce a seemingly experienced cause and effect, then we don't accept the scientific premise as true.
Lesson two is an exercise in honesty.
Aaron
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