The three of these are very closely related. At first one tends to not see the connection. This is because we tend to think objectively.
Subjective vs Objective perspective
We have a bias towards thinking objectively. Our critical thinking prefers an objective perspective. We rarely think subjectively from the personal point of view.
We tend to prefer thinking objectively because it leaves our personal involvement out of the picture, lets us look at things without having to consider how our involvement or perspective affects us or makes a difference “to us”. Thinking is simplified.
Our ego was formed from such a bias and is quite proud of it’s point of view or perspective. It provides a unique slant on reality. Even if such prejudice is highly distortive of reality, it provides us with a different way of thinking and knowing our subjective reality. But, we have to be careful to not lose ourselves in our indulgence of objectivity.
While reality is first of all an experienced subjective psychological phenomenon, objectivity provides a new perspective that adds to our being another way of viewing the experiences of self. Since self identify is found within the experiences of the “self”, objective thinking provides therefore another way of knowing one’s self. Thinking objectively therefore gives us an expanded reality not a different one.
Yet in the end, as reality must be experienced by a know-er, or it is nothing at all. So also, the experience of objectivity must be integrated by a know-er or objective reality is nothing at all; an absurdity.
In truth, Reality is purely subjective. Reality is the subjective experience of a conscious being, a being of that finds its’ identity within the experiences it is conscious of.
Experiences of consciousness reveal our identity in the knowing of experience. Knowing is action even though nothing of the act can be seen physically or materially.
Our identity, the essence of who we are, our beings move, exist and have our being independent of the physical or material objects we see, hear, touch, smell or taste, even independent of our bodies.
This idea is not new, reflect upon:
Yet strangely our ego would consider this nonsense. It is at best an inconsequential, optional aspect, hardly worth notice. At worst, noise that needs to be removed from a true “critical” analysis. At the end of ego reality, self doesn’t exist. It is ignored as irrelevant fact. How realistic is that?
Ironically, while the worldly, carnal point of view excludes self and prefers to see the universe with “self” out of the picture, it selfishly won’t share; ego guards the objective point of view most jealously and demands that only its method is “scientifically acceptable”, all other points of view are rejected as “nonsense”.
In actuality, objectivity is so detrimental to self, it very well may be what came to be known as the first sin. A sin that once adopted by self would surely mean death to the self that partook. No small wonder man was cautioned so in regards.
Death was not so much the punishment of an offended god as the clear pronouncement of the effects upon the self which an objective thinking would set into action upon the one so partaking of it.
Ironically, it was the desire to “know” as do the gods, that was the expectation behind the partaking and fall into physical or carnal experience.
I believe I realize, our falling into thinking objectively was inevitable once given the seed or first taste of the fruit. Objective thinking to the exclusion of self identity, it is the death that was surely to follow.
Yet that fall was to be countered by a new manner of thinking: as in Colossians 3:10 (KJV) 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. I realize we can recognize that our objective experiences are just part of our subjective selves and reinstate self perspectives of the I am, all that is, the god which is within.
Believe it, realize it, experience it! for it is in reality the only true reality that ever was, is, or will be.