This is a spiritual war between good and evil which is established, promoted and perpetuated by the dissemination and propagation of an ideology in which the People hear, listen, believe, are persuaded and influenced to act, based on the degree of belief and the direction the ideology guides and moves them. This battle is a war of the minds and it is spiritual in nature. Peoples perception is based on and is influenced by their biology, genetics, values, beliefs, attitudes, socialization, culture, religion, experience, education, family, society, skills, training, inclinations and desires. Perception influences how we assign meaning to the world by engaging our five senses for the purposes of understanding the various stimuli in our environment by gathering, identifying, individualizing, classifying, generalizing, grouping, comparing and contrasting, verifying, testing,engaging, integrating information into our belief system causing the feed back mechanism or loop to develop. Perception influences, guides, controls, directs, inclines, predisposes how we believe, think, act, react and interact with our environment and people.
The meaning that you attribute or assign to a stimuli such as a person, place or situation etc. is determined by your belief system and perception. This is influenced by your socialization from parents, religion, society and education etc. The type of meaning assigned to a sensed stimuli will determine if and how you will respond toward it and the degree of intensity of response to it. The response is a manifestation of your feelings, attitudes and values.
For example, if you go to the zoo and observe a lion in a cage, why do you not respond with a “fight or flight mode”? It is the meaning you assigned cognitively, subconsciously and consciously about the situation and the lion in the cage that influences how you psychologically act, react or respond causing a physiological reaction or no response at all. If you perceive that there is no danger at all, there should be no response in a mental healthy person. The perceived probability and severity of threat and danger to ones being will influence and determine the course of action taken and the degree of intensity of response.
If while you were looking at the lion safely secured in his cage, there was big Bear that escaped and you were unaware that it was close behind you, there would be no meaning of a dangerous situation since you did not sense the conditions that you were unaware of, there would be no psychological response therefore physiologically your body would in homeostasis meaning there would be no physiological response or reaction because there is no perceived danger. In other words the psychological state influences and determines the physiologically state.
The problem is that perception imposes distortions on the absolute truth or reality and emphasizes what we want to believe to be true which is our relative truth but our perception may only reflect portions of the absolute truth or none at all. To become mentally healthy we must learn to emphasize the absolute truth, which is what occurred in the past (history), what is occurring (present), and what will occur (future)
Relative truth is what somebody perceives happened in the past (history) but did not happen or happened to a degree, or what somebody perceives is happening now but is not or is occurring to a degree, or somebody perceives that something will happen in the future but did not or it happened to a degree.
We must fine tune our perceptions through empirical knowledge so we develop a highly accurate perception, so what we believe to be true mostly reflects the absolute truth and less relative truths. If you estimate the temperature outside to be 80 degrees and the thermometer indicates that it is 80 degrees than this relative truth you perceive is consistent with the absolute truth which is the actual temperature. If you estimate the temperature to be 50 degrees, then your perception of this relative truth is very inaccurate because it is inconsistent with the absolute truth since it is 80 degrees outside.
Your eye site could be 20/20, and your hearing and three other senses functioning in the normal range, but your senses when activated gather information from stimuli and then your perception imposes limitations and distortions upon the meaning you assign to the absolute truth, reality or what you sense. If your are taught by propaganda that the color red is blue and the color blue is red, you will see what the actual colors look like on a wall and ceiling but if somebody ask you to identify the color blue on the wall your relative truth would be established, promoted and perpetuated by your faulty perception and you would conclude that the wall is red. If you were asked it identify the color of the red ceiling and you perceived the ceiling to be blue this would indicate this portion of your perception is inaccurate.
This is why it is important to develop a mindset that is open minded, such as if somebody tells you that a plane crashed, you should not integrate this information into your belief system because you have not personally verified this occurrence but a third party disclosed this to you. The only information you can verify now is that Jon Doe told you a plane crashed. Did Jon Doe see the plane crash or a third party told him. The same thing applies when you read a book, blog or watch a video, what did the author intend convey and what did he convey? Does it reflect reality and to what degree? The only information you can verify is that Jon Doe theorized and stated what he believed a portion of reality was.