*Key of Perception*



Q:  I had a very strange experience last week.

B:  Strange?

Q:  Yes, very strange.  An individual misplaced his keys, and I was aware
of it but I didn't think anything of it, and the following morning, as I
was emptying my purse, I found a strange set of keys in the inside pocket
of my purse.

B:  Oh, strange!  (Laughter)

Q:  And I immediately assumed they were his, and my first reaction was
total surprise.  My second reaction was embarrassment, and my third
reaction was that I knew I had not taken those keys; that there was no
reason for me to put strange keys in my purse...

B:  All right.

Q:  ... and that they had probably gotten there "on their own," so to
speak.  Because I know that this can happen, it's happened to me when I've
misplaced things and suddenly they were there, when they weren't there
before.

B:  Yes.

Q:  And so I...

B:  Then they are not misplaced.

Q:  No, but I did perceive them at one point...

B:  We understand.

Q:  Okay.  And I was a little embarrassed, but I knew I had nothing to do
with it consciously, and then I thought, "well that's very interesting,"
you know, when you talk about synchronicity...

B: Yes.

Q:  ... there must be a good reason for it.

B:  There can be.  What do you think?

Q:  Well, I never did find out what the reason was.

B:  You never did find out?

Q:  You see, I would like to know from you, if you could perceive whether
in fact they were physically put in my purse by somebody, or whether they
just materialized in there.

B:  Why?

Q:  Because the person who misplaced his keys didn't believe me. He thought
I had taken them, which doesn't make sense, and it doesn't make sense that
anybody else would have picked up strange keys and put them in a strange
purse.

B:  Then in this way, what does that allow you and your friend to find out
about each other?

Q:  Well, I didn't find out anything except he /thought/ I took them.

B:  Which tells you what?

Q:  Well, I was a little upset that he was angry, but I thought, "well,
that's his perception"... if I had been in his shoes I might have got angry
too.

B:  Maybe.  What are you unlocking for each other, in that way? (Laughter)

Q:  Really, for me, it just never got resolved, in terms of this particular
synchronicity, which I at first thought...

B:  You may simply be making it more complex than it needs to be.  Do you
feel, or have you felt that you can /be/ a reflection, in certain ways, for
this friend of yours?

Q:  I thought so, but I did not sense that he was willing to discuss it
with me.

B:  What does that have to do with the fact that you may still be willing
to be a reflection?

Q:  Oh, nothing, nothing.  I really would like to know if those keys got
their on their own, or if somebody... you see, he was sitting behind me.

B:  Our perception, in this way, is that there was, in your terms, what you
call an assumption made on someone's part when the keys were found and
deposited where they thought they belonged.  But in this way, simply
recognize that no matter what the agent of the transference is, it is still
synchronicity, and it is still magical. Do you follow me?

Q:   Yes.

B:  It still serves the purpose to /allow/ the recognition of the interaction
that is going on between you and your friend to come about.

Q:  But there wasn't much of an interaction.

B:  There wasn't?  You said that your friend, in your terms, accused you of
taking the keys.

Q:  He didn't accuse, /accuse/ me...

B:  Did you say that your friend created the idea of anger?

Q:  That's my perception... he called me on the phone.

B:  All right, then you have created your perception of your friend's
anger.  Whether the friend had anger or not, your creation of it, the
involvement, is an interaction.

Q:  Right, but I don't know what he got... what I got out of it.

B:  Why don't you ask your imagination?

Q:  I did.

B:  And what did you get?

Q:  Not very much.

B:  The idea that you got, not very much, is a judgment.  Again, you may be
assuming that it is more complex than it has to be.  What /did/ you get?

Q:  Actually, for myself: I really felt that those keys got there on their
own, and I thought it was exciting.  That's what I got.  (Laughter)

B:  All right, very good, very good.

Q:  And I thought it was a shame...

B:  A shame?

Q:  Well, okay, that's a judgment.  I thought he would perceive it as being
exciting too, but of course I'm not the one who was put out by not having
my keys.

B:  So what does that tell you?  What does it tell you, about you?

Q:  About me?  Oh... that I had expectations.

B:  All right, what else?

Q:  That I didn't let it bother me for very long.

B: All right, very good.  And that you can recognize that /your/ creation of
a situation and someone else's creation of a situation, and a third
explanation of a situation, are all their own complete realities.

Q:  They're all different from /each/ point of view.

B:  Yes, and all equally real for what it does for you, in terms of
allowing you to create yourself in the image /you/ imagine yourself to be.
So in this way, you see that the idea of this key can unlock many locks
simultaneously, allowing you to experience your portion of the idea and
someone else to experience theirs, even though they may be very different.


Q:  Right.

B:  All the tools that you have in your society can all be viewed as keys.
They fit every lock.  One key changes and transforms to fit every lock that
there is.  So you use the key in /your/ way, they use the key in /their/ way,
and in a sense, although it is transformed, it is all the same /one/ key,
basically.

Q:  Thank you very much.

B:  Thank you.