Actuality or Reality

Have you ever thought about it? What is Real and what is Actual? One being Physical, the other Mental. A recent conversation I had amazed me that not only the person I was talking to, but others throughout my life who truly, as they say, "do not get it". This I thought would be something that should be my next blog. I pray it will be a Lesson of interest.

Many a discussion over the years, some becoming heated, yet I refuse to argue with People, these disputed discussions were merely a difference of Opinion, where in fact, "Facts" can not be disputed. One, not seeing or understanding the conceptual differences between that what is Real and that what is Actual. Not being able to distinguish between that what is Physical from that what is Mental. With all Concepts, Perceptions and Opinions, accept from these that work for you, let the rest blow into the Winds. Yet , KNOW, Physical Facts ARE facts, undisputable, Mental Concepts, neither right nor wrong may be.

White Crow March 2009

According to Mr. Webster -

ACTUALITY: Existing in fact, existing or acting at the present moment, current.

REALITY: The quality or state of being actual or true, the totality of all existing things.

Mr. Websters' explanations of words are universally accepted without question. Yet he never took into consideration the Human Condition, in his explanations.

Actuality is something that is Actual, a Physical thing, undisputable. Not a Concept, A FACT.

Reality is truly something of the Mind, a Mental thing, Individual Perception.

One may not argue a fact when they are expressing thenselves about something that is Actual, this is a fact, undisputed, Actuality.

Reality, being a mental thing, this being a whole different set of circumstance. Due too each Individuals' Life Experience, what is real in your mind may not equate to the Reality in my mind.

There are Universal rules, Actuality and Reality, they can not be the same truth, due to one being a Physical Fact and the other a Mental Concept. I always question when people make statements about something being Real. They, giving a statement about what, in their Minds is Real, or are they making a statement about something that is Actual? Clarifications are required.

"The Mountains are very high", or "the Mountains are beautiful". Which statement comes from Actuality, which comes from Reality? You can see the Mountains are high, this is Actual, a Fact, thus may not be disputed. The one making the statement, "the Mountains are beautiful", is forwarding an Opinion, only a Reality in their Mind. You may see the same Mountains and do not equate them to be beautiful, you may see them as an obstacle.

I have found when People communicate, many times they do not consider in their conversation the difference between Actuality and Reality. Yet many just let it pass, without question. When the conversation is not explicit and you may accept what is not Actual, but what is in their mind as Real.

As a Boy and now through my early teen years, my World is that of the Mountains, very seldom having contact with the outside World. Many of my explorations in the Mountains, many encounters with Animals, Birds and other Natural phenomena, Reality and Actuality, at times, were confusing for me. My Grandmother and The Grandfather always helped me sort out the Factual from the Conceptual. Teaching me to differentiate between that what is Actual, True, in the Physical World, unquestionable, and Real, a mental thing, my Reality.

Could I Actually communicate with the Amimals, Birds and sense the Energies of Trees and Rocks. This is my Reality. All things upon the Earth and the Universe have Energy. This ability, as explained to me as a Child, to sense these energies was a Gift. These are my Realities, disputed by some because their Realities may differ, yet, which is the truth? BOUTH ARE TRUTHS, Reality is of the Mind, Individual, neither true nor false, Individual Mental Perception.

Physically you live in this Physaical World, ACTUALITY. Mentally you SURVIVE in this World, YOUR REALITY.

Actual, undisputable, Real, questionable!

White Crow October 1949