if we experience reality only in the way that it relates to us, we blind ourselves to the reality that exists beyond our perception of reality. if we don't abstract our ego from our perceptual experience, then our world becomes so narrow that we are forced to make a leap of faith and which is the basis of all prejudice, assumptions and ignorance. a leap of faith can at best be correct by chance, which is not desirable if being right is an available option, and it always is. if we observe things in nature (without the stimuli relating to us) the proper relationships appear to us more clearly than our own beliefs to the extent that the ideal manifests into flesh and bone. what i am talking about is shifting the ego's need to make sense the environment it finds itself in, to passively allowing the world to exist as it does without us. i am not denying my preferences, but they do not constitute a reality that matters to anyone or anything but me