Editing Reality tunnel (section)

{{Short description|Theory of personal perception}}
'''Reality tunnel''' is a [[theory]] that, with a subconscious set of mental filters formed from [[belief]]s and [[experience]]s, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence "[[Truth]] is in the eye of the beholder".  It is similar to the idea of [[representative realism]], and was coined by [[Timothy Leary]] (1920–1996). It was further expanded on by [[Robert Anton Wilson]] (1932–2007), who wrote about the idea extensively in his 1983 book ''[[Prometheus Rising]]''.

Wilson and Leary co-wrote a chapter in Leary's 1988 book ''Neuropolitique'' (a revised edition of the 1977 book ''Neuropolitics''), in which they explained further: 
<blockquote>The gene-pool politics which monitor power struggles among terrestrial humanity are transcended in this info-world, i.e. seen as static, artificial charades. One is neither coercively manipulated into another's territorial reality nor forced to struggle against it with reciprocal game-playing (the usual soap opera dramatics). One simply elects, consciously, whether or not to share the other's reality tunnel.<ref>Neuropolitique, New Falcon Publications, 2006, p. 93</ref></blockquote>