There's some overlap between our perspectives. Lenses - as I define them - are amalgams of beliefs and what one believes. I do however see personal experience as definitive - though not absolute. Since the physical is an expression of consciousness, an accepted implanted memory in itself generates an experience as valid as any other. If the persona, the non-physical self chooses not to have that implanted memory it won't take. One could go further and say that everything is an implanted memory.
Well, yes, I suppose we can agree that our experiences are
relatively definitive, in the sense that they act as what we regard as our most reliable guides to truth. But as a "radical sceptic" (as I've been dubbed on another thread, and I rather like the term), I'm constantly aware that I have little or no
absolutely definitive experience in that same sense. Some people get this, and others don't. Some are able to act on their experiences without convincing themselves they have absolute knowledge, and others take their experiences as absolute pointers to truth. Some, the fundamentalists of this world, don't even require experience to convince them about what is true: belief is enough, however preposterous the proposition might be.
No one can deny that experience doesn't have a kind of validity, even if it's a false experience, like an implanted memory--even if it's, say, a schizophrenic hallucination. I'm not sure if what decides whether one regards whether an implanted memory will take is the "non-physical self". Depends to some extent what that means, I suppose. If one's talking about, say, the soul, that's one thing; and if one is talking about psychology, it's another.
See, I wonder if the soul is in total control: we are, after all, incarnated, and there is no doubt that physiological factors affecting the brain and thereby psychology do affect how we interpret the world in the incarnate state. Brain isn't mind, I believe, but if it's a filter, it does affect our perceptions and thereby our experiences and interpretations. And certainly, the strength of our beliefs can affect our choices whether to accept what others attempt to implant, whether through something as exotic as hypnotic regression, or through ordinary, everyday conversation.
I think few if any of us live in reality. Each of our perceived worlds is to a greater or lesser extent (as McKenna so eloquently expressed in the video), a
construct. Some argue as if the construct
is reality, perhaps especially if there are others who agree with them. But radical sceptics like me will always grant the relativity of their constructs in relation to absolute truth.