At the age of seven, I am introduced into the environment of school, I am confronted with the claim that the Tooth Fairy does not exist. And so, at the age of seven, I become aware, even though I may not realize it, of the existence of Base Reality as distinct from my Subjective Reality, and I face my first ontological crisis. At that point in time, authority over the world system belonged to the devil and to those to whom he chose to give it. Jesus, however, had come to take that authority away from him, and because Jesus Subjective Reality corresponded exactly with Base Reality, His response was grounded in Base Reality. This is also true for the interaction between environments, and for the interaction between my environments and my Self.
Environments are never neutral, and environments are never static.
Consequently, environments are always configuring us towards some end. The end toward which environments configure us has to do with who is forming what we believe to be true about Base Reality, and why. My treatment of Base Reality and Subjective Reality, as well as the correspondence between Base Reality and Subjective Reality, is too simplistic and broad to be really useful yet, and serves here only to introduce the concepts into the discussion. List as many instances of ontological shift in your personal history.