One aspect of trying to grasp the Eternal Verities is tricky enough to knock the old “chicken-and-egg” problem into a cocked hat.
For obvious reasons, it would be helpful, if not critical, to have a professional understanding of the mind, the tool we use to perceive (or navigate, or create) what we call Reality.
But how can one gain that understanding within the framework of what you’re trying to understand– discerning whether the process is intruding on the results? It’s Heisenberg writ large.
One possibility that I’m exploring is a sort of “perceptive gestalt“– a continual imagining of the impact my thoughts and actions have on the people and environment near me, the creation of a handful of gestalts of my own gestalt from “outside the bubble”.
This has proven to have a tendency for feedback overload, but each time I restart the process, I seem to be able to maintain the perception stream a bit longer, and to extend the perceptive distance “outside the bubble” a bit further.
I’m hopeful that I will be able to continue to develop this skill, to the point that it provides some valuable insight.
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“I don’t know what you’re going to do with this information, but you have it now.” — Shelley Berman