Lived Experience – Lieze Boshoff

why so many people feel existentially disconnected from reality

The way a civilisation understands the nature of reality also shapes how its people experience themselves within it. And ours has persistently reinforced the idea that reality is fundamentally material, mechanical, and indifferent, reducing human beings to something similarly impersonal and mechanistic, until we eventually begin to experience ourselves that way too.

Most people are working with fragmented models of reality. On the one hand we have science explaining the mechanisms of it, but also largely excluding lived experience. On the other hand we have spiritual and esoteric systems accounting for all the weird and wonderful aspects of our lived experience, but are often dismissed as woo-woo and irrelevant for us modern people. And somewhere in the middle, Philosophy oscillates between the two but without really resolving the gap. The result? A lack of a shared language for not only understanding the reality and the material world we live in.

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Consciousness, Holographic Universe, Lived Experience / Lieze Boshoff

Most people are working with fragmented models of reality. On the one hand we have science explaining the mechanisms of it, but also largely excluding lived experience. On the other hand we have spiritual and esoteric systems accounting for all the weird and wonderful aspects of our lived experience, but are often dismissed as woo-woo and irrelevant for us modern people. And somewhere in the middle, Philosophy oscillates between the two but without really resolving the gap. The result? A lack of a shared language for not only understanding the reality and the material world we live in.

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