navigating reality
Ontological pluralism is a commitment to multiple realities, many of which overlap, but some of which remain (at least for now) irreconcilable. It is not a commitment to tolerance of multiple perspectives on a single reality. This latter option, as Bryant points out, would be a rather trivial form of pluralism. It is also a rather colonialist and s... See more
Matthew David Segall • Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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As a listener, it’s good to have a bone-deep direct awareness that NO ONE IS SPEAKING IN UNIVERSAL TRUTHS and almost no one is even trying to
Everyone’s words come from their own specific perspective and experience. There are coordinates to it. Figure out if it applies to you
mid-thread
Reality is something much bigger than our ordinary senses are capable of perceiving, and learning to be in relationship with it requires us to enter the imaginal realm. Mysticism, magic, and animist frameworks are ways of doing that, so I write a lot about those topics.
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
Framing is decisive. At every moment, we live and operate and relate to the world from inside our framing of it, our mental model of it. Relating to the world as made up of ecosystems will result in very different outcomes than relating to the world as made up of individuals, of discrete things that can be treated distinctly.